AP Language and Composition (Period 4) Assignments
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- 2018-19: 1st Quarter
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- 2018-19: 4th Quarter
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- High School
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The AP English Language and Composition course aligns to an introductory college-level rhetoric and writing curriculum, which requires students to develop evidence-based analytic and argumentative essays that proceed through several stages or drafts. Students evaluate, synthesize, and cite research to support their arguments. Throughout the course, students develop a personal style by making appropriate grammatical choices. Additionally, students read and analyze the rhetorical elements and their effects in non-fiction texts, including graphic images as forms of text, from many disciplines and historical periods.
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Past Assignments
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Final draft research paper due. Printed, with all previous work, and uploaded to Turnitin.com
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Full rough-draft of essay due. Typed, MLA formatted, 6-8 pages long with Works Cited page, printed AND uploaded to Turnitin.com by 8:20 a.m..
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Bare-bones essay outline due. Read pages 197-220 in The Curious Researcher. Use these guidelines to help you determine the structure for your essay. Remember to include all 6 parts of Cicero.
A bare-bones essay outline should indicate the topic of each paragraph (written as a sentence that could be the topic sentence of that paragraph). Under each topic sentence, bullet point (or outline using a., b., c., etc.) the support for that paragraph. Include in-text citations.
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AP FRQ Review Day!
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Three introductions due TYPED, MLA (read pages 191-195 and complete exercise 4.3, Step 1 in The Curious Researcher.)
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Finish Just Mercy. Prepare for in-class quiz or essay prompt.
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Typed thesis statement due (one-two sentences). Revise if necessary, depending on feedback provided in class. If a revision is necessary, please have MRs. Graham approve it before you proceed with your essay (remaining due-dates still apply)
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1. Read 5 Steps Synthesis Review chapter.
2. Read one chapter in Rhetorical Devices text. Focus on the effect of that device. Suggested chapters: Anaphora, Parallelism. Review Passive/Active Voice online.
3. Review your notecards. Quiz yourself on tone words especially.
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3. Practice a released FRQ from CollegeBoard's website. Read sample essays.
4. Watch review videos on YouTube from Matthew Singleton. Here is a link to an argument review video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNK2cH0d7cQ
Keep breathing! I believe in you!
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After School Optional Study Session Plan:
1. Write a Pre-Twentieth Century Rhetorical Analysis Essay (40 mins)
2.5. Watch TED Amy Cuddy (maybe in class Tuesday)
2. Take full M.C. test (1 hour)
3. Debrief RA essay (with scores)
4. Debrief/review multiple choice
5. Anything else you need
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Read/annotate the 2018 and 2013 Rhetorical Analysis prompts. Bullet point plans/outlines for writing these essays.
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Read and annotate 5 Steps to a 5 Chapter 8 (pages 125-151). This is review for the analysis portions of the exam (multiple choice and rhetorical analysis).
Carefully read/annotate/think about the entire chapter, including all activities. Complete at least 4 of the activities. Select activities that you need to work on the most.
NOTE: You brain will by MUSHY after our practice exam on Monday. I HIGHLY recommend you complete this assignment this weekend, but I won't check it until Tuesday.
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After School Practice Exam (Full Exam Session) 3:30-7:30
This is an optional, though highly recommended, practice session for the AP exam. There is no penalty if you are unable to attend.
Note: Dinner provided; students may need a little extra time to finish eating.
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After School Practice Exam (Full Essay Session) 3:30-6:00
This is an optional, though highly recommended, practice session for the AP exam. There is no penalty if you are unable to attend.
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Read and score sample "Penny" synthesis essays.
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Complete "Student Voice in Synthesis Essay" assignment.
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Read 5 Steps to a 5 chapter 7 "Introduction to the Synthesis Essay," pages 107-122. Do what it asks you to do.
Please try to complete this by Monday. If you left your book at school because I didn't tell you that you would need it for HW, I will accept this assignment Tuesday.
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Review Argument Writing. Remember what you know.
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Argument Assignment 7 due
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Argument Assignment 7 due
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Argument Assignment 6 due
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Argument Assignment 6 due (a quick read/annotate/notecard of this is sufficient. It's okay if the ideas are still fuzzy).
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Argument Assignment 5 due
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Infomercial #1 Presentations due
Example Infomercials. Note: These are not necessarily "A" presentations, but here are some ball-park examples of video infomercials. You do not need to make a video, but you will need visuals (PowerPoint or Prezi) if you give a live Infomercial.
LCA Infomercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjIIUihf5y4
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Infomercial Presentations Begin!
Tuesday: JM, RS, PJ
Wednesday: TW, EL, BH, AP
Thursday: HD, RJ, JE, CS
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6 Pieces of SPECIFIC Evidence Charts
Note: I've completed a chart for the first prompt on creativity for you. You may copy this chart on your own assignment if you'd like. Now you only have 5 more charts to create! Don't overthink these, and certainly don't research them. The goal is to practice brainstorming what you know already. You should be able to complete one chart in about 5-7 minutes. On the actual AP exam, you'll want to be able to do this in 2-4 minutes.
