AP English Language Agenda for August 22/25, 2014

1. AP English Language Agenda for August 22/25, 2014 • Daily Questions: • 1. What do I need to do to become comfortable with speaking in class through informal and formal presentations? • 2. What is the scoring rubric for AP essays? • Daily Activities and Assessment: • Watch short video on Stephen Fry’s “Typography” and discuss • Read and score Kincaid essay in guidebook (p. 108-109) • Assign and work on Thank You for Arguing group activity (p. 133) • WARNING #1: Your JQV#1 is due Friday, August 29, to www.turnitin.com! • WARNING #2: We will write our first in-class AP essay during the end of the second/beginning of 3rd week; it will be worth 50 points.

2. Sample excerpt from Frederick Douglass: • “I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle; so that I neither saw nor heard as those without might see and hear. They told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with the bitterest anguish. Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit, and filled me with ineffable sadness. I have frequently found myself in tears while hearing them. The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek. To those songs I trace my first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing character of slavery. I can never get rid of that conception. Those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery, and quicken my sympathies for my brethren in bonds”(Douglass 14).

3. Tense Argument Topics—Take a stand; argue in terms of past, present, and future; which tense makes someone change their mind; then change sides • Tiger Woods cheating on his wife • Illegal drugs • Democrats’ or Republicans’ ability to improve the economy • The Civil War: How much did slavery have to do with it? • America as an exceptional nation • Facebook: good or bad? • America as a free country • Electric cars • Who talks more: boys or girls?

4. AP English Language Agenda for August 26/27, 2014 • Daily Objectives: • 1. Understand how language shapes our world. • 2. Understand the key rhetorical concepts in DIDST. • Daily Activities and Assessment: • Watch video at http://vimeo.com/31511744 on donuts to analyze for imagery and details. As you watch this two minute clip, write down every image you think is significant. In a group, pick out the three most significant images you would analyze in a rhetorical analysis essay and how you would analyze them using the template formulas on p. 33. • Continue working on Thank You for Arguing Group Activities • Finish going over Kincaid essay scoring • If time, work on PACAW chart on Kincaid essay (p. 98) • Warning: Your first AP essay will be done in class on September 2/3

5. AP Agenda for August 28/29, 2014 • Daily Objectives: • Understand how to analyze imagery • Understand the purpose of satire • Daily Activities and Assessment: • Watch “A Love Story in 22 Photos” and do analysis of it for details • Do reading of additional picture • Read through p. 30-59d for some tips on success in an AP English class as people turn in their project • Go over another rhetorical analysis essay based on an article from The Onion (starting on p. 118); we will brainstorm ideas for how to write this and read sample papers to prepare us for next class’ REAL AP essay • Continue Argument Lab Activities from Jay Heinrich

6. AP Agenda for Sept. 2/3 • Daily Objectives: • Understand how to write a successful rhetorical analysis essay • Understand how to engage in college-level discussion • Daily Assessments: • Complete AP Essay #1 • Read “College Pressures” in Patterns for College Writing in our Circle of Love and Understanding

7. DE ENC 1101 Agenda for August 22/25, 2014 • Daily Question: • 1. What makes an effective paragraph? • 2. What makes a strong illustrative/exemplification essay? • Daily Activities and Assessment: • 2A- Code of Conduct Meeting in Smith Center; men attend from 10:10-10:45 and women attend from 10:55-11:30 • Hang up and share homework on The Last Lecture • Wadsworth: Do ex. 2B on p. 81 and ex. 6 on p. 91 with a partner; do handout on paragraphs on own • Work on rough draft of Short Essay #1 on The Last Lecture in Rm. 213

8. DE ENC 1101 Agenda for August 26/27, 2014 • Daily Question: • How do I become comfortable with speaking in class through informal and formal presentations? • Daily Activities and Assessment: • Reminder: Your rough draft of essay on The Last Lecture is due August 27 at 11:59 pm; your journal is due August 29 • Complete peer editing of rough draft in Rm. 213 • Watch short excerpt from end of The Last Lecture • Read through articles on The Last Lecture in packet • Begin discussion of The Last Lecture

9. DE ENC 1101 Agenda for Aug. 28/29 • Daily Objectives: • To participate fully in a college level classroom discussion • To successfully complete an illustration/exemplification essay • Daily Activities and Assessments: • Assign books and pass out syllabus with page numbers for our books • Finish The Last Lecture discussion • Readings for Writers Selections/Assignment/Discussion: “Guidelines for Critical Reading” 3-10 (in class), Chapter 2: “What is Rhetoric?” 16-40; “What—and How—to Write When You Have No Time to Write,” 41; “Have a Cigar,” 52; “How to Say Nothing in 500 Words” 65; “Assignment 1: The Research Paper,” 691-729; Chapter 10: “Illustration and Exemplification” 332-337; “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…” 350; “Don’t Legalize Drugs” 358; “Drug Use: The Continuing Epidemic,” 365