Independent End Response for Activity One

This will be due on Thursday, 2/9, and can be handwritten or typed to be submitted via email.

Write your own essay about a place of importance to you, or as a continuation of the writing you started already.  

• Choose one new stylistic technique from the piece you read to replicate within your writing.  
• Then,  choose one vocabulary term studied this semester to also intentionally include in your writing.  

At the end, describe the two techniques you used and why you chose each one of these for this essay in particular.  How do these two techniques complement your own writing style? 

Education Reading for next week

Please read these articles to use in discussion for next week.  These readings should be done by Tuesday, 2/7.

Read this article and these short summaries, and take notes on how public education has evolved in our country.

Then, go on to read David Kirp's "How to Fix the Country's Failing Schools. And How Not To". Take notes on the methods Kirp says were used, and if or why they were successful, and then if you think that result will continue long-term.

Thursday work

Following your quiz, please work on Application Activity One.  

You may put your answers on this doc as a PDF or write them on lined paper.

After that, please spend some time learning what is happening in our world today, and the role you see rhetoric playing in these occurrences.

Education unit reading for the week

Please read:
Francis Bacon's "Of Studies" and annotate in the manner you learned about in "How to Read like a Writer"
Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", and take notes on the allegorical elements and what you think they might mean.

Now that you have read, write your own responses to the following questions:

1. Would you want to be released from the cave? Why or why not?
2. What is like the metaphorical "cave" in our world?
3. How is the way you understand the world (your ideas and beliefs), shaped by the actions of others?
4. Who has the power to shape your ideas and beliefs? In what ways is this good and in what ways is it not so good?
5. Are there things you know to be true? What are they, and how do you know them?

How to Read like a Writer: Actively and with Intention

"How to Read like a Writer" by Mike Bunn
Use THIS DOC  as a guide to your reading of this article.  Must be filled out on time, completely and independently to receive ANY points for this assignment!
Go to TIME Magazine opinion articles to choose a reading that interests you for the final task on this doc.

"How to Mark a Book" by Mortimer Adler
Read this article about "marking a book" and then compare this info. to ideas given by Mike Bunn about how to read like a writer.
Then, devise your own method for "marking" what you are reading.  This should be an individualized approach, according to the things you want to notice that an author is doing within his/her writing to achieve a certain purpose.  Write down this personal approach and be prepared to "mark" a reading passage you are given in class starting on Tuesday, 1/31.

THESE READINGS AND NOTES WILL BE DUE ON
 MONDAY, JANUARY 30.

Additionally, as you study your vocabulary words, consider these resources to get to know the words more:
Parallelism
Zeugma
Chiasmus
Antithesis
Antimetabole

Welcome to class!

Welcome to class AP scholars!  In my absence this class period, you will be working on:

1. Completing your vocabulary quiz--turn in to the sub when done.

2.  Multiple choice test corrections-- answer sheets on clipboard at front of classroom.  Remember, test corrections will count on questions completed within the first 60 minutes only.  

3.  Please go to the description of the To Kill a Mockingbird essay response linked here:

     3rd hour TKM responses

     6th hour TKM responses

     In preparation for tomorrow's class period, please prepare a plan for the essay response.

     The analysis of the 3 quotations should include a brief SOAPSTone analysis for each quote.

     The rhetorical analysis of Harper Lee's writing style should be planned similarly to the plan       completed for Eudora Welty's essay response written last week.

Tomorrow, please bring your To Kill a Mockingbird book to class, as well as your memoir book and Everyday Use textbook.

     

    

     

Vocabulary Application answers

1--allusion
2--hyperbole
3--paradox
4-- hyperbole
5--implied metaphor

6--extended metaphor
7--repetition
8--colloquialism
9-- understatement
10-- irony