Tuesday

Here is the link for the last essay you need to read for Unit I.  Please write and post a precis on it.

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Political Research

This week we will start researching political candidates.  First, choose three candidates and find out where they stand on at least three topics (you can choose more than three if you wish).  Topics could be things such as health care, energy resources, taxes and/or the economy, the issue in Syria, etc.

2nd, I want you to think about where you stand on the issues you've researching.  Do you agree with any of the candidates?  Which one?

3rd, I want you to analysis the candidates position: what's their argument?  How are they trying to convince their audience (who is their audience)?  What type of appeals do they use?  What types of supports?  Is there an occasion that's important beyond just the election?  

4th, You'll need to turn this in next Tuesday.

You will also need to start writing the first draft of your oration/persuasive speech on which candidate you want an audience to vote for and why.  This essay should be 3-4 pages in length and use outside sources.  You'll need address at least three different issues and try and use analogues, expert testimony, statistical/quantitative data, and facts (this are types of support).  You will need to also use the three appeals: Logos, Ethos, Pathos.

 

Also for next Tuesday read - "The Morals of A Prince" on page 372 of One Hundred Great Essays and write a precis 

Synthesis Essay

1st Draft is due on Friday!

Work on this Wednesday and Thursday in class and at home! 

Synthesis Essay

Objective: Students will be able to write a synthesis essay by looking at the step by step advice in The Language of Composition.  We will go over these and rewrite them.

Also - today - make sure you post your notes on Chapters 2 and 3 of Everyday Use and all your precise writings (and rewrites).  

The Allegory of the Cave

Today we will read and discuss "The Allegory of the Cave".

Homework: Everyday Use chapter 2

Types of Sentences

Today we will discuss - "Why I went into the Woods" and then revisit types of sentences.

HW - Read chapter 1 of Everyday Use (outline it).

You need to write the following types of sentences:

Structure: Loose, periodic, parallel, split-order and interrupted order.
Types: Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory.
Also - Simple, compound, complex and compound-complex.
Also - a telegraphic, short, medium and long sentence. 

This need to be posted on your blog!

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Today we will look at types of sentences and finish chapter 1 of everything's an argument.

HW: Read "Why I went into the Woods" by Thoreau, do a graphic organizer on the first four paragraphs and then write a precis. 

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AP Language and Composition

Today - we will be finishing chapter 1: Everything's An Argument and going over your assignment from yesterday. 

Homework: Read and outline chapter 3 - The Language of Composition.

Types of "Talking with the Text"

Today we are going to go over Annotation, Dialectical Journal, and Graphic Organizer. 

Also - start reviewing the following terms: alliteration, allusion, anaphora, antimetabole, antithesis, asyndeton, cumulative sentence, hortative sentence, imperative sentence, inversion, juxtaposition, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, parallelism, periodic sentence, personification, rhetorical questions, zeugma

HW: Questions on page 55 and 56 of The Language of Composition.

We are also going to be everything is an argument