Theme on Rhetorical Analysis

Happy Friday to all my AP Langers! Make sure you read your hour's summary since the discipline reviews altered the plan for a few of you!

1: At the start of the hour, you received "The Roseto Mystery," a passage that you will close read for rhetorical strategies and use on your first diagnostic prompt on Tuesday. This diagnostic prompt will be your first foray into collegiate-level writing, and a baseline to see what you will work on during the year. The diagnostic will be scored on a 1-9 AP basis to give you a sense of the AP evaluating process. In the gradebook, this will be evaluated by 50% content and 50% completion.

Following that "surprise," we worked on identifying the purpose and the rhetorical strategies of "Theme for English B."

For Monday, we will start Vocab Experts, compare and contrast your "Theme for English B" analysis paragraphs, and (fingers crossed) work on your rhetorical toolbox.

3 & 4: We started with our first 4 words of Vocab Experts, so your vernacular should already be improving!

Following vocab work, we worked in identifying the purpose and the rhetorical strategies of "Theme for English B."

At the end of the hour, you received "The Roseto Mystery," a passage that you will close read for rhetorical strategies and use on your first diagnostic prompt on Tuesday. This diagnostic prompt will be your first foray into collegiate-level writing, and a baseline to see what you will work on during the year. The diagnostic will be scored on a 1-9 AP basis to give you a sense of the AP evaluating process. In the gradebook, this will be evaluated by 50% content and 50% completion.

On Monday, we will resume vocab, look at your analytical paragraphs for "Theme for English B," and (hopefully) work on your rhetorical toolbox.

7: At the start of the hour, you received "The Roseto Mystery," a passage that you will close read for rhetorical strategies and use on your first diagnostic prompt on Tuesday. This diagnostic prompt will be your first foray into collegiate-level writing, and a baseline to see what you will work on during the year. The diagnostic will be scored on a 1-9 AP basis to give you a sense of the AP evaluating process. In the gradebook, this will be evaluated by 50% content and 50% completion.

Meanwhile on Monday, we will be starting vocab experts, working on "Theme for English B," and checking out the rhetorical toolbox.