MONDAY

• REMINDER: WINTER BREAK READING 
• (Listen to me go over this here.)
• You should already have your book.

• SEMESTER EXAM
• Wed. 12/18/19
• 20% of semester average
• 50% multiple choice / 50% essay
• Study Guide
• Today's Review Activity: JENGA
• Round Two: Poetry
• If you were absent, you can use the activity to review by trying to answer the questions yourself.

THURSDAY

• REMINDER: WINTER BREAK READING 
• (Listen to me go over this here.)
• You should have your book this week.

• SEMESTER EXAM
• Wed. 12/18/19
• 20% of semester average
• 50% multiple choice / 50% essay
• Study Guide
• Today's Review Activity: JENGA
• Round One- Fiction
• If you were absent, you can use the activity to review by trying to answer the questions yourself.

TUESDAY

• POETRY STUDY
• "Blackberry Picking" by Seamus Heaney 
• Discussion of thesis statements for the 1999 AP prompt
• Read some AP exam essays that respond to the topic

• SEMESTER EXAM
• Wed. 12/18/19
• 20% of semester average
• 50% multiple choice / 50% essay
• Study Guide

FRIDAY

• "Blackberry Picking" by Seamus Heaney 
• Listen to Heaney read the poem here.

• Class discussion/idea share 

• How can this poem be connected to "We Show What We Have Learned"?

• Small group essay outline using the AP prompt when this poem appeared on the exam (turned in)

• HW due Tues. 12/10/19: Evaluate and comment on these thesis statements for the prompt we worked with today.

WEDNESDAY

• WINTER BREAK READING (Listen to me go over this here.)

• SEMESTER EXAM 
• Exam Date: Wed. 12/18/19

• SHORT FICTION STUDY: "We Show What We Have Learned" by Clare Beams

1. Use the two interpretive questions for "We Show What We Have Learned" from your homework to post one on today's Google Classroom Assignment. Then, respond and support your ideas to your choice of three of your classmates' interpretive questions with a solid paragraph. You may also choose to respond to the answers other classmates have posted.
2. Turn in a written paragraph that solidly supports your response to the topic below:

To what extent can Ms. Swenson be considered a "good teacher"?

• HW due Fri. 12/6/19: Read and complete a 1-2-3 analysis for the poem "Blackberry Picking" by Seamus Heaney 

MONDAY

• REMINDER: AP Classroom Progress Check #2 Expires tomorrow, 12/3/19. This should have been completed in class on 11/21/19 or over the break.

• SEMESTER EXAM
• Schedule is not out yet
• Week of Dec. 16
• Will include poetry and short fiction terminology & skills
• New passages
• 20% of semester 1 grade

• FICTION PRACTICE 
• Class reading of "We Show What We Have Learned" by Clare Beams
• HW due Wed. 12/4/19: Write two interpretive questions for "We Show What We Have Learned"