Agenda, April 30

Due Now: Preview "The Allegory of the Cave," by Plato
Due Monday: Completed Multiple Choice Section for ALL students.
Due Tuesday: "The Prince," by Niccolo Machiavelli
Due Friday: War Essay Revision. Highlight changes in your new copy. Clip new copy on top of old copy. You'll only get one revision opportunity, so feel free to come talk to me during lunch or while I'm on bus duty.
Coming Tomorrow, at 8 am (this is an inservice day, so you don't have school): Practice AP Lang exam. If you cannot attend the practice exam, you can complete the tasks at home, but you'll need to bring the completed exam to school on Monday. You will need two pens, two pencils, and your own writing paper. No food, water, or phones.

1. SAT QOD
2. AP Info Page
3. T-shirt Talk
4. Presentations, already?
5. To the cave!

Agenda, April 29

Due Tomorrow: Preview "The Allegory of the Cave," by Plato
Coming Friday May 1, at 8 am (this is an inservice day, so you don't have school): Practice AP Lang exam. If you cannot attend the practice exam, you can complete the tasks at home, but you'll need to bring the completed exam to school on Monday. You will need two pens, two pencils, and your own writing paper. No food, water, or phones.

1. SAT QOD
2. The Outsiders
3. AP Info Page
4. Decision Time: To practice test or not practice test? 
5. T-shirt Talk
6. Can we get to the presentations already?
7. Sentence forms

Per 4 Presentation Order

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Wednesday 4/29

1. Andrew - Roots

2. Pavel - Independence

3. Catie - Lost

4.

Thursday, 4/30

1. Brian - Gettysburg

2. Emma – The Raven

3. Brittany - Fair

4. Brianna - Serving

Monday, 5/4

1. Zoe - Modest

2. Stephanie – Walk on By

3. Amanda – Female Body

4. Nikole - Tiffany

Tuesday, 5/5

1. Garrett - Wife

2. Kyle - Strawberry

3. Sequoia - Diving

4. Van - iWorld

Wednesday, 5/6

1. Nick - JGHG

2. Holli - GOW

3. Alissa - Superman

4. Ethan - Restore

Thursday, 5/7

1. Luda - Dream

2. Maurie – Obama Nobel

3. David – Manifesto

4. Nicole D – Colored Me

Period 5 Presentation Order

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Wednesday 4/29

1. Mark – Polly Baker

2. Rory – Malcolm X

3. Coby - Dream

4.

Thursday, 4/30

1.

2. Andrea – Walk on By

3. Lexie – Playing House

4. Madeline – Female

Monday, 5/4

1. Nick - Manifesto

2. Whitney - iWorld

3. Isabel – Woman’s Place

4. Morgan – Obama Nobel

Tuesday, 5/5

1. Alexis - Independence

2. Breana - Dumpster

3. Jessica - Colored Me

4. Miranda - Latin Woman

Wednesday, 5/6

1. Jenna - Always

2. Nate – Music Heals

3. Sydney - Lost

4. Jackson - Serving

Thursday, 5/7

1. Lauren - Superman

2. Katie – Modest

3. Mack - Gettysburg

4. Maddy - Wife

Review Presentation Expectations

1) Introduce the context of the argument. In other words, what was going on when this was written? What is the writer reacting to? SOAPSTone is a useful tool here, though it's not required.
2) Analyze the rhetoric of the argument. One approach would be the structural approach, where you walk us through the argument from beginning to end. Another approach would be to discuss the author's three dominant rhetorical strategies and give examples of each. Both approaches require you to address the author's purpose, though you probably mentioned that in Step 1. The best presentations will help us see how the parts work together. If you are presenting a novel, you don't need to cover the whole novel. Focus on the biggest of the big ideas and the most dominant strategies.
3) Consider how we would use this essay as evidence on the AP Lang exam. On what sort of prompts might this evidence be useful?
4) Your presentation should be well prepared, though you may sit on the stool while addressing the class.
5) We will have work time in class on Tuesday, so be sure to bring your text to class.

Agenda, April 23

Due Tomorrow: Bring a hard copy of your Bibliography (this can be a clean copy or one that's graded).
Coming Friday May 1, at 8 am (this is an inservice day, so you don't have school): Practice AP Lang exam. If you cannot attend the practice exam, you can complete the tasks at home, but you'll need to bring the completed exam to school on Monday. You will need two pens, two pencils, and your own writing paper. No food, water, or phones.

1. SAT QOD
2. T-shirt Talk
3. Scoring in partners

Agenda, April 21

Coming Friday May 1, at 8 am (this is an inservice day, so you don't have school): Practice AP Lang exam. If you cannot attend the practice exam, you can complete the tasks at home, but you'll need to bring the completed exam to school on Monday. You will need two pens, two pencils, and your own writing paper. No food, water, or phones.

1. Prepping for tomorrow
2. SAT QOD
3. Scoring in partners: You will work with the same partner the whole period. When you have finished one pair of papers, discuss them with your partner. Write your notes, your numbers, and your score on back, then go get another pair of papers.
4. T-shirt Talk will resume on Thursday.

