AP Lang (Period 6) Assignments
- Instructor
- Katie Jaroch
- Term
- SPHS 2018-2019
- Department
- English
- Description
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SATIRE PROJECT DUE! I WILL NEED TO PREVIEW IT BEFORE YOU PRESENT TODAY, SO SHARE IT WITH ME BEFORE 8:00 A.M. (JUST ONE PERSON FROM EACH GROUP).
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SOCRATIC SEMINAR TODAY IN CLASS: SATIRE. DUE: SUBMIT YOUR ANALYSIS CHART AND YOUR ANSWERS TO EACH QUESTION (SEE HANDOUT) TO GOOGLE AND TURNITIN.
Assigned texts: Fill out the analysis chart for each text. See PDF.
1. "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift (please reread/review)
2. "I Want a Wife" by Judy Brady
3. https://entertainment.theonion.com/kanye-west-i-would-ve-ridden-away-from-a-slave-planta-1825726783
4. Key and Peele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkHqPFbxmOU
5. Review of situational irony and verbal irony: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/situational-irony-the-opposite-of-what-you-think-christopher-warner and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiR-bnCHIYo
6. An editorial cartoon of your choosing.
7. A meme of your choosing.
8. Hyperbolic Situation: "MPAA Adds New Rating..." https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4OA_4GNMrmkQktpVWdoTHNmNWs/view
9. "Advice to Youth" by Mark Twain.
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Here’s the link to the article you are missing!
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15-minute small-group discussion: Transcendentalism. Discuss the questions on the top page of your packet.
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SOCRATIC SEMINAR PREPARATION: SATIRE. Read the texts below and fill out the analysis chart for the sample in the packet (if we didn't already do this) and complete the analysis chart for each text below.
Assigned texts: Fill out the analysis chart for each text. See PDF.
1. "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift (please reread/review)
2. "I Want a Wife" by Judy Brady
3. https://entertainment.theonion.com/kanye-west-i-would-ve-ridden-away-from-a-slave-planta-1825726783
4. Key and Peele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkHqPFbxmOU
5. Review of situational irony and verbal irony: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/situational-irony-the-opposite-of-what-you-think-christopher-warner and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiR-bnCHIYo
6. An editorial cartoon of your choosing.
7. A meme of your choosing.
8. Hyperbolic Situation: "MPAA Adds New Rating..." https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4OA_4GNMrmkQktpVWdoTHNmNWs/view
9. "Advice to Youth" by Mark Twain.
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Submit your responses to your readings: Transcendentalism (see handout). Submit to google and turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m. Please title each response accordingly on the same doc.
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Suggestions for independent review/studying:
- Review materials posted on google classroom: argument and synthesis.
- Catch up on the headlines on your favorite news source.
- Review IRP #1 and #2, your columnist project, Scarlet Letter dialectical journal, and all Big 5's and Green Sheets!
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AP EXAM! Bring a photo ID. Join us for breakfast outside Mr. Afram's room at 7:10! Please bring $2!
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Suggestions for independent review/studying:
- Review materials posted on google classroom: argument and synthesis.
- Catch up on the headlines on your favorite news source.
- Review IRP #1 and #2, your columnist project, Scarlet Letter dialectical journal, and all Big 5's and Green Sheets!
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Bring $2 for our annual AP Lang breakfast (for all AP Lang students), which will take place at 7:00 a.m. outside Mr. Afram's room on the morning of the exam (Wednesday, May 15)!
We will have bagels, fruit, juice, and other snacks to help you fuel up for the exam!
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Socratic Seminar Prep (Compassion, Poverty, Wealth, and Waste)-- on Google Classroom.
If you are absent because of Skills USA, complete the in-class assignment that is on Google Classroom. This is due Tuesday. We will choose a date for your makeup seminar.
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1. Read Wheatley's poem "On Being Brought From Africa to America" and write a paragraph that responds to the following question, considering rhetorical purpose and tone:
If Wheatley is making an argument, what is it? Where is it?
Submit to google classroom and turnitin.com.https://www.commonlit.org/texts/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america
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Bonus Points Seminar Prep: Voices, Perceptions, Identity-Defoe, Woolf, Coates, and Ortiz Cofer.
You MUST answer the questions and be prepared for a SOAPStone quiz. The seminar portion, for Open House, is optional. Sign-up sheet will be posted on my door on Tuesday morning. First come, first served.
