Monday, October 24, 2011

APEnglish 12: October 24-28

Greetings APEs!

Welcome to another week. I hope you are well rested and ready to work. I know most of you retook or took the ACT last Saturday, and wish you the best. Now that you have completed that task, we must needs move on to others. This week you will not only need to upload your Mrs. Dalloway MWDS and your short story analyses to Moodle, but you must complete a rough draft of your personal (college entrance) essay. I would like you to finish a rough draft of this essay and bring it to class next Tuesday for peer evaluation. Remember that peer evaluations require three copies so that your group members can follow along and mark your paper while you read.

This week, your focus will be on poetry for at least part of each day. You will need to write an essay comparing and contrasting two poems for me to take to my workshop on Nov. 4. I will have you write those on Friday while I am at the Poetry Out Loud workshop for school competition winners. So to prepare for that in class essay, we will look at a set of paired poems and rangefinders for the essays written on them on both Tuesday and Wednesday this week. On Tuesday, we will examine two poems both titled "Chimney Sweeper" and on Wednesday we will compare "Five AM" and "Five Flights Up." After our poetry analysis and allusion each day, we will read and discuss as much of Othello as possible. Expect to see some MC questions from act 1.

No vocabulary quiz this week.

See you in class!

Mrs. SO

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