Draft 2

1: We completed the vocab/tone quiz and started to look at the district MC assessment.

3: We completed the vocab/tone quiz, and you worked on your second and final draft of the vision exemplification paragraph. If you were absent, complete your second draft for Monday.

5: We reviewed for our vocab/tone quiz, and you worked on your second and final draft of the vision of the vision exemplification paragraph. If you happened to be out of class today, make sure to have your final draft completed.

The Specificity of Vision

1: After our vocab and tone review for the partner quiz tomorrow, we spent the rest of the hour in the world of exemplification. The five stages (brainstorm, thesis, relevant examples, range, and specificity) are completed as you received feedback for your first draft of the vision paragraph. Probably the two best suggestions I can give you are to 1. make your topic sentence about the word/idea you are defining (vision in this case) and its qualities or roles in the subject matter of your choosing prior to introducing your person, era, group, movement and 2. bring in as much specific detail as possible to show off your ethos and explain the connection between vision and your example to your audience. Your second draft for this exemplification is paragraph is due by 7:25 tomorrow morning, so you have until then to rephrase, add, adjust, edit, or whatever you need to do or forever hold your typing.

3: Quite similar to first hour with our review of vocab and tone words for the partner quiz tomorrow. However, you began on step 3 of the exemplification process (that would relevant examples) and determined what examples would best validate your thesis and its idea of vision. Next, your group determined the range - whether it be chronological, cause/effect, greatest to least, or some other configuration. Onto step 5, you each composed a detailed paragraph - a first draft - to exemplify and specify the role of vision in many a subject. We made it through feedback of most of the groups, and I shall chat with any remaining writers tomorrow.

5: We finished our new vocab words - finally - and reviewed those and your set of tone words. Afterwards, we were back to the 5 stages of exemplification, starting with the fourth stage of determining the range. Then, you began the specificity portion, which involved composing an individual paragraph on one subject example. (I put some tips in first hour's recap if you need a refresher on what to do for a superior exemplification.) Your first draft of this paragraph is due at the start of class tomorrow so that I may give you feedback for a second draft. MH, I believe your group assigned you a subject for the paragraph, so check your shared document for further clarification.  See you tomorrow!

Our First Official MC

In all hours on Tuesday, we commenced our class with the district diagnostic MC assessment - i.e. 2 passages to gauge how you would do on such an exam after our introductory practices. Overall, we averaged 19/29, which is an above average score for AP testing and, especially, for your first attempt at this style of MC. If you are one of my absentees, you will need to schedule a time (either after school or study hall) to take the MC in the next couple of days. (We can't go over the MC until all have completed it.)

1: We finished sharing our last batch of allusion posters and (if my fading memory serves) reviewed vocab and tone words for your hour. In regards to our "vision" exemplification, our two starting groups now have a range for their examples and have assigned each member one of the examples to construct a paragraph, which you shall do for Thursday's class. For our third group, you should have your full brainstorm and thesis ready to for class (don't worry - you'll catch up).

3: We shared our last round of allusion posters with the class, and I hope you learned some new examples for our exemplification and argumentation work! We will continue reviewing vocab and tone words and returning to our exemplification work next class.

5: We did not have our last group share their allusion posters, so that will start our Thursday's class. Afterwards, we will resume vocab, review tone, and return to your vision exemplification. Our upcoming weeks will rotate vocab, tone, MC, and exemplification/argumentation.

Fifth Hour Tone Words

The following list consists of all our tone words thus far. If you notice any repeating tone words, that means we have had that word in multiple rounds, and you should have strong ethos on its meaning!

• ·         Apathetic
• ·         Archaic
• ·         Callous
• ·         Churlish
• ·         Clichéd
• ·         Clinical
• ·         Concrete
• ·         Dejected
• ·         Demoralized
• ·         Diffident
• ·         Disdainful
• ·         Earnest
• ·         Effusive
• ·         Empathetic
• ·         Enervating
• ·         Erudite
• ·         Flippant
• ·         Gothic
• ·         Gothic
• ·         Incensed
• ·         Insolent
• ·         Jingoistic
• ·         Kowtowing
• ·         Laudatory
• ·         Malicious
• ·         Omnipotent
• ·         Partisan
• ·         Patronizing
• ·         Pedantic
• ·         Pompous
• ·         Provocative
• ·         Resigned
• ·         Reticent
• ·         Reverent
• ·         Sardonic
• ·         Sentimental
• ·         Simple
• ·         Supercilious
• ·         Trite
• ·         Urbane
• ·         Vituperative
• ·         Volatile
• ·         Whimsical
• ·         Wistful

Third Hour Tone Words

The following include all of our tone words thus far. If you notice any duplicates, that means we have had the tone word more than once - and you should definitely have ethos on those!

• ·         Ambivalent
• ·         Archaic
• ·         Bellicose
• ·         Candid
• ·         Candid
• ·         Cautionary
• ·         Choleric
• ·         Clichéd
• ·         Colloquial
• ·         Contemptuous
• ·         Elegiac
• ·         Erudite
• ·         Eulogize
• ·         Fatuous
• ·         Idyllic
• ·         Impartial
• ·         Informal
• ·         Jovial
• ·         Lugubrious
• ·         Macabre
• ·         Nostalgic
• ·         Poignant
• ·         Polemical
• ·         Pretentious
• ·         Reticent
• ·         Ribald
• ·         Scathing
• ·         Seductive
• ·         Sentimental
• ·         Vehement
• ·         Vituperative
• ·         Volatile

First Hour Tone Words

The following include both rounds of tone words for first hour:

• ·         Abstract
• ·         Aloof
• ·         Apprehensive
• ·         Audacious
• ·         Bellicose
• ·         Caustic
• ·         Cynical
• ·         Derisive
• ·         Didactic
• ·         Eulogize
• ·         Facetious
• ·         Formal
• ·         Forthright
• ·         Hubristic
• ·         Irreverent
• ·         Jejune
• ·         Jovial
• ·         Macabre
• ·         Malicious
• ·         Nihilistic
• ·         Obsequious
• ·         Polemical
• ·         Pretentious
• ·         Quizzical
• ·         Scathing
• ·         Trite
• ·         Unctuous
• ·         Whimsical

Exemplification

It's been a 6 day hiatus from AP Lang, but we resumed with our vocab, tone, and exemplification work. In all classes, we looked at the 5 stages of exemplification: brainstorming, thesis, relevancy, range, and specificity. To practice these stages, you have begun a group exemplification on the abstract noun "vision" in various steps. If you were in class, you have brainstormed a substantial list of examples from various subjects (remember, you want to pull from all of your knowledge banks - literature, history, science, math, pop culture, current events, politics, anything and all that would convey examples of those with vision), constructed a team thesis statement, and (in first and fifth hours) selected the relevant examples. If you were not in class, you should prepare a brainstorm of examples of "vision" for next time as you will either be placed into a group with other absentees or be added to a preexisting group.

And don't forget to be in class tomorrow - we have a 2 passage MC district assessment to take to see how you handle a partial AP exam.