So, you wanna write faster?

Here's a place you can go for lots of practice. It's called Room for Debate, and it's a page on nytimes.com.

If you want to get faster at writing arguments ...
click on any one of the discussions that catches your eye. On the left side of the page, they have a brief introduction that ends with a question. Those introductions look an awful lot like AP Lang prompts.  Write as much of an argument as you can that responds to the prompt in 30 minutes. Do not spend more than 30 minutes on any single argument.

If you want to get faster at rhetorical analysis ...
click on any one of the discussions that catches your eye. You'll notice anywhere between two and eight articles. Click on any of the articles (they're usually pretty short; sometimes they're too short for a TEP paragraph) and pick a rhetorical strategy. Spend ten minutes writing one TEP paragraph. Do not spend any more than ten minutes, even if you don't complete your paragraph.

If you want to get faster at synthesis ...
click on any one of the discussions that catches your eye. Read the introduction. Read up to six of the articles, looking for quotations. Spend as much time as you like synthesizing an argument that answers the question in the introduction using at least three of the sources.

I'd be happy to read anything you write in response to these prompts during lunch or after school. This isn't a homework assignment; it's just a way to help people who are struggling to write quickly.

Agenda, April 20

Coming Friday May 1, at 8 am (this is an inservice day, so you don't have school): Practice AP Lang exam. If you cannot attend the practice exam, you can complete the tasks at home, but you'll need to bring the completed exam to school on Monday. You will need two pens, two pencils, and your own writing paper. No food, water, or phones.

1. Prepping for tomorrow
2. SAT QOD
3. Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write
4. T-shirt Talk

Agenda, April 15

Coming Friday May 1, at 8 am (this is an inservice day, so you don't have school): Practice AP Lang exam. If you cannot attend the practice exam, you can complete the tasks at home, but you'll need to bring the completed exam to school on Monday. You will need two pens, two pencils, and your own writing paper. No food, water, or phones.

1. Prepping for tomorrow
2. SAT QOD
3. It's a scoring fiesta!

Agenda, April 14

Due Now: Vocab I Can't Think of a Decent 11 Pun 
Due Now: Common Place #3 
Coming Friday May 1, at 8 am (this is an inservice day, so you don't have school): Practice AP Lang exam. If you cannot attend the practice exam, you can complete the tasks at home, but you'll need to bring the completed exam to school on Tuesday. You will need two pens, two pencils, and your own writing paper. No food, water, or phones.

1. SAT QOD
2. Festival of Forecasting
3. Per 4: Do you have 3 synth papers?
4. Per 5: Breana's speech
5. What did you learn yesterday?
6. Arg Review
7. I know this is the answer because ...
8. MC Answers

Agenda, April 10

Due Now: "Is there such a thing as a just war?" Essay.   
Due Tuesday, April 14: Vocab I Can't Think of a Decent 11 Pun              
Due Tuesday, April 14: Common Place #3             Coming Monday, April 13, at 8 am (this is an inservice day, so you don't have school): Practice AP Lang exam. If you cannot attend the practice exam, you can complete the tasks at home, but you'll need to bring the completed exam to school on Tuesday. You will need two pens, two pencils, and your own writing paper.

1. Special Guest Presentations Sprinkled Randomly Throughout the Day
2. SAT QOD
3. Motivational Speeches
4. RA Review
5. Synth. Scoring

Agenda, April 9

Due Tuesday, April 14: Vocab I Can't Think of a Decent 11 Pun            
Due Tuesday, April 14: Common Place #3              
Due Friday, April 10: "Is there such a thing as a just war?" Essay.         
Coming Monday, April 13, at 8 am (this is an inservice day, so you don't have school): Practice AP Lang exam. If you cannot attend the practice exam, you can complete the tasks at home, but you'll need to bring the completed exam to school on Tuesday. You will need two pens, two pencils, and your own writing paper.

1. Synthesis Timed Write
2. Essay Questions
3. Testing Materials for Monday  

Agenda, April 8

Due Tuesday, April 14: Vocab I Can't Think of a Decent 11 Pun          
Due Tuesday, April 14: Common Place #3            
Due Friday, April 10: "Is there such a thing as a just war?" Essay.       
Coming Monday, April 13, at 8 am (this is an inservice day, so you don't have school): Practice AP Lang exam. If you cannot attend the practice exam, you can complete the tasks at home, but you'll need to bring the completed exam to school on Tuesday. You will need two pens, two pencils, and your own writing paper.

1. Calibration
2. Score your friends and neighbors  

Agenda, April 7

Like to read poetry? Visit OCPoWriMo! Like to write poetry? 
Send me a poem and I'll post it to OCPoWriMo!
Due Tomorrow: Read, take notes, and score samples.
Due Tuesday, April 14: Vocab I Can't Think of a Decent 11 Pun        
Due Tuesday, April 14: Common Place #3          
Due Friday, April 10: "Is there such a thing as a just war?" Essay.     
Coming Monday, April 13, at 8 am (this is an inservice day, so you don't have school): Practice AP Lang exam. If you cannot attend the practice exam, you can complete the tasks at home, but you'll need to bring the completed exam to school on Tuesday. You will need two pens, two pencils, and your own writing paper.

