AP Language & Composition (Period 5) Assignments

Please download and read the article below. Then analyze it for rhetorical strategies. Be prepared to share your answers in class tomorrow. 

 

Hey AP'ers,

 

Please download the AP Essay prompt of JFK's speech for Monday and do the following to it: SOAPSTone, DIDLS, EPL and Scheme & Tropes. Though all three essays for 2012 are part of the pdf, you only need to respond to the essay on pages 10-11.

 

Be prepared to discuss your findings in class! Also, bring a copy of the prompt to class on Monday!!!!

Please visit the satirical news website www.onion.com, find an article you find particularly funny or poignant, read, print it out and develop some questions to guide in-class conversation during our Fishbowl.

Please SOAPSTone and DIDLS the Kelley passage in preparation for tomorrow. We will discuss.

Please download, read and annotate Mark Twain's "Bad Little Boy." Look for the satire. Think about what Twain is saying and HOW you know that.

Please read the passage "I Want a Wife," by Judy Brady. Respond to the study questions and be prepared to discuss on Monday.

 

Print out a copy and bring it with you!

Please read and annotate "The Yellow Wall-Paper." Be prepared to discuss in class tomorrow.

 

I also strongly suggest that you print out a copy and have it with you in class tomorrow.

Read and be prepared to discuss "The Story of An Hour." A copy of the story can be found below.

Please SOAPSTone, DIDLS, E-P-L and scheme & trope the passage from "Self-Reliance," by Ralph Waldo Emerson in your textbook.

Please take the essay you wrote in class on Wednesday and re-work it / type it up for turn in either by emailing the final product to me ([email protected]) or handing a physical copy to me on Monday.

Please EPL and Scheme & Trope Thomas Paine's "The Crisis, No. 1." This is due tomorrow.

E-P-L and scheme and trope Paine's "The Crisis No. 1"

Please read, SOAPSTone & DIDLS Thomas Paine's "The Crisis No. 1," which can be found attached below.

As a true Deist, Benjamin Franklin believed human beings are perfectible. He pursued his own perfection through the creation of 13 Virtues. Your task this evening is to generate a list of your own moral virtues. The list should consist of AT LEAST five (5) virtues, though don't feel limited to five, as well as explanations of why you've chosen each virtue. 

Please Ethos-Pathos-Logos the Patrick Henry speech, just as you SOAPSToned and DIDLS'd him.

 

Be prepared to share in class tomorrow!

Hey there AP students,

 

This weekend, please write your argumentative essay response to the Barbara Ehrenreich essay prompt.

Please download the discussion questions posted below and prepare answers for them in anticipation of our Fishbowl tomorrow.

Last o' the grammar handouts! Hip, hip, huzzah!

Here's the next grammar worksheet, everyone.

Howdy AP'ers!

 

The punctuation worksheet I mentioned in class as your homework this evening are below. Please print it out, complete it, and bring your work with you tomorrow. 

 

Also, if you didn't get a Grammar Guide in class (a few students from 5th and all of 6th period), please download and print out at home. I strongly suggest that you print it out on both sides of the page (front and back) to save on paper.

 

See you all tomorrow!

Please apply the DIDLS and rhetorical appeals (E-P-L) to "Sinners In the Hands of an Angry God" and be prepared to discuss it this Monday.

Please locate, read and summarize (typed, 12 point Times New Roman font) an article about either climate change / global warming OR the ISIS situation in the Middle East.

 

Bring your summary, but not the original article, with you tomorrow. Be prepared to thoroughly discuss the topic your article addresses.

Using the notes you've been taking on "An Inconvenient Truth" the later half of this week, write a one (1) page analysis on how effectively (or ineffectively) rhetorical modes and appeals were used in the movie.

 

If you have the capability, please type your one-pager up and email it to me at [email protected]. Please use the following guidelines when typing up your work: 1.5 spacing, 12-point, Times New Roman font.

 

Thanks, all!

Howdy AP Students!

 

On Monday, you were given a copy of "On Compassion," a speech by Barbara Ascher. Before class on Wednesday this week, please read the speech and analyze it for 1) all the modes of rhetoric you can identify Ms. Ascher using in the speech, and 2) identify which appeals (ethos - pathos - logos) she uses and where they're used in the speech.

 

Be prepared to discuss!

Here's the PSA homework I mentioned in class today. All your instructions are in the .docx attachment below.

 

Mr. D

Please bring your annotated copies of Outliers with you to class tomorrow, so I can collect them for grading this weekend.

 

Additionally, please come to class with three (3) open-ended questions related to the content of Outliers to share with your peers in our Fishbowl discussion tomorrow.

Visit the website www.thisibelieve.com and take a look at all the different ways students and adults have interpreted fulfilling the mandate of this website. Read a few essays yourself to get an idea of how to complete your assignment.

 

When ready, write your own "This I Believe" essay and be prepared to present it in class either tomorrow or Thursday.

Here's the website, students!

 

 

I've also attached a copy of this video's transcript below.

 

Enjoy!