HW DUE THURS. 2/12

1st/3rd AP LANG 

**HW DUE THURS. 2/12:

FROM WED. 2/11/SUB DAY, MAKE SURE YOU'VE COMPLETED THE FOLLOWING:

1) Using the "Student Guide to Sample Examination II" AP Lang. practice essay (goes in AP PRACTICE EXAMS section of your binder):

FIRST: READ the RHETORICAL ANALYSIS ESSAY "QUESTION ONE" PROMPT/EXCERPT (from Sontag's "Regarding the Pain of Others") and then the "Sample Student Essay #1" (on back)

THEN: After reading both above, use the "Scoring Rubric for Free Response Question One," to decide on a 1-9 SCORE you think is appropriate for this student response **BE READY TO DEFEND YOUR SCORE POSITION USING THE ESSAY RESPONSE, ITS MERITS, WHAT IT LACKS, UPPER vs. LOWER-LEVEL SCORE, etc. 

FINALLY: After (or before!) deciding on a score, complete ALL of the "You Rate It!"sheet, (on back) THOROUGHLY ANSWERING ALL FOUR (4) QUESTIONS

**AND REMEMBER: 
This student wrote this response in 40-minutes;

REWARD your student writer for what they DO RIGHT!

2) Read CAREFULLY AND CRITICALLY BOTH texts about Norman Morrison on the double-sided page given to you in class today (*SUPPLEMENTAL SECTION of binder) (ALSO LINKED BELOW in a PDF packet):

--“The Pacifists” (prose, p. 7)

--‘Poetic Perspectives: “Norman Morrison”’ (poetry, p. 6) 
NORMAN MORRISON TEXTS

 

3) BE PREPARED FIRST THING IN CLASS ***THURSDAY 2/12, to write for 15 minutes on an INFORMAL IN-CLASS  JOURNAL RESPONSE TO THESE TWO TEXTS; I will give you the topic when class begins

**PLEASE NOTE FOR THE TEXTS ABOVE WHEN WE RESPOND IN CLASS: THERE WILL BE NO ‘RIGHT or WRONG’ ANSWERS FOR THE JOURNAL #6 QUESTION; HOWEVER, YOU DO NEED TO BE PREPARED TO:
a)DEFEND YOUR ASSERTIONS WITH ONE TEXT "QUOTE/CITE"(#)
b)BE READY TO CHOOSE ONE OF THE THREE APPEALS TO TALK ABOUT WHEN YOU RESPOND REGARDING THE TEXT YOU CHOOSE


4th 9th Lit./Comp.

**HW DUE THURS. 2/12:

FROM CLASS/SUB DAY WED. 2/11:

1) MAKE SURE YOU'VE COMPLETED the DOUBLE-SIDED WORKSHEET from SUB DAY WORK (*GRAMMAR SECTION of your binder):

pp. 79 "Parallelism" EX. 1 AND 2
pp. 81 "Faulty Parallelism" EX. 1 AND 2

2) In the NYTimes UPFRONT magazine given to you yesterday in class (WRITING section of binder):
--CAREFULLY AND COMPLETELY read the article "George Stinney Was Executed at 14" (pp. 8-9)
**be prepared for a QUIZ over this article's facts and main points Thursday in class!