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AP English Language and Composition

Analyzing and discussing Malala Yousafzai annotations, reviewing Friday's class, and practicing rhetorical précis in preparation for upcoming assessments and essays.

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AP English Language and Composition

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  1. AP English Language and Composition Monday, October 10th, 2016

  2. Agenda MalalaYousafzai annotations - discuss Review Friday Pass back Kincaid re-writes Pass back Malcolm X précis Work on Yousafzai précis (due Thursday!)

  3. Yousafzai Annotations CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11.10 (range of reading and level of text complexity) Read and comprehend literary nonfiction independently and proficiently • Discuss the reading! • What did you notice? What was interesting? What was confusing? • Discuss again through the lens of rhetorical analysis • thesis, rhetorical method, purpose, audience • “MalalaYousafzai says education is… and I say education is…”

  4. Review Friday’s Class On Friday, in AP English, we… I liked… I disliked… In the future, as a class we should…

  5. Pass Back Papers & Discuss • Kincaid TW Re-Write • Class example • Summative assessment. Options? • Malcolm X précis • I understand what/how to… • I don’t understand what/how to… *Consider LA ch. 1 & 2 Question: what are the parts, and how do they fit together?

  6. AP English Language and Composition Tuesday, October 11th, 2016

  7. Rhetorical Précis Put these questions and your answers into your journal What goes into a précis? What are the three steps? Where do you feel strongest, and where do you feel weakest?

  8. Rhetorical Précis Cont. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11.10 (range of reading and level of text complexity) Read and comprehend literary nonfiction independently and proficiently • Malcolm X précis • Identify a strength – idea, not style • Identify a weakness – idea, not style • Look at your bullet-point pre-write and your final draft. What do you notice? • MalalaYousafzai précis • 3 parts due Monday 10/17/16 • To turn in: complete Malcolm X précis packet AND complete MalalaYousafzai précis packet

  9. Emerson: From Education Background knowledge Follow the recommendations from LA chapter 1 ALSO: “chunk” read – summarize each paragraph as you go, then put all the summaries all together at the end To analyze, you must accurately summarize

  10. AP English Language and Composition Wednesday, October 12th, 2016

  11. Journal “The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  12. Emerson: From Education How did it go?? Background knowledge Follow the recommendations from LA chapter 1 ALSO: “chunk” read – summarize each paragraph as you go, then put all the summaries all together at the end To analyze, you must accurately summarize Tomorrow in class: Rhetoric & Style work

  13. Unit 1: Education Essay Introduce and assign Specifics Questions?

  14. Seats: Make a group of 3 people with all the same number (ex. all 2’s) AP English Language and Composition Thursday, October 13th, 2016

  15. Rhetoric and Style Your small group is responsible for three paragraphs. Choose from the questions below. In each paragraph, clearly answer the question and provide evidence from Emerson’s text to support your answer. In what ways is the relationship between “Genius and Drill” paradoxical? What exactly is the “natural method” to which Emerson refers? Identify examples of the following rhetorical strategies in paragraph 13, and explain their effect: rhetorical questions; sentence variety and pacing; analogy; allusion; imperative sentences. Explain why you do or do not interpret the opening line of paragraph 14 as ironic: “I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching.” What is Emerson’s purpose in shifting among the pronouns I, we, and you? Describe Emerson’s tone in this passage. Be thorough in your description.

  16. Education Unit: Review & Preview • Review • Introduced Unit • What is it “to be educated”? • Read a variety of texts • Emerson is the 6th text. What have we read!? • Introduced summative essay • Open argument modeled after the national exam and connected to our current unit of study • Preview • Due Monday 10/17: Malala précis • Monday-Wednesday 10/17 – 10/19: Unit 1 Text Review • Thursday 10/20: Education Essay RD due for peer-edit • Monday 10/24: Education Essay Final due in class – writer’s circles • Tuesday 10/25: Review AP Exam & move in to Unit 2: Landmark American Rhetoric

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