Tuesday: Opening Paragraphs

1. page 479 in The Bedford Reader    "The New Witch Doctors: How Belief Can Kill"

TARGET:  ENGAGING OPENINGS

2. Go to cause and effect essay google doc and work together on an opening


3. Go to collaborizeclassroom.com  and post your opening there.

4. Give feedback on two others.

Monday: Getting back to Cause and Effect

Planning your research paper...

Today I am asking you to return to your notecards and your groups in order to touch base and plan your essay.

 Once again, here is the link to the thesis and outline doc for ONE of you to copy and then share with your team and with me.

http://goo.gl/Qy3DtH

review my tips here: http://goo.gl/eCbNk9

Here is the game plan for the week:

Monday: Write thesis/plan essay structure and responsibilities

Tuesday: Review one more sample, write intro paragraph together and share on collaborize classroom

Wednesday: Everyone works separately on their portion of the paper and posts on collaborize for feedback.

Thursday:  I model feedback, if necessary.  Everyone reviews and then revises.

Friday:  Write conclusion paragraph AND Editing workshop for correct citations and/or grammatical problems.  Try out a few different sentence lengths and structures if possible:  periodic, cumulative, balanced, inverted.

PAPERS ARE DUE by Tuesday of next week!

Thursday--day before the test!

Options for classtime today:

• Do the last section of multiple choice: http://goo.gl/2LYDx0  Answers are at the end--don't cheat!
• study past prompts--play the Toulmin game with the Argument question: http://goo.gl/4d66Vc
• study quizlet cards: http://goo.gl/8sgBvP  (There are more on the site--do a search)
• Study your personalized AP test notes.
• Work on your thesis and outline for your research paper--due Monday.

Argument: Review

Here is link to the sample papers for the Argument question for the practice test: http://goo.gl/kmH4fn

What qualities make the top paper effective?  TAKE NOTES on your AP personalized google doc.  Here is mine: http://goo.gl/rktUkU

My feedback:

• use CONCRETE evidence/examples to make your point evident
• use They Say I Say to show that you understand the counterarguments and can refute them
• Concede when you need to.
• do a brief outline of  your essay before you begin

Remember you have three options according to Gerald Graff,

1. Agree, but with a difference
2. Disagree with reasons
3. Agree and Disagree (this can look like a concession and rebuttal  or a qualified answer)

Also, rememeber the Toulmin frame for argument:

Because (evidence), therefore (your position) since (backing) unless (qualifiers).  

Because it is raining out, I should bring my umbrella since it wiill help keep me dry unless it has holes in it.

Let's try that with the 2012 argument!  see here: http://goo.gl/TYP7Xe

Tuesday's class: One more go at rhetorical analysis

Rhetorical Analysis: William Hazlitt "On the Want of Money" 

and Ellen Goodman "The Company Man"

Today we will attempt to carefully analyze two passages for rhetorical effectiveness.  Both are in your study packet.

Instructions:  Read/annotate the essay.  Then write your thesis and record your organizing strategy.

Here is a link to the shared document for Hazlitt:     2nd period  6th period           

 and Goodman: 2nd period   6th period

Here is a link to the Hazlitt 8/9 paper: http://goo.gl/yv4PGi

Monday's class: More multiple choice practice!

Students took 30 minutes to practice doing multiple choice questions from the packet I gave you weeks ago (with rhetorical prompts, too).  Passages are numbered, so you are doing passages #3 and #4 (questions 17-39).  If you improve your score, this grade will replace the one from two Friday's ago.

Also, if you were absent and are interested in being a judge for the Senior Boards, see me for a flier.

Friday: RA practice and Thesis work

Here is a link to another posting by the College Board about how to access your scores this summer: http://goo.gl/J6idQh

25 minute RA practice

2004 http://goo.gl/IeZ0A0
15 minutes to read, annotate and write a thesis and outline for this prompt. Write your thesis here: http://goo.gl/jhWz8y  6th period: http://goo.gl/Y7CLwe
10 minutes to share and dicuss
sample essays: http://goo.gl/pHTdMp

30 minutes to work with partners on Research Paper thesis and outline

See links from yesterday's post!