This blog is the place where you can verify homework and deadlines, both for the week and quarter. Coming Soon: Google calendar will give you deadlines for the quarter and will be embedded below. Also, there will be electronic links to handouts and assignments. Please download when required.
Here is a copy of the syllabus. Please download and read. We'll discuss on Tuesday: AP Lit Syllabus
There are a few materials you will need:
- Highlighters (three different colors if possible)
- A package of post-it notes
- A folder/binder for poems and printed documents
1. Introduction Letter (2 pages, typed, double-spaced)
This letter will let me know a bit more about you. Here are some of the questions to help guide you:
Tell me what inspires you.
Tell me what important things I need to know about you as a reader, writer and student.
Tell me what you consider your strengths and weaknesses and why you believe this.
Tell me what kind of risks you would like to take this year as a student.
Tell me what you think you want to do next year. How can I help?
Tell me what (if any) your fears are for this year or this class.
You may add anything you think would help me know you better.
2. What animal are you? You may have completed a similar test in advisory, but here you have EIGHT potential options. Please complete this quiz and read through your results: http://icould.com/buzz/
We'll discuss how this will impact our work on Tuesday.
2. For Block Day: Picture and six-word memoir
Please bring in a picture of what you consider your "true" self. It can be a picture from recently or when you were young. You may be doing something you love, or it may reflect a state of mind. (I can take a picture of you if you don't have one, just let me know ahead of time. ) In addition, please write a six-word memoir which tells us about an important event in your life or illustrates that true self. Here are some samples from years past: Six word memoir samples
We'll share these next week and they will go on the bulletin board!
