Still Overachieving

All the classes are at different spots today, but we are all ending with the knowledge that tomorrow is your diagnostic cold read prompts. Be here. Be on time. Have your paper and writing instrument ready to go. Writing begins at the bell.

1: After our normal vocabulary commencement, we recapped Julie's overachieving introduction and how the author constructed her role and audience understanding. Following that moment, the class was divided in half with one half analyzing Audrey and one half analyzing AP Frank. If you were absent, you will need to select one of these personages - your choice - and jot down notes regarding organization and rhetorical strategies. This will need to be shown to me for participation points. At the end of class, we tied together the three overachievers to formulate an overall purpose.

3: First was a fire drill. Then, we resumed our vocabulary instruction with four more words. Following this, you looked at a few examples from The Overachievers and The Year of Living Biblically as a reminder of how to find a strategy and how to look for patterns. Last up, we returned to playing cards, in which your class scored a record high of 66% for third hour.

4: So, we - I - skipped vocab and dived right into samples from The Year of Living Biblically to look at a few more strategies and patterns in writing. Then, you played cards - not only played cards but completed 14 rounds of strategies and definition with 100% accuracy. After 3 weeks in Lang, you are starting to realize that those pesky strategies are imprinting themselves on your mind! To end class, we returned to vocab - with the addition of malapropism, zeugma, and anadiplosis examples.

7: For the first time, seventh hour completed the cards with 100% accuracy! It must be a result of all the stealth overachievers that we have in class! Prior to this impressive display, we added to our vocabulary, met in groups to learn and analyze Audrey and AP Frank's passages, and looked at a few samples of allusions and how they may interconnect in a text. If absent, you will need to show me your notes for your Audrey or AP Frank section to earn your participation points for today.

That is all from the world of AP Lang today. I am ready to go home and celebrate Tango's fourth birthday with some pretzels, banana crumb muffins, and lots of seed (that's for him).