To be ready for tomorrow...

SOCIAL ISSUES PROJECT:
Aim to have your social issues book completed for tomorrow.
Bring your log of appeals and Toulmin's model for your book to class with you.
Bring your book to class with you.

VOCABULARY WORDS & SPEECHES:
Be sure you have read both speeches.
Bring notes from yesterday's short group discussion.
For second speech, make a short summary of the following points:
1.  Techniques used by the speaker to include audience and tap into cultural memory
2.  Appeals used by the speaker
3.  Claims and grounds for support
4.  Word choice and organizational techniques that are effective
Whenever possible, add in vocabulary words as they apply to this speech:
Words:

implies

employs

characterizes

intimidates

counters

extends

underscores

recalls

illustrates

evokes

Please read the assigned speeches below (each student has TWO assigned speeches).

For EACH SPEECH:
1.  Record how TOULMIN'S MODEL applies
2.  Consider and record notes about the CONTEXT in which the speech was delivered, including events of social, political, economic, envrionmental, or cultural significance at the time
2.  Examine how CULTURAL MEMORY is reflected in the speech, and how the speech itself is representative of an aspect of cultural memory for the time period in which it was given

Cultural Memory & speeches

FDR's inaugural address

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5057/
(assigned to: Claudia, Eli, Jazlyn, Matthew, Oceanna, Caitlyn, Esther)

Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech

http://alvaradohistory.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/1IronCurtainspeech.362195233.pdf
(assigned to:  Caitlin, Oceanna, Matthew, Josh, Morgan, Taylor)

Kennedy's Inaugural Address speech

http://www.ushistory.org/documents/ask-not.htm

(assigned to:  Taylor, Morgan, Josh, Virginia, Danielle, Emily)
 

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s  "I Have a Dream" speech

http://www.ushistory.org/documents/i-have-a-dream.htm
(assigned to: Emily, Danielle, Virginia, Kennady, Hanna, Michaela)

Robert Kennedy's speech on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination

http://www.robertfkennedy.net/mlkdeathspeech.htm
(assigned to:  Michaela, Hanna, Kennady, Ike, Anna, Brianna)

Reagan's Challenger tragedy speech

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/speech-on-the-challenger-disaster/
(assigned to:  Brianna, Anna, Ike, Esther, Jazlyn, Eli, Claudia)

 

Today's class period...

Read the article and apply Toulmin's model of argumentation...

Establish claim, grounds, and warrant

Claudia
Caitlyn
Taylor
Emily
Michaela
Brianna
Eli
Oceanna
Dannielle
Anna
Matthew
Josh
Ginny--see me for printed article
Kennady
Isaac
Esther
Morgan
Hanna
Jazlyn

After reading and discussing the article linked above, please follow these directions for homework related to the essay by Twain:

FIRST, BEFORE READING please respond to the following prompt:
Our way of seeing an event or a place in our life oftn changes over time.
Recall an important event or a place you visited in the past.
Tell about how you felt about this place in the moment.
Has your view of this event or place changed over time? 
How?  Explain why or why not.

THEN, go on to read and annotate the essay Mark Twain's "Two Ways of Seeing a River" and completing questions at the end.

Invention Journal

For tonight, please complete the INVENTION journal for your social issues book.  See prompt below.

Conduct a short bit of research on who this author is and describe him/her in terms of CREDIBILITY.  Why is he/she a credible author?  Where do his/her interests lie in bringing this issue to the forefront of the general public’s minds?  What are the motivators for him/her?  Be sure you have read the prologue or any other beginning segments of information, as these are often written by the author and may clue you into their inspiration or reason for writing.

 

Homework for this evening...

Tonight's homework is to create a list of Thomas Carlyle's assertions (claims) about work in "Labour" and to find a book you would like to use for your social issues project.

Read and annotate

Read Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant"and annotate.
As instructed today in class, this is found in your 100 Great Essays book (p. 456).
You may also use the link above to get to this story.

Welcome to class!

Welcome to AP English Language and Composition class!

Below is a link to the course syllabus as approved by the College Board.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ixkggx62w32kxh6/AP%20English%20Language%20and%20Composition%20AUDIT%20SYLLABUS.pdf
Please carefully review this syllabus, as well as read through the info. presented about this course on the AP Central website.

As a course that is advanced placement, this is a college level class and will be conducted as such in both workload and quality expectations.

I look forward to a great school year with you!