Day 15

Choosing what words that represent you to the world....
       with Mrs. Ingui

• Resume tips
• Interviewing skills
• Resume assignment 
• Junior/ Senior Mock Job Interview Day February 4, 2020
• Students will have the opportunity to interview with local business leaders and obtain feedback on strengths and areas for improvement.                                               

What's your sentence?

Dan Pink Motivation

Homework:

The Color of Water reading and questions for chapters 11-16 due Thursday, January 30.
Read classmates' blogs. Comments posts due Sunday, February 2. 
One Sentence Assignment due Friday. 
New Vocabulary List/ Quiz Monday

Vocabulary List 3

Day 13

Today we will examine Zora Neale Hurston's essay "How It Feels To Be Colored Me" and connect the text to chapters 7 through 10 in McBride's The Color of Water.

Homework:

The Color of Water reading and questions for chapters 11-16 due tomorrow, January 30.

Listen to materials for next Blog Post due Sunday, January 26th. 

Read They Say, I Say Chapter 1, questions due Friday. 

Rewrites of Chaves Q2 Rhetorical Analysis due Friday at the end of class.

Day 12

Today we will compare our drafts to the AP scoring example papers in order to score our first attempt at rhetorical analysis. After comparing our work, we will reflect upon what areas need improvement, then we will revise our first draft.

Homework:
The Color of Water reading and questions for chapters 7-10 due tomorrow, January 23.
Listen to materials for next Blog Post due Sunday, January 26th. 
Read They Say, I Say Chapter 1, questions due Friday. 

Day 10

Standards : ELAGSE11-12RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.

Rhetorical Analysis Q2 Writing

• Using the Structuring the Rhetorical Analysis Essay Google Slides presentation, students will write a rhetorical analysis essay based on the Chavez AP English Language and Composition Prompt.

Link to Structuring the Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Homework:
Comment on 2 classmate blogs by Sunday 1/19/20. 
Read and do questions for The Color of Water.
Log on to AP Central and complete assignment 1 by start of class on Tuesday 1/21.
Vocabulary Quiz 2 Tuesday 1/21.

Day 9

Background information for James McBride's The Color of Water

• Memoir - genre, "truth", perceptions
• Conflicts
• Time Frame
• Judaism
• Miscegenation (Interracial Marriage)
• Black Power

Discussion of Chapters 1-6 

Homework: Respond to 2 Code-Switching Blogs by Sunday. Study Vocab. (Quiz Mon.) Read and answer questions Chapters 7-10 in TCOW. Read They Say, I Say Chapter 1.

Day 7

Q2 Rhetorical Analysis Group Practice

2015 Chavez Prompt Group Work

• Joliffe's Rhetorical Framework
• Thesis Statement and Outline
• Examine Exemplars 

Day 6

• Vocabulary Quiz
• Multiple Choice Practice Test
• Q2 Rhetorical Analysis Essay Practice

Homework: 

Read The Color of Water pages 1-55 and answer questions by Wednesday.

Vocabulary List 2 

Vocabulary List 2: define and find example

1. Alliteration 2. Allusion 3. Anaphora 4. Chiasmus 5. Extended Metaphor

6. Hyperbole 7. Irony 8. Metaphor 9. Metonymy 10. Onomatopoeia

11. Oxymoron 12. Paradox 13. Personification 14. Simile 15. Anecdote

16. Symbol 17. Synecdoche 18. Zeugma 19. Connotation 20. Denotation

Day 5

ELAGSE11-12W1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. a. Introduce precise, knowledgeable claim(s), establish the significance of the claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that logically sequences claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence. b. Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases. c. Use words, phrases, and clauses as well as varied syntax to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims. d. Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing. e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented

• Criteria for blog posts
• Opening techniques for blogs
• Blogging Is the New Persuasive Essay assignment
• Thesis Statement Overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMj6phgqk5c
• Multiple Choice Question Types  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8jFhPGxyAO2ZDJ0cHIwMnY4UW8

HOMEWORK: Blog Post due Sunday, January 12th midnight

                          Remember to study Vocabulary for quiz Monday.

Day 4 Digital Resources and Blog Creation

1.  The Google Classroom Code 6sncb2z
2. Create your own blog

• www.blogger.com
• create your blog
• sign in using your Trojan student login
• copy and paste your URL in Google Classroom

Join AP Classroom  using code VGAYR7

Read and respond to They Say, I Say preface and intro.

Day 3 The Rhetorical Situation

Day 3

Standards: ELAGSE11-12RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.

Today we will get into the basics of understanding rhetorical analysis, realizing how the exchange between the writer and the audience works, and how to explain the strategies that the author chooses to convey his or her message.

• Introduction to Rhetorical Framework

Rhetorical Situation Google Slides

• Matthew Singleton YouTube videos are an excellent resource to understanding the basics of AP Language and Composition. We will begin with this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4PRtBq_Pv0

HOMEWORK: Watch and take notes on three different YouTube Ted Talks videos on the subject of code-switching in preparation for your first blog response on the issue.

Day 1

Day 1: What's that brown thing?

Standards:

ELAGSE11-12RI7: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented indifferent media or formats
(e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem.

ELAGSE11-12SL3: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric,
assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.

✼ Overview of the course- See blog for assignments https://johnson-aplang.blogspot.com/

✼ Purpose- Become a better reader and a better writer by increasing the reading
of all kinds of texts and practicing writing.

✼ The Rhetorical Triangle Introduction

• The importance of knowing your audience and speaking their language.
• Code-switching
• Diction and word choice exercise

✼ Personal Narrative Assignment

• Topic Toss Activity

🌝 Homework:

• Buy The Color of Water by James McBride to begin reading by Monday, January 13th. ISBN9781594481925
• Vocabulary List 1 (Quiz on Monday) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fl0g-G6X8YglWW3iP-kRQV7nYG4Qkqe7YBpxJU4mRiI/edit?usp=sharing