Wednesday, 5/13 ~ If you can keep your head...during dead week.

GRAMMAR ~ Test yourself!
  1. A client has left his/her cell phone in our conference room.
  2. The films we made of Kilauea – on our trip to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park – illustrate a typical spatter cone eruption.
  3. Samantha selected the pass/fail option for Chemistry 101.
  4. Of three engineering fields, chemical, mechanical, and materials, Keegan chose materials engineering for its application to toy manufacturing. 
  5. There are three points of etiquette in poker: 1. always allow someone else to cut the cards, 2. don't forget to ante up, and 3. never stack your chips. 
  6. In Lifeboat, Alfred Hitchcock appears [some say without his knowledge] in a newspaper advertisement for weight loss.
  7. The writer Chitra Divakaruni explained her work with other Indian American immigrants: "Many women who came to Maitri [a women's support group in San Francisco] needed to know simple things like opening a bank account or getting citizenship. . . . Many women in Maitri spoke English, but their English was functional rather than emotional. They needed someone who understands their problems and speaks their language."

MEMORIZATION
  • Test on stanzas 1-3

 The New SAT
  • The new essay will be 50 min. and feature a passage to analyze.  Your study of persuasive argument (ethos, pathos, logos), research, article evaluation, annotations, and debate preparation are excellent analytical groundwork. 
  • The new SAT will have a new scoring rubric. 
    • You will be scored in three areas:
      • 1. Reading: How well do you understand WHAT the text actually says?
      • 2. Analysis: How well do you understand HOW it says what it says?  How well are you applying the prompt to the text in your essay (the analytical task)?
      • 3. Writing: How well do you write (good structure, grammar, spelling, word choice)?
    • In each of those three, you will receive a score of 1 to 4.  Instead of combining the three, you will have three separate numbers (such as 3,2,2).  To make matters a bit more complicated, you have two readers whose individual scores combine.  Thus, you will actually see something between 2 and 8 for each of the three categories when you actually take the test.  Yes, quite a few changes.
    • Now look over the sample SAT rubric. 
    • Review more details about what the new SAT will ask you to do.