Week 33 (May 11 - 15)

The AP Exam has come and gone...I feel slightly sad and without purpose...but we must carry on!

Monday/Tuesday (5/11 and 5/12):

1. Turn in Notebooks.
2. Review 2009 AP Questions/Prompts.
3. Symbolism in Beloved (pp. 208 and 209).
4. Senior Survey.

HW: Read Chapters 8-12 of Beloved...Quiz next class period.
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Wednesday/Thursday (5/13 and 5/14):

1. Beloved Ch. 8-12 Quiz.
2. Discuss Symbols 1-3 on worksheet.
3. Meeting of the Minds group work time.

HW: Read Chapters 13 - 18...due next Mon/Tue.
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Friday (5/15):

1. Discuss Symbols 4-6 on worksheet.
2. Meeting of the Minds group work time.

HW: Finish Chapters 13 - 18...due next Mon/Tue.

Week 32 (May 4 - 8)

It's finally here! Good luck on the AP English Exam this Thursday!

Monday/Tuesday (5/4 and 5/5):

1. Review Mult. Choice answers
2. Beloved Quiz (pp. 1-45)
3. Beloved Prose Passage: Sweet Home, Mult. Choice Qs (pp. 204 and 205)

Beloved "Big Ideas" and Unit page (pp. 200 and 201)
Beloved Character Sheets (pp. 202 and 203)

Upcoming due dates:
1. Notebook Check next Monday/Tuesday.
2. Read Chapters 8-12 of Beloved by next Wednesday/Thursday.

HW: Study for AP Exam
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Wednesday/Friday(5/6 and 5/8):

1. Manners for Young Moderns Video and Table Manners Test.
2. Beloved Passage and Mult. Choice Qs: The Carnival (pp. 206 and 207).
3. Q and A on Beloved
4. Study for AP Exam, if time left. (Period 5 only)

HW: Get a good night's rest; get up early; be on time to the AP Exam. See you there!

Week 31 (April 27 - May 1)

One week until the AP EXAM!!!!!

Monday/Tuesday (4/27 and 4/28):
1. Practice: AP Mult. Choice.
2. Discuss Achebe article; turn in questions.
3. 2007 Poetry Prompt (p. 198)--read, annotate, discuss, write introduction to essay.

HW: Complete #3 above.
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Wednesday/Thursday (4/29 and 4/30):
1. Complete: AP Mult. Choice.
2. Discuss 2007 Poetry Prompt.
3. Start Beloved. (Read pp. 1-77--due next Mon/Tue)

HW: Lit Devices
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Friday (5/1):
1. Timed Practice: 2008 Poetry Prompt--write the introduction to essay (p. 199).
2. Senior Exit Surveys.

HW: Read Beloved, pp. 1-77--due Mon/Tue.