APEnglish 12: September 13-17

We are more than half-way through our first quarter. I hope you all gave your parents your grades and PIN numbers so they can check your progress.

This week will be as busy as the last:

• We will be holding our Poetry Out Loud Competition for the class level. 

• Good luck to each of you. If you’d like to review the judging rubric, click here.
  

• We'll have a vocabulary quiz on the SAT F-H words this Friday, so study.
  

• We'll continue with our short story boot camp, so prepare for some reading and Socratic seminar discussion of the texts. After our deconstruction of several short texts, you'll choose one or more to write an analytical paper.

Get ready for a fun but busy week!


Mrs. SO

Pre-APEnglish 10: September 13-17

We are more than half-way through our first quarter. I hope you all gave your parents your grades and PIN numbers so they can check your progress.

This week will be as busy as the last:

• We will be holding our Poetry Out Loud Competition for the class level. 

• Good luck to each of you. If you’d like to review the judging rubric, click here.

• We'll have a vocabulary quiz on lesson four this Friday, so study.

• We'll continue with our study of Julius Caesar and do some AP Literature style multiple choice questions on some excerpts from the play.

• And, of course, we'll do some grammar review on complements, adjectives and adverbs.

Get ready for a fun but busy week!

Mrs. SO

English 10: September 13-17

We are more than half-way through our first quarter. I hope you all gave your parents your grades and PIN numbers so they can check your progress.

This week will be as busy as the last:

• We will be holding our Poetry Out Loud Competition for the class level. 

• Good luck to each of you. If you’d like to review the judging rubric, click here.

• We'll continue with our study of adverbs and will add prepositions and conjunctions. Expect a quiz on these things.

• Remember you’ll have a vocabulary quiz this week  so study both lesson four.

• We'll finish our study of Frederick Douglass, so be prepared for a writing assignment on the book as well as a comprehension check test.

I hope you’re ready for a full week!
Mrs. SO

English 12: September 13-17

We are more than half-way through our first quarter. I hope you all gave your parents your grades and PIN numbers so they can check your progress.

This week will be as busy as the last:

• We will be holding our Poetry Out Loud Competition for the class level. 

• Good luck to each of you. If you’d like to review the judging rubric, click here.

• We’ll be completing our study of Lord of the Flies this week, and you will be writing a paper as a culminating project. Here is the assignment.

• Remember you’ll have TWO vocabulary quizzes this week on Monday and Thursday respectively, so study both lessons three and four.

• We’ll do a grammar review of some problem areas, particularly how to recognize (and avoid writing) run-on sentences. 

• We’ll distribute text books this week and begin reading Anglo-Saxon literature, with a focus on Beowulf.

I hope you’re ready for a full week!
Mrs. SO

My Apologies...

Hey everyone,
I'm very sorry I missed my weekly post. If you weren't in class this week, remember my grade-level seniors had a test on The Lord of the Flies yesterday, so you need to make that up. Also, your weekly vocabulary quiz has been bumped to Monday, so you'll have two next week.

In AP we read and discussed "Clothes" and will be presenting on that story. We turned in our "Garden Party" essays, too. We are on schedule with our vocabulary quizzes.

As for 10th grade, the Pre-APE class is still reading and discussing Julius Caesar, and the grade level classes will be finishing up Frederick Douglass soon. We had several grammar quizzes, and a vocabulary quiz, so if you missed class, check STI to see if you need to make one of these up.

More about next week later,

Mrs. SO