AP LangSeptember 15-16

Edit the following sentences for commas and semicolons.

• When he was eight years old Frédéric Chopin made his debut as a concert pianist.

• Until recently scientists believed, that the giant sequoias of California were the oldest living trees on earth.

• Now however that honor is given to the bristlecone pine which is a small gnarled tree native to the western part of the United States.

• Botanists estimate that some bristlecone pines are more than six thousand years old, the oldest sequoias are only 2,200 years old according to those who know.

Quizzes

• Take the DOL quiz. Staple your bell ringers to the test and turn them in to the tub.

• Until everyone finishes the DOL quiz, you may study your vocabulary flash cards.

• Turn in your 5 new words/vocabulary journal and vocabulary flash cards.

• Take the vocabulary quiz. YOU WILL NEED YOUR OWN PAPER.

When you finish the vocab quiz• Get the orange literature book and begin reading Mary Rowlandson, page 37.

• Background info is found on page 35.

A Block

• Discuss the journal entry regarding “A city on a hill”

Reading

• Read the excerpt from Mary Rowlandson

• I can identify organizational techniques in a narrative.

• I can analyze a writer’s organizational techniques and rhetorical devices in communicating her purpose.

Multiple Choice practice

• Do the Reading Comprehension exercise in your vocabulary packet.

• Take the multiple choice quiz.