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.