AP English Language & Composition

October 25, 2017 Agenda: APTP #19: Imagery Argumentation: Classical Model- Sandra Day O'Connor's "Not by Math Alone" AP Terms Presentations Homework: Vocabulary exercise 4 Work on CEJ #9 outline your argument based on the classical model

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".                                                                                                   ...