Read it. Write it. Own it.
The AVID Readers
Joliet Central High School · The class library
English 2, AVID 11, and AVID 12 notes, tools, and games, all on one shelf. Check out a class to get started.
Words we are mastering: Allusion · Repetition · Metaphor · Refutation · Hyperbole · Defiant diction · Hopeful diction
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Every class has its own shelf of notes, tools, and games.
Call no. ENG 2 · Grade 10
English 2
Rhetorical analysis, Fahrenheit 451, synthesis, research, and poetry, with notes, templates, and games.
Call no. AVID 11 · Grade 11
AVID 11
Tutorials, binder routines, and your first real college research.
Call no. AVID 12 · Grade 12
AVID 12
Pathways, applications, scholarships, and letters of recommendation.
This week in class
Week 10 · October 19 to 23
English 2
Essential question
How can I develop knowledge on a dystopian society?
Due Friday
Your SOAPSTone, by the end of the period. Finish your Fahrenheit 451 notes and your typed rhetorical analysis first.
AVID 11
Essential question
How do we build understanding, connection, and leadership through communication?
Due Friday
Your Supercommunicators notes and the Haunted College Project.
AVID 12
Essential question
What steps move me toward submitting a complete college application?
Due Friday
Tracker checkpoint 2 (rows J to R and five scholarships). Use application days to work on one application and update your tracker.
Practice Lab
Name that device. Fix a broken quote. Build a sentence from its five jobs. Short games that make the work stick, with nothing saved or sent anywhere.
Grab and go
The templates students ask for most.
English 2
SOAPSTone Organizer
Break any speech into Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, and Tone.
English 2
Rhetorical Analysis Outline
A thesis frame and a model body paragraph for analyzing a speech.
AVID 12
College & Scholarship Tracker
Keep colleges, deadlines, and scholarship applications in one spreadsheet.
