Do this now: Clear your desk and look up at me.
Agenda
Vocab: Who's lucky?
Synthesis Mini-Lesson
JOE
EMILY
Homework: Finish synthesis essay, Study Vocab terms
Tomorrow: Vocab (See me if you were scheduled)
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
27 April 2010
Do this now: Clear your desk and look up at me.
Agenda
Vocab: Who's lucky?
Multiple Choice Mini-Lesson (Passage 1)
Kelley and Lindsey
Will and Michelle
Discuss/Strategize/Tips
Passage 2 - Individually
Homework: Study Vocab terms, read synthesis essay section in review book
Tomorrow: Individual Study
Do this now: Clear your desk and look up at me.
Agenda
Vocab: Who's lucky?
Multiple Choice Mini-Lesson (Passage 1)
Kelley and Lindsey
Will and Michelle
Discuss/Strategize/Tips
Passage 2 - Individually
Homework: Study Vocab terms, read synthesis essay section in review book
Tomorrow: Individual Study
Monday, April 26, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Do this now:
1. Turn in your finished essays from yesterday.
2. Read the passage in front of you and answer the questions
(15 - 25). Then identify PURPOSE, TONE, and POV.
Agenda
AP Lang Idol - Roshawna/Alexis & Mike perform
Audience Input
Hughes input
Class consensus on answers
Tips
Try another one
HW: See Exam review Schedule (It's also on the website)
1. Turn in your finished essays from yesterday.
2. Read the passage in front of you and answer the questions
(15 - 25). Then identify PURPOSE, TONE, and POV.
Agenda
AP Lang Idol - Roshawna/Alexis & Mike perform
Audience Input
Hughes input
Class consensus on answers
Tips
Try another one
HW: See Exam review Schedule (It's also on the website)
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Do this now: Grab a handout from the stool and read the passage. Turn it over and look up when finished.
Agenda
AP Lang Idol - Pam and Lexii perform
Audience Input
Hughes input
Class Intro
Look at example
HW: Write your own full essay response.
(You may use our intro or write a new one)
Reminder: Review sessions tonight: 4 - 5, 5 - 6, 6:30 - 7:30
Free food at 6:00. Enter and exit through doorsby cafeteria.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
1. Read the prompt on the back of your packet from yesterday.
2. Read the response in front of you.
The Windbreaker (396 words)
I bought a windbreaker for a hundred dollars the other day. The windbreaker was made for mountain climbers. Rich mountain climbers. I’m not a mountain climber. Nor can I legitimately defend spending $100 on a jacket that costs just under the bluebook value of my car. This windbreaker reflects Margaret Drabble’s cynical—but truthful—claim that “our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.”
That windbreaker has earned me some compliments, its “North Face” label exposing me as the yuppie poser I swore I’d never be. But conforming is so—safe. “Objectivity” says that $100 should go toward a debt, groceries, a down payment on a better car. But conformity trumps objective fact in a world where we are more affected by the people around us than the voice inside of us.
Thoreau probably didn’t wear a windbreaker. He built a house, in the woods, far from the conformist city-dwellers—the “sheep” as Twain called them. Thoreau prided himself in his individuality, his ability to escape the claustrophobic nature of everyday village life that reeked of conformity.
But lo, Thoreau was but a few miles from town, only lived at Walden Pond for two years, and who is anyone to say that his goal was not to sell a ton of books to a “conformist” audience? I taught Thoreau to my AP class this year; indeed I forced them to conform to his nonconformist values. The irony is too much to bear.
We conform because it’s easier, albeit often more expensive, financially or otherwise. The teenager has another beer before getting behind the wheel because he saw how easy it was for his friend to do it; the DINC couple buys a new Audi instead of an old Chevy because it’s easier to explain to their status-seeking neighbors. The 4-year old girl chooses the pink dress because she doesn’t yet know what objectivity is. Maybe therein lies the answer: We conform because it’s what we were taught from birth, before we knew how to think for ourselves.
Though it pains me to admit it, Drabble’s words ring doubly true for me: That same windbreaker was purchased by my best friend the day before, right in front of me. Luckily he lives in New York so I won’t look like the pathetic conformist that I am. For now, I’ll take the compliments.
3. List what the writer DOES WELL.
4. Identify and name rhetorical devices.
5. Explain tone and style.
6. Discuss 4 and 5
7. Score it.
8. Your turn - 25 min (or until the bell)
2. Read the response in front of you.
The Windbreaker (396 words)
I bought a windbreaker for a hundred dollars the other day. The windbreaker was made for mountain climbers. Rich mountain climbers. I’m not a mountain climber. Nor can I legitimately defend spending $100 on a jacket that costs just under the bluebook value of my car. This windbreaker reflects Margaret Drabble’s cynical—but truthful—claim that “our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.”
That windbreaker has earned me some compliments, its “North Face” label exposing me as the yuppie poser I swore I’d never be. But conforming is so—safe. “Objectivity” says that $100 should go toward a debt, groceries, a down payment on a better car. But conformity trumps objective fact in a world where we are more affected by the people around us than the voice inside of us.
Thoreau probably didn’t wear a windbreaker. He built a house, in the woods, far from the conformist city-dwellers—the “sheep” as Twain called them. Thoreau prided himself in his individuality, his ability to escape the claustrophobic nature of everyday village life that reeked of conformity.
But lo, Thoreau was but a few miles from town, only lived at Walden Pond for two years, and who is anyone to say that his goal was not to sell a ton of books to a “conformist” audience? I taught Thoreau to my AP class this year; indeed I forced them to conform to his nonconformist values. The irony is too much to bear.
We conform because it’s easier, albeit often more expensive, financially or otherwise. The teenager has another beer before getting behind the wheel because he saw how easy it was for his friend to do it; the DINC couple buys a new Audi instead of an old Chevy because it’s easier to explain to their status-seeking neighbors. The 4-year old girl chooses the pink dress because she doesn’t yet know what objectivity is. Maybe therein lies the answer: We conform because it’s what we were taught from birth, before we knew how to think for ourselves.
Though it pains me to admit it, Drabble’s words ring doubly true for me: That same windbreaker was purchased by my best friend the day before, right in front of me. Luckily he lives in New York so I won’t look like the pathetic conformist that I am. For now, I’ll take the compliments.
3. List what the writer DOES WELL.
4. Identify and name rhetorical devices.
5. Explain tone and style.
6. Discuss 4 and 5
7. Score it.
8. Your turn - 25 min (or until the bell)
Monday, April 19, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
12 April 2010
DO NOW: Sit in an odd-numbered column.
Clear your desk except for a pen and paper.
Smile.
Agenda
The Mysterious Stranger
Reading Exam
HW: Email what % of our time (out of 100) you think you should spend on: rhetorical analysis, argumentative, synthesis, multiple choice, vocab for exam review.
DO NOW: Sit in an odd-numbered column.
Clear your desk except for a pen and paper.
Smile.
Agenda
The Mysterious Stranger
Reading Exam
HW: Email what % of our time (out of 100) you think you should spend on: rhetorical analysis, argumentative, synthesis, multiple choice, vocab for exam review.
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