GOOD LUCK 

CLASS OF 2018

END OF YEAR CALENDAR

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY

I'm offering one last extra credit opportunity for up to15 points on the 6th six weeks average:

Thurs. 5/10/18 & Mon. 5/14/18

• CAREER RESEARCH PROJECT
• Outlines have been returned

• Due Wed. 5/16/ 18 (or sooner): Final draft research papers (semester exam grade). If you want me to sign your clearance form before Monday, May 21, turn in your paper early. I will grade papers daily as they are received. You can come with your clearance form when I return your paper to you through Google Classroom.

• Resources for final draft:
• <Click here> to listen to me talk to the class about the final research paper
• <Click here> to listen to me discuss problems I'm noticing with drafts, esp. Works Cited and parentheticals.
• Final draft assignment page
• MLA paper format
• Avoiding plagiarism
• Quoting and citing sources in the paper
• VIDEO: How to do in-text (parenthetical) citations
• VIDEO: How to create citations for the Works Cited page
• Final paper scoring guide
• Example paper

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Tuesday

AP ENGLISH LITERATURE & COMPOSITION EXAM IS

TOMORROW 5/9/18

• AP EXAM REVIEW:

• I graded the 8 works of literature grid in class today. If you were absent or testing today, make sure you show me your chart for the grade by the end of the day today or it will turn into a zero. Study it for the AP exam tomorrow. You can study more past AP Open Response Questions here.

• Today's assignment: We used our literature review charts (8 works) to practice 4 more open response questions (notes only)

• HW: Continue to review works of literature. A fun way to review (a bit of rough language, though) is watching THUG NOTES VIDEOS.

• Points Practice
• The last day to earn points for after school m/c practice is today, Tues. 5/8/18.

• When you come to take a 15-minute after school m/c practice, you will receive your scantron and test back the next time I see you. 

• If you made 50%+, your grade on the original test will already be changed to reflect 10 more points. 

• I expect you to go over the answers using the keys you will find in this folder. (You will have to sign in to your school account to view the keys.)

• CAREER RESEARCH PROJECT
• Outlines were due Sat. 5/5/18 and will be returned to you at the beginning of this week. 

• Due Wed. 5/16/ 18 (or sooner): Final draft research papers (semester exam grade). If you want me to sign your clearance form before Monday, May 21, turn in your paper early. I will grade papers daily as they are received. You can come with your clearance form when I return your paper to you through Google Classroom.

• Resources for final draft:
• <Click here> to listen to me talk to the class about the final research paper
• Final draft assignment page
• MLA paper format
• Avoiding plagiarism
• Quoting and citing sources in the paper
• Final paper scoring guide
• Example paper

Friday

Today you can work on your 📄outline that is due tomorrow, your 📚literature review chart, or  🎨paint your block. If you paint, please clean up together very thoroughly.

• AP EXAM REVIEW:
• Assignment due Tues. 5/8/18: Complete the Major Works Review chart for 4 MORE works of literary merit you have read (total of 8). You can listen to me give directions for this here. 
• A fun way to review (a bit of rough language, though) is watching THUG NOTES VIDEOS.

• Points Practice
• Dates for the practices are on the calendar.
• When you come to take a 15-minute after school m/c practice, you will receive your scantron and test back the next time I see you. 
• If you made 50%+, your grade on the original test will already be changed to reflect 10 more points. 
• I expect you to go over the answers using the keys you will find in this folder. (You will have to sign in to your school account to view the keys.)
• NOTE: If you feel that you haven't been getting enough points from the after school practices, you can stop by and pick up an alternate assignment that will help you study and also give you more points on that grade.

• CAREER RESEARCH PROJECT
• Your research documents will be returned to you at the beginning of the week.
• Due by 11:59 pm Sat. 5/5/18: Research Paper Outline
• Listen to me give directions on this part of the project here
• Outline assignment page
• Sample outline 1
• Sample outline 2

Wednesday

• AP EXAM REVIEW:
• Today's assignment: Use your Major Works Review chart to complete this sheet. Turn in.
• Assignment due Tues. 5/8/18: Complete the Major Works Review chart for 4 MORE works of literary merit you have read (total of 8). You can listen to me give directions for this here. 
• A fun way to review (a bit of rough language, though) is watching THUG NOTES VIDEOS.