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p. 114-115 #1 and 2
p. 422-423 #1 and 2
p. 102 #1 and 2
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Open House: Optional Seminar.
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Green Sheet #5 due. Quiz in class.
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Socratic Seminar: Subterfuge, Confrontation, and Truth(iness) PDF NOW ATTACHED
1) Read the assigned packet AS WELL AS Swift's A Modest Proposal on PDF (see below). Answer the following questions and be prepared to discuss them. I'll check your preparation either in digital format or on paper.
Before you read, write the definition and one synonym for each of the following words:
1. supine
2. hector
3. bellicose
4. Milquetoast
5. perplexity
6. labyrinth
7. squalid
8. senility
9. frank
10. demonization
11. misogynist
12. foibles
Buckley, p. 78: #1, 2, 4, 5
Orwell, p. 279: #1, 2, 3
Ericsson, p. 168: #1, 2, 3, 5
Swift (after reading the PDF on classroom) p. 361: #1, 2, 4.
2) Write 3 higher-level questions you'd like to bring up for the seminar.
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IRP #2 and VOCABULARY NOTEBOOK DUE TO GOOGLE AND TURNITIN.COM.
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MC reflection #2: google doc on google classroom.
1/2 period work day: IRP.
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Personal paragraph: p. 88 in Mimetic Theory packet. Submit to google and turnitin.com.
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Read Gatsby ch. 7-9 and complete close-reading questions.
AP-style MC quiz.
Period 6 only: Green Sheet #3 (Ackerman) due: text on google classroom. Submit to turnitin.com and google. SUMMARIZE, DON'T PARAPHRASE.
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Read your mimetic theory packet to prepare for the IRB reading check.
IRB Reading Check #3, pp. 150-200. Style/syntax.
Full-length MC test (practice but graded)
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Read "A Persuasive Speech Example" and read and annotate the passage (speech delivered by Susan B. Anthony). Be prepared to discuss.
Period 1 only: Green Sheet #3 (Ackerman) due: text on google classroom. Submit to turnitin.com and google. SUMMARIZE, DON'T PARAPHRASE.
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1. Read Gatsby ch. 4-6 and complete close reading questions.
2. AP-style MC quiz.
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GREEN SHEET #2 DUE AND QUIZ: NATURE OF MAN. The text is on google classroom.
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IRB Reading Check #2, pages 50-100
Gatsby quiz, ch. 1-3
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Read Gatsby ch. 1-3 and complete study guide close-reading questions. MC AP-style quiz.
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Seminar Prep--The American Dream
Seminar Preparation: Type answers to the following questions on the readings.
Also, write 3 questions that you will bring to our discussion. Your questions must do at least one of the following:
-refer directly to one of the 3 texts.
-ask your peers to connect ideas between 2 of the texts.
-incorporate a current event or personal experience (either refer to it in your question, providing background, or ask students about their own experiences.
The American Dream: Dead, Alive, or On Hold? by Brandon King
1. How does Brandon King redefine the Aerican Dream? How does the redefinition affect his argument?
2. Summarize King's argument in this essay. What reasons and evidence does he use to support his views? How persuasive do you find his argument?
3. How does King connect the various parts of his essay? Look in particular at the beginnings and endings of paragraphs. What sorts of transitions and other connecting devices does King use?
Inequality Has Been Going on Forever...by David Leonhardt
1. The first two paragraphs of this essay offer a "they say" on the subject of inequality. What is the argument that David Leonhardt wants to discuss, and what is his "I say" in the reminder of the essay?
2. Leonhardt published this piece in the New York Times and thus could assume that many of his readers were generally informed about his topic. How might he have written it different for an audience of first-year college students (or AP juniors?)
The Racist Housing Policy That Made your Neighborhood by Alexis Madrigal
Choose two of the following four interviews to read/listen to. Be prepared to discuss and write about the author's purpose, and your personal response.
Chinese dissident and immigrant Zhuang Liehong, and Lauren Hilgers, the author who wrote about his story:
Nancy Isenberg, author of White Trash:
J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy:
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow:
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Socratic Seminar: The American Dream
Submit your notes to google classroom and turnitin.com.
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Return Othello.
Acquire a copy of The Great Gatsby from our library or purchase your own.
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IRB reading check: bring book and post-its/annotations/notes to show you are reading actively. You should have read about 100 pages by this point. I will be attending a conference so will not be in class today.
