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Wednesday, January 18:
  1. Current Events: SOPA and PIPA
  2. The Great Gatsby: Why the title? Why does Owl Eyes come to the funeral? How are we supposed to feel at Gatsby's death?
  3. HOMEWORK: Finish vocab 24 & 25. Work on Wikipage.

Thursday, January 19:
  1. Class in A304 MacLab.
  2. The Great Gatsby: Complete Wikipage. Add T.J. Eckleburg to analysis.
  3. Class Discussion: Significance of Daisy's Voice and T.J. Eckleburg.
  4. HOMEWORK: Compose paragraphs in response to the prompt options on your class message board. Also, bring your pedigree chart to class tomorrow. We will begin our research project.

Friday, January 20:
  1. Gatsby: Review Wikipages and Class Discussion: The novel's final page.
  2. Research Project: How to Search Databases/Find Your Ancestor in the Social Security Death Index.
  3. HOMEWORK: Assign Junior Vocab Set 1. Vocab Review Test (words only) on Tuesday.




Monday, January 23:
  1. Great Gatsby Discussion: Motifs and Themes.
  2. HOMEWORK: Complete Junior Vocab Set 1 Quiz on Quia by Friday. Vocab Review Test (words only) this Friday.

Tuesday, January 24:
  1. Class in MacLab B215.
  2. Begin: Family Research Project.
  3. HOMEWORK: Complete Wiki-Page Group Self-Assessment plus continue Monday's assigned vocab work.

Wednesday, January 25:
  1. Class in CHHS Library.
  2. The Great Gatsby: The Final Line: Message Board posting.
  3. Continue Research Project.
  4. HOMEWORK: Continue vocab assignments.

Thursday, January 26:
  1. Great Gatsby Final Discussion: The Last Sentence.
  2. HOMEWORK: Study vocabulary for tomorrow's test. Complete junior vocab set 1. Also, BRING BACK FIELD TRIP PERMISSION FORM.

Friday, January 27:
  1. Class in L106 computer lab.
  2. Vocab Review Test (20 minutes).
  3. Research Project: Citing sources, findagrave.com, and linkpendium.com. Plus, the google search.
  4. HOMEWORK: Primary Source Document students: Bring copies of at least five primary source documents plus a correctly formatted works cited page using those entries. Speaker for the Dead students: Bring four sets of interviews questions individually tailored to the interview subject.



Friday, February 3:
  1. Questions on Research Project
  2. Continue AP Benchmark.
  3. HOMEWORK: Research Due on Monday for Research Project:

Speaker:

a. Two full-length interview transcripts.
b. All historical research into the place(s) of residence.
c. All geographical research into the place(s) of residence.
d. Library Research Checklist--initialed--for all research objectives. Also, research checklist on main webpage. Initial next to all applicable research objectives.

Primary Source:

a. All primary source documents that one would expect to find from research checklist.
b. All historical research into the place(s) of residence.
c. All geographical research into the place(s) of residence.


What is historical research? Consider the time and place over which your target figure lived. What historical events in that region or country would have impacted their life? Did they migrated somewhere? What might have been the historical reason or circumstance(s) behind this migration?

What is geographical research? Look at the place or region in which the person lived. Urban city? Rural countryside? Farming region? Industrial region? Port area? Mountains? Flat, dry land? Etc. One's environment shapes one's life. What is significant or meaningful about the place in which one lived?

What should you turn in? A page(s) with the source citation at the top and notes below, with exact page references. Attach any photocopied pages. You will need to cite all data using MLA format. For any print resources, page numbers are necessary.

Every project is different. Imagine that person's live: How does the place in which they lived--and the historical events occuring--impact how they lived and what they did?

NOTE: Quality research consults multiple, reputable sources. Those who turn to an encyclopedia and rely on a single source should expect a grade no higher than a C. Average work, average grade.


Monday, February 6:
  1. Research Due.
  2. Super Bowl Ads & the Rhetorical Triangle

Tuesday, February 7:
  1. Create Cover Page for your project. Due tomorrow.
  2. Adding photographs & postcards: Suggestions & ideas.
  3. HOMEWORK: Cover Page + Junior Vocab Set 3 for Monday.

