**HW REMINDERS/SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK THROUGH FRI. 12/13**

1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1101

**IMPORTANT REMINDER: THIS WEEK STARTS THE FINAL 2WKS SCHOOLWIDE EOC TESTING SCHEDULE; NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THIS WEEK IS ALSO YOUR YHC FINAL EXAM WEEK--and NEXT WEEK is your AP LANG FINAL IN-CLASS WRITTEN RESPONSE/FINAL WEEK (*more info to follow later this wk)!!!! 
PLEASE BE PRESENT IN CLASS ALL WEEK, MORE INFO COMING TOMORROW WITH DUE DATES, and use this blog to keep you 'in the know!'

**WED. 12/11: TESTING BELL SCHEDULE; report to 1st block first thing; NO HOMEROOM/NO EARLY RELEASE

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1) IMPORTANT ASSIGNMENT THAT'S DUE 100% COMPLETED/FINAL DRAFT FORMAT ON WED. 12/12 OR...NO LATER THAN CLASS THURS. 12/12:

YOUR ENG 1101 'HYBRID' PERSONAL/TRANSACTIONAL WRITING ESSAY/FINAL EXAM

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**MORE IN-CLASS INDIVIDUAL REVISION, PEER EDITING, QUESTIONS ADDRESSED, ETC.

**FROM THE PAST 11 WEEKS OF THE COURSE, YOU NEED TO INCORPORATE THE FOLLOWING COMPONENTS/ASSIGNMENTS INTO YOUR FINAL EXAM ESSAY DRAFT; PLEASE READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY!:

**BOTH THE FOLLOWING:

• **REQUIRED: your "Where I'm From" CREATIVE PERSONAL VERSE piece from this semester or last year
• 'piece' it out any way you'd like to within the bones of your personal response (*NO WORK CITED ENTRY REQUIRED!)

• **REQUIRED: from this past week, your The Glass Castle THEMES PERSONAL TIE-IN WRITTEN RESPONSE
• try to work this paragraph in IN ITS ENTIRETY AS ONE PIECE, perhaps separate/a 'break' between other sections of your essay (*WORK CITED ENTRY FOR TGC ADDED TO LIST AT END!)

**ALSO INCORPORATE AT LEAST ONE MORE OF THE FOLLOWING; CHOOSE FROM:

• YOUR JOURNAL #1 INTRODUCTORY LETTER ABOUT "YOU" written or typed up from WK 3-4 of the semester
• CITATION (INTRO LETTER) and **WORK CITED ENTRY FOR THIS SOURCE WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU MONDAY IN CLASS!**

• YOUR JOURNAL #7 PART III [RE: MINICK] "DEFINE HOME/WHAT IS HOME?" PERSONAL RESPONSE
• *CITATION (Minick #) and WORK CITED ENTRY for "Minick, ____ from APP. RECKONING..." required addition to list if this is incorporated into paper

• YOUR JOURNAL #14 HUGHES "SALVATION" PART II PERSONAL RESPONSE QU PARAGRAPH
• CITATION (HUGHES #) and WORK CITED ENTRY FOR "Hughes, ____ OGE..." required addition to list if this is incorporated into paper

--AFTER ALL THIS ABOVE IS COMPLETE and at least incorporated into the paper, DON'T BE AFRAID to move stuff around and experiment with the logical placement of all the components of this FINAL EXAM ESSAY

**ONCE AGAIN, COME TO CLASS WEDNESDAY WITH YOUR CHROMEBOOK/LAPTOP and all the above STEPS/COMPONENTS OF THIS ESSAY PROCESS COMPLETED; make this easier on yourself by getting this done ahead of time so that we can spend next week early in class doing final edits/revisions

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2) MAJOR GRADE DUE FRI. 12/13, PUT TOGETHER BEFORE CLASS:

YOUR 1st SEMESTER AP/ENG 1101 JOURNALS #1-15

JOURNAL #1: PERSONAL INTRO LETTER 

JOURNAL #2: IN-CLASS Herman "Prologue" Response

JOURNAL #3: SONTAG Quote Response 

JOURNAL #4: Alice in Wonderland x4 IDENTITY Response qu's 

JOURNAL #5: IN-CLASS 1st BLOCK VANCE "Intro"/CH. 4; 2nd BLOCK 6wk CLASS REFLECTION

JOURNAL #6: IN-CLASS App. Reckoning Responses PART I and II

JOURNAL #7: IN-CLASS PART I Minick Response/PART II Leek Response/PART III "Define Home" Personal Response

