AP Language and Composition (Period 1, 3) Assignments

Due: RJ 5: Imagine the prompt: defend, challenge, or qualify Fyodor Dostoevsky's understanding of "true security": "Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort." Your assignment is to write your thesis statement and one of your body paragraphs.  Your body paragraph should explore one example in depth and touch on a couple range examples.

1. "Just Walk on By" (383-386).  Reading Journal 1: Isolate a quotation that uses a rhetorical device that appeals to ethos.  Explain how the device functions, how it proves credibility, and how it serves the essay's ultimate purpose.  Do the same thing for pathos and logos.
2. Read "The Myth of the Latin Woman" (91-97).  Reading Journal 2: The ethos, pathos, logos activity.
3. "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (203-220).  Reading Journal 3: 5 CD-CMs.
4. "Once More to the Lake" (431-437).  Reading Journal 4: Essay Starter, with topic sentences.
5. Imagine the prompt: defend, challenge, or qualify Fyodor Dostoevsky's understanding of "true security": "Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort." Your assignment is to write your thesis statement and one of your body paragraphs.  Your body paragraph should explore one example in depth and touch on a couple range examples.

Monday: Read "The Myth of the Latin Woman" (91-97).  Reading Journal 2: The ethos, pathos, logos activity.

Due: "Just Walk on By" (383-386).  Reading Journal 1: Isolate a quotation that uses a rhetorical device that appeals to ethos.  Explain how the device functions, how it proves credibility, and how it serves the essay's ultimate purpose.  Do the same thing for pathos and logos.

1. "What's Eating America?" - List and explain stated or implied warrants.
2.  "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" - Questions
3. Argument Essays - Read and Score
4. "The Joy of Reading and Writing" - Essay Starter, with thesis and paragraph organization
5. "Reading" (Walden) and "Learning to Read" (Malcolm X) - 1-2 pages on role of reading, using sources. (Will be graded on syntactical variety)
   
6. Synthesis Articles - Essay Starter, with thesis, topic sentences, and cited CDs
7. "Solitude" - Paragraph comparing solitude, nature, or society to another text
8. "Shooting an Elephant" - Paragraph on narrative structure as a rhetorical choice
9. "Death of a Moth" - Introduction and conclusion paragraphs for rhetorical essay
10. "Civil Disobedience" - 10 CD-CMs
    

Due: Reading Journal 9: Read "Death of a Moth" and write an introduction and conclusion paragraph for the rhetoric prompt (identify and analyze the rhetorical strategies Woolf uses to convey her message).

Due: KPP Reflection. 

Also Due: RJ 8: "Shooting an Elephant" (284-291).  Paragraph on narrative structure as a rhetorical choice.

1.  Cite and explain the antitheses in the "I went to the woods" paragraph.

2.  Explain the meanings of "dear" and mean."

3.  What is the effect of the similes in the paragraph beginning "Still we live meanly"?

4.  Explain the nature and effect of the extended metaphor in that paragraph. 

5.  What effect does Thoreau create with his repetitions?  Cite several examples

6.  Explain the paradox Thoreau develops concerning the railroad in"Still we live meanly" paragraph. 

7.  Sometimes even the slightest stylistic feature can work as a rhetorical strategy.  Discuss the effect of the alliterative phrase "freshet and frost and fire" in the "Let us spend on day" paragraph.

8.  In his concluding paragraph,  Thoreau develops two metaphors regarding time and the intellect.  Cite them and discuss their effect.

Due: KPP Reflection.

"What's Eating America?" (300-305).  RJ 1: List and Explain implied or stated warrants.

Due: KPP Reflection

Also: 2 Page Typed Classical Argument.  Read editorial on cellphones, then defend, refute, or qualify the speaker's argument about cellphone use in classrooms.

Due: 1 page analysis of Christmas artifact.  Due to turnitin.com by 8am.  Choose a Christmas movie, song, ornament, commercial, advertisement, etc., and analyze how it presents Christmas.

1. 5 CD-CMs on "At the Gates of the Western Palace"
2. "On Compassion" Thesis
3. "Why Don't We Complain" - one page reflection with three examples
4. "Allegory of the Cave" Questions 1-2.
5. Huck Finn Chapters 1-10, 10 CD-CMs
6. "Turkeys in the Kitchen" 5 CD-CMs on Humor
7. Huck Finn Chapters 11-23, Paragraph on diction or imagery
8. "Decay of the Art of Lying" SOAPStone
   

Due: "Decay of the Art of Lying" RJ 8: SOAPStone

Due:

Grammar Tune-up #3. 

Read "Why Don't We Complain?"  RJ 3: Write one page agreeing or disagreeing with essay.  Include three solid examples.

Due: KPP Reflection.

Also due: Reading Jouranl 4: Identify and explain the effects of five rhetorical devices in Patrick Henry's Speech.

Book Annotations due.

Scarlet Letter Exam.

1. One paragraph on the rhetoric of My Antonia's introduction
2. One page on which "How to Mark a Book" is more appealing
3. Scarlet Letter 2-5, 5 CD-CMs
4. Close diction analysis of A Farewell to Arms (1/2 page)
5. Scarlet Letter 6-12, 10 CD-CMs, with two diction terms, underlined or highlighted
   
6. Campaign merchandise, one page reflection
   

Due: Scarlet Letter 6-12.  Reading Journal 4: 10 CD-CMs.  Two of them should use diction terms in their commentary (explaining how they are used and how they effectively  convey the author's purpose).  Highlight or underline the terms.

Dueling Diction Due on turnitin.com at 8am.  Describe an event, person, place, thing, or idea twice.  The content of both descriptions should be the same (if the character has red hair in one, he/she should have red hair in the other, or if a dragon attacks a Medieval town in one, it should still attack in another); however, you must change the types of words you choose to color the reader's reception of the event (the character might have auburn hair in one version and a fiery mane in the other, or the dragon stormed into the village in a blaze of fire in one version and entered the town with a warming glow in the other.)  The entire assignment should be a page. 

Grammar Tune-up Due!

Vocab Exam L1-L2

Bring a Scantron.

Due: Reading Journal 4: Complete a close diction analysis of a section of A Farewell to Arms.  Include the excerpt you're analyzing.  Your analysis should be at least half a page and should have a stated focus (what is the effect of the diction choices in this section?)

Due: Reading Journal 1: Write one paragraph analyzing the rhetoric of the introduction to My Antonia (the train episode about the inception of the story).  How does the author influence the reader's perception by beginning in this way? What tactics does it use to shape the reader's expectations of what is to follow and color their overall reception of the material?

Also: Bring 50 First Essays