Requirements (Just a Reminder)

PreAP ENGLISH & AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION &

AP ENGLISH LITERATURE & COMPOSITION

To be admitted to the PreAP English and AP English courses students must have the following:

1. Grade average in English of 3.2 or higher.

2. Recommendation from an English teacher.

3. Demonstrate above grade level reading and language skills according to standardized tests:

4. MAP score for Reading 229 and Language Usage 227

PreAP 9 MAP Reading 229 (or higher), Language Usage 227 (or higher) in grade 8; Reading 232 (or higher), Language Usage 230 (or higher) at beginning of grade 9.

PreAP 10 MAP Reading 234 (or higher), Language Usage 232 (or higher)

AP Courses MAP Reading 236 (or higher), Language Usage 234 (or higher)

10^th grade PSAT Critical Reading 49 and Writing Skills 48 (or higher) entering 11th

11^th grade PSAT Critical Reading 50 and Writing Skills 49 (or higher) entering 12^th

NOTE: If student doesn’t meet all three requirements, but is highly motivated, an interview

with the PreAP English teacher and/or English coordinator will take place.

Invisibility: Everyone's Favorite Superpower

Start reading Invisible Man. Read it for an hour and then create an informal podcast, webcast, or written response in regards to the novel. Discuss diction, syntax, structure and any literary devices. Get us from the HOW to the WHAT.

Your Novels - Send´em

NANOWRIMO peeps, please send you final manuscript (MS) to me via e-mail by April 8th, so I can start editing them.

Go Back to Sleep

This week I'd like you to finish The Awakening. For every twenty to thirty pages read, create a webcast of yourself discussing the text, with book in hand. You can go about this any way you want really, but must deal with the content, literary devices, vocabulary, only that instead of writing it you must film it.

Then, I'd like one close reading of the last page written.

I expect to see work throughout the week, not just Sunday night.

Oh - Robert!

This week please write three blog entries. Be sure to hyperlink at least one entry from last week. Also you must contradict someone else's blog using a close reading.

EXTRA CREDIT(S)

Check out the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro.

Bring me the ticket stub of any of the following shows and I'll give you some extra credit via Standard Score. Be forewarned: I have not and could not have possibly previewed the shows for their content. That said, be ready to discuss the work when you hand in the stub.

Hamlet

MacBeth

Electra

El Rhionceronte

Esperando a Godot

1984

Peer Gynt

Julio Cesar

Odisea

La Tempestad

Casa de muñecas

Wake Up!

I'd like you to read The Awakening this week and write three reading blogs by next Monday. That's roughly 60 pages of the novella.