AP Language and CompositionBlock G 9/4/14

• Finish syllabus– Website– Turnitin.com

• Quiz• Looking ahead: AP Boot

Camp!• Summer Reading• Book clubs

– Book pitch– Accessing the BPL

• Homework– Read chapter 1 of

Everyday Use and complete assignment for Monday, 9/8

– Book pitch due Monday– Turnitin, Remind, BPL e-

card and syllabus due Monday, 9/8

– Summer reading in-class essay: Tuesday, 9/9

– First vocab quiz: Friday, 9/12

AP English Language and CompositionBlock G 9/8/14

• DOL• Review and discuss

Everyday Use reading and assignment

• Book pitches

• Homework:– Read “Letter from

Birmingham Jail” for Wednesday and identify 5 parts of the rhetorical triangle

– Summer reading in-class essay: tomorrow

– First vocab quiz: Friday, 9/12

– Choose books and group and have your book by Friday, 9/12

AP English Language and CompositionBlock G 9/9/14

• No DOL• Summer reading in-

class essay• Read “Letter” and/or

reviews when finished.

• Homework:– Read “Letter from

Birmingham Jail” for Wednesday and identify 5 parts of the rhetorical triangle

– First vocab quiz: Friday, 9/12– Choose books and group and

have your book by Friday, 9/12

– Read reviews of In Cold Blood and your other summer reading book for Monday, 9/15

AP English Language and CompositionBlock G 9/10/14Objective: To practice identifying counter-arguments and analyze how they are used effectively, and to introduce SOAPSTone as a method of rhetorical analysis.

• DOL• “Letter from

Birmingham Jail” discussion– Apply rhetorical triangle– Discuss the O in SOAPSTone– Counter-arguments

• Homework:– First vocab quiz: Friday,

9/12– Choose books and group

and have your book by Friday, 9/12

– Read reviews of In Cold Blood and your other summer reading book for Monday, 9/15

AP English Language and CompositionBlock G 9/10/14

• In partners, imagine what the letter might have said that Martin Luther King, Jr. responds to in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

• Make a list of at least seven bullet points with arguments this letter might have made.

• Then, reference specific places in King’s letter where he refutes these arguments

• For each of King’s counter-arguments, identify the rhetorical strategies King uses to refute these arguments.

AP English Language and CompositionBlock G 9/12/14

• DOL• Vocab Quiz• Meet with book club• Finish “Letter from Birmingham Jail” analysis• Homework:

– Read reviews of In Cold Blood and your other summer reading book for Monday, 9/15

• Book Club Dates:– Monday, 9/22– Wednesday, 10/1– Friday, 10/10– Thursday, 10/30

AP English Language and CompositionBlock G 9/15/14

• DOL• Finish “Letter from Birmingham Jail” discussion• How to write a precis• Practice writing a precis with In Cold Blood review• Homework:

– Write a precis of the other review you read– Share your portfolio with me (

aplackowski@hudson.k12.ma.us) and unshare with last year’s teacher

– First book club and vocab quiz #2: Monday

AP English Language and CompositionBlock G 9/17/14 (short block)

• DOL• Pair up with someone who read

the same summer reading book and compare precis.– How did your partner include all

the necessary information in the first sentence? (title, author, publication, date, and thesis)

– Did you and your partner identify the same main points?

– Did you and your partner agree in your evaluation of the article?

• Homework:– Read excerpt from Of

Cannibals for tomorrow– Share portfolio with me (

aplackowski@student.hudson.k12.ma.us) and unshare your portfolio with last year’s teacher

– First book club meeting: Monday

– Read “Self-Reliance” and complete power quotes worksheet for Wednesday, 9/23

AP English Language and CompositionBlock G 9/18/14

• DOL• Reminders and

clarifications about independent field trips

• What/how analysis of Of Cannibals

• Homework:– Share portfolio with me (

aplackowski@student.hudson.k12.ma.us) and unshare your portfolio with last year’s teacher

– First book club meeting: Monday

– Read “Self-Reliance” and complete power quotes worksheet for Wednesday, 9/23

Reminders and clarifications about independent field trips

• Due dates– Write-ups must be completed within a week of the field trip.– Turn in write-up (preferably with artifact) to turnitin.com– Hard deadline: October 31 (end of term 1). If you do your

field trip on October 30th, the write-up still needs to be in by October 31st.

Reminders and clarifications about independent field trips

• What the independent field trip is NOT:– A service project– A college visit– A school activity– The easiest thing you can do and still have it “count”– Just another requirement you have to fill for a class– Something you would do anyway– Something that has to require traveling a long distance or

spending hours and hours completing – Something inordinately expensive

Reminders and clarifications about independent field trips

• The independent field trip IS a chance for you to– Challenge yourself intellectually– Cross something off your bucket list– Apply the methods of analysis we’ve been talking about in

class to an out-of-school experience– Sample the artistic and cultural experiences available in

your own backyard– Uncover new interests, or discover that things you thought

you might dislike actually have some merit to them.– Broaden your schema of the world, enabling you to absorb

new information and experiences more easily

Jump-starting a says/does analysis for Of Cannibals (paragraph-by-paragraph)What does the paragraph say? What does the paragraph do?

1. American Indians are not savage; Europeans only think they’re savage because they’re unfamiliar to Europeans. What we think of “savage” is actually closer to nature, uncorrupted by civilization. There’s no reason to think that the ability to alter nature is superior to living in nature without changing it. Europeans are actually “savage” because we’ve altered things that nature made perfect to fit our “corrupted taste.” Nevertheless, nature is superior to technology and art.

Montaigne introduces his argument by countering the European definition of “wild” and arguing for a redefinition of the term “savage.” He develops a contrast between art (technology or any alteration of nature) and Nature, personifying nature with reverent diction (“beauty,” “riches,” “purity”) and using violent diction to characterize the actions of Europeans toward nature (“surcharged” and “overchoked”). He emphasizes the inherent superiority of nature by dismissing all human enterprise to change it, using diction that belittles and undermines those to seek to alter nature, like “vain,” “frivolous,” and ashamed.”

AP English Language and CompositionBlock G 9/22/14

• DOL• Vocab quiz• Book club in G101

• Homework: – Share portfolios!– “Self-Reliance” for

Wednesday

• As of Friday afternoon, I haven’t seen your portfolios:– Giuseppe C.– Kayley C.– EmilyD.– Olivia H.– Chris L.– Cam L.– Tom M.– Tommy M.– Marc M.– Emily O.– Matt R.– Jeff T-S– Allyson W.

AP English Language and CompositionBlock G 9/23/14

• DOL• Hand in your best precis• Book club debrief: the good, the bad, and the ugly• Complete says/does analysis for Of Cannibals• Says / does analysis samples• Bloom’s taxonomy• Homework:

– Share portfolios!– “Self-Reliance” and worksheet for Wednesday