Monday, April 27, 2020

ATTENTION ALL: **1st/2nd APLANG/ENG1102 FINAL BLOG POST FOR MON. 4/27; PLEASE READ CAREFULLY!!! ****AND 4th HONORS AMLIT: NO ASSIGNMENT MON. 4/27; CHECK BACK TOMORROW FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS

1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1102

**ATTENTION ALL, AP LANG/ENG 1102 FOR MON. 4/27 through FRI. 5/1: 
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1) IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT!
Here ONCE AGAIN is your AP/ENG1102 *official first tentative* SCHEDULE for the last two weeks of this semester
  • **WEEK OF MON. 4/27 (FINALS WK for YHC & last regular work week BEFORE FINAL EXAM PROJECT for UCHS)
    • MON. 4/27: ALL AP/ENG 1102 STUDENTS GOOGLE HANGOUTS @10am and 11am
      • you'll be receiving info/instructions on your final work week APLang/ENG 1102 assignment: GROUP ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY (*more info next week)
      • IF YOU MISSED THESE, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WATCH THE RECORDING AND LET ME KNOW YOU HAVE--OR NO/ZERO PARTICIPATION/DISCUSSION PTS. FOR THE WEEK
    • MON. 4/27-FRI. 5/1ALL AP/ENG 1102 STUDENTS (*except Josie): Read, read, read ALL WEEK in Americanah to finish the novel for your YHC ENG1102 WRITTEN FINAL EXAM RESPONSE QUESTION THAT WILL BE DUE SUNDAY, 5/3 (*more info TBA toward end of week--FOR NOW, JUST KEEP READING!!)
    • MON. 4/27-FRI. 5/1ALL AP/ENG1102 STUDENTS (*except Alix Sherry and Nathan; you completed this exact assmnt. in APLang last year): work on APLang/ENG 1102 GROUP ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY to submit by FRI. 5/1
      • simple instructions; will be easy to complete if you follow instructions b/c you've already done most of this throughout the semester--you'll just organize/type up the info in a shared doc this week to submit; more info/groups TBA next week
  • Alix Sherry, Savannah D, Nathan: your LAST DAY/FINAL EXAM ASSIGNMENT FOR ENG1102 IS SUN. 5/3, so MAKE SURE you complete your final exam Americanah question response no later than 5/3!!!!

  • **WEEK OF MON. 5/4 (FINAL EXAM PROJECT WEEK for UCHS)
    • MON. 5/4-WED. 5/6: ALL APLang STUDENTS, REGARDLESS of whether or not you're taking the exam, you are REQUIRED to use these THREE DAYS to work on:
      • finish reading Americanah
      • getting your APLANG YEAR-LONG JOURNALS together; **SPECIFICALLY FROM S2, I need to PHYSICALLY SEE J#15 through #21, completed in class OR for HW HARD COPY prior to going online) for a VISUAL GRADE (*more info and a list of what each of these journals were TBA) 
      • COMPLETING BY YOUR *LAST DAY OF CLASS, WED. 5/6* the APLANG UCHS FINAL EXAM PROJECT via GOOGLE SLIDES (*more in-depth info TBA, but just know it'll be tied to RHETORICAL ANALYSIS PRACTICE of some sort)
      • THURS. 5/7 and FRI. 5/8: TEACHER IN-SERVICE DAYS where I'll be SCORING/GRADING your APLang FINAL EXAM PROJECT
        • by 3:30 pm FRI. 5/8, you'll all know your "grade" in the class and can individually determine whether or not you want to **continue working on the project OR work toward proficiency/improving your grade (**see Mr. Hussion's end of year memo)
        • ***for the seven of you NOT taking the APLang exam: if you "Meet Proficiency" and are happy with your grade, you will be "done" with APLang on FRI. 5/8***
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    • ***WEEK OF MON. 5/11: REVIEW WEEK FOR APLang EXAM TAKERS***
      • we'll meet 2-3 times this week to go over at-home online testing procedures one last time, review, and complete one last 45min. rhetorical analysis practice essay [scored by me w/feedback] tied to what you already completed on the APLang FINAL EXAM PROJECT
      • **REMEMBER: in order to receive the APLang course grade incentive I promised if you take the exam, you MUST complete this REVIEW WEEK prior to the APLang EXAM ON WED. 5/20 @2pm (*more info to come in the following weeks)

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    2) NOW, ATTENTION ENG 1102 STUDENTS (**everyone but Josie):

    ***EVERYONE PLEASE KEEP READING AMERICANAH!!! (FYI, I'm up to CH. 24-25, and will hopefully finish before you all by Friday!!!)***
    • REMEMBER: PART OF YOUR ENG 1102 FINAL EXAM IS A WRITTEN RESPONSE OF SOME SORT RE: THE NOVEL/THEMES and ideas/character traits at play/being explored (**more info later this week)

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      3) !!!!IMPORTANT ASSIGNMENT FOR EVERYONE THIS WEEK of MON. 4/27 (**except for Alix S. and Nathan)!!!! 
      • AS INTRODUCED TO YOU MON. 4/27 DURING THE WKLY HANGOUT SESSIONS, FOR THIS WEEK YOU ALL WILL BE COMPLETING YOUR LAST "REGULAR-WEEK" ASSIGNMENT FOR APLang/ENG1102
      DUE COMPLETED/ONE GROUP DOCUMENT SHARED WITH ME FRIDAY 5/1 BY 6pm:

