AP English Language & Composition

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Agenda:   Quickwrite  II-sentence analysis: Hazlitt and "Reapers" Poem Argumentation Homework: Vocabulary Exercise 4 "Investing in Fast Food" (pg.84-85)----->Precis and 2 points of seeking common ground with opponents Today in class, we started with our timed Quickwrite #18 (20 minutes):       "To be in want of [money] is to pass through life with little credit or pleasure; it is to live out of the world, or to be despised if you come into it..."          Consider Hazlitt's position on the importance of having money. How true or relevant is his perspective? Support your argument with examples from your reading, observations, or experience. We then briefly looked at "Investing in Fast Food" (pg.84-85) in textbook. 

Agenda APTP #18 : Diction Multiple Choice : “Self Reliance” • Hazlitt’s “On the Want of Money” Rhetorical analysis : “Reapers” Homework Vocab ex. 3 (due Friday) 11 sentence analysis of Hazlitt Today in class we looked at Sandra Cisneros, “Tepeyac” and identified the effect of her choice of diction. In our discussion we established that “dusty” implied stillness and spacious rather than moving and in a cluster. We also said that the baldness of the light bulb meant that it was standing on its own and undecorated. Abuelito under a blad light bulb, under a ceiling dusty with flies, puffs his cigar and counts money soft and wrinkled as old as Kleenex. — Sandra Cisneros, “Tepeyac,” Woman Hollering Creek and other Stories Before answering the class contributed questions, we analyzed the text and came to the conclusion that William Hazlitt is arguing that without money, one will live an unhappy and miserable life. Rumi Matin

Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Agenda: Quickwrite: Argument Prompt Rhetorical Precis: Dave Berry's "The Ugly Truth About Beauty", Groucho Marx's "Letter" Homework: Vocab ex 4 Write a precis on any previous text Today in class we started with our times Quickwrite #7.  1. If you're a man, and a women asks you how she looks, you're in big trouble.-Dave Berry         We had to write a response whether we qualified, supported, or refuted it. 2. We than went over on how to develop a precis for any text, but specifically related it to Dave Berry's "The Ugly Truth About Beauty".                                                                                                   ...

Thursday, September 28, 2017 Agenda: Argument Question review AP Q3 Rhetoric: documentary film as a tool to analyze techniques An Inconvenient Truth Homework Finish vocabulary and study for spelling test #3 CEJ #6 AIT analysis essay Today in class we started off with an excerpt from Thomas Paine's Rights of Man , in which he talked about the United States' current social status. He claimed that the US was a country with many backgrounds, and although there was a lot of diversity, the social aspect of the States worked together like oiled gears. He idealized the States and described them in the way that the Americans wished it to be, rather than how it really was. The general response was as follows: As people of diverse ethnic backgrounds, the class disagreed with his second point on how there were little to no issues between the racial, ethnic, ranking, and gender splits within the society. All of us have lived in the US for all or most of our l...

Thursday, September 21, 2017 Scribe Notes Agenda: APTP #11: Syntax Rhetoric: review tone Queen Elizabeth's "Speech to the Troops at Tillbury" Churchill's "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" Interacting with text Homework Complete vocabulary packet #2 and review for spelling test CEJ #5 Ralph Ellison exercise on page 47 Today in class we analyzed an excerpt between a Native American and Englishman. Using the syntax chart, we analyzed the syntax of the passage. We concluded that the speaker had a hostile attitude against his audience, and was insistent on his way. His diction and use of parallelism put an emphasis on the opposing group and their words, and created a distinct separation between "you" and "me".  We learned about two analytical terms: Parallelism: similarity in words/phrases/structure in a passage. The patterns in a passage Juxtaposition: placement of ideas close by to emphasize similarities or d...

Hello fellow students, today in class we discussed many things which is listed below. Spelling pre-test #2 Rhetoric Visual Analysis NAACP;"The Man On The Left " Tom Tales,"Rosa Parks" We also discussed about prophet Muhammad and his speech on Mt.Safa And for our Homework we were supposed to read & analyze Mr.Collins proposal and Why it isn't effective.We must complete our vocab packet #2, example 2. That is all, have a wonderful day.