Hi, AP Lang!

You need:• Pencil• Multiple choice

No journal today. Let’s review what happened last year on #APLangadventure

Agenda:• #APLangAdventure Review– Have fun. Make memories that are

worth writing about when you return.

• Q3 Review• Multiple Choice:– 4 teams– Small-group consensus; use evidence– Bigger-group consensus; use evidence– Whole-class consensus; use evidence– Review

• HOMEWORK: – ENJOY YOUR BREAK!– #APLangAdventure

When you leave you will have:-reviewed rhetorical structures and strategies.

• Groups 1 & 2: questions 14-22• Groups 3 & 4: questions 23-30

March 27 No journal today.

Get your folder & a

laptop.

Agenda:- Review- POWER

RANKINGS packet

- Type formal/final Short Story Power Rankings

Power Rankings• Finish your notes

sheet (3 categories, rank 5 stories, jot down some notes).

• Have Mrs. Matheny check it off.

• Get a laptop.

• Go to google.com• Log in to your account

______@wcps.k12.md.us

• Go to GOOGLE DOCS• Open a new document

(it will look like a Word Doc)

Reflection:

Journal ExplodesREQUIREMENTS

• 5 paragraphs– Introduction– Conclusion

• 3 middle supporting paragraphs– Evidence– Examples– Personal stories/anecdotes

• Thesis statement

RUBRIC• Each paragraph = 5 points• Thesis statement = 5 points• Details/evidence to

support/explain thesis statements = 5 points

• GREAT vocab = 5 bonus points

40 points total

Thesis Statements• Includes topic & claim:– Maryland should not change its law because

children must learn responsibility and independence when left home alone.

• Does NOT include phrases like: – I think– You should– (really, anything with personal pronouns)

Story ReviewTitle What it’s about: Theme Would you

recommend it? What kind of person would enjoy it?

“The Utterly Perfect Murder”

Seeking revenge 36 years after being bullied as a child.

What goes around comes around.

Someone who was bullied (similar experiences).

“Salvation” A young boy wanting to find Jesus, but doesn’t find him and then lies about his experience.

Salvation can come from within rather than a higher power.

People who are conflicted between religion and atheism. An atheist.

Story ReviewTitle What it’s about: Theme Would you

recommend it? What kind of person would enjoy it?

“Why Don’t You Dance”

A boy and a girl meet a man and want to buy the furniture he has placed in the front yard. The girl and man dance.

--Fate--People Hide their True Identity--Live in the moment-be kind to others

“Cathedral”Blind man visiting his friend and her husband. The narrator develops respect towards the blind man.

-lost dreams-importance of establishing identity-society’s treatment of the powerless

We have ____ days of school left…

• Do you read and write at an 11th grade level?

• Are you ready for 12th grade?• Can you prove that you read and write

well enough for a high school diploma?• Do you have the necessary skills to be a

successful adult?