John Smith: A Creator of Many People


Wednesday, February 8:
  1. Current Events
  2. Complete AP Multiple Choice Benchmark/Project Conferences.
  3. HOMEWORK: Junior Vocab 3 for Monday and have 15 images taken during the lifetime of your target figure that capture his or her world as they would have seen it (or figures or places with meaningful connections).

Thursday, February 9:
  1. AP Synthesis Prompt: Intro & Practice
  2. Research Project: Maps.
  3. HOMEWORK: Junior Vocab Set 3 for Monday plus two full-page maps with appropriate captions for your final research project. Consider creating pages with multiple maps that show migration, topography, etc.

Friday, February 10:
  1. AP Synthesis Essay (in-class writing)
  2. Project conferences
  3. HOMEWORK: Junior Vocab Set 3 (Did your teacher forget to tell you to complete Junior Vocab Set 2? Bad teacher! Get that done by next Wednesday if not already.)

Monday, February 13:
  1. The AP Synthesis Essay: In-class work, links, and Penny prompt review.
  2. Project Conferences.
  3. HOMEWORK: Junior Vocab Set 4 for next Monday.

Tuesday, February 14:
  1. TAKS Tutoriol Wiki Project: See assignment on main wiki page. Working in groups of three, create a series of webpages that offer advice and model excellence for TAKS short answers and essays.
  2. Project Conferences (as needed).
  3. HOMEWORK: Finish Group Wiki Page.

Wednesday, February 15:
  1. Complete Group Work.
  2. Research Project: Creating a timeline, synthesizing all information.
  3. HOMEWORK: Print out assigned 2009 AP Form A Synthesis Essay (Writing for the AP Exam > Writing the AP Synthesis Essay > Files at the bottom of the page); read & take notes, organize. You will write the essay in class tomorrow. Come prepared! DUE FRIDAY: Research Timeline. You will begin writing over the long weekend. 

For the Research Timeline: Consider that your project will likely have paragraphs on the following: Mother, father, place of birth, siblings, childhood, education, marriage, children, occupation(s), wealth/property, adult residence(s) [including geography], migrations, military service, historical connections, immigration (if), etc. [Some topics may require multiple paragraphs.]

Look over your records, interpret your documents: What can you know? If the person could read and write in 1880, then they probably went to school. Where? Do historical research! For what business or type of business did they work? What would that career entail? Supplement facts with historical information.


Thursday, February 16:
  1. AP Synthesis Prompt: Test Grade
  2. HOMEWORK: Junior Vocab 4 for Monday; Research timeline.


Friday, February 17:
  1. Research Timeline Check.
  2. Works Cited Page for Research Project.
  3. Writing the Body of Your Research Paper.
  4. HOMEWORK: Works Cited Page for Project. Recommended: Write 2+ pages of paper's body. Use Internet sources to configure works cited page and entries. Use recommended link at top of main webpage.

Wednesday, February 22:
  1. Writing the TAKS Essay.
  2. Turn in Works Cited page.
  3. HOMEWORK: Complete TAKS Essay Wiki Assignment.


Thursday, February 23, through Friday, March 2:

Your homework each night will be composing various parts of your research project (see below).

In-class work will focus on TAKS Preparation and AP preparation. Be sure to take notes in class for any added expectations, as there will be various assessments taking in class.





Writing Your Target Person's Biography:

Thursday:

Compose a paragraph(s) on the place(s) of residence--one paragraph per area of residence. What do you know about this place? Use your geographical and historical information. What type of residence (farm? tenant house? etc.) did your ancestor live in? Use footnotes to document your facts.

Friday:

Compose a paragraph on your ancestor's father and a separate paragraph on your ancestor's mother. Use footnotes to document your facts. What can you know about these people from historical documents? What did you glean from family interviews? Use footnotes to document your facts.

Compose a paragraph(s) on your ancestor's childhood and education. Be sure to note siblings. What was the household like? Did they attend school? Who took care of them? Did they experience any tragic losses, such as the death of a parent or a sibling? Look at your timeline. What was happening when they were a child? When did they begin working? Where would they have worked? Use footnotes to document your facts.


