BentonEnglish.com

Mr. Benton's English Classes

AP LITERATURE: Reading Schedule, Poetry Response Packet, MLA Template

AP SEMINAR: AP Capstone Digital Portfolio, Practice Speech Assignment, Team Multimedia Presentation and Defense Checklist & Rubric

research databases: EBSCO Host, Gale Databases, Google Scholar; other credible research sources: The Atlantic, The Economist, EPA, ERIC, Nature, The New York Times,The New Yorker, Pew Research, Science Direct, Scientific American

AP LITERATURE: Reading Schedule, Poetry Packet, MLA Template, Frankenstein Journal, Frankenstein E-text, AP Lit. Terms, Jane Eyre Vocab Assignment, Frankenstein Vocab Assignment, Hamlet Prop Assignment, Tone Packet, Hamlet Notes, Reading Shakespeare Packet, Act I Vocab, Archaic Pronouns, Hamlet E-text

AP SEMINAR: Lenses Handout, Purdue OWL (MLA), Citation Machine (MLA), Mock Performance Task #1, Thesis Notes, AP Capstone Digital Portfolio, PT1 Rubrics, Sample IRR, MPT1 Annotated Bibliography Instructions (PDF), Annotated Bibliography Template (DOC), IRR Outline Directions

AP LITERATURE: Reading Schedule, Poetry Packet, MLA Template, Frankenstein Journal, Frankenstein E-text, AP Lit. Terms, Frankenstein Audiotext, Frankenstein Prompts, Tone Packet, 10 Tips for the Multiple Choice

AP SEMINAR: Lenses Handout, Purdue OWL (MLA), Citation Machine (MLA), Mock Performance Task #1, Thesis Notes, AP Capstone Digital Portfolio, MPT1 Preliminary Research Task, MPT1 Group Norms Assignment, PT1 Rubrics, Sample IRR, MPT1 Annotated Bibliography Instructions (PDF), Annotated Bibliography Template (DOC), IRR Outline Directions

Seniors: AP Score Calculator, Major Works Data Packet (2016), MWDP (2015), MWDP (2014), MWDP (2013), Plagiarism Notes, Senior Research Task

Seniors: Reading Schedule, Major Works Data Sheet Template, Open Response Lists, Literary 3×3 Instructions, Literary Time Periods Review, AP Score Calculator, The Stranger Journal Tips

Seniors: Reading Schedule, Poetry Response Packet, MLA Template, Pinellas Education Foundation; Watchmen: Turnitin Journal, Symbol Sketches, Notes on the Graphic Novel and Postmodernism, E-text, The Doomsday Clock, Understanding Comics

Great Expectations: Theme Log, GE E-text (Whole Novel on One Page), GE Audiotext, Weaving and Citing Examples, Paper Outline and Rubric, Original Ending, Weekly Learning Goal Self-Evaluation Scale (R.910.2), MLA Template; Turnitin.com Journal: Proofreading Expectations, Ch. 40-59 Turnitin Journal, Turnitin Registration Instructions

Writing a Thesis Statement: GE Thesis Prompt, Thesis Notes (from in class), Thesis Help (getting your ideas together), Thesis Development (forming your ideas into a sentence),Subordinate Conjunctions (forming complex sentences with useful words), Thesis Generator (if you can’t quite get your ideas into a sentence), Thesis Builder (another thesis generator if you’re having trouble fitting it all in one sentence), GE Theme-Specific Overviews, GE Theme-Specific Questions