Directions: Use the next five minutes to study the vocab list for this week. At the end of the study period, your vocab materials will be collected so that the quiz can begin.
Directions: Log in to our Google Classroom. Read the new article posted, then answer the following questions:
1. What is the message of the article? 2. What is the purpose of the article? 3. Which rhetorical strategies and devices were used most? 4. Which overall topic does this relate to? Why? Directions: Outline an argument that could be used to respond to the following prompt. Be sure to include the following components in your outline:
1) Thesis that takes a clear position 2) Claim: Argument 3) Evidence 4) Claim: Counterargument 5) Evidence 6) Claim: Rebuttal 7) Evidence The paragraph below comes from a 1979 essay by expatriate African American writer James Baldwin. Read the paragraph carefully and then write an essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies Baldwin's ideas about the importance of language as a "key to identity" and to social acceptance. Use specific evidence from your observation, experience, or reading to develop your position. It goes with saying, then, that language is also a political instrument, means, and proof of power. It is the most vivid and crucial key to identity: It reveals the private identity, and connects one with, or divorces one from, the larger, public, or communal identity. There have been, and are, times, and places, when to speak a certain language could be dangerous, even fatal. Or, one may speak the same language, but in such a way that one's antecedents are revealed, or (one hopes) hidden. This is true in France, and is absolutely true in England: The range (and reign) of accents on that damp little island makes England coherent for the English and totally incomprehensible for everyone else. To open your mouth in England is (if I may use black English) to "put your business in the street": You have confessed your parents, your youth, your school, your salary, your self-esteem, and, alas, your future. (AP Lang FRQ: 1995 Argument) Directions: Review the posted visual text, then answer the following questions:
1. What is the message of this visual text? 2. What is the purpose of creating this message? 3. Which strategy and/or structure is most effective? Why? Image available at: https://twistedsifter.com/2019/02/artist-stitches-50000-photos-into-incredible-moon-composite/ Directions: Use the next five minutes to review and discuss the events from last week’s reading to prepare for a reading quiz. The quiz will be open book and timed
Directions: Use the next five minutes to study your vocab list. At the end of the study period, your vocab materials will be collected so that the quiz can begin.
Directions: Log in to our Google Classroom. Read the new article posted, then answer the following questions:
1. What is the message of the article? 2. What is the purpose of the article? 3. Which rhetorical strategies and devices were used most? 4. Which overall topic does this relate to? Why? Directions: Outline an argument to respond to the following prompt. Make sure that your argument outline includes the following items:
1) Original Thesis 2) Claim -- Argument 3) Evidence 4) Claim -- Counterargument 5) Evidence 6) Claim -- Rebuttal 7) Evidence (AP Lang FRQ: 1994 Argument) In The March of Folly, historian Barbara Tuchman writes: Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists of assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notion while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs.It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts. Some people would claim that what Tuchman calls wooden-headedness plays a remarkably large role in all organizations and, indeed, in all human affairs. Write a carefully reasoned persuasive essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies this idea about the prevalence of wooden-headedness in human actions and decisions. Use evidence from your reading and/or observation to develop your position. Directions: Review the posted visual text, then answer the following questions:
1. What is the message of this visual text? 2. What is the purpose of creating this message? 3. Which strategy and/or structure is most effective? Why? Image available at: https://twistedsifter.com/2019/09/where-our-trees-grow-map/ Directions: Use the next five minutes to review and discuss the events from last week’s reading in order to prepare for a quiz. The quiz will be open book and timed.
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