Fourth Hour Brainstorming

We started off by sharing our brainstorms for empathy, faith, and guilt and then moved into a group activity for further brainstorming and utilization of exemplification and argumentation or writing. If absent, you will need to complete the following steps:
1. Open and share a Google doc with me. You can title it whatever you would like - as long as it's school appropriate.
2. Time yourself 3 minutes and brainstorm all examples for the abstract noun "identity," remembering to not self-edit and attempt to bring in examples from multiple subjects.
3. Time yourself 3 minutes and brainstorm for your next abstract noun "jingoism," just as above.
4. Choose one of your brainstorms or the writing.
5. Write a claim for your definition of your abstract noun.
6. Select one of your brainstorm examples and writing a supporting body paragraph to that claim.

Afterwards, we looked at the new scoring rubric for argumentation. The expectations are much the same as the 1-9 CDQ rangefinders from last week: a claim that is proven through evidence through the entirety of the essay, evidence from relevant, specific, multiple examples that are explained through warrants and set up by sub-claims, and the sophistication from multiple subject examples, connecting ideas under an umbrella claim, a counterclaim, syntactic style, transitions, strong diction, and argumentative voice that is not kidnapped by any persuasive intentions. All of the aforementioned will lead you to a 6. Anything lacking will decrease the score in some manner.

With the new scoring rubric in mind, you then received the philosophical prompt, the first one the AP introduced after the CDQ-style ones, and a chart to help break down this prompt and prepare for writing. The rest of the class was dedicated to working on this chart and running it by me (if time permitted) and having the rangefinders for this prompt to score. Anything not finished was or homework as all of this needs to come in to class on Friday ready or meetings/feedback and analysis of essays.

By the way, vocab and tone have not disappeared. We will still have a quest over 18 and all of your tone words coming up next week. We are taking a little detour to go back to writing and assess everything you learned this quarter. The same goes or multiple choice passages - we will be having a series of 5 coming up soon too as we will have our first full MC test after spring break.