**REMINDERS FOR ONLINE LEARNING WED. 3/25 and ***ATTENTION 4th Pre-AP AMERICAN LIT. ASSIGNMENTS DUE BY END OF THE DAY WED. 3/25!!!***

1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1102

**ATTENTION EVERYONE IN AP LANG/ENG 1102 FOR WED. 3/25; PLEASE READ EVERYTHING BELOW CAREFULLY:

1) First, today is an **NO CLASS MEETING** DAY, so I'm still reading over your JOURNAL #22 responses RE: The Crucible/political cartoon tie-in/Miller's article/NYTimes 'callout culture' article. 

• **ALSO, NOTE THAT THE GRADE YOU MADE POSTED ON USATESTPREP MAY BE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT THAN YOUR 'ACTUAL GRADE;' i.e., if you log on USATESTPREP and it says '90%,' check my notes/comments on your grade AND/OR the grade book b/c you MAY have actually made a 92% or a 95%. [USATESTPREP only allows me to put in grades on a 10/100pt. scale, so JUST AN FYI! :) ]

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2)***ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS THIS MORNING, 3/25: 

Alix Sherry

Payton Keller

Allie Cox

Mackenzie Smith

• You four please look for an email/text from me sometime Wed. morning 3/25 and an email invite shortly before the Hangouts meeting time below, as I still want to meet with all you today 3/25, in this once-weekly Hangouts session; it's easy, no worries, but it's also something to use as our 30-45min. of required class time (easy way to get this done!):

1st/2nd block WED. 3/25 AP LANG/ENG 1102 MAKE-UP HANGOUTS SESSION @ 9:30am

• during this session you'll get some SUPER-IMPORTANT INFO RE: THE NEWLY-STRUCTURED AP EXAMS DUE TO CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES, as well as the options you all have RE: the exam
• The Road also info RE: where we'll be going w/ ENG 1102 for the last few wks. of the course

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Need help remembering how to join a Hangouts session? Here's my video from last week w/instructions posted near the end of the video for joining; please view if needed:

*[last week's] VIDEO: END w/JOINING GOOGLE HANGOUTS INSTRUCTIONS

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3)  ALSO IMPORTANT!!! ATTENTION ALL EARNING CREDIT FOR THE AP LANGUAGE COURSE AND/OR TAKING THE AP LANG EXAM OR ANY OTHER AP EXAM THIS YEAR (**more info on dates/times/etc. to come APRIL 3!!!): 

• ALL THE INFO WE/I KNOW RIGHT NOW RE: ALL AP EXAMS IS HERE/THIS SCREENSHOT OF INFO I READ TO YOU ALL YESTERDAY:

^^ALL we know right now; FYI APRIL 3rd more info RE: AP EXAMS will be released, so STAY TUNED!

• Remember the following first FREE, LIVE-STREAMED "HELP SESSION" this afternoon @3-3:45pm on the AP CENTRAL COLLEGE BOARD YOUTUBE CHANNEL LINKED HERE RE: the AP LANG EXAM FREE RESPONSE SKILLS, etc.:

**TUNE IN IF YOU CAN AT ONE OF THESE TIMES; YOUTUBE CHANNEL LINK ABOVE!!!!!**
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4) ***FINALLY, ALL AP LANG/ENG 1102: COME BACK HERE TOMORROW FOR INFO RE: AN ASSIGNMENT I'M EXCITED ABOUT!!!*** 

4th Pre-AP American Lit./Comp.

ATTENTION 4th block RE: READING and AN ASSIGNMENT DUE WED. 3/25 (**PLEASE CAREFULLY READ ***ALL THREE OF THE DIRECTIVES BELOW***):

1) FIRST, A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

• THANKS SO MUCH to ALL OF YOU for attending one of the two Google Hangouts sessions the past two days; you earned class time credit and **CREDIT FOR THE ROAD READING CHECK #1 through pp. 69 :)

• we'll do a Hangouts session once per week from now on unless otherwise noted, and I'll let you know ahead of time when that'll happen

• FYI, I'm still reading/looking over your J#11 "If I Could..." responses w/SAT Vocab words, and I'll let you know when those are finished/graded (**with comments/a grade POSTED ON YOUR ASSIGNMENT IN USATESTPREP to read!!**)

• **PLEASE REMEMBER TO CHECK YOUR EMAIL/TEXTS/MESSAGES/THIS BLOG DAILY!!! CLEAR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN Y'ALL AND ME--and vice versa--IS KEY IN THIS ALL WORKING WELL! :)

• AND PLEASE: DO. NOT. HESITATE. to get in touch with me if you have questions, concerns, needs, etc.; I cannot help you if I do not know what's going on/how to help! 

***AGAIN: CLEAR, CONSISTENT COMMUNICATION IS KEY!***

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2) BY TODAY, WED. 3/25, everyone make sure you've read The Road through pp. 101

[*LAST LINE/BOTTOM OF THE PAGE: "Okay" (101).]

