Lang+Assignments+for+April+22nd--24th


 * Assignments for Monday, April 22nd to Wednesday, April 24th:**


 * Monday, April 22nd:**
 * 1) Make sure a classmate has handed back all of the graded assignments that the substitute has.
 * 2) Using the play //Fences//and your summaries of each scene, create a newspaper article that covers 3 different stories from the play--use your imagination.
 * 3) [[file:Fences Newspaper Assignment.pdf|Sample Newspaper and Guidelines]]
 * 4) [[file:Newspaper-Template.docx|Template]]
 * 5) You do not have to use the provided template if you are able to create your own design or access a website that allows you to create your own newspaper cover, as long as you follow the guidelines at the bottom of the Sample Newspaper Cover.
 * 6) Email your newspaper cover to Mr. Gibbons (scott.gibbons@grant.kyschools.us) before the end of the class period.
 * 7) If you do not send your newspaper cover before the end of the period, you will lose 10% points for each class that it is late.
 * 8) Review the upcoming assignments so that you are prepared for each day's class, particularly Wednesday's class where you are writing your final synthesis essay. You might want to review previously written synthesis essays in order to prepare for Wednesday's assignment.


 * Tuesday, April 23rd:**
 * 1) Do not turn in your Current Event Essay (Religion) to the substitute. You can email it to Mr. Gibbons or hand it in on Thursday.
 * 2) Read the short story "The Life You Save May be Your Own" by Flannery O'Connor.
 * 3) Go to the blog and read the prompt titled Is "Do O'Connor's Christian Ideals Come Through?"
 * 4) Respond to the prompt in less than 100 words.
 * 5) Then response to 2 different posts from classmates.


 * Wednesday, April 24th:**
 * 1) Today you are going to write one of your final AP essays.
 * 2) Click here to read the prompt and the articles provided with the prompt. Because of lack of copy paper in the school, you do not have printed copies of the passages to annotate, so you will have to take notes on a separate sheet of paper and create your Venn Diagram there before writing the essay.
 * 3) The link takes you to an exam with all 3 essay questions. You are to only answer the synthesis essay, question #1.
 * 4) Come to class prepared to type your essay and email it to Mr. Gibbons (scott.gibbons@grant.kyschools.us).
 * 5) You will be required to highlight sections of your essay according to commentary, textual evidence, and thesis and topic sentences.
 * 6) The essay will need to be attached to an email and sent to Mr. Gibbons before the end of 1st period. If you send the essay anytime after first period, you maximum grade will drop 10% points.
 * 7) Title your essay file as such: first name last name essay title (Ex. Scott Gibbons Penny Essay).