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.

Cold Day Addendum

AP Langers, due to the cold days and Friday's schedule that moves our next classes to Monday, you have an extension on The Modest Proposal MC questions: these will now be due by the end of the school day on Monday. However, if want to share those with me sooner rather than later, feel free to do so. Hope you are keeping warm out there!

Test Making

After playing the part of a test taker, you are now moving into the enviable (?) role of test maker, which benefits your future MC results. All the classes are in similar spots currently, which means the focus is on wrapping up satire, writing MC questions, reviewing tone/vocab, and moving into exemplification.

For the MC assignment on "A Modest Proposal," which is due by the end of the school day on Friday:

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!

*Remember that your MC questions will be compiled into a test for another hour. Hence, you want to challenge your peers with these questions! I also posted the link to "A Modest Proposal" on a previous blog and the paragraph numbers match our textbook :)

Satire

In all hours, we followed a similar plan - even if we ended in different spots:

1. Vocab Experts for Unit 17
2. Tone Words Round 2 - paragraphs (3), speed learning (1,3), circle review (1,3,5)
3. Swift's "A Modest Proposal," the most famous of satires. While we are in the middle of the satire in all hours (fifth hour only two paragraphs away from the finale), you are welcome to read ahead for discussion next class. Here is the link to a version that has the same paragraph numbers as our in-class text: https://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/modest.html. Remember, satire is all about fun - you should be embracing the hyperbole and ridiculousness to help make the real purpose that much more evident and meaningful.

Tone Round 2

A quick preamble - we have been working on a hodgepodge of items for the first three weeks of the semester - vocab, allusions, tone words, modes of discourse, and MC. All of this is building to official, timed MC passages and argumentative prompts. Barring an emergency, make sure to be in class to be a part of this process (it all adds up to improving your MC and prompt scores) and that you are completing all of the assignments. We have had mostly participation grades thus far as we are attaining more ethos on the aforementioned AP Lang topics (yep, you know that will be changing in the very near future when we score MC and start writing full prompts); hence, the majority of you should have high grades thus far. As with every class, each day is part of the learning process to better attain the skills you will need for the future. If you choose not to partake in all of these opportunities, you may not have the experience that you would like to have.

1: We began our next unit of vocab today with our experts and then moved onto round 2 of our tone paragraphs with your selected topic of zoos. Alas, many of you picked quite derogatory tones towards the zoo, but at least you adopted the assigned attitude. Absentees have the following tones for these paragraphs: Aiden - nihilistic; Rylee - eulogize; Ethan - audacious; Izzy - macabre; Mike T. - obsequious. Do remember that each round of 14 tone words is to help you with MC passages, identifying tone shifts in passages, and aiding your own diction when you write.

3: We completed our last MC practice in a timed scenario, moved into our new vocab unit, and then determined our second tone paragraph topic: Kermit the Frog. Unfortunately, a great deal of tone words this week are quite harsh to poor Kermie! For homework, you have the tone paragraph to write. Absentees have the following tones: Kayla - vituperative; Tanner - poignant.

5: As did third hour, we completed our last MC practice in a timed scenario - this one with footnotes to mix up the question types. Unlike third hour, we then moved on to sharing our tone paragraphs from the previous day, including the volatile, the pompous, and the incensed. To end the class, we had speed learning with this round of tone words.