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What’s right or wrong in this picture?

What’s right or wrong in this picture? . AP Language and Composition. “It’s a Weird Ideas Wednesday!” March 5, 2014 Mr. Houghteling. AGENDA. Using The ACT Writing rubric Evaluating an argument Possessives Anticipation Guide / “Let Teen-agers Try Adulthood”.

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What’s right or wrong in this picture?

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  1. What’s right or wrong in this picture?

  2. AP Language and Composition “It’s a Weird Ideas Wednesday!” March 5, 2014 Mr. Houghteling

  3. AGENDA • Using The ACT Writing rubric • Evaluating an argument • Possessives • Anticipation Guide / • “Let Teen-agers Try Adulthood”

  4. What’s right or wrong in this picture?

  5. Give it a score! • Read the sample essay from our prompt from yesterday. • Look at all five categories. • Cite places for improvement. • Give the essay a score!

  6. Choose some nouns.

  7. Anticipation Guide • The American high school, as it is now constructed, is not working. • Teenagers are much more mature now than they ever have been. • It is more likely that a student treated like an outsider in high school will be more successful as an adult than other students. • Individuality and dissent are discouraged in an American high school. • Most adults don’t like adolescents. • Students should enter college at age 16. • A high school is one of the only places in which people are segregated by age so restrictively.

  8. 1. Identify Leon Botstein’s main idea: 2. Analyze Leon Botstein’s tone. How would you describe Botstein’s attitude toward teachers? Use descriptive adjectives to discuss his tone. Explain your answer, using references from the text when possible. 3. Based on the information presented in the passage, identify one reason teenagers should enter the real world and explain whether you agree or disagree with Botstein’s reasoning.

  9. 4. Analyze and explain the meaning of Botstein’s statement that “…the rules of high school turn out not to be the rules of life” (para. 3). 5. Explain why Botstein makes a reference to the Columbine High School tragedy (“Littleton shootings” para. 1). 6. Raise one counterargument to Botstein’s argument and discuss it in depth.

  10. HOMEWORK

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