• Points Practice
• Dates for the practices are on the calendar.
• When you come to take a 15-minute after school m/c practice, you will receive your scantron and test back the next time I see you. 
• If you made 50%+, your grade on the original test will already be changed to reflect 10 more points. 
• I expect you to go over the answers using the keys you will find in this folder. (You will have to sign in to your school account to view the keys.)
• NOTE: If you feel that you haven't been getting enough points from the after school practices, you can stop by and pick up an alternate assignment that will help you study and also give you more points on that grade.

• CAREER RESEARCH PROJECT
• Your research documents will be returned to you at the beginning of the week.
• Due by 11:59 pm Sat. 5/5/18: Research Paper Outline
• Listen to me give directions on this part of the project here
• Outline assignment page
• Sample outline 1
• Sample outline 2

Monday

** 🍎Teacher Appreciation Week is coming up! If you want to create a card for any teacher(s), you can pick up templates from me or use these. 🍎**

DUE TUES. 5/1/18

• NEED HELP GETTING THAT 🎓GRADUATION CAP & GOWN READY? I have a playlist for that! Check it out here!

• AP Exam Review: 
• Assignment due Wed. 5/2/18: Complete the Major Works Review chart for 4 works of literary merit you have read. You can listen to me give directions for this here. 
• A fun way to review (a bit of rough language, though) is watching THUG NOTES VIDEOS.

• POINTS PRACTICE
• When you come to take a 15-minute after school m/c practice, you will receive your scantron and test back the next time I see you. 
• If you made 50%+, your grade on the original test will already be changed to reflect 10 more points. 
• I expect you to go over the answers using the keys you will find in this folder. (You will have to sign in to your school account to view the keys.)
• Dates for the practices are on the calendar.
• NOTE: If you feel that you haven't been getting enough points from the after school practices, you can stop by and pick up an alternate assignment that will help you study and also give you more points on that grade.

• Career Research Project
• Your research documents will be returned to you at the beginning of the week.
• Due by 11:59 pm Sat. 5/5/18: Research Paper Outline
• Listen to me give directions on this part of the project here
• Outline assignment page
• Sample outline 1
• Sample outline 2

Live Video Stream

On Saturday 4/28/18 at 4 pm we had a live stream Q&A for the document and source list assignment that is due tonight at 11:59pm. You can play back the video here.

Thursday

** 🍎Teacher Appreciation Week is coming up! If you want to create a card for any teacher(s), you can pick up templates from me or use these. 🍎**

DUE FRI. 4/27/18

• NEED HELP GETTING THAT 🎓GRADUATION CAP & GOWN READY? I have a playlist for that! Check it out here!

• Twitter Hamlet: I have graded the assignments. Please check your grade because the #hashtags# may have had errors. Let me know ASAP if there are any discrepancies between your idea of your tweet activity and your grade. I used this scale to grade them:
• 20+ = 100
• 15+ = 90
• 10+ = 85
•   5+ = 75
•   2+ = 65
•     1 = 50
•     0 = 0

• AP Exam Review: 
• When you come to take a 15-minute after school m/c practice, you will receive your scantron and test back the next time I see you. 
• If you made 50%+, your grade on the original test will already be changed to reflect 10 more points. 
• I expect you to go over the answers using the keys you will find in this folder. (You will have to sign in to your school account to view the keys.)
• Dates for the practices are on the calendar.

• Career Research Project
• Your proposal should have been returned to you. Make sure you note any comments I may have added to your proposal.
• Due by 11:59 pm Sat. 4/28/18: Research Project Source Information
• The following items are due this Saturday. Submit to Google Classroom. You can listen to me go over this portion of the project here.
1. All information documents (university & occupation)
2. Source list in MLA format
3. Draft of email to mentor (only if you have a mentor)
• Resources for finding information for your documents:
• Finding degree plans
• Google "degree plan" + school name +  degree (i.e. chemical engineering, psychology, vocal music)
• Finding syllabuses
• Google the course # (HIST 1301, PSYCH 2531) + the school name + the word "syllabus"
• Finding assignments
• Google the course number + school + the word "assignments". Look around on the school websites. Look for teacher sections of the school website.
• MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
• edX
• MIT Open Courseware
• Johns Hopkins OCW
• Open Stax
• Open Culture
• Coursera
• Finding other careers that use the degree
• Google "careers that require ___ degree".

