The Tempest Performance

While Seniors will be on an exam scheduele, in order to have everyone present, we will meet on May 20th at 2:15pm in the theater. Every group will have a chance to present. We should be finished at 4pm the latest. I will announce the day, as soon as I have a date. This will be a summative assessment. And our class´s send-off for the 12th-graders.

Be aware you will also be graded on your participation as an audience member.

Exemplar Hot Topic Blog

I wanted to share with you Mateo´s blog, as it does a great job summarizing, then evaluating various positions on one topic.



Take a look.

Also, check out "In the Mind of an Adolescent" for a great hot topic blog on organ donations.

Hot Topic for New Week

Complete one other hot topic blog for Friday or Monday, whenever we meet.

See rubric here. 

In addition, be sure you are reading in preparation for reading pair discussions. This means reading regularly and meeting the reading goals you established with your partner.

For next week, choose another hot topic in which you analyze five sources and come up with your own position.

Print out your The Tempest scene for our next class.

Next week we'll complete a timed writing exercise for the last question on the AP exam. It will be a holistically graded summative assessment for the open response question.

Research Paper Reflection

Tonight listen to my audio commentary on your paper.

When finished respond on your blog. Talk about how you might have approached or written this differently if you were to do it all over again.

Hot Topics (our new form of blogging)

This week rather than read at home, you'll be reading in the class.

Instead you'll choose one hot topic to investigate. You will identify at least six sources relating to the topic. You will evaluate each in terms of its audience, purpose, etc. as well as its veracity. In the end, you will write a blog entry in which you take your own position, while using hyperlinks to summarize, incorporate or refute all of your six sources.

If you want to see a professional version of this, return to the Charlie Hebdo article from Slate we read some time ago.

Your first of these hot topic blogs will be due this Friday or Monday.