      YOUR FINAL *GROUP* PROJECT 
      "AP LANG/ENG1101-02 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
      (*8th edition, MLA style; see more details below)
      • ***AGAIN, THIS COMPLETED DOCUMENT IS DUE FRIDAY, MAY 1st @6pm shared with me*** 
        • ONE COMPLETED/REVISED GROUP DOCUMENT shared with me via email!
      YOU ALL WERE INFORMED ABOUT THIS FINAL ASSIGNMENT (*overview, definitions, its purpose, the END GOAL, MODELS from past years' groups, etc.) IN the HANGOUT SESSION MON. 4/26**
      • you'll have THE REST OF THIS WEEK to work on this through 5/1 @6pm
      • DO NOT SHARE WITH ME TO REVISE AHEAD OF TIME; I will look at VERY SPECIFIC Qu's you may have 
      • I suggest you go ahead and as soon as you see who's in your group, you all email, text, etc. to start working on this important **MAJOR LAST ASSIGNMENT FOR BOTH APLang and ENG 1102**
      • ASK QUESTIONS!! Email/text/message me with ANY CONCERNS OR QU's you may have
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      **Here also is a link to the PURDUE OWL ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY INFO/EXAMPLES 
      • THIS FINAL, SHARED GROUP-EFFORT DOCUMENT is 10% of your FINAL COURSE GRADE and will be graded VERY STRICTLY for grammar, MLA style, revision accuracy, typos, etc.!!!
      • IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE ASK SOONER THAN LATER!!!
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      1st APLang/ENG1101-02 ANNBIB GROUPS
      • **Mollie Jean, Xander, Savannah, Macy (**GROUP: let Savannah contribute one of the *last two* 2nd semester ANNBIB sources/writings/journals**) 
      • **Hannah Todd, Summer, Christian, Edie
      • Chloe, Jordan, Ashley, Jenna, Dario 
      • **Allison, Thomas, Jaden, Hannah Patterson
        • **group with FOUR people: you still will need FIVE entries in your ANN. BIB.; just have someone submit TWO pieces for the document; you all decide!

      2nd APLang/ENG1101-02 ANNBIB GROUPS
      • Aliceyn, Payton, Orlando, Allie, Lindsay
      • Hannah Patton, Mackenzie, Kody, Jade, Jordan
      • **Josie, Daniel, Morgan, Alyssa
        • **group with FOUR people: you still will need FIVE entries in your ANN. BIB.; just have someone submit TWO pieces for the document; you all decide!

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      **ATTENTION BOTH 1st and 2nd blocks: THE FIVE (5) REQUIRED "ENTRIES" on your GROUP ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

      **in 8th ed. MLA style, ABC order, 12pt TNR/Calibri font are:
      • *from The Things They Carried (*1st semester AP/ENG1101): ONE rhetorical analysis extended paragraph response [*REVISED/**ADD "CHAPTER NAME"; see sample last year's ANNBIB posted here]

      • *from one of the following annotated texts [MLK, Jr.; Herman; Wiesel; or Jones] (*READ 1st semester AP/ENG1101 THEN WROTE/ANALYZED JAN. 2nd semester*): ONE rhetorical analysis extended paragraph responses to the text [*REVISED] 

      • from JOURNAL #13 (*1st semester AP/ENG1101): ONE OGE rhetorical analysis response to Q#2 in the text RE: Lincoln's "The Gettysburg Address" [*REVISED IF NEEDED] 

      • from BEFORE ONLINE LEARNING/JANUARY: IN-CLASS JOURNAL #17 PART II (**2nd semester AP/ENG1102): ONE RHETORICAL response to either the "Norman Morrison" poem or "The Pacifists" NF Time article [*REVISED/ELIMINATE 'I'/1st person!]

      • from ONLINE LEARNING WEEKS; JOURNAL #23 (**2nd semster AP/ENG1102): ONE argument/analysis response to the CLINTON SPEECHES x2 EFFECTIVENESS and FALLACY ID/EXPLANATION [*REVISED/ELIMINATE 'I'/1st person!]


      **AND HERE BELOW ARE SCREENSHOTS OF ALL FIVE PAGES OF A STUDENT GROUP SAMPLE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FROM LAST YEAR--NOT "PERFECT," BUT A LOW/MID 'A' with some mistakes (not all of them) noted/highlighted (**plus a few things I've highlighted for you as a REMINDER):






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      IMPORTANT NOTE RE: this ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY GROUP ASSIGNMENT: 
      • I realize we're all burnt out, stir crazy, and ready for the semester to end; HOWEVER, DO. NOT. take this assignment for GRANTED!!! I grade these very strenuously; PROOFREAD! ASK QUESTIONS! FOLLOW guidelines and the model I've posted above




      4th Pre-AP American Lit./Comp.

      ATTENTION ALL, HONORS AMLIT KIDS: 

      UNLESS YOU OWE ME ANY MISSING/UNFINISHED/UNSUBMITTED ASSIGNMENTS (*such as your J#13 due SUN. 4/26 @6pm)...

      • YOU ALL HAVE NO ASSIGNMENTS DUE/TO COMPLETE ON MON. 4/27
        • check back TUES. 4/28 for your next instructions...


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