In Scholar Quiz, we like to make holidays into our own terminology; hence, we are celebrating Quizentine's Day this week with Valentine's Day trivia in addition to our normal knowledge base. And on this Quizentine's Day in AP Lang, we began each class with vocab and tone work to ensure our vernaculars improve with each and every day!
1 & 3: We then moved on to the CDQ rangefinders to see how argument and exemplification collide! As noted, the more mature, collegiate-level examples gained more attention than the predictable ones many a high school student like to include in their writings. (And while this did not come up today, I would stay away from Hitler - even if he does seem to fit a great deal of the argumentative prompts.) For one more recommendation, select an example for your hook! This is the best way to set up your claim, show voice, and start the exemplification necessary in a successful argument.
5: We reviewed argumentation today via "To His Coy Mistress," which actually works as an "interesting attempt" at Valentine wooing and contributes to identifying claim, evidence, warrant, counterclaim, and rebuttal. As we move back into argumentation, we will first look at the CDQ-style of this mode of discourse. Whether you challenge, defend, or qualify the prompt, you still have your claim as the basis and your own examples to include. For homework, you have the rangefinders to score for the CDQ. Remember, we are just doing 2 activities with CDQ work and then we will concentrate on the more abstract argumentation (like that vision exemplification from last week) for the remainder of the quarter.
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