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Creativity is innate—no class
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Creativity is learned—teach it in school |
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· Van Gogh took art lessons to become artist after ministry · Google open space offices promote creative thinking (no class, just collaboration)
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· Craft store workshops · Mrs. Jorgensen (taught girls art) · China education focuses on memorization—they “copy” designs/innovations rather than develop their own · Anything done well must be practiced, then innovated (how we learn music, cooking, etc.)
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- Create a Notecard of things you know (see below)
- Complete Assignment 4 "B"
Prepare: Create a notecard that lists 10-20 things you know from your own life. Hobbies you have. Sports you play. Sports you watch. Hobbies your friends or parents have that you know something about because you know them. Movies/video games/TV shows you love. Places you have visited…etc. Make sure to include your research topic…and any other research topics you have completed for other classes in the past couple years.
Example: Here is mine…I included more items than your required 20 to show the variety of knowledge you can pull from. Feel free to add more items to your list if you can as well.
Education
Technology in the classroom
The Bible, especially Pentateuch, Gospels, Acts.
Competitive swimming
Reading
Cooking
Gardening
Politics
Social Activism
American History, especially 1920-modern
American Literature
NPR
Interact Service—TRM, EFN
Harry Potter/ Divergent/ Hunger
Gray’s Anatomy/ House of Cards/ Blacklist
Black Diamond—coal mining
Surface vs. I-pod
Working/ College/ Parenting life balance
Lymphoma
Diabetes
Hiking in PNW
Hunting/ Shooting/ Gun rights vs. control, land use & regulation
New Zealand
Paris
French Countryside
Oregon Coast
Starbucks
Babysitting
Administrative work
daycare
Test scoring
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Finish analyzing how Truth and MLK use personal experience to craft arguments. (should only take 10-20 minutes)
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1. Finish counter-argument thesis (most students finished in class)
2. Complete assignments 3 and 4a on argument assignment outline (read, annotate, and define terms on notecard).
Reminder: Assignment 3 is a "nice to know--" it is not crucial, key information. Spend your time accordingly (please read and define terms, but don't agonize over internalizing the information)
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- Complete Assignment 2 on Argument Outline Handout
- Write a meaty paragraph responding to the prompt: Should Affirmative Action be Eliminated?
- Use your Upfront magazine article and these links for support: https://www.britannica.com/topic/affirmative-action http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/affirmative-action-overview.aspx
- The paragraph should begin by establishing the facts. This can include claims of definition and quality. Then move on to claim(s) of value, and end with a proposal of the policy.
- For example, for an essay on democracy:
Claims of fact: what is democracy? Is country X democratic
Claims of value: describe the value of democracy--Why is war bad? Why is peace good?What other kinds of benefits does democracy bring? What are the detriments to other government systems?
Claim of policy: democratize the world in order to save it.
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Complete SP 5 and watch TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/justin_baldoni_why_i_m_done_trying_to_be_man_enough?language=en
Consider:
- How "toxic masculinity" harms women (his main focus)
- How "toxic masculinity" harms men
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Prepare discussion questions 1,3,6 for a Socratic Seminar
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Tone graphic organizer and finish key passage annotation for purpose, tone, and key rhetorical devices.
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Finish Woolf Essay--annotate carefully
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Complete at least one assignment on www.noredink.com.
Try to complete all assignments before the SAT on Saturday.
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Padlet-- Just Mercy chapters 12 and 13
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Thoreau: Write a one paragraph response to Discussion Question 2 on page 538.
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Just Mercy chapter 11 Padlet discussion
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READ SOMETHING!! (The only way to become a stronger reader is to read!)
Recommendations: Select a few articles from any of the following websites:
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READ SOMETHING!! (The only way to become a stronger reader is to read!)
Recommendations: Select a few articles from any of the following websites:
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READ SOMETHING!! (The only way to become a stronger reader is to read!)
Recommendations: Select a few articles from any of the following websites:
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Assigned 1/28--Due 2/4
1. Read Upfront (Get smart!)
2. Read & Annotate Thoreau's "Where I Lived..." (pages 531-538). Complete Vocab assignment.
3. Read & Annotate Just Mercy chapter 10. Complete Padlet assignment.
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Factoid Friday
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Gladwell reading & analysis
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1. Read "Community" Introduction on page 512
2. Carefully read and annotate "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan on pages 555-561
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King vocabulary assignment. Please remember to include an in-text citation for your definitions.
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Hard copy of book for your research project due. Bring the book to class! (you may check the book out from a library or purchase it).
Read at least 30 pages of this book (select the pages that best support your research question). Type a one paragraph summary of what you read. Post this summary on your Padlet. Add the book to your Works Cited page and bring the Works Cited (printed) to class.
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In-class timed Rhetorical Analysis. May require 10 minutes into lunchtime.
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Complete 5 quotations on the rhetorical analysis quotation chart for Isaacson's text.
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Revise research question if it was not approved yet. Print a new copy.
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Read Language of Composition pages 60-69
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Read (and annotate) Language of Composition text pages 43-55.
