tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18990257922226053982024-02-07T22:08:11.294-05:00AP English Language and CompositionRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-50439429178209365722010-11-10T09:27:00.000-05:002010-11-10T09:27:01.445-05:00Clay Shirky: How social media can make history | Video on TED.com<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html">Clay Shirky: How social media can make history Video on TED.com</a>Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-64916497927842786692010-05-21T14:40:00.001-04:002010-05-21T14:40:14.293-04:00Read / Research for Synthesis Paper<br /><br />Sources and Argument due Monday!!Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-17182862755010281232010-05-17T14:43:00.001-04:002010-05-17T14:43:59.629-04:00Intro Research PaperRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-59118631134810439752010-05-14T21:01:00.000-04:002010-05-17T09:01:44.440-04:00Choose your nonfiction research paper book.Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-73588424593622134362010-05-13T09:53:00.003-04:002010-05-13T10:40:57.283-04:00Congratulations! You've finished the AP Language exam. Tomorrow we'll look ahead to the rest of the year, but for now, you can really help be completing the following:<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LW6TL9Y">SURVEY</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Also, if you were absent Monday, complete the <a href="http://www.take.myvoicesurvey.com/s-35fw6-283686?id=4963">Million Voices Survey</a></div><div><br /></div>Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-2708877624338107822010-05-10T16:06:00.001-04:002010-05-10T16:06:53.320-04:00Do this now: Take out your reductions so I can mark them.<br /><br />Agenda<br /><br />To lab 710 for survey<br /><br />Review - take notes<br /><br /><br />Homework: Study! (I'll be here until 6:30 tonight, 4:00 tomorrow )Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-13224227180482058462010-05-06T15:58:00.001-04:002010-05-06T15:58:28.213-04:00Do this now: You have 5 minutes to go to your locker to get<br /> ANY materials related to this class.<br /><br />Agenda<br />Vocab: Who's lucky? (new format)<br /><br />Reduction Spreadsheet - You may work with a partner <br />Arg essay - examples<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Homework: STUDY! I'll be here until 7:30 as long as there are<br /> more than a few people. <br />Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-60260105872545055772010-05-03T14:40:00.001-04:002010-05-03T14:40:01.258-04:00<br />Do this now: Clear your desk and look up at me.<br /><br />Agenda<br />Vocab: Who's lucky? <br /><br />Arg Essay Mini-Lesson (Passage 1)<br /> 5: Chanelle and Sarah<br /> 6: Edward<br /><br />Discuss/Strategize/Tips<br /><br /><br />Homework: See handoutRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-4753639485371605012010-04-29T16:04:00.001-04:002010-04-29T16:04:19.784-04:00Do this now: Clear your desk and look up at me.<br /><br />Agenda<br />Vocab: Who's lucky? <br /><br />Synthesis Mini-Lesson <br />JOE<br />EMILY<br /><br />Homework: Finish synthesis essay, Study Vocab terms<br /><br />Tomorrow: Vocab (See me if you were scheduled)Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-69560366275533638712010-04-27T15:49:00.001-04:002010-04-27T15:49:13.771-04:0027 April 2010<br /><br /><br />Do this now: Clear your desk and look up at me.<br /><br />Agenda<br />Vocab: Who's lucky? <br /><br />Multiple Choice Mini-Lesson (Passage 1)<br />Kelley and Lindsey <br />Will and Michelle<br /><br />Discuss/Strategize/Tips<br />Passage 2 - Individually<br /><br />Homework: Study Vocab terms, read synthesis essay section in review book<br /><br />Tomorrow: Individual Study<br />Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-34432956936564109342010-04-26T14:26:00.000-04:002010-04-26T14:27:16.217-04:00Multiple Choice<br /><br />Tomorrow: Vocab, MCRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-2869861445546718792010-04-23T15:03:00.001-04:002010-04-23T15:03:03.528-04:00Do this now: <br />1. Turn in your finished essays from yesterday.<br /><br />2. Read the passage in front of you and answer the questions<br />(15 - 25). Then identify PURPOSE, TONE, and POV.<br /><br />Agenda<br />AP Lang Idol - Roshawna/Alexis & Mike perform<br />Audience Input<br />Hughes input<br />Class consensus on answers<br />Tips<br />Try another one<br /><br />HW: See Exam review Schedule (It's also on the website)<br /><br />Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-69822079689514885532010-04-22T15:04:00.001-04:002010-04-22T15:04:21.509-04:00<br />Do this now: Grab a handout from the stool and read the passage. Turn it over and look up when finished. <br /><br />Agenda<br />AP Lang Idol - Pam and Lexii perform<br />Audience Input<br />Hughes input<br />Class Intro<br />Look at example<br /><br />HW: Write your own full essay response.<br /> (You may use our intro or write a new one)<br /><br />Reminder: Review sessions tonight: 4 - 5, 5 - 6, 6:30 - 7:30<br />Free food at 6:00. Enter and exit through doorsby cafeteria.Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-20705585527646765642010-04-20T15:21:00.001-04:002010-04-20T15:21:11.281-04:001. Read the prompt on the back of your packet from yesterday.<br /> <br />2. Read the response in front of you.<br /><br />The Windbreaker (396 words)<br /><br />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.”