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AP English. September 21 through 25. Monday, September 21 st. Finish presentations Whole-class analysis essay. Tuesday, September 22 nd. Autobiography Test Bring Journals Bring Book. Wednesday, September 23 rd. Logical Fallacies Quiz New Rhetorical Devices: Identify
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AP English September 21 through 25
Monday, September 21st • Finish presentations • Whole-class analysis essay
Tuesday, September 22nd • Autobiography Test • Bring Journals • Bring Book
Wednesday, September 23rd • Logical Fallacies Quiz • New Rhetorical Devices: • Identify • Anticipated Argument • Review: Big Rhetorical Devices Test next week (everything in “Rhetorical Techniques” section of the PowerPoint is fair game)
Thursday, September 24th • Opener • Introduction to New Unit: Man’s Relationship with Nature • Notes on Transcendentalism • Emerson Quotes • Emerson Activity
Brother, continue to listen. You say that you are sent to instruct us how to worship the Great Spirit agreeably to his mind; and, if we do not take hold of the religion which you white people teach, we shall be unhappy hereafter. You say that you are right and we are lost. Ho do we know this to be true? Chief Red Jacket The words “you say” are repeated several times in the sentence. What is the repetition’s function? The question at the end of the passage is a rhetorical question. What attitude toward the audience is expressed by the use of a rhetorical question? Good Morning
Friday, September 25th • Opener • Thoreau stuff, TBA
HappyFriDay Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another. • Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson • By using the word antidote, what does the author imply about the inability to feel for another? • If we changed the word antidote to gift, what effect would it have on the meaning of the sentence? • Write a sentence using a different medical term to characterize art.