1. American Studies  Thursday, 8 May 2014  Time will pass; will you? 13 days remain in the school year.  Learning Goal:  Review for AP exams  “You can’t rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.”  Barack Obama, 44 th President of the United States. ASU graduation address, 2009.

2. Housekeeping  Thanks to Kaitlin, Jaimi and Kyle for your humanitarian efforts in volunteering at Paz de Christo tomorrow.  Please monitor your grade in Infinite Campus, and alert us to any discrepancies immediately.  Book Returns (all by Friday, excepting AMSCO):  The Language of Composition  Brown and Green Document Books  American Pageant

3. Coming Due  ALL JUNIORS must complete the ECAP research before the end of the year. Your due date is May 19 or before. You can find the templates for both these assignments posted on the class website.  Have you completed that last vocabulary assignment?

4. Today’s Class  Exam Review—English

5. Senior Summer Reading  AP12  The Story of Edgar Sawtell by Jane Smiley (parallels Hamlet)  OR  A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (parallels King Lear)  Honors 12  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin  Core English is still under discussion. Assignments will be posted on the school website within the next couple of weeks.