**REMINDERS FOR/ASSIGNMENTS DUE MON. 5/15**

1st/3rd AP LANG 

**IMPORTANT REMINDER FOR MON. 5/15:

YOUR FINAL *GROUP* PROJECT "AP LANGUAGE 8th ed. MLA-STYLE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY" is due MONDAY, MAY 15, shared with or emailed to me!

**YOU HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THIS ASSIGNMENT/DUE DATE FOR TWO WEEKS via daily verbal reminders as well as being posted on here!!! 

**Here also is a link to the PURDUE OWL ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY INFO/EXAMPLES 

--THIS DOCUMENT is 10% of your FINAL COURSE GRADE and will be graded VERY STRICTLY!!!

--IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE ASK NOW!!!

**THE FIVE (5) REQUIRED ANN. BIB. ENTRIES, in 8th ed. MLA style, ABC order, 12pt TNR/Calibri font:

• from The Things They Carried: one rhetorical analysis extended paragraph response [*REVISED]
• from one of the following: MLK, Jr., Herman, Wiesel, or Jones: one rhetorical analysis extended paragraph response [*REVISED]  
• from IN-CLASS JOURNAL #7: response to either the "Norman Morrison" poem or "The Pacifists" NF Time article [*ELIMINATE 'I'/1st person!]
•  from JOURNAL #8: response to NYTimes Upfront article "Fake News Fooling Millions" [*ELIMINATE 'I'/1st person!]
• from IN-CLASS JOURNAL #13: explanatory response to question(s) on one of the following authors' texts: Plato, Freud, or Machiavelli
  

1st BLOCK AP LANG ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **GROUPS**
--Ashley, Caylee, Kayla, Kendra
--Keenan, Kaitlyn, Tyler, Joanna, Nick
--Jordan, Jake, Clay, Hunter
--Kylee, Danielle
--Megan
--Gabrielle

3rd BLOCK AP LANG ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY **GROUPS**

--Erin, Megan, Dylan, Josef
--Vatsal, David, Fletcher
--Maddie, McKenzie 
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**SENIORS: READ/KEEP UP WITH YOUR SENIOR CALENDAR DATES and EOC EXAM DATES!

**AND, FINALLY; ANYONE/EVERYONE, DO NOT FORGET TO GET BACK TO ME ASAP:
--anything else/misc. you may have borrowed from me during this semester

--**ALSO: TURN IN YOUR CHROMEBOOKS TO THE LIBRARY!!! PAY ALL YOUR FINES. LUNCH $$. TURN IN UNIFORMS. etc. etc.
...OR NO CAP AND GOWN/NO ULYMPICS 5/19!!!  

2nd Pre-AP American Lit./Comp.

**ATTENTION! FOR CLASS MON. 5/15:

For Into the Wild, be ready for a FORMAL/GRADED STUDENT-LED 'ROUND TABLE' DISCUSSION TITLED:

"WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT CHRIS McCANDLESS?"  

--WE WILL DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING:

• from INTO THE WILD, the theories Krakauer presents in his last chapters RE: McCandless's death vs. YOUR OWN interpretations/thoughts/evaluation
 

• NEWEST THEORIES of what killed McCandless from various news articles published in the last 4-5 years (assigned below to each of you)

• **FAMILY ISSUES that contributed to Chris leaving home (via your reading excerpts of his sister's memoir THE WILD TRUTH)

**BESIDES YOUR COPY OF ITW and EXCERPT from TWT, USE THE ASSIGNED ARTICLES BELOW (**paper copies given to you in class AND LINKED BELOW/NOTES SECTION of binder**) TO GUIDE YOUR EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS DISCUSSION OF KRAKAUER'S NEWEST THEORIES:

**Savannah, Bryana, Sam, Sahory
"Why Are We Still Talking About Chris McCandless?" -Mother Nature Network (MNN), July 2015

**Leannah, Bayley, Stephen
"Into the Wild Author Tries Science To Solve Toxic Seed Mystery" -NPR, May 2015 

**Bailey, Lulu, Jordan, Shelby, Erika
 "How Chris McCandless Died: An Update" -The New Yorker, Feb. 2015

**Sierra, Rebecca, Britt, Adam, Emma, Sophia
"What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About Chris McCandless" -Alaska Commons, 2013 

**Maddie, Suzanne, Dayna, Summer
"Krakauer's Wild Theory About McCandless Gives Short Shrift to Science" -Alaska Dispatch News (ADN), 2013

**Heather
"Woman Drowns Trying to Ford Teklanika River" -Alaska Dispatch News (ADN), Aug. 2010
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**ALSO: don't forget to bring your CLASS BINDER and your copy of INTO THE WILD with you to class each day, please!