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OTHELLO field trip! Wear outing-appropriate clothing and comfortable shoes. Bring a lunch or $ for lunch. Meet at the front steps of the auditorium at 9:15! We will return to school at 2:45.
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Read Act III.
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LAST DAY TO TURN IN YOUR SIGNED PINK SLIPS TO ME FOR OUR FIELD TRIP!
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Read Act II, sc.i, pages 59-81. Be ready to explain Iago's devious plot.
Read IRB.
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Read assigned Othello background texts (see google classroom for pages and PDF).
Read your IRB. Reading check next week.
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Green Sheet #1 due: hard copy. MC quiz.
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TURN IN OTHELLO PERMISSION FORM AND $10!
Bring your new IRB!
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In Othello packet, read "No Cloven Hooves" and be prepared to discuss.
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AP Terms Quiz #1-50
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MC and essay test: The Scarlet Letter.
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AP TERMS QUIZ #1-40
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SL journals #1-6 due on classroom and turnitin. Hard due date.
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In-class work day.
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AP Terms Matching Quiz #1-20.
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1. Banneker rhetorical analysis essay due to google and turnitin.com.
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SL #5 due.
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SL journal #4 due.
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The Scarlet Letter Dialectical Journal #3 due (suggested).
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Bring in a hard copy of your personal vocabulary key.
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1. Précis #1 and response due to GOOGLE CLASSROOM. We will do this in class. Please include link to your column.
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1. Fallacies Quiz (#1-10 on the purple sheet). You'll be asked to match definitions with the fallacy and identify the fallacy, given an example.
2. Finish your MC reflection:
IN CLASS: time to work on your columnist project/IRP.
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1. Columnist Project: A) Work on précis and response #1. Bring hard copy to class and we will review it. You'll be able to revise and resubmit if needed. B) Start following your columnist on Twitter, if possible and if allowed by your parents.
Period 1 List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ixh7FoA-nLiY25fqXRoAkYPY1a9rGF57_Jf4yKnHw9U/edit?usp=sharing
2. Read IRB.
3. Study fallacies #1-10. Play Kahoot! https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/5c6ecb76-d9aa-4d8c-8bd0-ab6bf6413535
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FINAL DRAFT SYNTHESIS ESSAY with MLA WORKS CITED PAGE DUE TO TURNITIN.COM BY 10:00 A.M. USE SUGGESTIONS FROM CH. 11 OF TSIS.
Big 5: DeChavez due to turnitin.com by 10:00 a.m.: http://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-decolonize-syllabus-20181008-story.html
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Links below will help you with MLA format. The first is a quick video; the second is a citation generator that I prefer to easybib.
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Read TSIS ch. 8, 9, 10.
Research columnists from list below and select your top three choices. Read through précis instructions.
WORK DAY/READING DAY FOR IRB and/or COLUMNIST PROJECT. BRING YOUR BOOK.
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1. Thoughtfully complete the peer-editing protocol and print out a hard copy. Staple it to the top of your peer's essay.
2. Read your IRB.
3. Read TSIS, ch. 11.
Slideshow with fallacies attached below.
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1. Bring hard copy of your argument/synthesis essay, double-spaced, for peer conferencing. ONLY ID AT THE TOP; NO NAME!
2. Read your IRB.
3. TSIS: Read ch. 5, 6, 7.
In class: link to peer editing gdoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S_xWNvJOV7sMzHs28GXIPAyS51IK7jUZawSqqv5mNTo/edit?usp=sharing
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Read your IRB!
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1. They Say, I Say Reading Check (ch. 2, 3, 4).
2. Bring IRB and headphones every day.
3. Thesis and outline: from Socratic Seminar discussion. Craft a claim based on any of the central issues that came up in class. This will be the basis for an argument/synthesis essay in which you support your claim with solid reasoning and evidence from your seminar preparation materials, and the seminar itself.
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1. Take a selfie: you reading your independent reading book in your favorite reading spot. Appropriate filters OK; color if possible; must show book cover!
2. Bourdain Big 5 due to turnitin.com by 8:00 a.m.
3. Bring IRB, They Say, I Say, and headphones to class this week.
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1. They Say, I Say: Read Ch. 3 and 4 (pp. 41-67, As He Himself Puts It and Yes/No/Okay/But).