***PRO-TIP AS REMINDED IN OUR HANGOUTS SESSION: MAKE POST-IT NOTES/ANNOTATIONS AS YOU READ!***

• HERE ARE SOME HUGE, HELPFUL RDG./PLOT/THEME/SYMBOLIC POINTS TO REMEMBER AS YOU DO THIS: 

• FLASHBACKS to this point and their SIGNIFICANCE?

• WHERE do you think they are in the U.S., making their way South? specific references/places in the narrative that give away from geographic location?

• WATER? where is it, and if present, what could it represent?

• **HOW MANY BULLETS ARE IN THE GUN?** (Note this changes from flashback to present-day, and we're gonna explore WHY soon--see if you can figure it out! :) )

• COLORS? anything besides the ashen grayness of the landscape (*NOTE THOSE *OTHER* FEW COLORS b/c it is/they are significant!)

• remember/locate FIRE references--positive or negative connotation?

• "...THE ROAD..." mentioned over and over at the breaks of each segment of the narrative, and WHAT it represents; WHY?

• **the part with the FLASHBACK to a DOG--pay attention! *Was also mentioned before through pp. 69; why is this significant? (**REMEMBER TALKING ABOUT "THE 21st CENTURY GOOD GUY" and CHOICES that must be made to protect the child that is his "warrant" (5).)

• MAJOR THEMATIC TIE-IN: ***CARRYING THE FIRE*** What does this mean?

• "THE GOOD GUYS" vs. **"THE BAD GUYS"--look for these references; what ARE the differences in the two? (**pp 90-92 IS HUGE for this in descriptive detail of 'the bad guys')

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3) AND FINALLY, FOR YOUR 30-45min. "CLASSTIME ASSIGNMENT" TODAY WED. 3/25:

THE ROAD VOCAB SHEET #2 pp. 56-91

THE ROAD VOCAB SHEET #2 pp. 56-91

• **PLEASE NOTE: I've linked this sheet two different ways here, BUT YOU **NEED TO BE LOGGED IN TO YOUR UC SCHOOLS EMAIL/GOOGLE ACCOUNT IN ORDER TO ACCESS THIS SHEET** ..........BUT!!!!! I ALSO JUST EMAILED THE PDF SHEET/SHARED "CAN VIEW" ACCESS TO EVERY ONE OF Y'ALL'S SCHOOL EMAILS, SO YOU HAVE IT EITHER WAY! 

THIS VOCAB SHEET #2 ASSIGNMENT IS DUE COMPLETED/SUBMITTED TO ME VIA EMAIL/SHARED/SCREENSHOT by ***TODAY, WED. 3/25 at 6pm***

• DO THIS THE SAME WAY AS VOCAB SHEET #1; you may complete this ON YOUR OWN PAPER OR TYPE IT UP, but PLEASE FOLLOW THE TEMPLATE IN COMPLETING the assignment

• PLEASE NOTE THIS IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT THAT I HATE HAVING TO GIVE (and hope does not apply to any of you!!!): KIDS, PLEASE. DO. NOT. COPY. ONE. ANOTHER. If you have issues with time or completion of the assignment, LET ME KNOW RATHER THAN RESORTING TO SOMETHING SUCH AS 'CHEATING.' 
• **I READ ALL YOUR WORK YOU SUBMIT, SO I'LL KNOW IMMEDIATELY IF YOU'VE JUST SIMPLY COPIED/PASTED SOMEONE ELSE'S VOCAB ASSIGNMENT, and there will be consequences to ALL/BOTH PARTIES...so, in short, JUST DON'T! :)

• ALSO, IF NEEDED, REMEMBER THE FOLLOWING VIDEO FROM LAST WEEK for a quick overview of how to complete THESE VOCAB SHEETS as well as the change to view a SAMPLE COMPLETED VOCAB SHEET #1 from a past student: 

• THE ROAD VOCAB SHEET "HOW TO"/SAMPLE SHEET #1 COMPLETED COPY

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**SO, TO RECAP FOR TODAY WED. 3/25:

• read ALL this blog TODAY!!!

• MAKE SURE you've READ The Road through pp. 101 and LOOK AT ALL THE GREAT INFO/HINTS bulleted above RE: what to pay attention to/POST-IT NOTE ANNOTATE IN YOUR READING THUS FAR

• complete the The Road VOCAB SHEET #2 pp. 56-91 and SUBMIT TO ME BY 6pm TODAY WED. 3/25 just as you did sheet #1 (I'll reply/confirm when received)
• instructions/completion sample video above 
• DON'T SIMPLY COPY ONE ANOTHER/BE HONEST (I'll know, trust me!)
• CHECK YOUR EMAIL FOR A COPY of this sheet sent to you