AP English Language & Composition

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.

1. APTP #5: Tone 2. Scribe Duty Model 3. George Orwell’s “Why I Write” HW: 1. CEJ #2        2. Orwell response Today in class, we examined a passage from Bharati Mukerjee’s “Oddity”. In the excerpt, the narrator describes her father realizing the reality of “Third World politics” when he hears Roy describe how he was tortured in jail. We examined the narrator’s attitude towards her father, and decided that the tone was sympathetic to her father dealing with harsh reality, but also relieved and appreciative that he was finally bursting his bubble and learning the truth. One systematic way to examine tone is by using the acronym DIDLS: D: diction (the author’s word choice) I: images (any image that is brought into the scene) D: details (details that help create the scene) L: language (formal or casual) S: sentence structure (syntax; long or short sentences) We then reviewed George Orwell’s essay “Why I Write,” and discuss...