An Hour

Let's commence with the commonalities between the four AP Lang classes, and then branch off into how they differed today.

Tomorrow is the diagnostic rhetorical analysis day to see how you write to a prompt, analyze a text for rhetorical strategies and purpose, and compose in a timed setting. Hence, you have had the "Roseto Mystery" passage to close read for strategies and purpose. Write your best tomorrow. It is a diagnosis of where you are in the collegiate writing process and will help you with your future writings.

*For the prompt tomorrow, you are allowed to use your close read of the passage (highlighting and notes) as instructed. You will not be allowed to use prewritten paragraphs or a full essay as this was not part of the instructions.

1, 3, 4: At the start of the hour, we looked over your individual strategy paragraphs for "Theme for English B." For the most part, you understood the identification of the strategy and explaining its role. Just don't forget to have a directed topic sentence with the strategy and the purpose and textual evidence to support your ideas throughout the paragraph. We then moved onto vocab experts (Day 1 for first hour; Day 2 for third and fourth hours.) Last, we read Chopin's "A Story of an Hour," looking at the meaning of the text. Bring this back on the block day for the analysis portion. Also, bring your toolbox on Wednesday as we will have some time to work on it during class.

7: As mentioned in class, we had to sacrifice vocab experts and toolboxes in order for you to have a practice run on rhetorical analysis. Identifying purpose and strategies, you looked at WHY a text is written and WHAT the author uses to convey his or her purpose. For homework, you are to write your individual rhetorical analysis paragraph for this poem. If you want feedback on this paragraph prior to prompt writing tomorrow, you will need to come see me BEFORE school for hints and suggestions. Passing periods will not work due to the prompt writing all day. On Wednesday, bring "Theme" paragraph back for partner analysis, vocab experts to begin, and your toolbox.