Wednesday, February 18, 2015

LET'S TRY THIS ONE MORE TIME FOR MON. 2/23...

1st/3rd AP LANG 

**ALL ASSIGNMENTS DUE MON. 2/23:

1) Make sure you've completed JOURNAL #5 (from LAST weekend) RE: question comparing the Queen Elizabeth I speech (OGE)/Woolf essay (**SCROLL DOWN and see the previous BLOG ENTRY for this question!)

2) Be prepared for an IN-CLASS JOURNAL #6 RESPONSE to/about the TWO (2) NORMAN MORRISON TEXTS (*SUPPLEMENTAL section of binder; TOPIC TBA IN CLASS); JOURNAL TOPIC TBA IN CLASS!

3) MAKE SURE YOU'VE COMPLETED THE FOLLOWING **THREE TASKS
**In the 'AP PRACTICE EXAMS' section of your binder, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THESE TOMORROW, FOR ME TO LOOK AT FOR A GRADE:

A) AP PRACTICE 'Sontag Rhetorical Analysis prompt/question' w/STUDENT MODEL ESSAY/COMPLETED score sheet

B) *AP PRACTICE 'TTTC Rhetorical Analysis prompt/question' w/UCHS STUDENT MODEL ESSAY/COMPLETED score sheet (*HW from this wkend)

C) MOST IMPORTANTLY: HAVE YOUR 'DRAFT' written/typed response to the 'TTTC Rhetorical Analysis prompt/question' TO BE REWRITTEN IN CLASS IN 40min. TBA!


4) In the OGE anthology, THOROUGHLY READ George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" (pp. 517-530 OR pp. 566-579)

**ALSO, here is a LINK to the essay FULL TEXT:
 ORWELL "POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE" 

5) For this reading, BY CLASS MON. 2/23, COMPLETE JOURNAL #7:
--ANSWER **QUESTION #1 (THREE PARTS/BELOW) at the end of the ORWELL text

**For your reference, here is QUESTION #1 (THREE PARTS) for JOURNAL #7: 
--Why is Orwell so concerned over the state of the English language? 
--Why does he think it [English] has degenerated so? 
--What differences does he see his suggested reforms making?



4th 9th Lit/Comp.

**NO HW DUE MON. 2/23!


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