**REMINDERS FOR ONLINE LEARNING TUES. 3/24; EVERYONE PLEASE READ!

1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1102

**ATTENTION AP LANG/ENG 1102 FOR TUES. 3/24:

1) First, please note that I'm still reading over your JOURNAL #22 responses RE: The Crucible, your political cartoon tie-in, Miller's article about why he wrote the play, and the NYTimes 'callout culture' article; so far, good stuff! Grades to be posted on those soon. In the meantime, here's two things to look at (one I sent in our group text, but it's worth seeing again):

Thanks, Hannah T., for finding this; so many ways to tie this all together to history, sociology, modern times, etc.

Shout out to Kody E. for finding this--such irony! An "On This Day in History" from May 1957 that is spot-on with
what we've been talking about the past few weeks. Great find!

2) Today, Tues. 3/23, I want to meet with as many of y'all as I can for our *30-45min. of required class time,* so I've planned, like last time we met, two separate GOOGLE HANGOUTS SESSIONS that you'll get an invite to shortly before each begins:

**1st block: 10:30am HANGOUTS

**2nd block 11:30am HANGOUTS

• PLEASE NOTE you only need to attend ONE of these sessions
• Also note that Hangouts can only accommodate 25 people per session, so that's why I'm grouping you all again by 1st block and 2nd block separately; **however, if you cannot make one session for YOUR BLOCK, please try for the other! Let me know via text/email, and I'll send you an invite!

• **Can't make EITHER session today/this morning? Please text me/email me and we'll schedule another time/call/etc.; it's SUPER-IMPORTANT you try to be at these, though, when/if you can!

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

3) **Please understand that it's important you try to be at one of these sessions because when we meet during our class Hangouts, I'll fill you all in on some important stuff RE:

• some misc. course/school announcements RE: grades, class meetings, etc.

• what I know RE: AP EXAMS and the latest from the College Board as you make decisions about the exam in May

• where we're all going from here RE: the last few weeks of ENG 1102

4th Pre-AP American Lit./Comp.

ATTENTION 4th block RE: REMINDERS FOR TUES. 3/24 and what's due WED. 3/25 (**READ ALL THE WAY THROUGH THIS!):

1) FIRST, A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

• THANKS SO MUCH to all of you who were able to meet in one of the two Google Hangouts sessions yesterday for 30-45min. class time 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

• **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)***ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS: 
Mollie Arrowood
Tanner Doyle
Jacey Lee
Haley Noe
Brayden Snow
Adaley Burnette

• You six please look for an email/text from me sometime Tues. morning 3/24 and an email invite shortly before the Hangouts meeting time below, as I still want to meet with all you today 3/24, 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!):

• 4th block TUES. 3/24 AMERICAN LIT. MAKE-UP HANGOUTS SESSION: 12:45pm

• *The Road through pp. 69 discussion/notes from me on what you've read/for understanding ...AND you'll get credit for The Road READING CHECK #1 for attending--yay!

• won't take more than 30-45min. because I have a English Dept. faculty Hangout @2pm

• **Can't make today's session either or need to let me know what's going on? Please text me/email me and we'll schedule another time/phone call/etc.; it's SUPER-IMPORTANT you try to be at these, though, when/if you can!

Need help RE: 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) FINALLY, BY 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-ITS 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! :) )

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

• COLORS? anything besides the ashen grayness of the landscape (*NOTE THAT COLOR b/c it's significant!)

• "...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')