AP Language and Composition: 1/29/14 Agenda

Bell ringer: Participate in a class meeting about this week’s agenda and the month of February.

Topics:1. Social justice expo – Current events: 2. Journaling – Once a week – keep this? [TU will be AP test prep]3. Grassroots – Should we keep using this or just stick to ACT

passages?4. Youtube – trailer for Handmaid’s Tale

Discuss Today’s Objectives and remainder of the week:WED: Class meeting, read/annotate/discuss excerpt from A

Vindication of the Rights of WomenTH: Journal (TBD), discuss Wollstonecraft, and explain jigsaw if

time permitsFRI: ACT passage, current event: Kyla and Tamiya?

AP Language and Composition: 1/30/14 Agenda

Bell ringer: Just write! Focus word: URGENT (no time to waste)

Topics:1. Social justice expo – Current events: 2. Journaling – Once a week – keep this? [TU will be AP test prep]3. Grassroots – Should we keep using this or just stick to ACT

passages?4. Youtube – trailer for Handmaid’s Tale

Discuss Today’s Objectives and remainder of the week:TH: Journal, read/annotate/discuss excerpt from A Vindication of

the Rights of Women, and watching clips from the filmFRI: ACT passage, current event search in Lab 313

AP Language and Composition: 1/31/14 Agenda

Bell ringer: ACT Practice Passage #24

Discuss Today’s Objectives and remainder of the week:

FRI: ACT passage, current event search in Lab 313

MON: Complete questions about Wollstonecraft excerpt.

Current events – search for a topic we can present on to classes during the Social Justice Expo on 2/27/14

Suggested websites: Please partner up and Ms. Robin will assign you a site.

http://www.nytimes.com/ http://www.thenation.com/ http://www.cnn.com/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ http://www.alternet.org/ http://www.theatlantic.com/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/

http://www.cnn.com/ By the end of the period, email Ms. Robin at jlrobin@cps.edu at least two articles which interest you and could be studied for at least a month.