REMINDERS AND ASSIGNMENTS DUE: 1st/2nd AP/ENG1102 RDG. DUE MON. 4/26; 4th HONORS AMLIT ASSIGNMENT DUE SUN. 4/26

1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1102

**ATTENTION ALL, AP LANG/ENG 1102 FOR FRI. 4/24 and the weekend through MON. 4/27: 

**NOTICE: Late last night I sent you all via email a RECORDED HANGOUT w/just me (how sad). It covers CRITICAL INFO listed here for plans to end this semester!

PLEASE WATCH IT AND EMAIL OR TEXT ME TO CONFIRM YOU'VE WATCHED SO THAT I CAN "CHECK YOU OFF" FOR YOUR WKLY PARTICIPATION GRADE! 

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1) ANNOUNCEMENTS/FYI for ENG1102 STUDENTS:

• if you would, please, don't forget to log on to your YHC Moodle email and complete the ENG1102 course/instructor evaluation (open through next Tuesday); thank you from me!

• ALSO PLEASE NOTE: if you notice an email from YHC (either in your YHC Moodle email or your personal email) stating that you have books due to turn in at the end of the semester, PLEASE IGNORE THIS NOTICE. It's an automated email, and YHC has yet to set any sort of procedures for book return; it'll be a while, and I'll keep you posted on what I find out!

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2) ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS WHO ARE PLANNING ON TAKING THE APLang (or any other) AP EXAM:

• THANK YOU to all of exam takers for joining the UCHS ADVANCED PLACEMENT (AP) EXAMS INFO GOOGLE CLASSROOM
• you are now ALL signed up for Lots of important EXAM, TIMELINE, COMMUNICATIONS, LINKS, etc. info posted there; PLEASE CHECK THIS OFTEN!!

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3) IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT!

Here is your AP/ENG1102 *official first tentative* SCHEDULE for the last two weeks of this semester

(*I'll go over this more in depth in the HANGOUT recording I'm sending 

ASAP Thurs. or Fri.)

• **CURRENT WEEK OF MON. 4/20**
• ALL AP STUDENTS TAKING LANG EXAM/any other AP EXAM: join UCHS AP Google Classroom

• ALL AP/ENG1102 STUDENTS (*except Josie): Read, read, read in Americanah; plan to be around halfway through (*see rdg. schedule below) by Mon. 4/27

• **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 PLAN FOR A GOOGLE HANGOUT (*times TBA)
• you'll be receiving info/instructions on your final work week APLang/ENG 1102 assignment: GROUP ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY (*more info next week)
• AP EXAM TAKERS, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE AP EXAM COMMUNICATIONS TIMELINE ON THE CLASSROOM; this week "A Guide To Test Day" will be available online to walk you through how you'll test at home
• *Josie also plan to attend for wkly/AP Exam info & info on last APLANG ASSIGNMENT (GROUP ANN. BIB.) before AP FINAL PROJECT

• MON. 4/27-FRI. 5/1: ALL 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)

• MON. 4/27-FRI. 5/1: ALL 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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4) NOW, ATTENTION ENG 1102 STUDENTS (**everyone but Josie):

***EVERYONE PLEASE KEEP READING AMERICANAH!!! (FYI, FRI. a.m. I'm up to CH. 12)***

• REMEMBER: this READING is the ONLY ASSIGNMENT you've had this week for ENG 1102 through MON. 4/27!!!

I really hope you've tried to follow the *HIGHLY-suggested* FIRST-WEEK READING SCHEDULE below to keep yourself on track w/reading, as your ENG 1102 FINAL EXAM WRITTEN RESPONSE in one week will be based upon your reading of this novel:

• BY FRI. 4/24, read through pp. 175 (*end of CHAPTER 14)
• again, post-it notes **suggested for major characters/plot points/anything that may help you toward the ENG1102 FINAL EXAM WRITTEN RESPONSE

• BY MON. 4/27 [over the wkend], read through pp. 278 (*end of CHAPTER 22/END OF PART 2)
• AGAIN, post-it notes **suggested for major characters/plot points/anything that may help you toward the ENG1102 FINAL EXAM WRITTEN RESPONSE

• THE ULTIMATE GOAL FOR THIS WEEK: to be through PARTS 1 and 2 of AMERICANAH by next week MON. 4/27
• We'll get caught up in our discussion of PARTS 1 and 2 of the novel during a HANGOUT at the very beginning of next week MON. 4/27; more info/invite TBA

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**AND ALSO NOTE FOR THE UPCOMING WEEKS:

• EACH DAY THIS BLOG WILL BE UPDATED TO REFLECT THE MOST RECENT INFO and/or KEEP YOU UP TO DATE ON YOUR SCHEDULE, SO PLEASE STILL CHECK IN/THIS BLOG EACH DAY!

