Julie & Audrey & AP Frank

No matter where you are in the Overachievers, you have an example of a classifying image (The Superstar, The Perfectionist, The Workhorse) that does not always fit the internal struggle that eventually emerges via various strategies, organization, and exemplification.

Beyond our Overachievers work, we reviewed vocabulary today, which means that the vocab quiz will be on Monday. There might be a view rhetorical strategies on there too since we have been solidly emphasizing a handful of them this past week.

1 & 4: Now identified as Audrey or AP Frank, you collaborated in partnerships, sharing the strategies and presentation examples for each overachiever. Following that activity, the partners formulated a thesis statement utilizing the 4 part formula (author + active verb + specific strategies + mature purpose) and giving you the opportunity to exhibit your own upper-level diction choices. Ending the hour, you selected 1 of the strategies to prep for sharing on Monday. The sharing of your strategy will involve a topic sentence, examples of evidence from each part of the text, and explanation ideas. From eavesdropping on your work today, we should have some strong strategy analysis!

3: Meetings for the Gladwell prompt have concluded with the hope that you will now take those suggestions and improve your writing and your overall score. At the end of class, we began our Overachievers work by looking at how Julie is introduced to us via the image, the logos, the enumeration of a resume-like p.o.v., which is then quickly juxtaposed with the internal struggle and the pathos forming from her stressful classification as Superstar. For the weekend, finish reading Julie's passage and note how the author continues to introduce her to us.

7: Resuming with the Overachievers, you finished sharing Audrey & AP Frank's passages and how strategies were formulated to introduce this perfectionist and workhorse to us.  Then, you worked with your partner to craft a thesis statement, formula-style, mature diction-style, which then turned into the analysis and sharing of one strategy with the class. While this is a verbal version of rhetorical analysis, the process is still the same: read, purpose, strategies, evidence from across the passage, analysis. All of this is setting up for your partner verbal analysis on a passage, which will require more in-depth analysis and observations. Hopefully, we will make it to the preliminary part of this presentation assignment. If not, there is always Monday.