Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

Monday, December 06, 2010

AP Class Notes for the period of 11/18/10-12/10/10

1. Staples “Hunted and Hunter” reaction paragraph
2. Irony- Paradox definitions
3. Double Conscuiousness response paragraph
4. Ascher paragraph 1 and 2 discussion of point of view and tone
5. Ascher paragraphs 3,4,5,6 Ascher questions
6. Ascher paragraphs 7,8,9 What has two items have shifted?
7. Ascher paragraphs 10,11,12 Occasion and purpose
8. Ascher paragraphs 13,14 How has the occasion changed?
9. #4 on pg 38
10. Multiple choice Ascher
11. Ascher “grinning man”
12. Ascher-3 appeals groupwrok
13. Vocab-Plato’s Cave
14. #1 and #2 Plato’s Cave
15. Plato rhetorical questions
16. Paragraph on Sontag

Reading Journals and Notebooks DUE 12/10

Reading Journals should have 10 of the following entries, without duplication, per five weeks:
1 A 400 word imitation of the author's style
2 A 400 word retelling of one scene in the book from a different point of view
3 A 400 word discussion of the author's tone
4 A 400 word discussion of one the the three Appeals
5 A 400 word discussion of a recurring rhetorical device
6 A 400 word discussion which connects the novel to another piece we have read in class
7 A 200 word argument response regarding a premise in the novel
8 A 200 word character sketch
9 A 200 word response which discusses one instance of a rhetorical device
10 A 200 word response to a quote from the text.
11 A 200 word discussion on the diction on one page of the novel
12 A 200 word discussion on the speaker
13 A 100 word statement of the author's purpose
14 A 100 word statement of the author's intended audience
15 An Annotation of a two-page excerpt

Class notes should include:
Short In-Class Writing Responses
Annotations
Class Notes
Multiple Choice answers with rationales
Group work notes
New vocabulary