January 22-25, 2008
English 11
1-22-08
- Review semester exam
- Introduce 2nd semester expectations
- Everest handout and Everest video
- Vocabulary assignment: Read A Mountaineer Who Defined the Notion of Heroic Explorer - select and define 15 words from article you don't typically use.
1-23-08
Continue viewing Everest video
Read Edmund Hillary, First on Everest, Dies at 88
Identify Characteristics of Heroic Cycle in the life of Sir Edmund Hillary
1-24-08
Read "A Mystery of Heroism, " pp. 595-602; answer questions p. 602.
1-25-08
Vocabulary quiz, A Mountaineer Who Defined the Notion of Heroic Explorer
HW: Read "A Mystery of Heroism, " textbook pp. 595-602; answer questions p. 602.
AP English 12
2nd Semester Syllabus (PDF)
1-22-08
- Review semester exam
- Review Syllabus
- Read and discuss Francis Bacon's Of Studies and Robert Pirsig's The Church of Reason.
Essential Questions
1-23-08
Practice AP synthesis essay
1-24-08
Brave New World quiz
1-25-08
AP Synthesis in class writing