2. Read and annotate What You Eat is Your Business.(attached)
3. Read and annotate Don't Blame the Eater. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/23/opinion/don-t-blame-the-eater.html
4. Read and annotate The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html
and watch the 3 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Y0WqJw9zQ
5. Read and annotate How Junk Food Can End Obesity. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-junk-food-can-end-obesity/309396/
then watch this video about Michael Pollan.
6. Read and annotate blog post from conservative blog Campus Reform:
7. Prepare for Socratic Seminar by answering the questions attached below and generating your own ideas (please consider using the templates from They Say, I Say).
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1. Read "Not By Math Alone" and label the arrangement of text (see handout for explanation.) http://www.krucli.com/The_Classical_Model_%20Arrangement.pdf. This is also attached (see below).
2. They Say, I Say: read ch. 2
3. Intro to Rhetoric: read pp. 21-29 and be prepared to discuss the student essay on pp. 28-29.
Read your IRB at least 15 minutes a night.
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BRING independent reading book to class.
1. They Say, I Say: Read ch. 1. Be prepared for a reading check quiz on the Introduction and ch. 1.
2. Intro to Rhetoric: Read pp. 18-21 and DO THE ACTIVITY on the top of p. 21: choose ONE scenario and WRITE IT AS YOU WOULD IF YOU WERE GIVING A SPEECH TO THAT SPECIFIC AUDIENCE. Submit to turnitin.com by 8:00 a.m. on the due date.
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1. Intro to Rhetoric: Read pp. 11-17 (stop after "Crackberry Congress) and be prepared to discuss.
2. Study argument terms.
3. Read They Say, I Say pp. 1-15 (introduction) and be prepared to discuss. PDF attached. Take notes if you are reading PDF; highlight/annotate if you have your own copy.
4. Submit group work to turnitin.com by 8:00 a.m. on one google doc, with all names on it.
PLEASE SEE ATTACHED UPDATED READING LIST BELOW.
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1. Read and annotate the Woolf passage I handed out in class, and complete The Big 5. Submit to turnitin.com by 8:00 a.m.
2. Intro to Rhetoric: read the section on ethos: pp. 8-top of 11 (stop at "Activity" and do not complete the activity).
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1. Read pp. 1-6 in Intro to Rhetoric packet and familiarize yourself with SOAPS. You do NOT need to complete the "Activity" sections.
*Remember to order They Say, I Say if you'd like your own copy instead of reading the PDF.
Timed Write Doc:
Quick overview of the appeals: Ethos, Pathos, Logos
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1. Big 5 for King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail due to turnitin.com by 8:00 a.m. Please bring hard copy to class.
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1. Argument Terms Quiz #1-9. Definition only.
2. Read and answer questions 1-4 (see below) for King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Submit to turnitin.com by 8:00 a.m. on due date.
- Trace one of the following patterns of figurative language throughout King’s letter: darkness and light; high and low; sickness and death. Look also at the imagery surrounding garment and fabric.
- How does King balance the twin appeals to religion and patriotism throughout his letter? Do you think he puts more emphasis on religion or on patriotism? Why do you think he makes that choice?
- How do King’s allusions to biblical figures and events appeal to both ethos and pathos? What about his references to theologians and other religious scholars? Do you see a pattern in their use?
- Studying the long sentence in paragraph 14 (beginning with “but when you have seen”), consider why King arranges the “when” clauses in the order that he does. How would the meaning of the paragraph change if the order were different?
3. Remember to order They Say, I Say if you would like your own copy.
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1. Big 5 questions for Atticus' closing argument. Submit to turnitin.com by 8:00 a.m. on the due date, AND bring hard copy, please.
turnitin.com sign up info for period 1: 18787769 jaroch
For period 6: 18787776 jaroch
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1. Argument terms quiz (#1-5). Definition only.
2. Order your print copy of They Say, I Say, 2nd or 3rd edition (recommended but not required) so it arrives by next week. Otherwise it will be made available to you free of charge on PDF. Check amazon.com for used copies, or thriftbooks:
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1. Personalized meme or starter pack: includes your name on the front; in color if possible.
2. Study appeals (see attached)
3. Parent signature: syllabus page and AP contract (find link to contract on Mr. Afram's website)
4. Bring summer reading books.
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IN CLASS (if you were absent, not hw): QUICK WRITE ON THE VIDEOS BELOW.