1. Where's Waldo?
2. SAT QOD
3. Transferable Skills, Part 1
4. Argumentative Timed Write
5. Transferable Skills, Part 2
6. Scoring Circles

Vocab I Can't Think of an Eleven Pun

OPTIONAL: Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each word. 

REQUIRED: Post one sentence as a comment below. The sentence you post must be a properly punctuated "From ... to ..., from ... to ..." sentence. For example: From alpha to omega, from aleph to tav, from abel to zed, alphabetic virtuosity has always eluded me.

1.     Aesthetic

2.     Anthology

3.     Contemporary

4.     Dilettante

5.     Eclectic

6.     Excerpt

7.     Genre

8.     Medley

9.     Mural

10. Narrative

11. Parody

12. Realism

13. Virtuoso

Agenda, April 6

Like to read poetry? Visit OCPoWriMo! Like to write poetry? Send me a poem and I'll post it to OCPoWriMo!
     
Due Monday, April 6, at the beginning of class: E-mail your Lit Mag essay to the Lit Mag editors. Include me as a CC or BCC.             
Due Tuesday, April 14: Vocab I Can't Think of a Decent 11 Pun      
Due Tuesday, April 14: Common Place #3        
Due Now: Read and score sample timed writes. Take notes about strengths, weaknesses, and strategies / phrases to emulate.  
Due Friday, April 10: "Is there such a thing as a just war?" Essay.         
Coming Monday, April 13, at 8 am (this is an inservice day, so you don't have school): Practice AP Lang exam. If you cannot attend the practice exam, you can complete the tasks at home, but you'll need to bring the completed exam to school on Tuesday. You will need two pens, two pencils, and your own writing paper.

1. Presentations
2. SAT QOD
3. Scoring Circles

Agenda, April 3

Like to read poetry? Visit OCPoWriMo! Like to write poetry? Send me a poem and I'll post it to OCPoWriMo!
   
Due Monday, April 6, at the beginning of class: E-mail your Lit Mag essay to the Lit Mag editors. Include me as a CC or BCC.            
Due Monday, April 6: Vocab X      
Due Monday, April 6: Common Place #2       
Due Monday, April 6: Read and score sample timed writes. Take notes about strengths, weaknesses, and strategies / phrases to emulate.
Due Friday, April 10: "Is there such a thing as a just war?" Essay.       
Coming Monday, April 13, at 8 am (this is an inservice day, so you don't have school): Practice AP Lang exam. If you cannot attend the practice exam, you can complete the tasks at home, but you'll need to bring the completed exam to school on Tuesday. You will need two pens, two pencils, and your own writing paper.

1. Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write
2. Presentations
3. SAT QOD

Structural v. TEP Rhetorical Analysis

Structural Rhetorical Analysis Strategy

Introduction: Sum up the essay in one or two sentences. Consider both the general idea of the essay and the purpose. Be sure to include the author’s name and the title of the essay.

Body: Write a paragraph about the beginning. How does the author invite us in? How does the author set us up for what’s to come? What strategies does the author use?

Body: Write a paragraph (or several shortish paragraphs) about the middle. How does the author build the argument? What strategy does she employ first? How does she transition from idea to idea, strategy to strategy? How do the parts in the middle expand and develop the purpose?

Conclusion: Write a paragraph about the closing. How does the closing emphasize, illuminate, or elaborate upon the purpose? Does the closing connect back to the beginning? Why? Keep your eyes open for the “wrinkle.”

ALL Paragraphs (except the intro) should offer examples of at least two (and perhaps more) rhetorical strategies –  correctly identified, directly quoted and properly punctuated – and explore their effect on the reader. You may write about more than one device per paragraph.

TEP Rhetorical Analysis Strategy

Introduction: Sum up the essay in one or two sentences. Consider both the general idea and the purpose. Be sure to include the author’s name and the title of the essay. The last sentence of the introduction should be a catalog thesis that lists the three rhetorical strategies you will write about in the order that you will write about them. For example: [Author] uses pathos, listing, and antithesis to [achieve his purpose].

Body: Each body paragraph should be a TEP paragraph. The topic sentence should name the device and explain how it fits into the essay / helps the author achieve his or her purpose. Each body paragraph should include two examples of the same device, thoroughly set-up, properly quoted (with parenthetical citation), and effectively analyzed.  You should have one body paragraph for each device.

Conclusion: One or two sentences to remind the reader what you wrote.

Nit-picky details:

Always qualify the word diction. Tell the reader what kind of diction the author employed (casual, formal, or sarcastic, among others). “The author uses colloquial diction to …”

Your rhetorical devices, in general, are always singular. “The author uses asyndeton to [achieve her purpose]…” OR “The author uses  several examples of asyndeton …” DO NOT write “The author uses asyndetons …”

Don’t waffle. Don’t call it “sort of an appeal to pathos” or “a little bit of an anaphora”