Feliz Navidad

Wonderful Studs: 

Now that you are almost finished with your final exams, please note the following:

You must pick up a vocabulary sheet before you head home.  I have copied that sheet below.  Please note the due dates on the last page:

First Vocabulary List In Cold Blood

WORD	Definition	POS
Impinge (5)
Keening (5)
Beneficence (5)
Pious (6, 26)
Lamentably (8)
Myriad (9)
Abstemious (10)
Equanimity (10)
Tawny (10)
Pungent (11)
Obscure (13)
Sentry (13)
Valor (13)
Chamois (14)
Enthralled (15)
Changeling (15)
Ominous (16)
Mesmeric (16)
Pragmatic (16)
Reverie (16)
Jauntiness (18)
Enigma (18)
Girth (19)
Wan (21)
Ardently (21)
Affront (21)
Reticent (21, 39)
Devoid (22)
Ludicrous (22)
Solace (22)
Ineffable (23,37)
Protégée (24)
Elocution (25)
Ethereality (25)
Lilliputian (26)
Diminutive (26)
Dote (27)
Austere (29)
Fastidious (30)
Serpentine (31)
Itinerant (32)
Opulent (32)
Wanton (32)
Evocative (33)
Placid (33, 68)
Nostalgia (33)
Eminent (34)
Coterie (34)
Quandary (37)
Decrepit (38)
Dourness (38)
Disheveled (40)
Emanated (40)
Credulous (42)
Furtive (46)
Ruminations (47)
Agoraphobic (49)
Sojourn (54)
Mirthful (56)
Edifice (59)
Languid (59)
Pallid (59)
Lair (60)
Caustic (67)
Gaunt (67)
Ruefully (70)
Mica (77)
Annihilating (79)
Raucous (80)
Delineating (83)
Tantalized (84)
Intrepid (87)
Prevarications (90)
Affable (91)
Sullen (92)
Bravura (92)
Stealthy (98)

Homework for Thursday, January 8, 2015 – this vocabulary sheet completed!

Homework for Friday, January 9, 2015 – the first 74 pages of In Cold Blood, read and annotated.

As you read In Cold Blood, please focus on information about the following issues: (i) the venue of the murders and the trial; (ii) the childhoods of Dick and Perry; (iii) Dick and Perry’s potential insanity defense; and (iv) the death penalty.

Also, if you have not finished the summer assignment, please note the assignment below:

Summer – Autumn – Winter – Spring Assignment

To make up your summer assignment for a late grade, you may do the following:

Read and annotate one of the following:  Brave New World OR Persepolis (part one);

Write an essay on the following prompt:  Which society is more repressive?  The society of Brave New World or Persepolis ­­or the society depicted in The Handmaid’s Tale?  (Just to be clear:  you must discuss in your essay either BNW OR Persepolis AND The Handmaid’s Tale.

Your essay must be at least 1,000 words.  It is due to turnitin.com on or before January 12, 2015.  You must submit your annotated book to me on or before that date as well.

I will be grading and recording throughout the holiday.  Grades will be finalized on or before January 5, 2015.

Have a great holiday!

Monday, 12/15/14

AP studs read the classic letter, "Yes, Virginia, There is  Santa Claus."  If you missed class today, here is a link to that article:

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/yes-virginia-article-1.1556978

I gave only extra credit today.  Thus, if you missed class today, you need not make up an assignment.

Seventh period completed their review for the final exam by finishing and discussing the film The Crucible.

FRIDAY!!!!!

AP studs wrote a tiny rhetorical analysis today as follows:

Rhetorical Analysis – Short and Sweet

Text to be Analyzed

1.       “Lucy, time to get up to go run.  I know that your back is hurting and that you don’t want to go.  However, your back will feel so much better after we run.”

Analysis

Ernie Seward wants his wife, Lucy, to join him for a run.  He must use logos, namely cause and effect, to encourage her, so he claims that her back will feel “so much better” after running.  Lucy Seward knows this to be true; this logic is irrefutable and encourages her to get up, which provides Ernie Seward with the companionship he seeks.

Text to be Analyzed

2.       “I need to bring Jags home for Christmas. He’s kennel trained (mostly).  I have already arranged for Henry to take care of him while I’m in San Diego.  I am going to pay him and everything.  Remember that being able to bring Jags home was one of the items on my Christmas list?”

You write the Analysis

Purpose, embed and explain a quote, audience effect, tie it back to the purpose

Highlight the purpose and the effect on the audience

FYI, my daughter’s name is Emma.

You then took your LAST quote test on The Handmaid's Tale. 

Seventh period reviewed a bit of vocabulary, read the Indian book, and watched the Crucible.

Rubric this!

AP Studs did the following today:

All but sixth period finished their Lincoln rhetorical analyses.

We also reviewed the rubrics for the final and perused the synthesis final exam question.  Tomorrow you will have a test on the last portion of the Handmaid's Tale.

Your rubrics and exam question look like this:

Rhetorical analysis rubric for final exam:

Blue or black ink - 10

BAT – 5

Aristotelian triangle – 5

Annotated text – 10 (circle, underlines, write at least three words)

Purpose stated in first paragraph – 8   

Embedded quotes – 12 - Obama complains that our immigration system is “ [completely] broken.”

Connect commentary to impact on audience – 21   - This complaint likely relieves those citizens who oppose immigration amnesty because they would like to see illegal immigrants held accountable.

Connect impact on audience to speaker’s purpose – 21 – Now that his opponents are a bit more relaxed, they may be able to more fairly contemplate O’s Executive Order.

Mechanics (see punch list; includes active voice) - 8

Synthesis essay rubric for final exam

Blue or black ink - 10

BAT - 5

Annotate sources - 15

Cite to 3 sources – 10 (Source A).

Embedding of quotes or text from sources - 15

Concession and rebuttal – 18 – and label it

Mechanics (including active voice) -12

Independent or original thought or outside sources - 15

Your final exam question for the synthesis essay looks like this:

Synthesis Exam Question

We have discussed in class several issues salient to today’s society:  sexism, racism, and immigration.  In a well-written essay, rank these issues on their order of importance.

You must include three of the following sources to support your argument:

Source A - Handmaid’s Tale

Source B – Emma Watson’s speech to the UN

Source C – “When White People Just Don’t Get it,” Part Five

Source D – Letters to the editor on “When White People Just Don’t Get It, Part Five”

Source E – Chris Rock Quotes

Source F – Obama’s speech on Immigration

Source G – Letters to the Editor on Immigration

I will provide Sources D, and E on the day of the final exam.  You should have the other sources and bring them to the final exam.   They must be annotated.

Seventh period reviewed vocabulary, wrote complex sentences, and reviewed the questions for the Crucible by watching the film.

Have a great day!