In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
The Lesson of Ups
Show Up, Keep Up, Speak Up, Measure Up
Monday August 21
Vocabulary Workshop Unit One responses are due Friday; textbook is required in class
Vocabulary Workshop Unit One test is scheduled Monday, August 28
Letter to the Editor (Fake News) prewriting (satire forms, devices and techniques: farce, sarcasm, irony, humor, wit and cynicism) and (speaker, occasion, audience, purpose) continues in class
Satire defined: to represent something in a ridiculous, exaggerated, hyperbolic manner; to mock imitate, parody or ridicule in order to show contempt
Diagnostic 2017 for Vocabulary Level F is completed in class and scored
Tuesday August 22 (Shortened Day Schedule)
LA Times Letter to the Editor (Fake News) is due in class today; late work will receive late fail points
Literary terms and rhetorical devices from Pre-AP Readings and Exercises are scheduled in class
Wednesday August 23
New York Times UPFRONT article reading and writing assignment is scheduled
Thursday August 24
Holt Grammar is scheduled in class; textbook is required in class
Friday August 25
Vocabulary Workshop Unit One responses are due today; textbook is required in class
Students may use the following link to access the Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles Times Student Access
Vocabulary Workshop Unit One test is scheduled Monday, August 28
The Vocabulary of Vocabulary continues in class
Check STUDYPATH over the weekend for next week's assignments and class information.
AGENDA BIN:
Dialectical journals for Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
