Sophomore English -LNG 321-322 Assignments
- Instructor
- Teacher Jennifer Lowery
- Term
- 2024-2025 School Year
- Department
- Advanced Placement
- Description
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This is your class calendar. Please check under "Past Assignments" when you are out due to illness, and take a look ahead so you know what is coming.
Upcoming Assignments
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"What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?"
Discuss Character Motivation and Inferences
Skill Lesson - Irony. In class together.
Skill Lesson - Irony. In class together.
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"What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?" and Vocab
Quiz - Goldfish. Open Book and notes.
Vocab Unit 2 instruction.
Vocab Unit 2 instruction.
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The Lottery
Short Story instruction
Theme practice. Character motivation practice.
Theme practice. Character motivation practice.
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The Lottery
Finish The Lottery
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Review - Test Monday
Test is a cold read "Skills" Test. Do the review sheet, and practice readings and activities. Test Monday.
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TEST
Unit 1 - Poetry and Prose test.
Past Assignments
Due:
"What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?"
Short Story instruction.
Skill Lesson - Making Inferences and Identifying Character Motivation.
Skill Lesson - Making Inferences and Identifying Character Motivation.
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By Any Other Name- Memoirs
Skill Lesson - How to Determine Author's Purpose
Skill Lesson - How to Determine Theme
Skill Lesson - How to Determine Theme
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By Any Other Name- Memoirs
Memoir instruction
Cultural Context
Read and annotate
Cultural Context
Read and annotate
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Poetry -
Finish Biligual/Bilingue. Work independently on "By Any Other Name".
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VOCAB QUIZ 1
Unit 1 words.
Fill out Data Sheets for Growth Measure Test. (except 7th - we will do yours next week).
Fill out Data Sheets for Growth Measure Test. (except 7th - we will do yours next week).
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Poetry -
Finish "I Lost My Talk" - go over comprehension questions.
Begin Bilingual/Bilingue.
Begin Bilingual/Bilingue.
Vocab Quiz Friday! Unit 1.
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Poetry - I Lost My Talk
Handouts in GC. We are learning poetry analysis skills starting with this poem today.
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Supreme Court Documents MC test
This Multiple Choice portion is the second 1/2 of your first test. This is open book, so make sure you bring it to use for your test.
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Supreme Court Argument
Write the argument we planned on Friday. This is 1/2 a test grade.
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Claim Chart - Writing plan
Today you will prep your argument to write in class Monday. Due at the end of the period.
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Editorial on Flag Burning Case
In your lit book. This is an argument. We will work through it and find the parts of an argument. You will be writing an argument Friday and Monday, so this piece should help you.
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Picture Day!
We will finish working with the Dissent Opinion and practice vocab or finish the growth measure today. Today is picture day, so class will be a little fragmented.
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YOU NEED YOUR BOOKS!
Today we are learning about a Supreme Court decision
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Growth Measure
Today, we measure your reading ability to start the year.
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Vocab Unit 1
Today, I will teach you the words in the first unit and some helpful ways to learn vocabulary.
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Quiz
Rhetoric Quiz - terms and cold read with questions.
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Arguments and Fallacies
more practice -
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Movie Speeches - Rhetoric Practice
Disney movie clips - practice analyzing arguments.
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Continue Rhetoric -
Today we will discuss the Barbie monologue we read Friday, do a close read of the speech to practice, and go over the last page of the rhetoric packet- Parts of an Argument and Logical Fallacies.
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Movie Speech - Practice using Rhetoric
Today we will annotate and analyze a speech from a movie.
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BOOKS
Today we will go to the Media Center to pick up books for your classes. When you are finished, you can finish working on your Day 1 activity.
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Intro to Rhetoric
Continue Rhetoric Notes packet
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Intro to Rhetoric
Today, you will receive a copy of your Rhetoric Packet that you will use in this class all year. (It will be posted in GC as well in case you need to print a new one at any point in the school year.) We will begin going over the Classical Appeals, some elements of Diction and Syntax, Fallacies, and Writing an Argument.
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Welcome back!
Today I will introduce you to myself and the class!