Monday, November 3, 2008

Class and Homework w/o 11/3/08

Monday: ACT Sample Writing Prompt
Tuesday: Sample AP style exam0--Scan for info activity
Homework: "The Pit and the Pendulum" (click the title for an e-text of the story). Skim for information and annotate according to ONE element of the rhetorical triangle.
Wednesday: AP Style Exam in class
Homework: "The Fall of the House of Usher" (click the title for an e-text of the story)
Thursday: Interim Assessment Pre-test (sorry: just got the books for these): 2 page literary analysis on how figurative language allows readers to understand the 'dark side' of human nature (your job will be to tell me a specific 'dark side' that is being presented and how one or two kinds of figurative language convey that).
Homework: "The Masque of the Red Death" (click the title for an e-text of the story)
Friday: APA bibliography review and questions to AP Style Exam answered
Homework: Critical Essay for Poe: Will be passed out in class--mini literary analysis essay(to be discussed in class. Assignment will be posted by Friday afternoon)

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