**ONLINE ASSIGNMENTS FOR THURS. 4/16** READ CAREFULLY BELOW....

1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1102

**ATTENTION *EVERYONE (*including Alix and Nathan; you two have SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS at the bottom of this post/RECAP section) IN AP LANG/ENG 1102: ASSIGNMENT and INSTRUCTIONS for THURS. 4/16 DUE COMPLETED/SUBMITTED BY 9am FRI. 4/17...

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1) FIRST, everyone watch this because it's hilarious:

SNL SKIT: Bill, Saddam, and Monica Have a Three-Way Phone Call

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2) To get ready for today's/tonight's JOURNAL#23 assignment due FRI. 4/17 by 9am, do the following TWO things:

--READ AGAIN Clinton's "August 17th Apologia" (CLINTON II, for this journal assignment) speech transcript below, written by his SPEECH WRITER, and delivered to the nation on 8/17/98:

• **you may also watch the delivery of the speech again (see Tuesday's blog post below for the link) 

**"Clinton II"; CLICK TO EXPAND AND READ ALL

--NOW READ BELOW Clinton's originally/personally-penned speech ("CLINTON I") transcript below that was 'scrapped' just hours before the national broadcast:

"Clinton I" **CLICK TO EXPAND/READ

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3) AFTER RE-READING BOTH VERSIONS OF CLINTON'S SPEECH ABOVE,

• REFERENCE/HAVE HANDY your NOTES/post-its you took for the "APOLOGIA" speech assignment earlier this week

• ALSO QUICKLY READ and LOOK OVER the following comments below from the NYTimes 5/29/18 article "When the President Testified: People in the Room Recall Clinton's 1998 Interrogation" (*good background info that gives some CONTEXT of WHY the "Apologia" speech was chosen to air--I read some of this to y'all yesterday in Hangout mtgs.)

Comments from Clinton's Counsel RE: WHAT TO DO when addressing the nation later that night after his Grand Jury testimony...

...And how that final, televised speech was received by those who heard it, even Starr, the LEAD COUNSEL of the SPECIAL INVESTIGATION team looking into Clinton's 'affairs' (pun totally intended there)

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4) And FINALLY, follow the instructions below to complete the culminating writing assignment to accompany these two pieces of US political history... 

• Note that if you DO NOT FOLLOW CORRECT/PROPER MLA STYLE as noted below and shown in the sample response posted below, I WILL RETURN THIS TO YOU WITH NO GRADE/INCOMPLETE

*LAST NAME HEADER*

YOUR NAME

*CORRECT MLA HEADING

CORRECT TITLE: 

JOURNAL #23: Clinton Speech(es) Effectiveness/Argumentative Response 

Based on the two Clinton speeches we've read this week ("CLINTON II--August 17 Apologia" and "CLINTON I") COMPOSE AN ARGUMENTATIVE JOURNAL RESPONSE #23 in which you:

• FIRST, identify the speech you feel was MOST EFFECTIVE and LOGICALLY-SOUND FOR THE INTENDED AUDIENCE AND PURPOSE AND EXPLAIN WHY “using blended text evidence/quotes/examples from that text” (Clinton __).

THEN.... 

• USING the OTHER SPEECH VERSION you felt was LESS effective/more ILLOGICAL TO IDENTIFY/DISCUSS ONE (1) SPECIFIC LOGICAL FALLACY YOU FIND WITHIN THE SPEECH 

• use your **LOGICAL FALLACIES LIST/sheet in your binder OR this helpful "THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT LOGICAL FALLACIES" SITE to help you decide what to choose/what you found in that LESS/IN-EFFECTIVE version of the speech 

• also explain HOW this fallacy WEAKENS Clinton’s message/point “WITH BLENDED TEXT EVIDENCE from the speech to back up your assertion/claim(s)” (Clinton __). NOTE that it's -25pts off this J#23 assignment grade if you FAIL TO ADDRESS THIS PART OF THE JOURNAL!!!!

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USUAL MLA/STYLE/CONVENTIONS STUFF TO TAKE NOTE OF AS YOU COMPLETE THIS ASSIGNMENT:

• ONE (1) EXTENDED PARAGRAPH FORMAT, PLEASE

• SINGLE-SPACED is COMPLETELY FINE for this! (if you want to double-space, that's okay too!)

• the use of FIRST-PERSON (singular or plural) is ACCEPTABLE HERE (not required, but you may!)

• PLEASE ATTEND TO THE FOLLOWING for IN-TEXT CITATIONS FORMAT: 
• Speech #1/"Clinton I" (Clinton I). = his original short version
• Speech #2/"Clinton II" (Clinton II). = “August 17 Apologia"/broadcast to nation

• AT THE END OF THIS J#23, PLEASE INCLUDE a WORKS CITED FOR BOTH SPEECHES **that looks exactly like what you see at the bottom of the J#23 PAST STUDENT SAMPLE/MODEL posted below

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NEED A 'BOOST' TO GET YOU STARTED ON THIS ASSIGNMENT? READ BELOW CAREFULLY. This J#23 PAST-STUDENT SAMPLE RESPONSE incorporates everything needed to fulfill the assignment:

**everything you need is here: correct MLA 8th ed. format; proper title; BEGINS by discussing the effective speech; then transitions to the one LESS effective; uses "text evidence" from both properly cited (--); LOGICAL FALLACY INDENTIFIED in less-effective version/explained/"text evidence"; CORRECT WORKS CITED at bottom of journal response

• ALSO, KIDS; NOTE THIS RESPONSE ABOVE is posted as a FORMATTING/CONVENTIONS/FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS GUIDE! You DO NOT have to write stylistically the same way as this response! 

