Close Reading

The 2-word phrase I probably use the most throughout the year would be "close reading," which is then followed by why you should be interacting with your prompts in such a method to avoid any mis-reads and to have your strategies and evidence noted and ready to advance into writing form. Today's classes all featured my unwavering encouragement of close reading - the prompt and the passage. When close reading, the goal is comprehending the passage and building an understanding of the strategies that appear throughout the text. If you take your close read more organically (i.e. not on the hunt for specific strategies but noting words and phrases that stand out and continually build throughout the passage), you will be able to find more techniques that connect to the purpose.

1: Vocab experts began the show, followed by our class close read of the diagnostic prompt, indicating that mis-reads occurred from a lack of close reading the prompt and the passage. When paying microscopic attention to the actual words, slowing down to take in a paragraph and its meaning, a sentence and its form, a word and its placement, you have a stronger starting point for writing. After our class close reading, you had the rangefinders to score 1-9 of old essays. We will analyze those essays tomorrow.

3: Very productive day with vocab unit 13 copied, our last rhetorical analysis presentation, class card throwing (with an official time of 9 minutes - by far the best finish thus far in AP Lang's new season), baby rhetorical analysis, a toolbox quiz (be aware of making this up if absent), and the start of our class close reading with the diagnostic prompt passage. We will resume there tomorrow!

7: After vocab experts, we spent the majority of our time with our class close read, which really inspired a lot of focus on word patterns leading to other rhetorical strategies. To finish up the hour, we scored the rangefinders for this essay.