Grade 9 English
- Write in your private journal and/or read silently
- Preview/review grammar and more in prep for the CST via this handy CST-prep sheet
- Specifically discuss clauses and sentence types
HOMEWORK: Take the second interactive grammar quiz involving "Independent and Dependent Clauses." Email your results to ak@webstaclecourse.com.
Grade 12 AP English Lit and Comp
- Work on your Timeline Project. Today and tomorrow are the last two days to work IN CLASS.
HOMEWORK: So that I may know how large a room to procure, please take this AP exam prep survey regarding this week's sessions.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Grade 9 English
- Write in your private journal and/or read silently
- Discuss grammar and more in prep for the CST via this handy CST-prep sheet
- Review sentence types and semi-colons
HOMEWORK: Take the fourth interactive grammar quiz involving "Compound Sentences." Email your results to ak@webstaclecourse.com.
Grade 12 AP English Lit and Comp
- Work on your Timeline Project (the last day to work on it in class)
HOMEWORK: Work on your Timeline Project
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Grade 9 English
- Write in your private journal and/or read silently
- Discuss grammar and more in prep for the CST via this handy CST-prep sheet
- Work one more day with sentence types and punctuation. Punctuate (and capitalize) this excerpt
HOMEWORK: Take the interactive grammar quiz involving "Sentence types" Email your results to ak@webstaclecourse.com.
Grade 12 AP English Lit and Comp
- Ask and answer 15 questions about Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." (Those who don't have class due to Career Day should do the work at home.)
HOMEWORK: (OPTIONAL) Come to the exam prep session from 3-5pm, and purchase this book.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Grade 9 English
- Write in your private journal and/or read silently
- Discuss this Verb Overview (voice, tense, gerunds and infinitives).
HOMEWORK: (Optional) Take this practice CST. (The answers are at the end.)
Grade 12 AP English Lit and Comp
- Review Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and discuss Literary Criticism
HOMEWORK: (OPTIONAL) Come to the exam prep session from 3-5pm, and purchase this book.
ALSO: AP PRE-ADMIN MEETING IS TOMORROW AT 7AM (OR 1PM OR MAKE-UP ON 04/23)
Friday, April 19, 2013
Grade 9 English
- Class is in the auditorium today. In lieu of having an in-class assignment, at some point today, review this handy CST-prep sheet. and this practice CST (whose anwers are at the end.)
HOMEWORK: Peruse this CST-prep Standards Review page.
Grade 12 AP English Lit and Comp
- Class is in the auditorium today. In lieu of having an in-class assignment, at some point today, read the last section of this AP College Board Document on Writing About Literature called "Successful Writing on the Open Question" by Susan Strehle and the sample essays that follow.
HOMEWORK: Read the first third of Heart of Darkness by Monday. Read the free online version, or order a copy for your Kindle, or check out a copy from the book room during lunch, or...