4th Pre-AP American Lit./Comp.

ATTENTION ALL, HONORS AMLIT KIDS: 1) A FEW IMPORTANT REMINDERS, AND 2) YOUR ASSIGNMENT GIVEN NOW FRI. 4/24 and DUE BY SUN. 4/26 at 6pm:** 

1) FIRST, A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS AGAIN; PLEASE READ CAREFULLY, AS THERE ARE A FEW OF YOU I NEED TO HEAR FROM!!!: 

• I'm now grading your JOURNAL #12 Personal Response/Self-Eval. and your McCarthy and The Road THREE-STEP Assignment from yesterday

• ATTENTION, THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS; to keep you up to date and on track here at the end, I'm reaching out; I WANT YOU ALL TO END STRONG; so the following students PLEASE CONTACT ME b/c you are MISSING [an] assignment(s)/have something INCOMPLETE, and we need to quickly get that sorted out; IF YOU SEE YOUR NAME HERE, TRUST ME; you're NOT IN TROUBLE, but I DO NEED YOU TO MAKE THE EFFORT TO REACH OUT TO ME TOMORROW FRI. 4/24 so I can inform you of what you're missing:
• Tanner Doyle
• Zoey Furrows
• Bella Rosales
• Brayden Snow
• Seth Tanner

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**AS ALWAYS, LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING WE TALKED ABOUT, WHAT YOU NEED TO COMPLETE--ANYTHING AT ALL!!

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2) PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BELOW THROUGH THIS FOR INSTRUCTIONS AND THE TWO PROMPTS TO CHOOSE FROM FOR J#13: THE ROAD FINAL WRITTEN DISCUSSION RESPONSE due SUN. 4/26 at 6pm

• READ BELOW THE INTRO AND THE JOURNAL #13: THE ROAD PROMPTS x2 

• the NOTES BELOW EACH PROMPT are to help you write your response; PLEASE. READ. THEM!!!!!! ***But DO NOT PLAGIARIZE THE IDEAS (use them word for word and/pr COPY/PASTE; use them to form your OWN IDEAS!); they are prepare you for your J#13 response choice
• use your OWN PAGE #s/text evidence you find as well!!! I LOVE to see how you all incorporate evidence from the text that you find!

• READ BOTH PROMPTS/ACCOMPANYING NOTES; THEN CHOOSE ONE OF THE TWO TO RESPOND TO

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THE ROAD JOURNAL #13 FINAL POST-RDG. WRITTEN RESPONSE

Read the following assignment INTRO INFO:

Set in the smoking ashes of a post-apocalyptic America, Cormac McCarthy's The Road tells the story of a man and his son's journey toward the sea juxtaposed against an uncertain salvation. The world they pass through presents a ghastly, fragmented vision of scorched countryside and blasted cities "held by cores of blackened looters who tunneled among the ruins and crawled from the rubble white of tooth and eye carrying charred and anonymous tins of food in nylon nets like shoppers in the commissaries of hell" (181). It is a starved, morally destitute world; all plant and animal life dead or dying, and some of the few human survivors even consume each other alive.

The father and son move through the ruins searching for food and shelter, trying to keep safe from murderous, roving bands of “bad guys.” They have only a pistol to defend themselves, the clothes they wear, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

Awesomely complex in the totality of its vision, The Road is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that humans are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

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• Now read the TWO written discussion prompts/questions below that thematically address the end of this novel AS WELL AS THE "HELPFUL HINTS" NOTES THAT ACCOMPANY EACH PROMPT. 

• Then CHOOSE ONE of the two and RESPOND THOUGHTFULLY IN AT LEAST 8-10 sentences. 

