Due Dates and Major Assignments for the Fourth Quarter

VOCABULARY BONUS - REMEMBER - FOR EACH ASSIGNMENT THAT YOU HAVE, YOU MAY ADD TEN VOCAB WORDS THAT ARE NEW OR INTERESTING TO YOU. HIGHLIGHT THESE WORDS AND MAKE THEM KNOWN TO ME SO THAT I CAN GIVE YOU THE EXTRA CREDIT.

1. AP Radio - Pick a song of your choice. Make sure your lyrics are appropriate. Post the lyrics and your analysis of the lyrics on your blog. In your analysis you will need to explicate the lyrics the same way you would explicate a poem. Also post a you tube link of the song so that we can hear the music in addition to reading it. This is due MARCH 26TH, 2009.

2. Your poetry RESEARCH PAPER IS DUE no later than April 8th. Please use MLA formatting, double spacing, standard MLA margins, a 12 pt standard font, a works cited page, and a bibliography page. Please make sure that you do not put extra spaces between paragraphs. The entire paper should be double spaced unless you are single spacing to honor a long quote. Please make sure that your paper meets the five page minimum requirement. Any paper short of five pages will be given an automatic F. Please include an appropriate title for your paper. Remember the objective of the paper is to illustrate how a poet uses language to convey a thematic idea or concept. Other important dates for the research paper include: March 19th - On this day your thesis is due. March 31st - On this day, your rough draft is due.

3. On Saturday, April 25th, at 8:00 A.M. your practice AP English Literature Exam will be held in the library. This exam counts as your final exam for this class. You will take an entire test. You will write three essays and complete an objective test too. You will be able to rewrite portions of the written exam to improve your final exam grade. Please do not be late. The exam lasts three hours. We should be done by 1:00 p.m.

4. SMELL stands for - Sender, Message, Language, Logic. Analyze a print ad or a commerical using SMELL and the different strategies (pathos, logos, ethos) the marketers use to convince the consumer to buy the product. Post a video clip of the commercial or a picture of the print ad on your blog next to your analysis. This is due Friday, May 1st.