Last look at your essays

Today - all your essays, except the Persuasion essay is due.  We will go over your persuasive essay so that you can revise it tonight and turn it in tomorrow.  In the next few weeks we are going to start reviewing for the AP test and looking at analyzing non-fiction prose texts.


Quarter Four: The Research Paper and Preparing for the AP test.

“The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
“On Ben Franklin’s Virtues” by D. H. Lawrence
“Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris
“A Woman’s Beauty: Put-­‐Down or Power Source?” by Susan Susan Sontag
“Nonverbal/Verbal” by Leonard Shlain
“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan
“Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie
Selections from the MLA Handbook


Assignments:

AP multiple choice questions/exercises
Precis on selected readings
Writer’s Workshop – grammar and style exercises
Group discussions of topics and theses; determining viability of research
topic

Saturday morning PRACTICE AP LANGUAGE TEST

Blogs:
During this quarter blogs will be the place students begin to list their sources and notes for their research essay. I expect to see three entries per week.
Writing:

Research Paper: Three drafts of a researched argumentative or expository paper synthesizing diverse sources and cited in MLA format.

3 AP In-­‐class Writing Prompts.

The research essay will be graded on a rubric developed by the instructor. The AP In-­‐class writing prompts will be graded on the AP rubric.

During this quarter students will also be encouraged to read and review 5 Steps To A 5 by Barbara L. Murphy and Estelle M. Rankin. The school has copies of the 2012-­‐ 2013 book that can be borrowed.