JOURNAL #8: OGE ORWELL "Politics..." Q#1 Response

JOURNAL #9:  IN-CLASS TAN/HURSTON/ALEXI Personal Essays/Rdgs PART I and II

JOURNAL #10: OGE HOLLAND "Naps" Q#2 Personal Response 

JOURNAL #11: IN-CLASS PART I QEI "Speech..." Analysis/ PART II Woolf "Thoughts on Peace..." Analysis

JOURNAL #12: NYTimes "Culture of Contempt" x10 QU's Responses 

JOURNAL #13: OGE LINCOLN "Gettysburg Address" Q#2 RHAnalysis Response 

JOURNAL #14: IN-CLASS OGE HUGHES "Salvation" PART I Analysis Response/PART II Personal Response/PART III THESIS Development

JOURNAL #15: IN-CLASS AP/ENG 1101 FINAL/END-OF-SEMESTER COURSE EVAL. RESPONSE

• **more info to follow in class FRIDAY about how you'll be submitting these, so JUST BE READY, HAVE THEM ALL PRINTED, and BE ORGANIZED!!!!

3rd Pre-AP American Lit./Comp.

**SCHEDULE FOR WED. 12/11: TESTING BELL SCHEDULE/NO HOMEROOM/NO early release**

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1) **IMPORTANT CLASS AND EOC TESTING REMINDERS FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS:

• YOUR AMERICAN LIT./COMP. EOC EXAM will be ***DURING 3rd BLOCK****:
• TUES. 12/10 (DAY 1 WRITING) 
• WED. 12/11 (DAY 2 MChoice)
• THURS. 12/12 (DAY 3 MChoice)

• EACH DAY: EAT FIRST LUNCH AND THEN REPORT STRAIGHT TO MRS. DANGLER'S ROOM DOWN THE HALLWAY HERE on the 2nd floor!
• **REMEMBER: THESE TESTS ARE TIMED, SO DON'T WASTE TIME GETTING WHERE YOU NEED TO BE!

• MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR CHARGED CHROMEBOOK WITH YOU THIS WEEK--you'll use it to take the EOC!!

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ALSO, I'LL SEE YOU AGAIN FRI. 12/13 to follow up on the following assignments:

• 2) THROUGH THE EOC TESTING PERIOD/NEXT THREE DAYS, PLEASE KEEP READING INTO THE WILD

• BY CLASS FRIDAY 12/13, you need to:

• SKIP CHAPTERS 14 and 15 (**will summarize for you Friday)

• ***READ CHAPTERS 16, 17 and 18/through THE END of the book, pp. 157-199***
• FRIDAY we'll recap, assess, and QUIZ on what you read, then we'll read together the "EPILOGUE" for more interesting info regarding Chris's death 

• DON'T FORGET you can also do POST-IT NOTE ANNOTATIONS/NOTES for this book for a BONUS GRADE!!! 

**AGAIN, PLEASE BE DILIGENT WITH READING THIS TEXT, AS YOU'LL BE FINISHING THIS BOOK/READING DURING YOUR THREE EOC EXAM DAYS BY FRI. 12/13!

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3) AND FINALLY: ATTENTION FOR FRI. 12/13 AFTER THE EOC; be prepared AHEAD OF TIME/BEFORE CLASS for:

BINDER WRITING SECTION CHECK #2/"FINAL CHECK"

• this 'IN-CLASS PROGRESS CHECK' is for a MAJOR, FORMAL (and EASY!) grade

• required 'items/sheets' for 9/18 thru 12/9 displayed on the BIG LIST at front of the room (*18 TOTAL ITEMS*)
• **take a picture of the list if you think it would help you make sure you have everything you should Friday!

• NOTE: HELP YOUR GRADE OUT! The grade you earn for this check takes into account organization, completion (*having everything and COMPLETED), and making sure NO OTHER ITEMS are in this WRITING section of your binder