Eat Those Babies!

Our satire reading is at the forefront of AP Lang today, or at least in three of the classes, as we read and digested (yep, couldn't help myself there) the situation in Ireland, the British upper-crust pretension, and Swift's hyperbolic satire to further indicate the cruelty all have to the impoverished, namely those poor lads and lasses born into a world of begging, rags, shambles, and utter miserable existence of the time. 

Whenever you will need it, either for readings or making multiple choice questions in the near future, here is the link to the text that has the same paragraph numbers as our textbook: A Modest Proposal.

1: After vocab/tone review - and yes, all of those previous tone words will make reappearances, we spent the rest of the time reading "A Modest Proposal," which we will finish the last paragraphs tomorrow.

3: After finishing up all the new vocab, we reviewed the tone too, and then made our way into "A Modest Proposal," with 2 paragraphs left to read for tomorrow!

4: We wrapped up "A Modest Proposal," and you have an assignment that is due by 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday via sharing: to write 10 multiple choice questions on the text on a Google doc, provide answer key, and write questions that offer a variety of questions in difficulty and style. Use your MC packet for hints on how to write the questions, and remember to take a looksee at your previous MC passages for ideas. We also finished up vocab and tone work today for reviewing purposes tomorrow.

7: We completed the vocab/tone quiz, which means a new topic will be here later this week! Meanwhile, we continued on our pathway of exemplification, moving through the steps of brainstorming, thesis, relevance, range, and specificity. At this point, you are on the specificity step and writing an exemplification paragraph to further validate your team's thesis of vision. Have this ready to go for class tomorrow!