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Handouts:

• Commencement Address Examples and Non-Examples

In Class:

• Discussion of Fever Chart
• Annual AP Address Assignment
• Poems for Poetry Connection #4:
  • “It Couldn’t Be Done” by Edgar Albert Guest
  • “Up-Hill” by Christiana Rosetti
  • “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
  • “For a Girl I Know about to Be a Woman by Miller Williams
  • “Letter of Recommendation” by Robert B. Shaw
  • “If–” by Rudyard Kipling

  Homework:

  • If you are caught up then the following is needed from you prior to your final on May 30th or 31st:
    • Fever Chart — I’d love to look at your rough draft ASAP to make sure that you are on the right track
    • Poetry Connection #4
    • A total of 3 Utmost Trouble pieces — your AP Address may be one of them if you plan accordingly. It may need to be edited to work.
    • Poetry Connection Reflection (I’ll pass out this assignment next class)
  • We will be using in-class time to work on these assignments (at least 1/2 class per day) with other activities occurring in class along the way

Handouts:

• None

In Class:

• Time to work on Fever Chart
• Utmost Trouble
• Poetry Connections (as needed)

Homework:

• Continue to make progress on assignments listed above

Test Prep and Test

In Class:

• Act V of Hamlet

Homework:

• Complete April Vacation Reading (as needed)
• Begin work on Fever Chart
• Complete Self-Assessment of Trumbo prompt (as needed)
• Work on List of Books for Open Question & review 3–1 drama, 1 contemporary… (as needed)
• Utmost Trouble