• BE YOURSELF IN YOUR JOURNAL RESPONSE! Don't want to start the same way this one does? Then don't! Want to be a little more conversational in style here? GO FOR IT!!!

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**OVERALL, APLANG/ENG1102, COMPLETE/SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING BY 9am FRI. 4/17 **

• [ALIX S. and NATHAN C.: you two are exempt from J#23 since you completed this last year in APLang; HOWEVER!!! make sure you SUBMIT to me BY 9am FRI. 4/17 your CLINTON II "August 17 Apologia" NOTES/annotations assignment from this past Tues. 4/14]

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EVERYONE ELSE: 

• watch the other Clinton/Lewinsky (Hussein) SNL skit

• re-read BOTH SPEECHES (Clinton I and Clinton II) 

• read over the 2018 NYTimes article interviews RE: the broadcast speech

• THEN BY FRI. 4/17 at 9am, understand the J#23: Clinton Speech(es) Argumentative Response instructions and compose your response following all instructions noted here

• emailed, shared doc, screenshot on paper, pdf, etc.--ALL ARE ACCEPTABLE

• ALSO BY FRI. 4/17 at 9am, go ahead and submit to me your "CLINTON II 'August 17 Apologia'" NOTES/ANNOTATION ASSIGNMENT from this past Tues. 4/14
• emailed, shared doc/same doc as J#23, screenshot on paper, pdf, etc.--ALL ARE ACCEPTABLE

4th Pre-AP American Lit./Comp.

**ATTENTION EVERYONE IN HONORS AMLIT./COMP.: ASSIGNMENT and INSTRUCTIONS for THURS. 4/16:

FIRST and FOREMOST, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE BEING ASKED TO DO BELOW IN ORDER TO COMPLETE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO CORRECTLY TODAY/THIS EVENING, THURS. 4/16

• IN OTHER WORDS, PLEASE STAY CAUGHT UP/don't make this hard on yourself or RUSHED, READ EVERYTHING BELOW, and complete the steps below for this GRADED assignment you'll submit by this evening

• QUESTIONS? ASK! AND ABOVE ALL ELSE, REMEMBER: COMMUNICATION IS KEY!

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1) FIRST, YOUR 30-45min. ASSIGNMENT DUE COMPLETED and SUBMITTED TO ME BY THURS. 4/16 by 9pm:

THE ROAD VOCAB *SHEET #3 pp. 129-287  (*FINAL sheet; end of the novel)

• Here's a photo of the assignment, but FYI I also just emailed to your school email the PDF sheet to you as 'CAN VIEW" ACCESS, as I did the other two

• complete this GRADED final The Road vocab sheet just as you did the FIRST TWO SHEETS you completed and turned in
•  again, you may complete this ON YOUR OWN PAPER OR TYPE IT UP, but PLEASE FOLLOW THE TEMPLATE IN COMPLETING the assignment

**^^emailed to you as well!

• AGAIN, 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.' 

• **REMEMBER, I READ ALL YOUR WORK YOU SUBMIT, SO I'LL KNOW IMMEDIATELY IF YOU'VE JUST SIMPLY COPIED/PASTED SOMEONE ELSE'S VOCAB ASSIGNMENT, ESP. SINCE THIS IS THE LAST ONE, and there will be consequences to ALL/BOTH PARTIES...so, in short, JUST DON'T! :)

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2) AND, IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY:

GO AHEAD AND COMPLETELY FINISH READING THE ROAD (+/- 80 pages if you've been keeping up) by TOMORROW 4/17, AT THE LATEST!

--we'll have LOTS of discussion RE: this final reading into next week, so be prepared!

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3) AND FINALLY, ALL AS AN EARLY FYI (THAT I'LL REMIND YOU OF AGAIN TOMORROW), BY THE END OF THE DAY (3pm) FRI. 4/17: 

• make sure you SUBMIT TO ME your ANSWERED QU's posted on here the past few days RE: ELY in THE ROAD (pp. 160-184-ish) 

• via EMAIL/SHARED DOC., MSG., SCREENSHOT(s), TEXT pictures, etc., your sheet(s) of paper, POST-IT NOTES, typed notes, etc.; AS LONG AS I GET YOUR THOROUGH, COMPLETED ASSIGNMENT THE WAY YOU SAW BEST TO COMPLETE IT! :)

• a few of you have already submitted this assignment; thank you!  

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**FINAL RECAP, HONORS AMLIT./COMP., FOR WHAT YOU NEED TO WORK ON/BE AWARE OF TODAY THURS. 4/16:**

• Complete the VOCAB SHEET #3 for The Road pp. 129-287 and SUBMIT by 9pm TONIGHT, THURS. 4/16 (**check your email for the template share w/you)

• MAKE SURE you've finished reading The Road by tomorrow, FRI. 4/17 at the latest; more discussion/assignments to come later/TBA

• By 3pm, FRI. 4/17 (*reminder again tomorrow), make sure to submit to me your The Road pp. 160-184-ish QU's RESPONSES RE: ELY and his role/time with the man & boy/what McCarthy may have been shoeing through his character

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• Also, a HUGE "THANK YOU" for attending the Hangouts mtgs. yesterday! 

• And I'm working tonight on entering daily/participation/completion grades for this as well as your Monday USATESTPREP POST-SPRING BREAK 'REFRESHER'/REVIEW ASSIGNMENT (*SOME of you made better than what USATESTPREP showed, so FYI I'll be amending that in the gradebook)