AP Reading and English Review Material
Unless otherwise noted, all of the review sessions will take place at 7:00 p.m. in Room 14. Each will cover practice for the Reading and English portions of the ACT test and last for 60-90 minutes. The notes below are the specific elements we’ll review for English each week.
Please be sure to be on time.
Resources are available on this page if you’d like to review the notes, but you cannot attend.
- March 10, 2020: Diagnostic Quiz and Reading Test Overview
- March 12, 2020: Semicolons and Colons
- March 17, 2020: Modifier Errors
- March 19, 2020: Commas, Commas, Commas
- April 7, 2020: Apostrophes and Agreement
- April 9, 2020: Dashes, Hyphens, Colons, Parallelism
- April 12, 2020 (3:00 p.m.): Final Review and Writing
- April 14, 2020: ACT (At School)
If you’ve been telling yourself that the one thing you need from English class is a collection of interesting articles to stimulate thought and provoke discussion, I’ve got you covered.
Every Monday morning, check-in at this link (also on the side of the page) for a collection of articles about the world we inhabit and the ideas that challenge us.
The review materials for the Honors 2 final are available here:
The final for Period 1 is on Tuesday, January 21 and the final for Period 6 is on Thursday, January 23.
Be ready!
All the writing notes you’ll need for the timed write final next week are available here.
Our final is on Wednesday, January 22.
The details of the extra credit piece about Jonathan Swift and recipe bloggers are available here. If you’d like to submit the piece, get it to me by Friday, January 17, 2020.
Your revision of the essay on American policing will be due in class on Friday, January 10. Please make sure to follow the items on the checklist and carefully review the comments I left on your first draft.
While we have some work to do, I was impressed with a lot of the first drafts, which contained excellent use of evidence and analysis. Let’s make the papers great on the second draft!
Revisions must be printed, stapled to your first draft, and attached to the completed checklist.
