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Monday, April 13, 2009

Mon, Apr 13, 2009

Mon, Apr 13

Pds 1,2,4
1. AR rdg
2. Return 6 Traits quiz & notes
3. Mastery 80+% required. For study help, use art to connect word to definition, i.e. Ideas = content. Make “content” concrete with art, as a coffee cup’s content being full of ideas.
4. Begin persuasive essay with topic ideas: a good place to live, a good place to shop, a good place to eat, or a bad place etc.

Per 5 For Reading Record Card Format see "Note to AP Students" posted Tuesday, March 24
1. Quiz Munro/ Saki and “Sredni Vashtar”
2. Hand in rdg record card for group novel.
3. Note from essay: Know when to use underline/italics and when to use quotation marks.
Use underline/italics for long works (or works containing shorter works). Use quote marks for short works (or works contained in longer works).Tip: UnderLine for Long (LL) and lines are long. “Quote marks are short” “” Example: Walt Whitman's poem "Song of Myself" is found in his book Leaves of Grass.
HW: Read James Joyce p 956, “Araby” p 959, from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man p 966, & “The Stream of Consciousness” p 969
HW: Write a Critical Response for either p 964 Analyzing a Theme or p 969 Comparing and Contrasting Characters