Tuesday

**🍎 Teacher Appreciation Week is coming up! If you want to create a card for any teacher(s), you can pick up templates from me or use these. 🍎**

DUE MON. 4/30/18

• Hamlet essays are due by 11:59 pm tonight. Submit to Google Classroom. Consider this essay your final test on Hamlet, because it will be weighted as such in the gradebook. 
• You can listen to me talk about the essay here.
• Here is the scoring guide.
•  I will have a writing workshop for anyone who wants to work on these essays after the m/c practices for the week before the essay is due.

• AP Exam Review: 
• When you come to take a 15-minute after school m/c practice, you will receive your scantron and test back the next time I see you. 
• If you made 50%+, your grade on the original test will already be changed to reflect 10 more points. 
• I expect you to go over the answers using the keys you will find in this folder. (You will have to sign in to your school account to view the keys.)
• Dates for the practices are on the calendar.

• Career Research Project
• Your proposal should be returned to you today. Make sure you note any comments I may have added to your proposal.
• Due by 11:59 pm Sat. 4/28/18: Research Project Source Information
• The following items are due this Saturday. Submit to Google Classroom. You can listen to me go over this portion of the project here.
1. All information documents (university & occupation)
2. Source list in MLA format
3. Draft of email to mentor (only if you have a mentor)

Friday

• Hamlet: 
• Rising action essays are due no later than 11:59 pm Tuesday, 4/24/18. Consider this essay your final test on Hamlet, because it will be weighted as such in the gradebook. Here is the scoring guide.
•  I will have a writing workshop for anyone who wants to work on these essays after the m/c practices on Friday and Monday.

• AP Exam Review: 
• AP M/C Practice: 
• When you come to take a 15-minute after school m/c practice, you will receive your scantron and test back the next time I see you. 
• If you made 50%+, your grade on the original test will already be changed to reflect 10 more points. 
• I expect you to go over the answers using the keys you will find in this folder. (You will have to sign in to your school account to view the keys.)
• Dates for the practices are on the calendar.

• Research Project: For the remainder of the school year, we will complete a research project. Here are the details you need to know (listen to me go over everything here: part 1  part 2):
• Research Assignment (overview)
• Links for preliminary research & narrowing your topic:
• Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Princeton Review Career Quiz
• College Board Roadmap to Careers
• CareerOneStop (videos about lots of careers)
• Stage 1 due 11:59 pm Sat. 4/21/18: Project Proposal on Google Classroom (You can listen to me talk about the proposal assignment here.)
• Example 1- State trooper
• Example 2- Forensic Accountant

Wednesday

• Hamlet: 
• Rising action essays were returned. Please complete a final draft in Google and submit to me no later than 11:59pm Tuesday, 4/23/18. Consider this essay your final test on Hamlet, because it will be weighted as such in the gradebook. Here is the scoring guide.
•  I will have a writing workshop for anyone who wants to work on these essays after the m/c practices today, Wed., Friday, Monday, and Tuesday.
• AP Exam Review: 
• We discussed the third passage in the multiple choice test packet, "The Forerunners" by George Herbert. Listen to the discussion here: part 1  part 2.
• AP M/C Practice: 
• When you come to take a 15-minute after school m/c practice, you will receive your scantron and test back the next time I see you. 
• If you made 50%+, your grade on the original test will already be changed to reflect 10 more points. 
• I expect you to go over the answers using the keys you will find in this folder. (You will have to sign in to your school account to view the keys.)
• Dates for the practices are on the calendar.
• Research Project: For the remainder of the school year, we will complete a research project. Here are the details you need to know (listen to me go over everything here: part 1  part 2):
• Research Assignment (overview)
• Links for preliminary research & narrowing your topic:
• Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Princeton Review Career Quiz
• College Board Roadmap to Careers
• CareerOneStop (videos about lots of careers)
• Stage 1 due 11:59 pm Sat. 4/21/18: Project Proposal (You can listen to me talk about the proposal assignment here.)

Monday

• Hamlet
• Today, please work on revising the essays we wrote on the rising action of Act II. The sub will return your papers with my feedback. Here are some general notes to think about as you rework:
• Consider that we now have the full scope of the plot. When we originally wrote these essays, we had only read to the end of Act II, but now that we are aware of all of the events, perhaps you can add new insight to sections of your paper.
• Review the prompt / topic. The main subject of the paper is how Act II is the rising action of the play, so make sure you connect each paragraph to the idea of rising action.
• The prompt / topic specifically asks you to develop three main aspects of the rising action  Each should be the main focus of a body paragraph:
1. How a character is developed
2. How a conflict is developed
3. How a relationship intensifies

• Circling means something is wrong with spelling/grammar/punctuation.
• Underlining and checks mean I'm following your points.
• Conclusion ideas- Since the paper is asking you to comment on how three elements of the play contribute to the rising action of the entire play, consider that the conclusion should comment on this. A literary analysis conclusion usually seeks to streamline the ideas presented in the paper and connect them to the overall topic of the paper (rising action).

