APES = Advanced Placement English Students!
Weekly Schedule for Week of November 9 – 13, 2016Week’s Focus Points:
Grammar: Phrases – Review Prepositional and Verbals: Add Appositives Discussion of Reading: Denby’s“High School Confidential” article
Additional Analysis Focus
Vocabulary: Sadlier Oxford Level F Unit 2
EVENTS: Disney Trip 11/10; Veterans’ Day11/11Rhetorical Terms, Strategies, Techniques, Tone. . . continue to use throughout.
Day of Week / Monday,November 9 / Tuesday,
November 10 / Wednesday,
November 11 / Thursday,
November 12 / Friday,
November 13
In-Class
See below for links for Unit 2 Vocabulary words for study. / DUE: Project Check #2 – something written (research, dialectical journal entry, or a precis)
In – Class: Grammar phrases review of work (prepositions and verbals)
Add: Appositive Phrases (packet) / Disney Trip
In class? = Use the time to work on your project or on the Denby article work which is due on Thursday. Reminder: Directions out last Friday and on Edmodo last Thursday for how to mark this article. / Veterans’ Day
No School / DUE:
Denby’s “High School Confidential”
Reading Quiz
Discussion / Additional Analysis Focus in class ( Most likely, Soto prompt review or tone analysis review.)
HW: Additional Analysis reading or work due next Wednesday, 11/18.
Assigned Work
Outliers Project: Check Point 1: 11/3
Check Point 2: 11/9
Check Point 2: 11/17
Due Date: 11/24 / Ongoing: Outliers project
Current: Vocabulary Study Unit 2 – Quiz next Tuesday, 11/17
REMINDER: All project requirements are on Edmodo and the website. / Ongoing: Outliers project
Current: Vocabulary Study Unit 2 -- Quiz next Tuesday, 11/17
Appositive Phrase packet due next Monday, 11/16. / Ongoing: Outliers project
Current: Vocabulary Study Unit 2 -- Quiz next Tuesday, 11/17
Appositive Phrase packet due next Monday, 11/16. / Ongoing: Outliers project
Current: Vocabulary Study Unit 2 – Quiz next Tuesday, 11/17
Appositive Phrase packet due next Monday, 11/16. / Ongoing: Outliers project
Current: Vocabulary Study Unit 2 – Quiz next Tuesday, 11/17
Additional reading and/or analysis activity due next Wednesday, 11/18.
Monday, 11/16: Due -- Appositive Phrases packet
Tuesday, 11/17: Due -- Project Check #3; Vocabulary Unit 2 Quiz in class
Wednesday, 11/18: Due – next analysis reading or activity/work as assigned on Friday, 11/13.
Link to Unit 2 Vocabulary on Quizlet: (Words also listed below.)
Link to Sadlier Oxford main site: (Includes word lists, pronunciation, and games)
CONTINUE TO REVIEW AND KNOW THESE!!! CONTINUE TO REVIEW AND KNOW THESE!!! CONTINUE TO REVIEW AND KNOW THESE!!!
TERMS LISTs to review for October 13th Review Test(Also given out with last week’s calendar.)
RHETORICAL TERMS
Appeals: Ethos, Logos, PathosRhetoricRhetorical TriangleDiscourseAnalysisSOAPS
MODES: Descriptive, Narrative, Expository, Argumentation
STRATEGIES: Definition, Example/Exemplification, Cause/Effect, Comparison/Contrast, Classification, Analysis/Division, Process
Diction:DenotationConnotationMoodToneActive VoicePassive VoiceConcreteAbstract
Figurative Language:Simile MetaphorPersonificationUnderstatementSymbol
Sound Elements:OnomatopeiaAlliterationAssonanceConsonanceEuphonyCacophony
Word Play:OxymoronParadoxJuxtapositionIrony – Situational, Verbal, Dramatic
RepetitionMotifAnalogyEuphemism
Other: AnecdoteAllusion
Syntax:ParallelismPolysyndetonSentence Types *See notes on posted Syntax chart
VOCABULARY Unit 1
approbationassuagecoalitiondecadenceelicitexpostulatehackneyed
hiatusinnuendointercedejadedluridmeritoriouspetulant
prerogativeprovincialsimulatetranscendumbrageunctuous
VOCABULARY Unit 2 (Quiz will be Tuesday, 11/17)
ameliorateaplombbombasticcallowdrivelepitomeexhort
ex officioinfringeingratiateinterloperintrinsicinveighlassitude
millenniumoccultpermeateprecipitatestringentsurmise
TONE WORDS List 1
abashedardentblithecondescending
acquiescentaudaciousbrusquecoydenunciatory
acerbicbanteringcandidcontemptuousdevil-may-careeulogistic
aghastbemusedcausticcurtdidacticfacetious
allusivebenevolentcavaliercynicaldisdainfull
archhaughtyhypercriticalindifferentindignantironic
languorouslanguidflippantdisparagingdefamatory
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TONE WORDS for Tuesday, October 20th TONE TEST (Test #2 on Tone words):
laudatorymelancholynaïvenostalgicobjectivepessimistic
poignantpragmaticreminiscingreproachfulresignedreticent
ruefulsarcasticsardonicsatiricalsentimentalsmug
solemnsombersternstentorianstridentsubdued
swaggeringtrenchantvexedwarywhimsicalwithering
wryzealous
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GRAMMATICAL and WRITING
Six Traits of writing to excel in: Ideas and Content (supporting ideas); Organization; Voice; Word Choice (Diction); Sentence Fluency (Syntax choices); Conventions
Active vs. Passive Voice
Active Verbs
Showing vs. Telling
Parallelism
Title Punctuation
Phrases and Phrase Types: Appositives; Prepositional (Adverbial and Adjectival); Verbals (Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives)
Sentence Types by Structure: Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex
Sentence Types by Function: Declarative, Interrogative, Exclamatory, Imperative
Polysyndeton (vs. Asyndeton)