I had a couple of students stop by after writing out the essay on Thursday and ask about the schedule for the rest of the semester. FYI, we have 3.5 weeks where we will be reading, annotating, discussing, and writing to get ready for the AP exam on Wednesday, May 11.
This week, we will meet three days and will continue with our environmentally-themed unit and begin to review all three types of essay prompts and the mindset and skills you'll need to successfully navigate each. Next week, the class will complete a full practice exam on Tuesday and Thursday: a full one-hour multiple choice followed by rhetorical analysis essay on Tuesday, and one argument and one synthesis prompt on Thursday to get a feel for timing and to build up stamina. Those will be the last in-class essays you'll write this year.
Hang in there. We have almost "scaled the mountain." You guys are doing a great job! :-)
MONDAY: Journal warm-up: packaged oranges at Whole Foods tweet. View Peter Menzel's photo essay from the book Hungry Planet that goes along with the other articles you read over the weekend about sustainable eating. Analyze the photo essay as a class and then review a student essay about the photos. Including this extra source, discuss the weekend reading and annotations and work in small groups to address the prompt:
Imagine
that there is a grassroots campaign developing that wants Congress to
legislate against in-vitro meat production. Write an editorial for your
school newspaper that supports or challenges this proposed ban. Refer
to three of the sources in the packet as you support your argument.
Due: Read and annotate a variety of articles about sustainable eating. Be
prepared for class on Monday with your annotated packet and some
opinions and ideas about how to answer the following prompt:
Imagine
that there is a grassroots campaign developing that wants Congress to
legislate against in-vitro meat production. Write an editorial for your
school newspaper that supports or challenges this proposed ban. Refer
to three of the sources in the packet as you support your argument.
Homework: Read through "environmentalists vs." rhetorical analysis prompt and annotate it. Try to identify rhetorical strategies that the author uses from memory of our rhetorical analysis lessons in the fall.
Keep up with current events e-mails in advance of the quiz this week.
WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up. Review rhetorical analysis prompt from homework and go over rhetorical analysis terms. Look at Crumb's "A Short History of America" and analyze. Periodic sentences: definition and group activity.
Due: Read through "environmentalists vs." rhetorical analysis prompt and
annotate it. Try to identify rhetorical strategies that the author
uses.
Homework: Study for current events quiz on Friday.
FRIDAY: Current events quiz. Go over last in-class synthesis essay results. Periodic sentences - share, go over effects of syntax choice. Multiple choice tips. Activity: deconstruct prompts and note exactly what is being asked. Rhetorical analysis of a satirical piece (review) - how to approach.
Due: n/a.
Homework: Read and review AP exam essay tips and tricks sheet.
Review your own rhetorical analysis terms/rhetorical analysis essay notes before Tuesday's class.
Learnerator:
1. Section One - Rhetoric, please complete "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick" by Jonathan Swift, 1-10.
2. Section Two - Author's Meaning and Purpose, please complete "On the Origin of Species" (excerpt) by Charles Darwin, 1-10.
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