OPTIC search

Here are the photos you should analyze using OPTIC.

Transitional Phrases

Here are some transitional phrases for you.

Weekend Reading

For Monday read another 50-60 pages of your graphic novel. Include visual vocabulary. Also take pictures of panels that you analyze. Place these pictures in your blog. Be sure to mention the effects of juxtaposition.

Comical

This week have one reading blog complete for 50-60 pages of your graphic novel. Be sure to include visual vocabulary and photos of panels you find interesting. Try to apply key terms from class in your entries.

Late or Never

I didn't have a change to post more multiple choice practice as you had asked for. Preparing the finals took longer than I expected.

If you're interested in practicing you can google multiple choice and AP English Language and Composition or click on this link.

If you're interested in a review book - some of you have purchased this already - try 5 Steps to a 5.

Homework

There is no homework this week due to finals, etc. When we return we may have to put these books on the side and do some group reading for three weeks, while we learn about comics. We´ll be reading Understanding Comics (if you want to get a head start).

To Sleep To Dream

This weekend you do not have to blog about your reading, but only read. How will I know? You will use post-its and stop and jots (a minimum of three).

As for blogging I'd like a written response to this article in the NYT about sleep. Be sure to include a hyperlink. I know many of you are sleep deprived so I thought it'd be relevant.

Trip?

As I've mentioned in class, the film 12 Years a Slave - now winner of Best Drama by the Golden Globes - is based on a slave narrative, like the Douglass' that we read.

Should we wait and see if it comes to theaters or should we watch this in the theater in school one day (a viewing, if you will)?

Vlogging

Yes, the day has come. This week instead of writing a reading blog, you may write a reading vlog - that is a video in which you react to the text. In essence, this is entirely the same exercise. If you're reading the same book as someone else you may do this in pairs.

Here's an example from a different class:

This week's Writers Workshop will focus on citing text. Bring in your last timed writing to have a look at how we're citing text.

On Friday we will have a practice quiz. I call it practice because it will not be graded. This is to prepare us for the extended multiple choice questions section on next week's final.

Review Sheet for Mid-Term

Here you can find a review sheet that covers many of the terms that may appear on our mid-term exam January 22nd. Some of this doesn't apply to our class, but I prefer taking it from another source as all classes tend to have their own individual focus, not necesarrily reflected in the exam itself.

Outside Reading

Continue to read outside of class. If you need or would like a new book for this new year you are welcome to read one. You may consider reading a biography. They tend to be long, but easy and engaging.