Monday

Compose a paragraph on you ancestor's spouse. What do you know about this person? When did they marry? Who were the in-laws? Did they live nearby? How might this couple have met? Did they live near each other? Use footnotes to document your facts.

Compose a separate paragraph on your ancestor's occupation(s). What did this occupation involve or entail? Was it a trade that required an apprenticeship or education? How much money might they have made? Weatlhy? Poor?


Tuesday

Compose a paragraph(s) on significant historical connections. What--of note--was happening in their country/region during their lifetime? Did it affect him or her? Was the family part of an historical migration? Did war touch the family--or enter into their fears? Use parenthetical notation to document your facts. (Some events--like the Civil War, simply have to be addressed--since they touched every life in this country.)

Compose a paragraph that outlines the greater region or country in which they lived (not the exact place of residence). Think North Texas versus Colleyville. What was the climate? Was it a coastal region? What was the nearest area of commerce? By what routes would the family travel--if they traveled? Use parenthetical notation to document your facts.


Wednesday

Compose a paragraph that captures daily life. If they lived on a farm, what would that entail? If they lived in a city, what did that mean? What did the children do? (Note: This paragraph could be attached to childhood and/or adulthood. Focus, for the time, on adulthood. Would you review your earlier writing on childhood to be similar?)

Compose documented paragraphs on whichever are relevant:

Military Service

Migrations

Hobbies/Passions (for Speaker for the Dead participants)


Thursday

End of Life. How did they story both come to an end and continue? Write a documented paragraph(s).

Religion: Evidence of religious involvement? Church affiliation? Where were they buried? A church cemetery?


Friday

Put it all together and fill in the holes. Revise as appropriate. Speaker participants will need to incorporate their anecdotes, adding new material where appropriate. Bring a fully-typed documented project draft for Monday. Turn your documentation into endnotes, which is the final form for your project.


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Monday & Tuesday, March 5 & 6:

TAKS TEST Preparation.

Also, complete full draft of research project. Post to Wiki Pages. (See instructions on main wiki page.)



Wednesday, March 7:

ELA TAKS TEST



Thursday, March 8:

Research Paper Final Guidelines

  1. Create a series of appendixes to include all supplementary materials. Each interview should be its own appendix. Consider an appendix for additional photos, etc. Primary source documents should be placed in an appendix. If you have many documents, organize into multiple appendixes, group by like information. (IMPORTANT: All primary source documents must be both complete and readable. If too small to read, include a supplementary image in which you "blow up" the part with relevant information. Always think of your audience: Make the information usable.)
  2. Insert at least 4-5 images/photos into your report. Add appropriate captions.
  3. Have one page in the body of your report be a full page photo. Include a caption.
  4. Have one page in the body of your report be a full page map. Include a caption/explanation.
  5. Create a list of photos and illustrations (separate from your works cited page). This should document all photos, maps, etc., from the cover page through the main body of the report.
  6. Number your pages (exclude the cover page)
  7. Create a table of contents that includes page number references to the different sections of your paper. Include titles for each section that clearly indicate what material/information can be found there.
  8. Create a recessed title page.
  9. (Optional) A dedication page.
  10. Create an about the author page as the last page of your project.
  11. Create a design theme to run through your project. (Related: Use images, etc., to decorate all title pages--appendix and otherwise)
  12. Fill all significant white space with images.
  13. Bind it up nicely: You have created something that you and your family should proudly keep. Consider multiple copies to give away to family members and/or interview subjects.

Formatting: Size 11. Font: Your choice (but easily readable). Line Spacing: 1.5. Margins: Left 1.5 inches. All others: 1 inch. IMPORTANT: Complete formatting before pictures and captions are added; otherwise, the page layout will be messed up.