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# 27 Synechdoche/Metonymy (read pages 174-179)
Exercise 1: complete 2 items
Exercise 2: Complete odd items
#16 Climax (read pages 101-105)
Exercise 1: complete 2 items
Exercise 2: write a 3 sentence paragraph that satisfies the prompt provided
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Rhetorical Devices Practice
#1 Hyperbole (pages 13-14)
Exercise 1--all
#2 Understatement (pages 15-18)
Exercise 1--all
Exercise 2--write 3 sentences
#3 Litotes (pages 19-21)
Exercise 1--do 2 items
Exercise 2--all
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Rhetorical Devices Practice
I. Anthithesis (pages 22-25) Read and think about all
Complete: Exercise 1 (do any 2 items)
Exercise 2 (do all)
II. Anaphora (pages 185-189) Read and think about all
Complete: Exercise 1
Exercise 4 (do 2 each of anaphora and epistrophe)
Exercise 5
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Tone Quiz #2
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Parallelism Exercise 1 (odds only), Exercise 2 (all), Exercise 3 (read and think only).
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Complete the "Schemes" reading and note card. Write small--you will define many terms on this note card!
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Proof of Tacoma Public Library card due. Click here to get an online card: https://www.tacomalibrary.org/library-card-application/
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- Imagery and Allusions reading/ note-card
- Passive Voice/Active Voice extra practice (if needed).
- Completed in-class on Wednesday: Rhetorical Devices text
- Allusions reading and practice
- Polysyndeton and Asyndeton reading and practice
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Finish SVA #1 (Wayne Gretzky), complete SVA #2 (Scavenger Hunt), side 1 only.
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Syntax reading and notecard and PNA/SVA practice worksheet
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Pronoun Practice! Finish notes (see attachment) and complete practice exercises
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Factoid Friday
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Diction reading and notecard due
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Tone Quiz #1
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Arrangement reading and notecard due
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Factoid Friday
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Read pages 71-85 in rhetoric packet.
Complete Notecard #1 (Big Central and 4 related ?).
Read and thoroughly annotate Isaacson and Lincoln in yellow packet
HERE WE GO!
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Lang of Comp text pages 40-43. Annotate Gates thoroughly. Think about activities, but don't complete them in writing.
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Final Draft Due. Submit with all previous drafts.
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Draft #2 due. 3 copies printed. (No Turnitin for this draft).
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SP 4 and 4a exercises
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Peer Edit Due in Turnitin by 3:00 Friday, October 26! (some class time will be provided)
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Complete "Extending Angelou" questions (side B). This is the brainstorm for your narrative essay.
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Craft one powerful simile sentence.
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1. Finish "Responding to 'My First Lifeline'" Part A
2. Think about and decide the topic for your "Lifeline" essay. NOTE: no writing required. Just know what you will write about.
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Read and annotate "My First Lifeline." Particularly note Angelou's style choices. How does she craft her argument?
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Factoid #3 due
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Art of Styling Sentences--read pattern 1a and complete exercises on page 11
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Pathos or Logos paragraph revision for excellence due. If absent on 10/5 when we worked on this in class, please see me to make-up the class-work so you can revise your paragraph.
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No class--PSAT Testing
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Just Mercy "Trials and Tribulations" Padlet due
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Read Upfront magazine (October 8 issue). To read the digital copy of the magazine, go to https://upfront.scholastic.com/ Click "Log in" in upper right corner, Click "I am a Student," and enter the classroom password: minecub4273
We will use information you gleaned from this magazine in class on Tuesday.
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Factoid #2
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Read text pages 25-26.
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Factoid Friday #1 Due: 1. Source on Padlet 2. Print Source 3. Works Cited page printed for source
(please email me your padlet before class on Friday)
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Write a paragraph identifying the logos in Wu's piece (see activity in textbook).
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Establishing Ethos--complete the activity on page 12. Write answers using bullet points or two brief paragraphs.
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Finish reading Lang of Comp page 10--analysis of Kahlo.
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AP Smorgasboard assignments due (see handout/packet provided in class)
NOTE: Please create an account in padlet and sign-in to the account when you comment on our padlet. Your responses should be connected to your name (so you can earn a grade), not to "Anonymous"
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Read pg. 4 of The Language of Composition. Define bolded terms (3) on notecard.
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"The Sentence" quiz
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Complete Vocab assignment-- 10 words from practice AP exam. TYPE and MLA format this assignment. Each entry should include:
a) the word
b)the quote from the source text (5 Steps practice test) that includes the word in context...don't forget an in-text citation after each quote!
c)the dictionary definition of the word ....don't forget an in-text citation after each definition!
d) a sentence of your own creation that accurately uses the word
Include a Works Cited page after the 10 words with a full MLA citation for 5 Steps and your dictionary.
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Read Just Mercy chapter 1
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Read Introduction "Higher Ground" in Just Mercy. Annotate. Think.
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Woods Analysis Chart
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Multiple Choice Practice Test--10 minutes of lunch required
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Anthem Argument Quick Essay
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Biopoem due (Don't forget--print 2 copies! Mount one copy on green or blue paper. Include a picture!)