Tuesday, December 5, 2017

**HW DUE/REMINDERS FOR WED. 12/6

1st/3rd British Lit./Comp.

**REMINDER FOR WED. 12/6:

PLEASE have your Chromebook or personal laptop with you in class for the rest of the semester as we begin work in class on the SENIOR RESEARCH PAPER (SRP), worth 30% of your final course grade!

**END OF THE BLOCK, TUES. 12/5: LOOKING FOR COMPLETION of SRP CHECKPOINT #1 (*for a grade!):

BY THE END OF CLASS TUES. 12/5, for a SRP PROGRESS CHECKPOINT GRADE, students should have completed the FOLLOWING TASKS FOR GRADED CHECKPOINT #1 AS OUTLINED OVER THE LAST TWO DAYS IN CLASS and placed in their folders and/or shared w/me via Google Docs for assessment:

**chosen/final SRP topic decision/narrowed down

**"LAST NAME SRP" GOOGLE DOC for entire SRP shared w/me

**at least TWO WEB sources for their SRP topic emailed to me then PRINTED/placed in their provided folders (**PRINT SOURCES given to them via me on WED. 12/6 for CKPT#2)

**read/HIGHLIGHTED misc. info/important quotes they may use in their paper for EACH SOURCE PRINT-OUT

**completed (**and/or at least started on) typing the SRP TOPIC MEMO w/THESIS STATEMENT (**to be completed w/my help in class Wed. 12/6) on the SRP SHARED DOCUMENT
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NEXT: ON FRI. 12/8, be ready for SRP CHECKPOINT #2 with the following items including the following assignments/tasks to be explained the next 2-3 days in class:

BY THE END OF CLASS FRI. 12/8, for a SRP PROGRESS CHECKPOINT GRADE, students should have completed the FOLLOWING TASKS FOR GRADED CHECKPOINT #2 AS OUTLINED DAILY IN CLASS and placed in their folders and/or shared w/me via Google Docs for assessment:

**FOR THE TWO WEB/ONLINE sources and the ONE PRINT SOURCE GIVEN TO THEM BY ME IN THEIR FOLDER WED. 12/6 for their SRP PRINTED/placed in their provided folders: BASIC 8th ed. MLA CITATIONS WRITTEN OUT for practice on each source somewhere

**ALSO, RE: each of the minimum THREE SOURCES, make sure they are all READ/HIGHLIGHTED for their SRP COMPLETION

**completed typing the SRP TOPIC MEMO w/THESIS STATEMENT COMPLETED on the SRP SHARED DOCUMENT

**started and well into working on completing CORRECTLY/ACCURATELY THE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY of their min. THREE SOURCES on the SRP SHARED DOCUMENT after the memo

**at this point after completion of CHECKPOINT #2, they are also ready to start COMPOSING THEIR SRP paragraph by paragraph, with the THESIS SENTENCE THE LAST SENTENCE OF THE FIRST PARAGRAPH
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**ALSO, don't forget the following opportunities for EXTRA CREDIT through this FRI. 12/8:
--ROLLS of WRAPPING PAPER for Shop with a Panther on Mon. 12/11





2nd Pre-AP American Lit./Comp.

HW DUE WED. 12/6:

1) From the "Master Sentences" List #2 (WRITING section of your binder): 

Complete/create your own version of the FINAL SENTENCE #6, labeled:
 "The COMPOUND/COMPLEX Sentence" 

REMEMBER TO FOLLOW THE USUAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR CREATING YOUR MASTER SENTENCE VERSION

**NOTE: This is the LAST MASTER SENTENCE FOR THE SEMESTER! For CCR participation points, be ready to share your last sentence for participation in class!

2) In Krakauer's INTO THE WILD, make sure by class WED. 12/6 you've completed reading the REST OF THE NOVEL:

--complete through Chapter 18
**we'll read the "Epilogue" at the end together in class

    **FINAL REMINDER AS YOU FINISH READING: Post-it/sticky note ANNOTATIONS are INCREDIBLY HELPFUL--and they count as an EXTRA CREDIT 100% when you complete the reading!



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