Who Are "They"?

Hello people,
You were all here today - yahoo! So, just to recap, we covered some grammar about pronouns and antecedents, and I will no longer need to write "Who?" next to your "theys". We practiced using the "axe" to cleave your sentences into works of clarity and perfection. Further, we discussed the overuse of "that"; "very"; "really"; "thing", and "stuff". Then we began to review the questions on Joan Didion's essay, and you were assigned some exciting homework.

Homework: Write an articulate, intelligent, erudite (what does that mean?) journal response (max 2 pages) to the following: Identify the purpose, audience, tone, and essential argument Didion is making. How do "journals" differ from "notebooks" as suggested by Didion? How might a journal enhance your learning in this course?

Have a lovely weekend!

Humour and Theft

So for those of you who were tragically late to class, or even worse, were absent (ack!), we spent this class analyzing political cartoons and reading about authors who have stolen from Joan Didion. Sounds fun, right? Thanks to Megan, Melody, Norma, Carmen, Josie, Denise and John for sharing their cartoon analysis with the class. Thanks to Zach (spelled with an "h") for the idea!
As for the plagiarism from Joan Didion, really the intent was not to inspire you to plagiarize, but rather to uncover the impact Joan Didion's writing and style have had on others.

Homework: Questions on Rhetoric and Style of Joan Didion's "On Keeping a Notebook".

Vocabulary: Polysyndeton and Asyndeton

Welcome to English 12 AP Online!

Hello all,
I am going to take a stab at leaving a few tidbits for you here including what we did in class, in case you missed it - and that would be a shame, wouldn't it? Also, I'll try to capture any highlights, helpful links, vocabulary lists, etc. Of course, this will be a great place to list the homework as well, in case you missed it, which would be of equal tragic proportions to missing the actual class. There is a lot of potential for you to feel quite upset in this class should you be inexplicably absent or miss the all-important homework!

Homework: Just to review, by now you should have a political cartoon. You should be writing in your journal this weekend about yourself, and you should be reading Joan Didion's essay. Here is some info about Joan Didion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Didion.

Last class: We discussed John F. Kennedy's inaugural address and reviewed many of the terms that arose from analysis of said speech. Those terms included: diction, syntax, tropes, schemes, declarative sentences, imperative sentences, hortative sentences (remember exhortation), complex sentences, anaphora, and zeugma to name a few.

Try this site on simple, compound, and complex senteces for homework. Do a few of the quizzes! http://www.eslbee.com/sentences.htm