Some links for using Google Drive in the classroom.
- Masters Edition
- Aldo Leopold Piece (Comment View)
- Aldo Leopold Piece (Edit View)
- A Sample Student Paper with Comments
Some Additional Tools
As you approach the end of summer, don’t forget to complete your summer reading assignments for AP Literature (seniors) and AP Language (juniors).
There are copies of the books available at the Helena High Office—and you still have time to get it done.
The web site is under construction at the moment, for the 2014-15 school year. If you are looking for summer reading information, please follow this link.
Since you just received a score on the Kennedy analysis, I’ve included a few resources to help you understand how you can do better on the next one.
- Kennedy Sample Essays (an actual 9)
- Annotated Prompt with my suggestions for annotation. Scroll down for the prompt)
Some general comments:
- Don’t talk about vague references to rhetorical devices, especially in the thesis statement. Unless the passage has a dominant set of devices, just leave that out.
- Kennedy uses really powerful language to condemn the steel companies, to argue they are selfish/destructive. Emphasize that powerful diction.
- The structure of much of the piece is the contrast between the small number of steel company executives and the interests of the whole nation. That constant use of juxtaposition and antithesis is critical to the text.
- A logical structure for diving the piece is: attack on the selfishness of the steel companies, and illustration that they don’t need the increase, and his threat of government action.
- Sharpen topic sentences. They don’t need to be four lines long.
- Combine sentences.
Study for your Chinese Philosophy Quiz!
It will cover:
- Confucius
- Taoism
- Mo Di
- Sun Tzu