1. American Studies Monday, 14 February 2011 Time will pass; will you? 63 school days remain in the school year. Happy Valentine’s Day: –“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.” F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby, Chapter 6

2. Housekeeping and Recognition Test Mastery, Chapter 23-32 test, is tomorrow after school Registered for your AP exams? The link is on the HHS website—the deadline is March 1. HHS website Are your vocabulary logs on your desks?

3. Coming Due Tomorrow: –Pageant, Chapter 33, pages 833-853b – optional questions due in tii Wednesday: –Non-fiction response #2—Presentations, group 2 –Thursday: Pageant, Chapter 34, pages 870-874b—optional questions due—tii upload Vocabulary log #6 is due February 28—upload to tiiocabulary log Grammar Lesson #8 is due

4. Today’s Class Collect Argument #3 and assign argument assessments Review and Score: Grammar lesson #7— Coordination in the Compound Sentence — page 698Grammar lesson Scoring Progressive DBQ The Great Depression and The New Deal, pages 823-833

5. Scoring the Progressive DBQ Staple the rubric to the top of your essay. Put your name on the rubric, and put Progressive DBQ at the top of the page. Highlight your DBQ with any outside information found on the outside info. Sheet.

6. Reading and Scoring Anchor Papers Read the anchors. Write the holistic score for anchor paper C and F on the back of the rubric (scoring from 1-9 and keeping in mind the requirements of a DBQ) How did you score the 2 essays?

7. Last Anchor Paper The last anchor is a 9. Let’s read and understand why. Score your essay in the key block areas for thesis, outside info, use of documents, etc. Using this scoring, your highlighted paper, and the anchor papers, give yourself a holistic score from 1-9 and place that score in the AP Essay Raw Score area on the rubric. I will review all essays for final scoring.

8. Causes of the Great Depression? What were the key causes? For each cause, a solution will be looked at by the Brian Trust and FDR who came into the White House with no particular plan other than the idea that major change was necessary.

9. What do the 0’s mean in STI? 0 = assignment was not turned in, is now overdue, and will remain a zero 00 = you had an excused absence, and need to make up this assignment within the available time frame (see HHS handbook, page 6). 000 = assignment was not uploaded to tii, and is now late (-25%); for credit, bring in a tii receipt along with the related assignment.