Wellllll, hot dang!  It's April!  (No foolin'.)  So, it would seem we're in the final run-up--to the AP exam[s] the last "summer break" of your official childhood (for most of you, anyway), and the end of the school year. Time flies, am I right?  We've made mucho progress, and have bravely gone where only a few have dared to go before, BUT we're not there yet.  For the coming weeks, in the Lang portion of the program, we'll be focusing HARD on the writing niceties that will put us in good shape--for the test AND for anything else that comes along.  Hang on, Xtremers!  This party's just getting started!

MONDAY, 4/1
The Scientific Paper
• How, what, when
• The structure
Read Shooting an Elephant for WEDNESDAY

TUESDAY, 4/2
Write up!
• Reading:  E. B. White
• Writing:  mimicry

WEDNESDAY, 4/3
Shooting an Elephant
• Close reading
• Reading response

THURSDAY, 4/4
AP Prompt #10
Scientific Paper DUE (midnight)

FRIDAY, 4/5
AP Multiple Choice
• strategies
• practice

Cogito ergo sum

What is your destiny?  For hundreds of years, people believed that their lives were guided by external forces they could not control--usually a diety or some greater purpose or plan.  With the discovery of DNA and the mapping of the human genome, the force of destiny has become, for many, a kind coding we are born with.  But with each new discovery and answer to the mysteries of life, new questions arise:  How much control do we have over our own lives?  What good does knowing do?  Can destiny be subverted?  Is there a limit to our knowledge?  Should there be? However you look at it, this is an exciting time to be alive.  Now, let's read!

MONDAY, 3/4
Intricacy
• sharing
• feedback
Radiolab:  (So-called) Life
• response: Sense of Life/playing with life
Read DNA as Destiny for TUESDAY, 3/5

TUESDAY, 3/5
DNA as Destiny
• response
• shared inquiry
Read The Selfish Gene for THURSDAY, 3/7

WEDNESDAY, 3/6
ASHG Essay
• outline DUE
• writing workshop

THURSDAY, 3/7
The Selfish Gene
• response
• discussion:  argument/rhetoric

FRIDAY, 3/8
AP Prompt #8