November 17-21

This week we'll finish drafting the Rhetorical Historical Term Paper, and continue with The Great Gatsby and learning fallacy types.  This is our last full week before Thanksgiving (!)

MONDAY: Overview of term paper and timeline.  Work time on laptops.  DUE: (Guideline) you should have an introductory paragraph and body paragraphs describing three sources by now.  HW:  Continue work on term paper, drafting up body paragraphs for the 6 required sources, first draft due Thursday.  PLEASE make your term paper available over the Internet so you can access it and work on it in class.  (Upload it to Google Docs or Dropbox, use another accessible server, or e-mail it to yourself.)  Read Gatsby through Chapter 4 for Friday.

TUESDAY:  Term paper - conclusions.  Return in-class essay and discuss in detail.  Fallacies.  HW:  Continue work on term paper, drafting up body paragraphs for the 6 required sources.  PLEASE make your term paper available over the Internet so you can access it and work on it in class. Read through the end of Chapter 4 of Gatsby.

WEDNESDAY LUNCH:  The AP Writing Center in Room B200 is available for drop-in help.  Ms. Garcia, the other Visiting Professors, the other AP teachers, and I will be in the room helping students one-on-one with writing.  This is the last time before the paper is due that the writing center is available. 

WEDNESDAY:  Work time on laptops for drafting the term paper.  I will be walking around the room, available to help, and Ms. Garcia will be in the room helping students one-on-one as well.  DUE:  PLEASE have your term paper available over the Internet so you can access it and work on it in class.  (Upload it to Google Docs or Dropbox, use another accessible server, or e-mail it to yourself.)  HW: Please complete and print out a draft of your term paper for Thursday.

THURSDAY:  Peer review of term paper.  DUE: Printout of term paper brought to class.  HW: Make first round of edits based on peer review. Finish chapter 4 of Gatsby for Friday.

FRIDAY:  NO CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ THIS WEEK -- Gatsby quiz chapters 1-4 instead.  Discuss Gatsby chapters 1-4 with character activity.  DUE: Upload draft of term paper to Turnitin.com with one starred paragraph for teacher comments by Sunday night at 8pm.  HW: Edit and revise term paper draft and begin MLA formatting.