• Make sure you address every part of the prompt you choose, and “use AT LEAST ONE PIECE OF BLENDED text evidence/QUOTED TEXT” from the novel to support your claims/assertions (McCarthy #). 

• **INCLUDE A WORK CITED ENTRY FOR THE ROAD (A BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR)** at the bottom of your response. 

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**^^A REMINDER FROM OUR HANGOUT THIS WEEK OF A *NEW* WORD I USED WHEN TALKING ABOUT SPECIFIC UNIVERSAL SYMBOLS IN A TEXT (colors, numbers, character types, fire, water, etc.) 

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JOURNAL#13 PROMPT #1: As the father is dying, he tells his son he must go on in order to "carry the fire." When the boy asks if the fire is real, the father says, "It's inside you. It was always there. I can see it" (279). Literally and figuratively, what is this fire? Why is it so crucial that they not let it die? Does the novel’s end suggest that “the fire” does not die?

• FIRE = survival for the man/boy (food, warmth when they can afford to w/out being detected by 'the bad guys), BUT it also causes destruction in their world
• **find pg #s that support these thoughts ^^^

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JOURNAL#13 PROMPT #2: Why does McCarthy end the novel with the image of trout in mountain streams before the end of the world, referencing "the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery" (287)? What is surprising about this ending? Does it provide closure, or does it prompt a rethinking of all that has come before? What does it suggest about what lies ahead for the world?

• SOME HELPFUL STUFF BELOW! READ, and FIND YOUR OWN PG #s and "text evidence from the novel that supports this outlook of GENESIS/new beginnings at the end of the novel" (McCarthy #).

• Remember what we talked about in the HANGOUT RE: where the novel ends/WHY that's significant faith-wise OR biologically....

**And FINALLY, follow the instructions and sample response below to complete the culminating/FINAL writing assignment for The Road

• Note that if you DO NOT:
• FOLLOW CORRECT/PROPER MLA STYLE
• TITLE YOUR PAPER PROPERLY
• use "blended text evidence from The Road" to back up your claims and cite at the end of the sentence (McCarthy #)
• write enough to answer the question OR not put forth your best effort
• as noted below and shown in the sample response posted below, I WILL RETURN THIS TO YOU WITH NO GRADE/INCOMPLETE UNTIL REVISED/FIXED

*LAST NAME HEADER*

YOUR NAME

*CORRECT MLA HEADING

CORRECT TITLE: 

JOURNAL #13: The Road **PROMPT #_(your choice)_** FINAL WRITTEN RESPONSE

*****YOUR 8-10 sentence RESPONSE WRITTEN/TYPED HERE w/ "blended text evidence" to help back up your claims (McCarthy #).*****

Work Cited

**Goes here; actually given to you below (**look below)....

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

• ONE (1) EXTENDED PARAGRAPH FORMAT, PLEASE = 8-10 HEALTHY, WELL-WRITTEN SENTENCES

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

• TRY TO AVOID the use FIRST-PERSON (singular or plural--"I" and "we") and *LIMIT PASSIVE VOICE (*just TRY!)

• PLEASE ATTEND TO THE FOLLOWING for IN-TEXT CITATIONS FORMAT: 
• Your "blended text evidence from the novel" should look like this (McCarthy #).

• AT THE END OF THIS J#13, PLEASE INCLUDE a CORRECT MLA 8th EDITION WORK CITED **that looks exactly like this (BOOK with ONE AUTHOR) also at the bottom of the former student's JOURNAL BELOW from last year as well):

Work Cited

McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. Vintage Books, 2006.

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NEED A 'BOOST' TO GET YOU STARTED ON THIS ASSIGNMENT? READ BELOW CAREFULLY. This J#13 PAST-STUDENT SAMPLE RESPONSE incorporates everything needed to fulfill the assignment:

**THIS ONE FOLLOWS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS AND HAS EVERYTHING NECESSARY FOR THE RESPONSE (**you can't see the HEADING and TITLE I cut off accidentally, but they are there!!) **TYPED/SHARED or WRITTEN/EMAILED/SCREENSHOT--whatever works for you; JUST HAVE THIS J#13 COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED TO ME BY SUN. 4/26 at 6pm!!!