<br />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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />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. <br />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.<br /><br /> <br />3. List what the writer DOES WELL.<br /> <br />4. Identify and name rhetorical devices.<br /> <br />5. Explain tone and style.<br /> <br />6. Discuss 4 and 5<br /> <br />7. Score it.<br /> <br />8. Your turn - 25 min (or until the bell)Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-14166560863457541952010-04-19T14:46:00.001-04:002010-04-19T14:46:00.587-04:0019 April 2010<br /><br />DO NOW: Write down an example from reading, observation, or experience that reflects the following:<br /><br />"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail."<br /><br />Agenda<br />Go over review guide<br />Hughes leads MC session<br />Hughes leads essay session<br /><br /><br /><br />HW: See Handout Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-82530033103355000432010-04-15T14:39:00.001-04:002010-04-15T14:39:29.887-04:0015 April 2010<br /><br />DO NOW: Take out your notebook and get ready to write!<br /><br /><br />Agenda<br />Intro to Satire lecture<br />Begin HW<br /><br />HW: Using today's notes, identify the elements of satire in the article.Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-60711263698091765662010-04-14T15:56:00.001-04:002010-04-14T15:56:48.456-04:0014 April 2010<br /><br />DO NOW: Take out your notebook and get ready to write!<br /><br /><br />Agenda<br /><br />Colbert Speech<br /><br />Intro to Satire lecture<br /><br />Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-77521735729271410522010-04-13T14:51:00.001-04:002010-04-13T14:51:38.700-04:0013 April 2010<br /><br />Do this Now: Grab a handout from the stool, take 10 minutes to skim and annotate the passages from The Mysterious Stranger. <br /><br />Agenda:<br />Interpret, argue passages from The Mysterious StrangerRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-40168859821534148032010-04-12T15:10:00.001-04:002010-04-12T15:10:45.564-04:0012 April 2010<br /><br /><br />DO NOW: Sit in an odd-numbered column.<br /><br />Clear your desk except for a pen and paper.<br /> <br />Smile.<br /><br />Agenda<br /><br />The Mysterious Stranger <br /><br />Reading Exam <br /><br /><br /><br />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.Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-58740482144390197522010-04-01T11:11:00.001-04:002010-04-01T11:11:18.520-04:00Today in class: Spring poetry<br /><br />Homework over Break: Read THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER by Mark Twain and annotate as you read.Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-14317812316664469222010-03-31T07:31:00.001-04:002010-04-01T07:32:17.140-04:00MC Review (Princeton 2010 #2)<br /><br />Look for:<br /><br />PURPOSE<br /><br />TONE<br /><br />POINT OF VIEWRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-31721253367574982182010-03-30T14:28:00.001-04:002010-03-30T14:28:04.389-04:00Do this now: Sit with 1 or 2 other people. <br /> Take out your homework.<br /><br />Agenda<br />Group Argumentative Essay (Due at end of hour)<br /><br />Ideas for responding to my cousin?<br /><br />Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-71076115732332717872010-03-29T14:42:00.001-04:002010-03-29T14:42:36.820-04:00<br />Do this now: Look up at me and smile!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Agenda<br /><br />Style in writing - my cousin's rant<br /><br />Let's look at YOUR writing<br /><br />Return essays<br /><br />HOMEWORK: Using YOUR writing style, write a note or email to a friend in which you REACT TO and RHETORICALLY ANALYZE<br />paragraphs 1 - 10 of "Down at the Cross" (the big essay from <br /><br />The Fire Next Time. (250 word minimum)<br />Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-32804363262657402922010-03-26T14:22:00.001-04:002010-03-26T14:22:32.737-04:00<br />Do this now: <br /><br />Sit in odd numbered rows.<br /><br />Grab a #2 pencil, a scantron, and a test and get started. <br /><br />This is the last test on which you are <br />encouraged to make blind guesses.<br />Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899025792222605398.post-4403782862106739172010-03-25T11:30:00.004-04:002010-03-25T12:24:06.197-04:00You'll be typing an essay today in Microsoft Word, but you have some choices.<br /><br />Here they are:<br /><br /><strong>1. RHETORICAL ANALYSIS:</strong> In "My Dungeon Shook," what is James Baldwin's purpose and how does he use rhetorical principles to achieve that purpose?<br /><br /><br /><strong>2. ARGUMENTATIVE:</strong> In <em>The Fire Next Time</em>, Baldwin writes of the great racial tensions and racial inequality that existed at that point in history. Today, some argue that because of the civil rights movement, the election of Obama, and a number of other "victories" for racial minorities, race is no longer an issue. Drawing from experience, observation, and reading, make a case for whether or not, or to what extent, racial tension and racial inequality remains a critical issue in America.<br /><br /><br /><strong>3. SYNTHESIS:</strong> Type up the synthesis essay you wrote Friday, making necessary changes.<br /><br />You may <span style="color:#ff0000;">WRITE or TYPE</span> your response, but it is due AT <span style="color:#ff0000;">THE END OF THE HOUR.</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Tomorrow: Multiple Choice Exam</span>Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16657300132031120415noreply@blogger.com0