Mitchell-AP Language & Composition-Tuesday/Thursday-Period3 Assignments

I have unlocked a couple of things on AP Classroom if you'd like to practice that way.  See attached doc for more info...

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If you choose to write essays and want me to score them, please either bring me a hand-written copy or share a google doc with me via email.

Essays: Read 
“A Talk to Teachers” By James Baldwin: page 197+
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read” by Francine Prose: page 176+
“Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education” by Horace Mann: page 248+
“What I Learned” by Roz Chast: page 243+
Any other essay(s) from Chapter 5 "Education"
Respond to two of the “Suggestions for Writing” on pages 276-8. (template on GC)
At least one of your responses should be a formal essay. 
You can choose a second that is a different format (see questions 5, 9, 10, & 11)

YOU CAN USE YOUR NOTES/BOOK!

See textbook, pages 97-109.

Assignment: Unit 1 Progress Check: MCQ

Please read this section: Part 2: Dark Clouds Gathering
Take Reading Notes like this:
The Royal Family: the Good, the Bad, the Confusing
Russia's Problems (i.e. What leads to the revolution?)
Different Lenses at Work (i.e. Besides the political story lines, what other story lines are present?)
Share with me!

Below are four videos from the AP Classroom on Rhetoric and Rhetorical Situation. It will take you about 20 minutes to watch all of these, so you can choose to do them all in one sitting, or spread them out. I hope you will find them useful as another resource for our journey to the AP Lang Promised Land. :)

See pages 1005-14 in your textbook!

Please read the introductory material and Part 1: "Before the Storm"

As you read, be thinking of ideas for a research topic based on your reading of this book
Find a lens you would like to see through: medical, sociological, political, historical, etc.

Set Up Reading Note Format in Three Sections
1. The Royal Family: the Good, the Bad, the Confusing
2. Russia's Problems (i.e. What Leads to the Revolution?)
3. Elements of Nonfiction vs. Elements of Fiction (i.e. what makes this both fiction and non-fiction?)

Share your notes with me by the due date.

And, remember to be thinking about potential topics for a research paper on a topic related to this book. You can select any lens (medical, political, historical, philosophical, religious, sociological, psychological, biological, etc.) from which to conduct your research and write your paper

See pages 84-85 in your practice book.

Please carefully read and annotate this essay and learn about the author by clicking her name and visiting her website.

Then, complete the analysis form included below.

Please print out the entire letter, if possible, and read paragraphs 1-29. Annotate as you go, considering terms in the glossary, along with appeals made, claims put forth and evidence used to back those claims.

Then, add ONE AMAZING SENTENCE to the doc below.

Select an anecdote from the article and add information to your slide. Include a picture and caption.

Please read "Inside Kennedy's Inauguration, 50 Years On" on pages 74 - 77 in the textbook, and on the Google Doc below for your convenience.

Annotate as you go, marking passages that interest you, confuse you, and/or stand out.

Then, generate at least 5 questions about this text in the style of those at the end of the Inaugural Address. Use terms from the Glossary of Style Terms when possible and practical.

Answer your own questions. Use the attached doc for this.

See Text, Pages 78-80

Read the textbook, pages 69 to 74, and use the document below for your work as described on the doc.
Please show your annotations on the speech on the doc itself, or print and do by hand. Share your annotations with me!
And, watch the video of the address after you read and annotate the speech one time. Follow along on your copy as you watch.

Read pages 23 to 29 on determining effective and ineffective Rhetoric and do the activities - in your head or on scratch paper.
Then, complete the Culminating Activity on pages 30 - 35 using the form below for the task on page 30.

Please read this short narrative essay and look at the discussion questions at the end of it. You don't need to write out answers to these, but do be able to talk about them in class.

This is just a dip of your tiniest toe into the wonderful world of AP Lang-style multiple choice questions. This looks like a quiz, but don't panic. Do your best and we'll discuss the answers when you are done. You need to have easy access to Orwell's essay to take this. Remember, it's in your textbook on page 1100. :)

Here is the essay on a google doc if you want to print and hand-annotate, and a doc for your answers to questions 1-5 on page 1106.

Add your thesis statement to this doc.

Add your thesis statement to this doc.

Use this or your own paper, but do look at it either way as it contains specifics and examples that are helpful. :)

Please read the White's essay and the introductory material included. As you read, please find and mark sentences you find to be exemplary/beautiful/interesting/thought provoking/moving/etc. You can print and write on the essay itself or add highlights and comments to your own doc.
Then, complete the attached activity as described.

Please read the White's essay and the introductory material included. As you read, please find and mark sentences you find to be exemplary/beautiful/interesting/thought provoking/moving/etc. You can print and write on the essay itself or add highlights and comments to your own doc.
Then, complete the attached activity as described.