Wednesday, April 29, 2020

**ATTENTION EVERYONE/ALL CLASSES: READ CAREFULLY FOR ASSIGNMENTS/REMINDERS FOR WED. 4/29**

1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1102

**ATTENTION ALL, AP LANG/ENG 1102 

***WED 4/29 UPDATE through FRI. 5/1:*** 
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1) IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT!
Here ONCE AGAIN is your AP/ENG1102 *continuing* SCHEDULE for these last 5-8 days of this semester
  • **WEEK OF MON. 4/27 (FINALS WK for YHC & last regular work week BEFORE FINAL EXAM PROJECT for UCHS)
    • WED. 4/29: 
      • THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO CONTACTED ME YESTERDAY!!! THERE ARE ONLY ABOUT 1 or 2 more of you who HAVE NOT MADE CONTACT WITH ME RE: the MON. 4/28 HANGOUT RECORDING I SENT YOU IF YOU DID NOT ATTEND--I'M LITERALLY CHASING SOME OF YOU, AND IT'S CRAZY!!!!! HELLLOOO, 17 & 18yr.-olds going to college!?! PLEASE BE ON TOP OF THINGS HERE AT THE END!
      • IF YOU MISSED THESE, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WATCH THE RECORDING AND LET ME KNOW YOU HAVE--OR ****ZERO PARTICIPATION/DISCUSSION PTS. FOR THE WEEK****
      • **AP EXAM TAKERS: CHECK THE UCHS AP EXAM CLASSROOM UPDATES, and I HAVE SOME EXCELLENT INFO FOR YOU RE: THE AP EXAM AT-HOME DEMO AND VALUABLE EXAM DAY INFO I'LL BE SHARING w/YOU ASAP!! STAY TUNED!

    • 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!!! (UPDATE WED a.m. 4/29: I'm through CH. 30, 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, ThomasJaden, Hannah Patterson
          • **groups 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 ***FROM YOUR PREVIOUSLY-WRITTEN/TYPED VERSIONS OF THESE ASSIGNMENTS*** to *assign*/divide up among group members:

        **in 8th ed. MLA style, ABC order, 12pt TNR/Calibri font are:
        • **READ THE TUES. 4/28 GROUP TEXT I SENT YOU ALL RE: the correct TITLE for your GROUP ANNBIB
        • *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!]
          • **^^READ THE TUES. 4/28 GROUP TEXT I SENT YOU ALL RE: the correct way/instructions on how to complete this ANNBIB ENTRY 

        **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):

        **CORRECT TITLE ABOVE w/HIGHLIGHT**




        WHY DO THESE ^^TWO SENTENCES ABOVE HAVE HIGHLIGHTS?
        B/C these were both COMMA SPLICE SENTENCES THAT COUNTED OFF.
        Yes. I look for GROSS MAJOR SENTENCE STRUCTURE ERRORS in your ANNBIB. Gasp!


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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 FOR WED. 4/29, ASSIGNMENT DUE COMPLETED BY 6pm

        1) LOG IN TO USATESTPREP.COM 
        • (Account ID: union w/username and PW--email me if needed) AND FIND ON YOUR DASHBOARD this assignment: 
        • SP20 4th HONORS AMLIT LIT. ERAS/THEMES VIDEOS & QUs
          • here you'll find EIGHT (8) short, 1-2min. specific videos related to American Literary era/periods
          • WATCH those SHORT EIGHT VIDEOS and ANSWER the 2-3 qu's at the end of each one
            • **AND PRO TIP: if you can, watch the videos IN THIS ORDER BELOW (but if you forget, it's not that big of a deal--but this is the order the eras happen in American literary history):
          • VIDEO: The Puritan/Colonial Period
          • VIDEO: The Revolutionary Period
          • VIDEO: The American Renaissance
          • VIDEO: The Romantic Period
          • VIDEO: The Realism (*and Naturalism) Period
          • VIDEO: The Modern Age
          • VIDEO: Universal Themes
          • VIDEO: Themes 2
            • **NOTE: this is usually the last assignment we do in AMLIT before the EOC, so PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY and do your best work, as today's videos will help with completing tomorrow's assignments!
          • AGAIN, DO YOUR BEST ON THIS, COMPLETE BY WED. 4/29 @6pm, AS THE ASSIGNMENT IS FOR A GRADE!
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          And a few reminders as we approach our **LAST REGULAR CLASS DAYS** of the semester:
          • **FRIDAY 5/1, BE READY FOR:
            • HANGOUTS FOR AN IMPORTANT ASSIGNMENT/SHORT RDG. WE'LL DO TOGETHER THAT DAY in our mtg. (**times posted later)
              • ^^AND TRUST ME: YOU'LL WANT TO BE AT THIS HANGOUT B/C WHAT WE READ/COMPLETE IS THE SAME RDG./TEXT YOU'LL USE FOR YOUR REQUIRED FINAL PROJECT NEXT WEEK!!! EEK!!! BE THERE!!!
            • I'll also on 5/1 have a SCHEDULE POSTED FOR NEXT WEEK RE: how we'll finish the semester w/your REQUIRED FINAL PROJECT ASSESSMENT/a sample project to show you
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          • AS USUAL, THERE ARE STILL A FEW OF YOU I NEED TO CHECK IN WITH ME FOR VARIOUS REASONS: 
            • I NEED FROM YOU/NEED TO ASK YOU ABOUT, ASSIGNMENTS OR OTHERWISE, etc.
            • so if you see your name here, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME, as there is VERY LITTLE TIME LEFT IN THE SEMESTER
            • ALSO, THIS IS CRUCIAL TO UNDERSTAND: a few of you MAY NOT BE ABLE TO FINISH THE SEMESTER ON FRI. 5/8 b/c I'll need you to complete MAKE-UP ASSIGNMENTS!!! 
          • Mollie Arrowood (*sent you an email as well)
          • Tanner Doyle (*you know what to fix/just a reminder)
          • Bella Rosales (*ONE assignment outstanding; REQUIRED for finishing course/**GRADUATION**)
          • Brayden Snow (*a couple assignments to complete/REQUIRED for finishing course on 5/8)
            • AGAIN, YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO SEEING TO THE ^^INFO ABOVE!!! CHECK IN WITH ME WITH QU's/CONCERNS

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