Seventh Hour Tone Words, Round 2

During Friday's class, we reviewed all the vocab and tone words in preparation for our quiz on Monday. We also started our exemplification unit, which concentrates on brainstorming, thesis-making, relevancy, range, and specificity. We started our team exemplification, making it through the first two steps.

Tone words thus far:

• Bantering
• Caustic
• Cautionary
• Choleric
• Clichéd
• Concrete
• Dejected
• Didactic
• Eulogize
• Fatuous
• Formal
• Insolent
• Irreverent
• Kowtowing
• Polemical
• Reticent

Fourth Hour Tone Words, Round 2

In class, we added vocab, reviewed tone words, shared the rest of our allusion posters, and commenced our satire, "A Modest Proposal," with a four paragraph reading. We will finish this criticism of British treatment of impoverished Irish on Monday.

In the meantime, here are all the tone words thus far:

• Abstract
• Apprehensive
• Apprehensive
• Archaic
• Audacious
• Bantering
• Bellicose
• Callous
• Churlish
• Clichéd
• Clinical
• Colloquial
• Contemptuous
• Dejected
• Demoralized
• Derisive
• Earnest
• Effusive
• Empathetic
• Erudite
• Facetious
• Fatuous
• Flippant
• Idyllic
• Incensed
• Informal
• Jejune
• Laissez-faire
• Omnipotent
• Patronizing
• Pedantic
• Pedantic
• Poignant
• Polemical
• Pretentious
• Reticent
• Ribald
• Sardonic
• Scathing
• Simple
• Supercilious
• Trite
• Trite
• Whimsical

Third Hour Tone Words, Round 2

Friday featured allusion posters for the entire hour (if memory serves), which means we will finish up this latest round of vocab on Monday and work on satire as our latest mode of discourse.

All the tone words thus far:

• Ambivalent
• Archaic
• Bellicose
• Biting
• Callous
• Colloquial
• Cynical
• Derisive
• Diffident
• Disdainful
• Effusive
• Empathetic
• Enervating
• Erudite
• Facetious
• Flippant
• Forthright
• Gauche
• Hubristic
• Idyllic
• Incensed
• Incredulous
• Insolent
• Jovial
• Laissez-faire
• Laudatory
• Laudatory
• Obsequious
• Omnipotent
• Pompous
• Pretentious
• Quizzical
• Reverent
• Ribald
• Sardonic
• Scathing
• Simple
• Supercilious
• Unctuous
• Urbane
• Vituperative
• Volatile
• Whimsical
• Wistful

First Hour Tone Words, Round 2

Friday's first hour finished up any new vocab, which means review on Monday and quiz on Tuesday. In addition, we finished our allusion posters, which means you will have ample opportunity to start incorporating all that knowledge into your exemplifications and arguments. But first, we have satire to start off Monday and additional multiple choice passages filtering through all of our modes of discourse.

All tone words thus far:

• Aloof
• Apathetic
• Audacious
• Candid
• Caustic
• Churlish
• Clinical
• Concrete
• Contemptuous
• Cynical
• Demoralized
• Diffident
• Disdainful
• Earnest
• Elegiac
• Gothic
• Impartial
• Incredulous
• Irreverent
• Jejune
• Jingoistic
• Lugubrious
• Lugubrious
• Macabre
• Malicious
• Nihilistic
• Nihilistic
• Nostalgic
• Partisan
• Partisan
• Patronizing
• Poignant
• Provocative
• Reverent
• Seductive
• Sentimental
• Sentimental
• Vehement
• Vituperative
• Wistful

Same Stuff, New Day

Our cycle of working with vocab, tone words, multiple choice, allusions, and modes of discourse continues today and tomorrow and into next week. All of these components are coming in handy for close reading texts and writing essays, which, yes, will be returning in the very near future. You are going use all of the information amassed over these opening weeks of third quarter and apply to your writing so that it may continue to aggrandize to mature, collegiate-level abilities.

More specifically, the classes are at these points:

1: Vocab at 12 words for this unit, tone words reviewed, multiple choice passage 3, as ever emphasizing close reading, completed.

