Exchange students

I am looking for 4 or 5 families in PCCS for exchange students for next year. We have students from all over the world. Literally any country you want, we have a student from there. Some are here for one semester and some for the whole school year. They come with their own spending money and health insurance. They just need an awesome family to welcome them in for their time here.

Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Somalia, Lebanon, China, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Ukraine

just to name a few.

We have a tremendous need right now. Please help me network and find some homes. Maybe yours!!

Pizza FTW!

Read this article about a girl who got into Yale writing about Papa John's pizza.

The Langies

You have been selected to be a voter for the 1st annual Langie Awards.
Please click the link to vote one time only.  The form will record your email. And if you vote more than once or we have votes from non-classmembers those votes will not be counted.

Ballot

Links to movies for Langie voters

Bridgemont PD
Lavish Life
Natural Selection
Mean Witches
The Cringe

Keeping Up With The Real Housewives of Plymouth Canton
Milk
Party at Pompeii
Ply High Mean Girls
Killing Kameron

The Horseman 2017
The Allegory of the Ballz
The Blowing

Good Cop, Bad Cop

HSCB Files

Battle for the Bridesmaids

The KCN Killer

Men in Generic Clothing

Michigan Impossible

UPDATE on food.

The party is now on TUESDAY.

We have to have a re-vote between the two top vote getters.

Please VOTE for which meal you want.  Closes tomorrow morning.

SOAPSTone project

Please dowload the SOAPSTone mini project

and watch the following 4 videos. You may use TWO of the four for your project.

Strangers

Taylor Mali

Big Mike

Pork Chop

Policy Proposal

Using what you gained from watching America's Poor Kids and playing PlaySpent, develop a policy/foundation that addresses an issue that you see as problematic.

Handout

Rubric

Important announcement about TEST DAY!

This year Schoolcraft college did not have room for all of our students to test.

We have secured an alternate site.

PLYMOUTH students taking AP English Language, Microeconomics and Macroeconomics will be testing at the Plymouth Arts and Recreation Center (PARC)--formerly known as Central Middle School in the gymnasium. ONLY those tests.  All other tests are still at Schoolcraft.

Testing arrival times are the same we are just at a different location.

AGAIN---PLYMOUTH students only. Only AP Lang and Micro and Macro!!!!!

Ehrenreich - due Tuesday

Ehrenreich: Serving in America

Vocab: exploitation, mutually exclusive, solipsism, narcissism, inherent, immutable, corroborate, infallible,

Review all terms, add antimetabole and amplification

SOAPSTone: avoid one word answers

Journal: One to two page response to questions 2, 3, or 4 on page 145.  Focus on concise diction.

Dillard HW due Monday

Annie Dillard, “Seeing”: (extremely interesting...not a short piece, though.  FYI)

Terms: alliteration, inversion, personification, litotes, metaphor, simile, allusion, paradox, epigram, irony, literal, analogy, reflection, archetype

Vocab: transfixed, terse, underpin, imminent, poignant, speculative, hari-kari, lest, quavering, implied, ambiguous, exemplification, posit, conjecture, candid, anticipated, speculation

SOAPSTone, annotate

Journal: One to two page response to question 1, 2, or 4 on page 128.  

*****Remember, your journal is a place for you to practice your best writing.  Work out your issues here.  If you tend to be wordy, revise to eliminate wordiness.  If you struggle with concise word choice, revise to improve.  Do you tend to be too vague or general?  Spend time here identifying where you have gone wrong and improve it.  Progress comes from hard work and self-discipline.  The best way to improve your timed impromptu scores is by thinking through your writing when time is not limited.

Didion HW - due THURSDAY

1. Read Joan Didion’s “On Morality”
2. Soapstone
3. Terms: simile, metaphor, polemical argument, hyperbole, parallel structure, irony, qualification, anaphora, periodic sentence, (all are review)

Vocab: prominent, morality, abdicate, abstruse, esoteric, primitive, abstract reasoning, resolute, assumption, hysteria, perversion, elaborate, cogency, proffer, supposition, proposition, factitious, moral imperative, plausible, reiterates, indignant, didactic, speculative, bemused, earnest, querulous, maudlin, contemptuous, grave, condescending, mocking, insidious

Be sure to know all of the terms and vocab for the quiz.

