Digital Room 404 Week 1

I have recently sent you the overview of digital AP Lang, the shared drive, and the suggested assignments and pacing for this first week. We will be working together and individually to continue our quest for AP Lang glory - whatever the connotation of that word means to you!

I hope that you have continued to bolster your knowledge of new subjects, whether that be in history, literature, current events, biology, science, chemistry, math, pop culture, mythology, Bible, psychology, or any other category that may work here.

I hope that you still have the passion for learning and working on your close reading and writing. It does not matter if you are taking this course for the exam, college credit, or just to finish the semester. Every assignment that we do will make you a better communicator - and that is a quality that all of you will need, no matter what your future kismet may be!

I hope you don't mind having a lot of stuff come your way! I know we're not going to get to all the fun activities and serious practices for the AP exam. I'm sad that you will not have the same experiences that your predecessors did. However, I'm going to try to send you everything anyway. Even if you don't actually complete all the multiple choice or write all the essays in the long run, I want you to have all the resources available.

To end this blog, here is the suggested work and pacing for this week. I look forward to meeting with all of you at some point as there are 4 possible meeting times. I think it will be quite fun to have you interact with other students from the other hours!

Overall this is the expected items to complete during this week. You can definitely work at your own pace, but make sure you have items prepped for full classroom meetings.

1.      Your Portfolio Folder with Questions & Observations  (instructions on previous e-mail)

2.      Use Your New Allusion Chart (minimum 2 per week)

3.      MC Practices (complete spring break homework and complete extra practices)

4.      Zoom Meeting 1 Sign Up

5.      Synthesis Phase 1 Steps 1-4

A possible schedule for the assignments with the first half of the week a little lighter than the second half: 

Today/Monday

Your Portfolio Folder with Questions/Observations

All Week – Preferably before Zoom Meeting

New Allusion Chart

All Week

MC Practices

Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday

Sign up for meeting

Be part of zoom meeting discussion

Synthesis Scoring Guide Background

Getting to Know You Synthesis, First Impression

Friday

Getting to Know You Synthesis, Second Impression

Saturday/Sunday

Getting to Know You Synthesis, Third Impression

P.S. If you want to read us your tone paragraph during the Zoom meeting, please do!