3: Wrapped up our team close read of MC passage 3 and completed the attached questions, vocab at 12 words, tone words reviewed, commenced allusion poster 4.

4: Checked the answers for MC passage 2, vocab at 8 words, tone words reviewed, commenced allusion poster 4 sharing.

7: Finished vocab unit, reviewed tone words, reminded you about your task to complete the 10 MC questions for "A Modest Proposal," shared allusion posters, started or possibly completed MC passage 4.

Toning Continues

Our tone work over the past month has definitely provided you with a stronger vernacular, which is evident from our close reads of multiple choice passages and the discussion of content, tone, shifts, and anything else of interest. All classes are currently in their second round of tone and in the throes of multiple choice practices.

1: Completed the second multiple choice passage, added vocab, and reviewed tone.

3: Completed second multiple choice passage, added vocab, reviewed tone, started third multiple choice passage, which we will finish in class together next time.

4: Speed learning for tone words round 2, started vocab experts for unit 17, began multiple choice practice 2 with previewing questions and close reading. Complete the questions for next time and make sure to continue your usage of process of elimination.

7: Vocab and tone work to start and then reading of "A Modest Proposal," our satire example. You can find a copy of the text here with (I think) the same paragraph numbers are our class textbook: MP . Here is the attached assignment, which you will need to complete by Friday at 3:30 p.m.

1. Create 10 MC questions with answers A-E.
2. Make a variety of questions in style (factual, technical, analytical, inferential), references to the text (paragraph, paragraphs, whole text), and difficulty (easy, mid, difficult). Be inspired by the templates in MC packet and by your previous MC passages.
3. Write on a Google Doc and share with me by the assigned date.
4. Indicate correct answers - you are the test maker!

Ergo

As Abby Wright and a legion of other AP Lang students could tell you, "ergo" is the go-to transition for upper level vernacular and coolness factor. I can't tell you how many essays will now feature that adverbial conjunction and how therefore, hence, and a plethora of other trite transitions will lose favor. Beyond ergo, the hours are doing a mixing and matching of activities involving the retainment of vocab and tone words (which helps your writing and your MC comprehension), creative writing and timed writing (those tone paragraphs may be filed under the goofy category, but you are forced to work under a time limit and write something), and, of course, more multiple choice passages. While first and third hour are in the same position, fourth and seventh are doing their own agenda.

1 & 3: Tone round two included sharing your paragraphs and speed learning the 20-22 (depending on your class) tone words. We have some repeated ones, but for the most part, you are learning a whole new set of vernacular vocabulary! Afterwards, we did not have time for a full MC passage, but that did not stop me from giving it to you for homework. Do make sure to 1. close read the passage thoroughly with circling, underlining, noting, or whatever you have to do to clarify the passage's meaning, purpose, shifts, and the like and then 2. adopt process of elimination to answer the questions with most accuracy. While this may seem a piddling assignment, you should take part in every multiple choice experience - big or small, timed or not - as it broadens your understanding of comprehension and style of questions that AP requires you to answer. Well, that was my little speech about the importance of doing work.

4: We - finally - completed the vocab 16/tone quiz 1, which is graded and in line for the book. As that is completed, you also copied down the next unit for future experts, starting tomorrow, and wrote the next round of tone paragraphs for the topic of "chaos," an abstract notion that would force many of you to flaunt your creative muscles. Tomorrow will be the teaching of those new tone words plus a return to multiple choice with questions first strategy.

7: Since I'm so verbose with the other hours, I don't want to shortchange you and just write an enumeration. So, you are in the throes of multiple choice. We have completed 3 traditional, comprehension-heavy passages to practice strategies and understanding. As noted, several times, close read the passage if you want to have that accuracy when the questions need to answered. Today, we completed a diagnostic regarding the other style of multiple choice: the rhetoric ones. Loosely timed, this assessment was to give you a peek at this part of the exam and, hopefully, show off what you can do. We'll be back to more traditional multiple choice shortly, but first comes "A Modest Proposal," the most memorable form of satire that I could possibly assign for us to read. I hope you enjoy because I always do, especially your facial expressions upon reading it! Too much foreshadowing - must stop. This is what happens when I type this up while you are taking your diagnostic in class.