AP Language & Composition (Period 2)

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 Please check the posts for each day's agenda, assignments, and HW. Subscribe to your period's class in order to receive reminders of when certain assignments are due. The course orientation for this class is located on the right hand side. 

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Agenda 10/27/14 Monday

1. Gettysburg Quiz (AP style)
2. "Slip or Trip?" (intro to argument activity- see above link)
 

10/24/14 Friday

1. SSR
2. Get into your groups (check my website if you forgot which group you're in), discuss and answer the questions on rhetoric and style on the Gettysburg Address. HW if not finished today. Quiz on Gettysburg on Monday- you may use your notes and annotated passage. 

Agenda 10/23/14 Thursday- Min. Day

1. Antithesis activity- see above links
2. Antithesis in Gettysburg Address

Agenda 10/22/14 Wednesday

**Flamingo essays with revision stapled to back due in your period's basket today
1. SSR
2. Gettysburg Address: Read and annotate- read over the Gettysburg Annotating Guide in link above. 

Agenda 10/21/14 Tuesday

1. Finish hockey passage group rationales (first ten min. of class). See below links from yesterday for instructions and example of rationale. 
 
2. Flamingo essay review and feedback:
-annotate your essay and identify mistakes you made as Mrs. Hong goes over the feedback
-take notes in your Writer's Notebook when we do practice on analysis
-based on today's feedback, review, and notes, revise ONE body paragraph for up to five extra points on your essay 
 
**If you were absent, please go to my homepage (before you clicked on your period from my website), look to the right-hand side and click "Links." Under "Links," you should find the Flamingo Essay Feedback link there. Review that and revise ONE body paragraph for up to five extra points. 

Agenda 10/20/14 Monday

1. Turn in "Shooting an Elephant" quizzes with rationales on back into your period's basket (ONLY period 2 and 5)

2. SSR

3. Hockey passage-see above link to see which group you are in:

-go over your answers with group

-go over correct answers

-rationales (one per group) as a group on wrong answers: see above link for instructions

Agenda 10/16/14 *Disaster Drill

1. "Shooting an Elephant" reading and short multiple choice quiz.

2. Start on HW: Read "Hitler's Workday" and "In the Emergency Room"- annotate and do SOAPSTone (in your process analysis reader)