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!