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AP Language (Period 5) Assignments

Instructor
Mrs. Felicia Cordell
Term
Fall 2014
Department
English
Description

As a junior level course, we study mostly American writers, speakers and leaders, but there will be supplemented material from around the world.  This is a rigorous course that gives you ample opportunities to examine a writer’s purpose in accordance with the writer’s use of rhetorical devices, including tone, diction, audience, organization, appeal, style, and attitude (as well as apply it to your own writing). The course teaches you how to read and evaluate primary and secondary sources in order to incorporate them into an original composition. This course also requires you to write synthesis, analysis, and argument essays in response to a variety of prose and genres. You will learn how to link technique and meaning into well-organized, supported, logical responses to complex texts (primarily nonfiction).  In addition to AP multiple choice tests and timed essays, there will be assignments including, but not limited to, quizzes, short responses, graded discussions (fishbowls), and presentations.

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Please review these handouts and packets.  Remember - TRUST YOURSELF!  You are smart and can do this (think Emerson :)).

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Please check your school gmail account ([email protected], password: ID #) and then click on DRIVE to access the Google Doc.  Please place your two multiple choice style questions with answer choices in that Google Doc.  

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Tomorrow is final day to take Gatsby extra credit exam (morning or lunch)!

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Extra Credit - Read "The Great Gatsby" and come in Monday morning, lunch, after school or Tuesday morning or lunch to take the test.

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Another Multiple Choice Test is tomorrow.  I have attached the tips handout as well as a practice MC passage.  The answers for the practice passage are on the last page.

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You have your in class essay tomorrow - review all notes.

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If you did not complete JFK analysis for HW over weekend, please complete it for tonight.

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Please print out QUESTION 2 (JFK Rhetorical Analysis prompt, pages 10-11) and SOAPSTone, DIDLS, EPL and S&T the prompt for Monday.

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For those in the fishbowl - bring an article from a credible source involving current events.  Write a summary and three questions.
 
 

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Multiple Choice test tomorrow!

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If you are in fishbowl tomorrow - bring an article from "The Onion", along with a summary and three discussion questions.

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I have uploaded the Rhetorical Analysis writing handouts I showed in class on Monday.

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Please SOAPSTone, DIDLS, EPL and S&T the Kelley prompt for tomorrow.

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Please write at least 7 pieces of SATIRICAL advice for incoming freshman to CCHS.  Refer to Twain's advice uploaded below if you need help.

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Read Twain's "Story of the Bad Little Boy".  How does diction/syntax/tone help us as readers see the satire?

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Please read and SOAPSTone, DIDLS, EPL and S&T "Why I Want a Wife".

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Please complete the MC practice on Frederick Douglass passage.  Also watch or read transcript of Obama's immigration speech (5pm ET on CNN or Univision).

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Please read "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman for tomorrow.

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Please just read "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin.  Uploaded below.

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Please SOAPSTone, and not diction and syntax, of Grimke's letter in response.  You do not need to print it out, just use the line numbers to make your notes.  See the uploaded version below.

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Please complete the MC reflection for Monday.  If you need the answers, please email me at [email protected] (I have one student who hasn't taken test yet so I can't post answers online, sorry!).

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Create three strong discussion questions based on David Brooks' "Social Animal" for Friday's fishbowl.  Also be prepared to bring in book so I can check annotations.

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Please create three strong discussion questions (with textual evidence for each question) about "The Social Animal" for our fishbowl tomorrow.  Bring your book to turn in for annotation check.

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Study flashcards and read :)  You have an essay on Wednesday.

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Multiple Choice Test on Monday!

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Write a transcendentalist poem based on their ideals (nature, intuition).  Free verse is fine, but it must be a minimum of 7 lines.

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Please SOAPSTone, DIDLS, EPL and S&T Throeau's "Civil Disobedience".

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Please SOAPSTone, DIDLS, EPL and S&T the excerpts from Emerson's "Self-Reliance"

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Please complete reflection if you haven't already.

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Please complete the attached multiple choice reflection handout FOR WRONG ANSWERS ONLY.

