Mon, May 4
Pds 1, 2, 4
1. AR rdg
2. Handout: vocabulary lists 1-25
3. Voc Quiz 3-12, sonnet
Pd 4: Progress reports
Pd 5
1. Hand in style essays
2. Discuss AP term quiz
3. Discuss AP exam essays and strategies.
HW: AP exam essay, prose from The Crossing. Students taking other AP exams this week, write the introduction at least.
TWO IDEAS FOR AP EXAM ESSAYS
1. Check out this power point of syntax examples:
http://exchange.guhsd.net/details.php?object_id=643
2. Workable strategy for essay
• 1-3 minutes reading and working the prompt
• 5 mins rdg and making marginal notes about the passage. Try to isolate 2 quotes that strike you. This may give you your opening and closing.
• 10 minutes preparing to write.
---Choose 1 or 2 of these:
-underlining, bracketing, circling
-marginal notes
-charts or key word/one word/line # outlining
• 20 minutes to write
• 3 minutes proofreading