4. Journal: One to two page response to any one of the four questions on page 111.

T-shirt order form

click here to order your shirt!! Also, don't worry.  We know that Eighner is on there twice.  It will be fixed on the shirt.

Pollan scientific partner presentation

These are the two documents you will need for the presentation. Presentations begin FRIDAY. You will have library time Wednesday and Thursday to work on this. Signups for Presentation will go up Tuesday.

Assignment

Rubric

Thoreau Argumentative Prep

Argumentative Prep discussion.

Mimicry piece - DUE Tuesday

Authors we’ve read, viewed, or listened to:

Will McAvoy (not the author, but the character), Maya Angelou, Frederick Douglas, Stephanie Ericsson, Lars Eighner, Shannon Cason (audio piece), Sherman Alexie, Plato, JFK (speech), Queen Elizabeth I (speech), Virginia Woolf, Annie Dillard, George Orwell, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jonathan Swift, The Onion article, Marie Winn, Sarah Vowell, Eric Schlosser, Steven Johnson, Steven Colbert, Nancy Mairs, E.B. White

1. Pick one whose style you found interesting.

Revisit the piece.   Identify what makes this piece unique.

Mimic the style in a two to three-paragraph piece.

   2.  When you are finished, polish the piece, and then identify which devices or stylistic

        flourishes you relied on in your mimicry.  

Thoreau HW - Due Monday

Thoreau Terms and Devices -- Due Monday

Review all devices, especially the following:  periodic sentence, compound sentence, cumulative sentence, antithesis, antecedent

Vocabulary:  fond, salutary, resignation, sublime, marrow, rout, frittered, heedless, German Confederacy

SOAPSTone

** Please also research and understand any other references to ideas, concepts, historical events, etc., that you need to understand in order to fully comprehend the piece.

Journal:  Choose one of the questions on page 409 to respond to in a one-page journal.

Spark words

click HERE for your Spark words document

Crash Questions due Monday

Crash Paul Haggis: Analysis Guide

“It’s the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.”

 

1. Some have criticized the film for reinforcing stereotypes instead of eliminating them.  What do you think this movie accomplishes?  Does it reinforce or challenge stereotypes?  Explain your answer.

2. In his review, Roger Ebert says, “One thing that happens, again and again [in the film], is that people’s assumptions prevent them from seeing the actual person standing before them” (rogerebert.com). Choose one scene and point out the specific assumptions that prevent one character from “seeing” another character as an “actual person standing before [him/her].”

3.  Which character resonates with you the most?  Why?  Use specific examples to explain.

4. What situation or scene affected you the most? Why?

5. What do you think exposure to violence and corruption does to a person? Does it change them? Justify their actions? What examples do you see to support your answer in the film?

6. Do you think that John’s heroic efforts to save Camille’s life redeem what he had done to her earlier?

7. Is there a character in this film with whom it is impossible for us to sympathize? Who? Why? Use specific examples from the film and keep in mind each character’s “arc” as you create your argument.

8. Jean, who appears to have everything, says to her friend Carol, “I’m still mad, and I wake up like this every morning and I don’t know why.” Why is this important?

9. Haggis makes sure that his film evidences various racial and ethnic stereotypes to which people ascribe. However, the script plays with these stereotypes, twisting them to show how they are patently false and, yet, how they can also be true. Choose one of these stereotypes presented in the film and discuss how the movie evidences this “twisting.”

10. In the last line of his review, Roger Ebert says, “You may have to look hard to see it, but Crash is a film about progress” (rogerebert.com). How is this film about progression and towards what does the film evidence its characters moving? Create an argument that answers this question, and support it with specific evidence from the film.