Final Presentation:

Cover page + Recessed title page + Dedication page (if) + Table of Contents + Report + Endnotes + Works Cited + Appendixes + About the Author




Monday, March 19:
  1. Current Events
  2. AP Multiple Choice Practice
  3. HOMEWORK: (1.) Are you caught up on Quia quizzes? (2.) Research Project due no later than Friday. You may bring in a draft to share with classmates tomorrow.
Tuesday, March 20:
  1. AP Multiple Choice Practice
  2. AND/OR project sharing.
  3. HOMEWORK: Research Project due no later than Friday. Quia should be complete through Junior Vocab Set 9 for this coming Monday.

Wednesday, March 21:

Nothing happened on this day.

Thursday, March 22:

Nothing happened on this day.

Friday, March 23:
  1. Projects Due!
  2. Share projects. See what your peers have done.
  3. HOMEWORK: Complete Quia through Set 8. Progress reports submitted Monday afternoon.

Monday, March 26:
  1. Current Events
  2. AP Writing: Using Specific, Illustrative Examples.
  3. HOMEWORK: NONE. Be sure that you are caught up on Quia.


Tuesday, March 27:
  1. Current Events
  2. AP Argumentative Writing: Discussion and Practice.
  3. HOMEWORK: Complete in-class writing on Buy Nothing Day.


Wednesday, March 28:

AP Multiple Choice Practice and Argumentative Writing Practice.

Thursday, March 29:

AP Multiple Choice Practice and Argumentative Writing Practice.

Friday, March 30:

AP Multiple Choice Practice and Argumentative Writing Practice.

HOMEWORK: Complete Quia Junior Vocab Set 9

 

Monday, April 2:

  1. Current Events
  2. AP Essay: Entertainment Ruins Society
  3. HOMEWORK: Complete essay.

 

Tuesday, April 3:

  1. Current Events
  2. AP Essay Review: Collect Homework.
  3. HOMEWORK: Quia Junior Vocab Review 1-5 due Thursday.

 

Wednesday, April 4:

  1. AP Essay Writing
  2. HOMEWORK: See previous day.

 

Thursday, April 5:

  1. AP Multiple Choice Benchmark.
  2. HOMEWORK: AP Essay (to be determined). See Main Page of website. Quia Junior Vocab Review 6-10 due at end of next week. Please also take the Quia Junior Vocab Set 10 test.


Monday, April 9:

  1. Current Events
  2. AP Multiple Choice Practice (return tests from last week).
  3. HOMEWORK: Quia Sets. (See last week.)
Tuesday, April 10:
  1. Current Events.
  2. AP Essay: Rhetorical Analysis discussion. (Review/discuss prompt and look at samples.)
  3. HOMEWORK: Quia Sets.
Wednesday, April 11:
  1. AP Multiple Choice Practice + AP Argumentative Prompt
  2. HOMEWORK: Quia Sets due at end of week.
Thursday, April 12:
  1. AP Multiple Choice Practice (grade taken)
  2. HOMEWORK: Quia Sets due. Check Skyward for grades. Come in to conference about Research Project.
Friday, April 13:
  1. AP Essay: Rhetorical Analysis (to be written in class).
  2. HOMEWORK: Quiz on AP English Language terms Monday. Study the Quizlet set of 100 terms on group "Colleyville Heritage AP English Language Terms." (Just search for Colleyville Heritage under groups.)

Monday, April 16:

  1. J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye: Introduction and Silent Sustained Reading
  2. HOMEWORK: Read 10+ pages of Catcher each night until finished. Circle/highlight/annotate any passages that help explain "what's wrong with Holden." There will be an analytical essay at the end of the novel on this topic.
  3. Tomorrow: AP Lang Terms quick quiz on Quizlet set assigned in class.
Tuesday, April 17:
  1. AP Lang Terms Quick Quiz.
  2. AP Essay Review: Dillard & Aubudon. How to write comparative rhetorical analyses. Models will be show. See website under AP Essay Reviews for a page on this prompt.
  3. AP Essay Review: Adversity. Return essays and look at model papers.
  4. HOMEWORK: Read Catcher. Plus another short AP Lang terms quiz tomorrow.

