Friday, October 16, 2015

October 16, 2015

Today, I checked in the vocabulary assignment.  It's worth ten points. We read and analyzed Woolf's essay filling out a comparative analysis form for it.  We worked together so that students would know how to do the same for the Dillard essay on their own this weekend.  Because we have Independent Reading on Monday, it is technically due Tuesday.  You can find the form here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ci8frb5t3iu1b02/comparative%20analysis.docx?dl=0

Read the Dillard essay and fill out this form.  Call a fellow AP Langer who was in class today if you don't understand.  Your peers should always be your second source of information when you are absent.  The first is this blog, of course.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

October 15, 2015

Today students picked up the next text set for comparative analysis.  The texts consist of Annie Dillard's, Death of A Moth, Virgina Woolf's, Death of a Moth, and Loren Eiseley's, The Brown Wasps. You can probably find them on line.
So first, vocab study.  Find the word in the text.  Put a box around it.  Write out the definition.
Here are the words.  They were due at the end of the hour today. We'll be having a narrative quiz on this vocabulary on October 22.

Bug Essays
benignant
lineage
dorsal
buttresses
chitin
immolate
keener
vigor
vociferation
clamor
meager
diminutive
circumspection
futile
tubercularly
stanchions
pneumatic
elusive
bole
runnel
obscure
inexorable
retort
dissident

Laziness Multiple Choice Vocab
preemptiveness
negation
subverting
elusive
supersede
predisposition
happenstance
concede
recombinant
constituent
trivialize
pragmatic
morose
significance
indignation
chastise
objective
subjective

Woolf Multiple Choice Vocab
synaesthesia
absolve
exquisite

Friday, October 9, 2015

October 9,2015

Homecoming.  That's all.

October 8, 2015

Today, students did an in class comparative rhetorical analysis of the moves that  Depp and Ozick made in their essays in order to understand the ways in which two essays about the same topic can be different.  Again, if you weren't in class, it's difficult to recreate this for you.  It's important to be in AP Lang every day.

October 7, 2015

Today students took part in a paraphrase activity of Ozick's essay.  They collaborated to create a mirror reflection of the essay in their own words.  Really difficult to make this one up if you missed today.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

October 6, 2015

Today we took the vocab quiz for the Ozick essay.  Please see me to arrange for make up.  Tomorrow we begin deconstructing the Ozick essay.

Monday, October 5, 2015

October 5, 2015

Mondays are independent reading days.
Coming up: Narrative vocab quiz with words from the Ozick essay 10/6.

October 2, 2015

Today in class, we went over the narrative vocab quiz.  We spent some time highlighting the hidden context clues.  Our vocab quizzes are not just about applying knowledge of new vocabulary, but they also evaluate students' ability to read closely and carefully.

Some tips that we discussed:
Read the entire narrative when taking the quiz so that you don't miss any context clues.
Practice process of elimination skills by determining the required part of speech and eliminating all words that do not fit.
"Study" for the quiz by memorizing definitions and then by spending some time "researching" the use of the word on google to get an idiomatic, connotative and denotative sense of the word.

Thursday, October 1, 2015

October 1, 2015

Oh, what a day in AP Lang!!!

Today we completed a silent gallery walk with the rhetorical precis.  Then we discussed all the ways in which the precis could be improved.  Students wrote a reflection about the process and now they will work in their groups to write another, improved draft. It was one of those days that is difficult to recreate for students who were absent.

Homework: study vocab for next Tuesday's quiz.  It's on quizlet. Work towards completing your reading goal.