AP: January Prep Sesson (You Need This)

The next prep session sign-up is here. You need to register for
The Dallas ISD AP English Winter Prep Session Registration for January 31, 2015

Register, or I will pretend you are a Notre Dame QB.

1. You need this. Make the time. Period.
2. Extra Credit. You need this, too.
3. Click here to register.
• Your class is AP English III (AP Lang)
• Put my name as the teacher
• Indicate that you're from Woodrow
• Indicate if you want to ride the bus
4. Make sure that before you attend the session, you get the bus schedule and your ticket from your AP English teacher. The prep session is at Townview on January 31st — students should plan to arrive at 8:00-8:15 am and leave at 2:30. Pizza will be served. 

Thank you.

IB Film: A Schedule Appears: Independent Lens Announces Winter/Spring ’15 Films

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A Schedule Appears: Independent Lens Announces Winter/Spring ’15 Films

AP: More on ISIL - Satirical This Time

As always, the language may be a bit much for some folks; you have been warned. Enjoy.

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AP Extra Credit Opportunity: ISIS Reflection Essay

WARNING: this is extraordinarily hard core.


No, seriously, this documentary needs to come with trigger warnings, warnings of its explicit nature, etc. If you are sensitive to these kinds of things, or if your parents would prefer you not examine subject matter of this kind, please consider the link to an alternative text that follows.

For a much less severe or confrontational presentation of ISIS/ISIL/IS, you are free to check out this article at Al Jazeera America instead. (You are also free to examine both.)

The assignment: write a one page reflective piece in response to the content wherein you explain your newfound position on ISIS/ISIL/IS.

This is due by 4:30p Monday, Sept. 29.

IB Film: British Pathe Films

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IB Film: TCM's Summer Under the Stars 2014

Attention, film lovers (and film likers, too), Turner Classic Movies is dedicating the entire month of August to 31 classic film stars. Go here and click on the "MORE>" button to get the day by day schedule. For example, tomorrow, Monday August 11th, is dedicated to Marlon Brando. The beautiful part of this is that you can watch the movies you missed online for free (or you can watch them on an iPad if you have one of those and subscribe to a cable service).

So anyway, this is a pretty good way to knock out some of those ten movies I assigned for your summer pleasure.

See you on the 25th!

Woodrow Wilson Summer Reading Explosaganza: 2014!!!

Here, collected in one nice, neat location are all of the summer reading assignments for the English Department at Woodrow Wilson High School for Summer 2014. As always, any unabridged copy you are able to pick up is perfectly fine, new or used, so don't be thrown off by differences in covers. Students are required to read the selected texts over the summer before school resumes in anticipation of the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year.


Incoming Freshmen: All freshmen should anticipate a graded discussion of the assigned novel(s) as well as a traditional written test.

• On-level Freshmen (one novel):
• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
  
• Pre-AP (two novels):
•  The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
  
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
  
• Pre-IB: (three novels)
• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  

Incoming Sophomores: All sophomores should anticipate a guided discussion of the text as well as a traditional written test on the material.

• On-level sophomores: Night by Elie Wiesel
  
• Pre-AP and Pre-IB: Animal Farm by George Orwell
  

Incoming Juniors:

• On-level juniors:
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  
• IB Literature III: 
• Click here for books and assignment
• AP English Language and Composition:
•  Click here for books and assignment
• IB Film
• Click here for films and assignment

Incoming Seniors:

• On-level Seniors: To be announced next week
• IB Literature IV: Incoming IB seniors should anticipate a guided discussion of the texts as well as a more traditional test on the material. Here is a link to Mr. Lundberg's website.
• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore & David Lloyd  ISBN 9781401208417
  
• Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley  ISBN 9781570629136
  
• IB Theory of Knowledge: TOK students should anticipate a graded Socratic seminar on the text.
• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
  
• AP English Literature: AP Lit students should anticipate a graded Socratic seminar on the first novel and a more traditional test on the second one.
• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller