Monday, October 21, 2019

October 21 - 25

Welcome! Here's what's on the agenda for the week:

MONDAY: Journal warm-up. Go through the steps of the entire 2018 Albright prompt to "calibrate," then use the new rubric to score actual student rhetorical analysis responses and see how the College Board scored them.

Due: Please read and outline the 2018 Albright rhetorical analysis prompt. 

Please read pages 19-22 in the Rhetorical Analysis Packet. 

Homework: Bring your copy of Frederick Douglass with you, if you have a book copy.

Go over the steps to writing a rhetorical analysis essay.

Keep up with the current event e-mails for the week.

WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up. Write an in-class rhetorical analysis essay prompt. (You will have a full hour, the material has to do with Frederick Douglass so you are familiar with it, and there will be notes all over the board to help.)

Due: Bring a book copy of Frederick Douglass with you, if you have one.

Homework: Study for the current event quiz on Friday. (Please click here for the e-mails covering Sunday through Wednesday.)

FRIDAY: Journal warm-up. Current event quiz. Receive AP Vocab List for next week. Notes: Irony, hyperbole, oxymoron. Go over the ending of Frederick Douglass. Read "Letter to My Old Master." Discussion questions and current day extensions. Begin reading Wesley Yang's "Paper Tigers."

Due: n/a

Homework: Finish reading Wesley Yang's "Paper Tigers" and be ready to discuss the questions at the end of the article.

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