Wednesday, April 18:
  1. Current Events
  2. Catcher in the Rye: Open discussion over first 20 pages.
  3. AP Essay Review: Continue from yesterday as needed.
  4. HOMEWORK: AP Lang Terms Quick Quiz 2 tomorrow. Continue reading Catcher. Essay test on Friday with a prompt similar to the Dillard & Audubon one.
Thursday, April 19:
  1. AP Lang Terms quick quiz.
  2. AP Multiple Choice practice (graded)
  3. HOMEWORK: Read Catcher. Essay test in class tomorrow. See previous day.
Friday, April 20:
  1. AP Essay Test: Comparative Rhetorical Analysis.
  2. HOMEWORK: Read 20+ pages of Catcher. You should be around page 80 by Monday--but you are encouraged to read far ahead. Don't forgot to annotate!


Monday, April 23:

  1. Discussion: Catcher in the Rye
  2. Introduction: CHHS Rhetorical Terms Master List on Quizlet--including in Colleyville Heritage English Language Terms group. There will be a quiz on these terms this Thursday. Study it and the former AP Lang Terms set as well.
  3. HOMEWORK: AP Synthesis Essay, instructions and question on main web page. Due dates: Periods 1, 2, 5: Wednesday. Periods 6, 7, 8: Tuesday. (Mr. W is staggering due dates so that he can grade them as quickly as possible. Homework on the non-due date is to continue reading Catcher in the Rye, which must be finished by next Monday.)
Tuesday, April 24:
  1. Essay due (if).
  2. AP Essay: Return and review essays from last Friday.
  3. HOMEWORK: See Monday.

Wednesday, April 25:
  1. AP Multiple Choice Practice (graded)
  2. HOMEWORK: Study CHHS Rhetorical Terms Master List and AP English Language terms. Quiz tomorrow. Continue reading Catcher. TAKS testing should allow you plenty of time to finish the novel this week.
Thursday, April 26:
  1. Vocabulary Quiz.
  2. HOMEWORK: Finish Catcher. Also, complete the three vocab review assignments posted on Quia: (1.) Roots Review, (2.) Junior Review 1-10; (3.) Freshman & Sophomore Vocab Review--words only. 
Friday, April 27:
  1. Return Essays from earlier this week.
  2. HOMEWORK: Quia Vocab Reviews--due next Thursday--plus finish Catcher for Monday. There will be a scantron test covering the entire novel. 

REQUIRED: You must conference with Mr. Wevodau outside of class over one AP essays--in the past, present, or future--prior to the AP exam.


Monday, April 30:

  1. Catcher in the Rye novel test.
  2. Discussion: Catcher in the Rye.
  3. HOMEWORK: Three Quia Review Tests are posted this week. For tomorrow, take Part I: Root Words. For Wednesday, take Part II: Freshman & Sophomore Words. For Friday, take Part III: Junior Words. To end the year, add Quia Junior Vocab Sets 11 and 12.

Tuesday, May 1:

  1. AP Multiple Choice Test.
  2. HOMEWORK: See Monday.


Wednesday, May 2:
  1. Discussion: Catcher in the Rye
  2. AP Essay Review: Cheaters in Kansas.
  3. HOMEWORK: See Monday

Thursday, May 3:
  1. AP Test-Taking Strategy.
  2. Discussion: Catcher in the Rye
  3. HOMEWORK: See Monday

Friday, May 4:
  1. AP Strategies and Study Suggestions.
  2. Conclude Catcher discussion.
  3. HOMEWORK: Study as appropriate for all exams. No other homework until after AP exams are completed.


Monday, May 7, to Wednesday, May 16:


AP TEST PREPARATION. We will review daily for the AP English Language exam. Your homework is to prepare for all AP exams as needed. Please refer to the resources on my website for information and sample materials for our exam.



Thursday, May 17:

The Greats of American Literature: Henry David Thoreau, selected readings


End of Year Homework: Complete Quia through Junior Set 12 by next Friday. Complete the previously assigned Quia Review Tests by this coming Monday.


Friday, May 18: 

The Greats of American Literature: Ralph Waldo Emerson, selected readings


Monday, May 21:

The Greats of American Literature: Mark Twain's Diary of Adam






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Edward Wevodau
Colleyville Heritage High School
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