As for the Overachievers Audrey/Frank analysis and discussion, if you were absent for that activity (whether it was today or tomorrow according to our class agenda), then you will need to show me your notes for the passage when you return to class to achieve your participation points.
As for today...
1: We continued vocab experts - with a minor tangent on hurricanes and hegiras - and then moved into rhetorical analysis via snippets from The Outliers, which had a very specific pattern of starting with a broad analogy, moving into a group circumstance, isolating a specific person, and finalizing with a well-known figure. And through all that, you spotted anaphora, enumeration, polysyndeton, and other strategies that work within many of this cause and effect discourse. All of the above is rhetorical analysis. While in the future you will be analyzing one passage, this should provide a model of how to look at a passage as a whole and find strategies that exist multiple times within its content. Next, we started The Overachievers and analyzed how the author introduced Julie, the Superstar. Through surface reputation to internal reality to brief anecdotes to Vera and her outsider point of view, the author purposely set up Julie in this fashion for the reader to find out her true personality. For homework, you are to finish reading the Julie section, noting what other techniques and strategies filter through her introduction. If absent, here are the opening pages from Amazon (click on "Look Inside" for the text); make sure you read the Julie section and no further: https://www.amazon.com/Overachievers-Secret-Lives-Driven-Kids/dp/140130902X.
3: After vocab experts, we returned to Julie's introduction and looked at how the author uses first person point of view to allow Julie's words to speak for her and how the author injects herself into the text, creating greater voice, a sympathy with Julie, and a greater ethos. Then, the class was divided into 2 with each half taking one of our remaining Overachievers: Audrey or AP Frank. After reading and noting strategies and structure, you met up with like analysts and discussed your Audrey or AP Frank perspective. Then, we mixed and mingled with Audreys and Franks meeting in the middle to teach one another about these Overachievers. At the end, we identified the purpose of this whole section since that is what rhetorical analysis should be.
4: After another round of vocab experts, we finished our discussion of Julie and how the author becomes part of the text via her observations of Julie, her empathy for Julie, and her perspective of Ms. Von Helsinger. Then, you had the opportunity to share your analysis of strategies and organization with your fellow Audreys and Franks. Eventually, this then merged into a partner activity in which the Audreys and Franks met with each other and taught each other about the passages. Once you were back in your original locale, we talked purpose of this passage as purpose is our passion in AP Lang. Last, we looked at all of the Overachievers, and you selected which one best represents your overachieving style.
7: We finally had the first vocab quiz! Since it was quite brief, I hope you did well -- no crying at my desk after school! As with all vocab quizzes, absentees will have a 48 hour window to either take the quiz or schedule a make up time. Afterwards, we resumed vocab unit 2 - which also included a presentation on malapropisms, zeugma, and anadiplosis, or three toolbox terms that you can use for strategy identification. After this, we returned to our overachieving Julie, looking at how the author continues to explore her personality via first person journal and author injection into the storyline. For homework, you are to analyze either Audrey or AP Frank for structure, strategy, and author organization. A, since you were absent, you will need to prep AP Frank for tomorrow's class.
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