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Work on flashcards; bring your multiple choice packet tomorrow to class.

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I have uploaded the strategies and breakdown of the Multiple Choice Exam.

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Please study flashcards for schemes and tropes

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Please study flashcards for schemes and tropes.

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Review prompt and create thesis/brainstorm for essay in class.  Prompt is QUESTION 3 of the document below.

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Please complete and/or study your scheme and trope flashcards!  There will be a pop quiz in the next 2 weeks.

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Please EPL and Scheme and Trope Thomas Paine's "Crisis 1".

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If you are in the fishbowl tomorrow, please bring an article related to the topic of ethics, virtues or morals.  Also bring in three questions for discussion.  The questions should be analytical or evaluative in nature.

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Please SOAPSTone and DIDLS Thomas Paine's "Crisis 1".

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Create your own 10 virtues for your life.  Order them from easiest to hardest to achieve.  I uploaded Ben Franklin's list to help.

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Make and/or study your scheme and trope flashcards.

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Please scheme and trope Patrick Henry's speech.

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EPL Patrick Henry's speech.

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Please read Patrick Henry's speech and SOAPSTone + DIDS (Diction, Imagery, Details, Syntax)

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Work on your scheme and trope flashcards :)

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Begin writing flashcards for Schemes and Tropes.

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Please write your argument essay on the Ehrenreich prompt.  In case you lost your handout, it is Question 3 on the 2009 AP Language exam, form B.

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Please bring in your "Shallows" book + an article about technology's effects (include summary and three questions) for our discussion.

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Please read the prompt for Question 3 on the 2009 (form B) exam.  Identify the author's claim.  Brainstorm 3-4 examples that support your side of the argument.

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In the article “Sometimes it’s better to quit than to prove grit,” written for The Washington Post, author Alfie Kohn makes the controversial suggestion that sometimes “sticking out” a tough or difficult task isn’t the right choice. In a well-written, formal essay, develop a position, pro or con, on Kohn’s argument. Support your position with evidence from the reading, personal observation, and/or experience.

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Review subject verb agreement and pronoun antecedent agreement.  Complete handout (if you were absent!).

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Please read the passage on passive voice, and then rewrite the two paragraphs so they are in ACTIVE voice. 

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Please complete the review sheet for HW.

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Please DIDLS and EPL "Sinners in the Hands..."

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Please bring in your article (with summary and 3 questions) on your topic (ISIS or Climate Change).

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Read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".  Identify the modes and SOAPSTone.

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Please write a one-page response analyzing Gore's RHETORIC (not his actual argument).  What strategies does he employ that make the documentary effective?  If you did not find it effective, what strategies turned you off?
Typed, double spaced, one page (no more than two pages).
 
Also bring Obama ISIS speech analysis!

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Please watch Obama's ISIS speech at 6pm PT.  It will be broadcast on all news channels.  Feel free to print out a transcript as well.  SOAPSTone the speech.

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Please EPL Obama's ISIS speech.

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Please read "On Compassion" by Ascher.  SOAPSTone the piece.

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Please prepare for the Outliers discussion.  Bring your book (annotated) and three STRONG discussion questions.  Use the following types of questions:
 -  Analysis - requires students to identify reasons, uncover evidence, and reach conclusions. (identify motives and causes, draw conclusions, determine evidence, support, analyze, deduce, categorize, compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate, justify, distinguish, examine, experiment)
 -  Evaluation - solicit an informed opinion on an issue. (judge, value, evaluate, appraise, argue, assess, attach, choose, compare, defend, estimate, rate, select)

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Please complete the "This I Believe" assignment.  Be prepared to speak tomorrow!! Please staple the rubric to your written assignment.

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Please SOAPSTone the Obama speech on Ferguson.

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Try to identify ethos, pathos and logos in Brooks' TED talk.

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Please watch the following TED talk by David Brooks.  I have also uploaded a copy of the transcript for your convenience (it might help to print it out!!).  Identify Speaker, Audience and Message (answering as much of what we discussed in class, i.e. who is speaker and what biases he has).
 

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Please have your syllabus signed.