11. After watching the entire film, craft a short paragraph in which you define the author’s thesis.  

E.B. White

E.B. White:  

Due Tuesday, March 7

SOAPSTone

Focused review terms: Parallelism, metaphor, personification, description, simile, parataxis

Vocab: prominent, subordination, coordination, qualification, progeny, exhilaration, copious, accumulation, gunwale, mere, startled, rapt, anticipation

Journal/essay: Choose one and write an essay response.  Clearly, this will be longer than the traditional journal.

1. Construct a thesis and write an essay about the nature of epiphany.  Use the text of White’s essay and that of two of the following to support your thesis:
1. Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”
2. Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth”
3. Vowell’s “Shooting Dad”

Recall a special place that you regard as fondly as White does the lake in Maine.  Write an essay imitating E.B. White that describes that place and delivers a personal insight.

Vowell

Sarah Vowell, “Shooting Dad”:

SOAPSTone, avoid one or two word answers.  Give thought and express your ideas fully.  

Vocab: Unabashed, wistful, acerbic, self-deprecating, nostalgic, bicker, earnest, tongue-in-cheek,

escalate, lathe, rural, labyrinth, zealous, irreconcilable, culminate, forlorn, indictment, self-abnegation, elicit, philanthropic, indigence, vitality, submerged tenth

Terms: litotes, understatement, cumulative sentence, allusion, anecdote, zeugma, paradox, oxymoron, antithesis, subjunctive No Journal (you have a lot of vocab and terms, so take a break ☺)

Mairs HW - Due Wednesday Feb 15

Read Nancy Mairs’ “On Being a Cripple”

SOAPSTone, please move beyond one word answers if you have been oversimplifying.

Terms (mostly review): apostrophe, irony, paradox, antithesis, understatement, process analysis (mode), anecdote

Vocab: acute, derision, abject, aversion, bleak, privation, wretchedness, Pollyanna

Journal: Respond to question 4 on page 256 in a one-page reflection.

Staples HW - due Tuesday Feb 7

Homework:   Read “Just Walk on By: Black Men in Public Space” by Brent Staples

1. Review the following terms:
1. Abstract
2. Parallel syntax
3. Understatement
4. Irony
5. Paradox
6. Analogy
7. Allusion
2. Review or find the following vocabulary:
1. Menacing (ly)
2. Unwieldy
3. Lethal (ity)
4. Contempt
5. Detachment
6. Disdain
7. Reproach
3. SOAPSTone
4. Journal: Respond to questions 2 and 4 on page 386 in full page journal.

Novel Assignment semester 2

Please read through the assignment and remember that I need your novel selection by MONDAY FEBRUARY 6.

Swift - A Modest Proposal

DUE WEDNESDAY

Read Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.”

While reading, consider diction, attitude, tone, and the elements and structure of Swift’s argument.  Respond to the piece (its message and form) in your journal response.

SOAPSTone

Vocabulary: avarice, gentility, indulgence, refinement, exploitation, philanthropy, misogyny, genteel, Papists, diffident, assuage, candor

Term: Satire, parody

Kahoot questions

Please use this form to upload Kahoot questions.  All questions are due before noon on Monday.

In addition to the practice you picked up in class....

here is a complete list of terms and vocab.

Project info and links to turn in presentations.

So a couple of general points based on questions I've been getting.

Works cited page is only necessary if you are using someone else's research or opinion. You do NOT need to cite the ads that you are analyzing on your own. Also if you DO use a works cited page, it should be typed up in MLA format.

Stick to analyzing the appeals and falacies given to you in class. Don't stray too far off course.

Use the links below to complete the form to turn in your presentation. ALL presentations are due on MONDAY. Then on the day you present - whatever day that is, you will turn in your script (or outline) rubric and works cited page IF you completed one.

When filling out the form in the link below, you will need to fill in your name AND then you will need to click SHARE on your presentation. Make sure that you click the subsequent dropdown menu that says "Anyone at Plymouth Canton with the link can edit". This is very important so that I can see if you have changed your presentation AFTER the due date.

1st hour turn in

5th hour turn in