Writing Guidelines

Intro to Thesis statement writing and Literature Research
Citing in-text in MLA format

Classroom practice document

Purdue/Owl: Quoting/taking notes for research and Reading and note-taking

Purdue/Owl: Citing in MLA format
Video on MLA Formatting: List of Works Cited
Video on formatting the work cited page and header
Cedarville University Writing Center: Student Resources
Sample with notes

RESEARCHING onLINE

Video on "How to Use Google Advanced Search and Bolean operators"
Video on Other Helpful Search Sites for High Schoolers
Video on "How to Search for (and read) Academic Papers Using Google Scholar"
Sweet Search
AcademicIndex.net
Google Scholar
RefSeek Academic Search

Scarlet Letter Assessment information

Link here to complete information regarding all assessments related to The Scarlet Letter for AP Language and Composition, 2014-15.

Rhetorical terms test -- December 2014

Rhetorical terms test (click here) -- 40 terms: multiple choice and matching.
Have teacher record score on hard copy (after one attempt) and continue with fill-in-the-blank portion (choose 10).

August 2014 Assignment (speech, essays, short story)

I. Read ALL of the following (linked here below). You will be using your notes/reflections to this literature to complete an in-class timed writing during the first or second week of school.

1. Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address

2. Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self –Reliance

4. Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour

II. Remember, too, that I will be checking your notes for the previous readings as well.

III. VOCABULARY LEARNING

In the AP courses, we study vocabulary involved with rhetorical and poetic writing. The master lists are linked here below (links also found on the AP page at the Alcove classroom website). The first week back in class, you will be quizzed on words 1-85 from the rhetoric terms list. You can see that various groupings of the terms are on Quizlet for practicing and out-of-class testing. (Those of you who have had this list last year, be prepared for some non-multiple-choice situations.)

· Literary Devices--original links Rhetorical Strategies: http://www.nisd.net/jay/la/LitTerms-RhetoricalDev.pdf

· Poetry terms: http://www.homewood.k12.al.us/~ksmith/AP_Poetry_Terms.html

On QUIZLET --PLEASE SIGN INTO CLASS MEMBERSHIP on QUIZLET.

AP CLASS LIST -- particular lists
AP Poetry terms -- complete list
and
AP rhetoric terms -- complete list