After our second day of vocabulary, we spent the remainder of the hour analyzing a fictional text and tying the author's character, plot, and themes to purpose. In AP Lang, purpose is the center of life, or the center of rhetorical analysis.
1: After we read "The Story of an Hour," we selected an overall purpose to help us further analyze rhetorical strategies in the text. For homework, you will need to select one strategy, highlight the textual evidence, and write one paragraph analyzing the strategy. We will use this tomorrow in small group share and discussion.
3&7: We just barely made it through the shocking end of "The Story of an Hour." For tomorrow, be ready to discuss the last page of the text.
All Classes: We will continue our rhetorical analysis immersion by looking back at "The Roseto Mystery" and your in-class essays. After reading two paragraphs of TK's essay, I am so motivated to evaluate your work and put together a brand new (well, maybe a mix of last year's presentation and new) power point with what to do and what to improve upon as we move forward.
P.S.Scholar Quiz is our school's academic trivia team. Some of you have attended our practices, which occur every Friday after school in room 404. You are all welcome to attend our practices -- whether you look to be a full time player and earn a letter for competing or a part time player wanting to have fun and learn in a supportive team atmosphere. By the way, it is never too late to join the Scholar Quiz team. We are a splub competing with schools across St. Charles and St. Louis counties, we have finished second in district competition five times, and our goal this year is to win districts and make it to sectionals for the first time in our school's history. If you like trivia and have scheduling conflicts, we have trivia lunches every block Thursday in the library conference room. Bring your lunch, play trivia with us, and spend some quality time with the Scholar Quiz team in a relaxed environment.
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