We Be Bloggin'

This year, you will turn in your daily type home work assignments on your blog and your larger process papers on Google Docs. In order to get going, you need to set up a blog. If you are technically adept or adventurous and like being a tad ahead of the curve, you can try and set your blog up early.

To do so, log into your Fife Schools account and from the top bar, choose More and then Blogger. Follow the prompts to set up your blog from there. It can be called whatever you want and you can play with the design to your heart's content, but remember that this is a school class blog you will use for AP English Lang this year and likely for AP English Lit next year. 

Setting your blog up early is not required. We will take time as a class to do this. Please do take some time to familiarize yourself with my blog. It has a lot of resources available for you in the links on the left and in Class Documents.

Also, please do not be alarmed or feel disoriented if my blog design changes. That will happen every so often.

Also check out the SAT prep at https://www.khanacademy.org/.

10 Questions

Bring your responses to these ten questions in tomorrow (Friday, September 4th). Like all assignments, they should be headed in MLA format.

1. What is one of the most adventurous things you’ve ever done?
2. What’s the furthest place you’ve ever been from your current home?
3. What is something you like about yourself?
4. What’s your favorite story (book or movie)?
5. Do you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert?
6. What is one thing you wish you had more time for in your life?
7. When you are not at school, what do you spend most of your time doing?
8. Name your most prized possession.
9. If you could only listen to one genre/type of music for the rest of your life, what would it be?
10. Think about the best class you’ve ever been in. What made that class different?

Ahhhh, Summer!

Welcome to AP English Language and Composition!

We have a summer assignment. Don't worry; it's not too onerous. It's a little reading, a little thinking, and a little writing. Be thoughtful, but don't make it more than it is. Follow the link above for instructions and materials. Have a wonderful summer and I'll see you on September 3rd!

If you have questions, please feel free to email me!

NOTE: The summer assignment link sends you to a folder with pdf files hosted by Google Drive. You can view them in your browser, but I strongly suggest downloading the Huck Finn articles to your computer and either printing them or opening them from your computer. The browser interface won't allow you to rotate the articles (they are scanned from a book and are flipped on their side). One student told me she had a hard time reading them as it was uncomfortable to turn her head. ;) You have other options!

What's a picture of the Roman Colosseum doing on this page?

Our last trip was to England and Paris! Next summer we are going to two of the most important cradles of Western Civilization: Greece (Athens, Delphi, etc.) and Italy (Florence & Rome!). If you are interested in joining us, sign up for the trip at  http://www.explorica.com/Giddings-1059.

About half the crew on the banks of the Thames