The Tempest Opporunity

Today at 3:30 and tomorrow at 5:00 CNG students will be presenting The Tempest.

Rarely do we get to see Shakespeare in English in Bogotá, so take this opportunity to do so - not to mention a play that we performed with students mostly from your Lang classes.

If you do, take a picture of yourself and write a little about the experience on your blog and I will award you a special grade.

Satirical Commencement Speech Rubric

All speeches must be 3-5 min (maximum) in length. These will be presented on our final exam day.

See the rubric here. 

Dangling Modifiers

Read lesson and complete exercises.

Reminders

Remember you should be reading for at least an hour between each class.

In addition, don't forget to bring in your completed first draft of your satirical commencement speech for Writers Workshop - either in print or on computer (phones are not acceptable).

Vote!

I need you guys to vote in the poll for our class about what to study next. I need to start planning for tomorrow.

Semester Reflection

As we near the end of the year, please take out a few minutes to respond to this survey.

Most important to me are the comments in the end. Think about the curriculum too. Favorite books? Favorite unit?

The Tempest Rubric

Here is The Tempest rubric.

DBQ and Synthesis

I thought this article might be interesting for those who have already taken AP US History.

Last Rhetorical Terms

These are some terms either very obscure or simply not covered over the course of the semester. Have a look if you weren't in class this week.

Study?

It'd be a good idea to know 98% of the terms on this list. We've covered all of them. In addition, see the extra special terms for our 70 question MC exam.

MIAP

For those of you that are Missing in AP Exams or are MIAP, make sure you follow up on missed classes.

Of particular importance is our class Wednesday and Thursday. These will be review days for the AP exam and for the AP 70 question multipe choice exam.

Reminder: Multiple Choice exam, 70 questions, summative is on Friday or Monday, depending on your section.  If you will not be in class for whatever reason, you need to email me about it. If not, it counts as missing an exam day. This is a key practice exercise for test day. After 70 questions, 55 will feel like a breeze.

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.

College Madness

Here´s Frank Bruni´s op-ed about the College Admissions process. After reading describe Bruni´s tone.

All Calm

The cancellation of classes on Wednesday in no way changes the due dates that are established. Use this extra day well to ensure the best paper possible.

You must submit in turnitin.com. You must register in turnitin.com. Turn it in to turnitin.com by Wednesday.

The number is 9733250.

Password is linguistics.

Chicago Style Citation

Some helpful examples here.