• At the end of class, turn in your work. Attach any new material to the front of your original bundle. I will have a look at what you did today and make a due date for a final draft next time I see you.

• Reminders:
• Twitter Hamlet will be graded this week. If you decided to do the alternate assignment, I should already have it. I will accept them until Tuesday.
• AP m/c practices for points will start again today, 4 pm.

• AP M/C Practice: 
• When you come to take a 15-minute after school m/c practice, you will receive your scantron and test back the next time I see you. 
• If you made 50%+, your grade on the original test will already be changed to reflect 10 more points. 
• I expect you to go over the answers using the keys you will find in this folder. (You will have to sign in to your school account to view the keys.)
• Dates for the practices are on the calendar.

Thursdsay

• Hamlet
• Discussion & acting of final scene, V, 2, lines 199-382
• HW due at the beginning of class Mon. 4/16/18: Write a 1-2 page original response on one of the topics below. DO NOT write on both topics. The response does not need to be typed.
• Why people should read Hamlet.
• Why people should not read Hamlet.
• I will take a point off of your grade for every occurrence of the errors listed below, so double-check your work! 
• capitalization faults
• run-on sentences
• spelling errors (including names of characters!)
• not properly indenting paragraphs
• apostrophe faults
• using contractions

• AP M/C Practice: 
• When you come to take a 15-minute after school m/c practice, you will receive your scantron and test back the next time I see you. 
• If you made 50%+, your grade on the original test will already be changed to reflect 10 more points. 
• I expect you to go over the answers using the keys you will find in this folder. (You will have to sign in to your school account to view the keys.)
• Dates for the practices are on the calendar.

Tuesday

• Hamlet
• I had planned for us to perform the final scene, but the weather had other opinions. Instead, we flipped today's lesson for Thursday's lesson. 
• Discussion / notes: V, 2
• Viewing of Zeffirelli version of Hamlet from 1:30 to the end of the play. You can watch it here.
• We will act out the final scene on stage on Thursday.

• AP M/C Practice: 
• When you come to take a 15-minute after school m/c practice, you will receive your scantron and test back the next time I see you. 
• If you made 50%+, your grade on the original test will already be changed to reflect 10 more points. 
• I expect you to go over the answers using the keys you will find in this folder. (You will have to sign in to your school account to view the keys.)
• Dates for the practices are on the calendar.

Friday

• AP Practice
• Debrief on passage 2 (listen to this here)
• m/c practice after school for points will start next week, Monday and Tuesday.

• Hamlet
• HW due Tues. 4/10/18: Read and annotate to the end of the play. We will perform V, 2 on Tuesday.

• Cap & Gown pics were taken today

Wednesday

SENIOR CAP & GOWN PICS WILL BE TAKEN DURING CLASS ON FRIDAY 4/6/18.

End of the Year Calendar Click Here

• AP Prep: Discussion / answers for passage 1 of practice m/c test

• Hamlet
• V, 1 quote assignment: If you were absent, complete this and turn it in.
• Discussion / notes / acting V, 1.
• HW due Fri. 4/6/18:
• Read and annotate V, 2, 1-198 (p. 130)

Thursday

• Hamlet
• Discussion & notes for IV, 6-7
• Viewing & discussion of the operatic version of Ophelia's madness and death scene from Ambroise Thomas. If you were absent, please watch the scenes. We talked about the differences between the opera version and what happens in the text.
• 1B- QUIZ: See me for a time to make this up
• HW due Wed. 4/4/18: Read and annotate Hamlet, V, scene 1. You can pick up a copy of Act V from me or read it here.

"Ophelia" by John Everett Millais (1829 - 1896)

Tuesday

• Hamlet, IV, 5
• 4B QUIZ: See me ASAP to make up if you were absent
• Discussion / notes
• Assignment: Psychological evaluation of Ophelia
• See: "The Language of Flowers"
• HW due Thurs. 3/29/18: 
• Complete annotation notes for scene 5
• Read and annotate scenes 6-7