Vocabulary, Toolboxing

Today was a nice day to resume vocabulary work and continue forward with your rhetorical toolbox terms. At this point, your class has taken one or two rhetorical toolbox quizzes, and some of you are not satisfied with your results. As I mentioned in third hour, when you do not have AP Lang homework assigned, you always have the opportunity to define, learn, and review different strategies and modes of discourse. Every time we go over a strategy, you should invest time into memorizing its meaning and retaining the meaning for the future. Use your toolbox -- in index card form or notepad form.

1: We finally returned to vocab experts after a two day hejira into presentations and timed writing prompts. During vocabulary, we met malapropism, zeugma, and anadiplosis, three strategies utilizing diction and syntax to create a tone or mood in writing. Then, the moment of excitement when a rhetorical toolbox pop quiz occurred. Utilizing samples, you were to identify multiple strategies -- all with your handy toolbox as an assistant. Not happy with your first score? You have time to review strategies outside of class and master the definitions of more strategies as we move forward. Lastly, you played on the buzzers -- to review rhetorical strategies.

Tomorrow, we will continue with vocabulary, talk about how to close read a text, and meet the rangefinders, a tool you will see three times this year in AP Lang.

3: We finished presentations! Then, we resumed vocabulary, finishing the 15 words for this unit. While normally we review tomorrow, we will put that off until Monday due to your diagnostic timed writing prompt. Remember, you will walk into the room, take out a pencil/pen and a piece of notebook paper. When the bell rings, you will commence the prompt. At the 40 minute mark, I will instruct you to draw a line to indicate where you are. You will then resume writing - if needed - and have until the end bell to finish the writing.

For the remainder of today, you have your second toolbox quiz, and we played on the buzzers to identify different rhetorical strategies. If you are not happy with your quiz scores, take the initiative and learn and study the terms. There are several terms we have utilized in class at this point that you should have ethos on. If that is not the case, you will need more independent study.

7: We finished presentations! During vocabulary, we met malapropism, zeugma, and anadiplosis, three strategies utilizing diction and syntax to create a tone or mood in writing. Then, the moment of excitement when a rhetorical toolbox pop quiz occurred. Utilizing samples, you were to identify multiple strategies -- all with your handy toolbox as an assistant. Not happy with your first score? You have time to review strategies outside of class and master the definitions of more strategies as we move forward. Lastly, you played on the buzzers -- to review rhetorical strategies.

Tomorrow will be your diagnostic timed writing prompt. Remember, you will walk into the room, take out a pencil/pen and a piece of notebook paper. When the bell rings, you will commence the prompt. At the 40 minute mark, I will instruct you to draw a line to indicate where you are. You will then resume writing - if needed - and have until the end bell to finish the writing.