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more and more farmers across the nation especially those owning small acreage are finding it difficult to maintain a decent standard of living isnt that true

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AP Language and Composition: A Block 3/6/14

Vocab quiz Go to T101 for guidance presentation


DOL #23 The plan for now until the test. Present symbols poster & take notes Determine central argument of each critical

essay and discuss Homework:

Read pgs. 48-81 in Everyday Use. Be ready to apply ideas on Tuesday. Quiz on reading on Thursday. You can use one large index card.

Vocab 12 quiz Tuesday.Vocab 13 quiz Monday, 3/17

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after several attempts in class darnell was able to liquefy the granules bringing it to a boil and separated the components

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Objective: Students will understand the meaning of five symbols in The Great Gatsby and will identify the central argument and supporting details in five critical essays.

DOL #24 Vocab 12 quiz Present symbols posters & take notes Finish discussing critical essays Homework:

Everyday Use quiz ThursdayVocab 13 quiz Monday


Objective: Students will know how to do a “what/how analysis” by practicing with passages from The Great Gatsby.

DOL #25 Finish discussing critical essays Close reading using “what/how analysis”

What does the author say?What is the author’s purpose?How does the author achieve that purpose?

Homework: Everyday Use quiz tomorrowVocab 13 quiz Monday


Everyday Use quiz Gatsby synthesis essay “I Can’t Even” article Homework:

Vocab quiz and what/how passage analysis due Monday

Vocab quiz 14 Thursday, March 20th

Gatsby paper due Thursday, March 27th at 5:00 P.M. to turnitin.com

Read Declaration of Independence and Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, identify syllogism / enthymeme by Monday

Synthesis Essay The thesis should be your original idea. It

should say something about the text that isn’t immediately apparent.

Each paragraph should begin (statement) and end (analysis) with your own idea. Use the articles and text to back up your argument about the text (proof). You can quote directly or paraphrase, but remember to cite an idea that you get from the scholars even if you don’t quote it.

Make sure the paper and the Works Cited are properly formatted according to MLA style.


Objective: to identify and compare syllogisms and rhetorical devices in the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

DOL #26 Vocab 13 quiz Hand in paragraphs Identify the major premise, minor premise, and conclusions

in both Declarations Discuss how Jefferson and Stanton achieve their purposes. Homework:

Gatsby paper due Thursday, March 27th at 5:00 P.M. to turnitin.com Read Of Cannibals for tomorrow Read Uncle Tom’s Cabin for Thursday Read “Common Sense” for Friday Declarations of Independence due Friday @ 5PM to turnitin


Objective: To generalize our discussion of the declarations into a partial framework for rhetorical analysis, apply that framework to another text, and learn how to do a “says / does” analysis.

DOL #27 Discuss papers Hand in what/how analyses (from yesterday—oops!) Finish discussion of declarations Meta-analysis: what did we discuss? Discuss Of Cannibals: “Says/Does” Analysis Homework

Gatsby paper due Thursday, March 27th at 5:00 P.M. to turnitin.com Read Uncle Tom’s Cabin for Thursday Read “Common Sense” for Friday Declarations of Independence due Friday @ 5PM to turnitin Letter reflections due Monday, 3/24 (paper copy)

Jump-starting a says/does analysis for Of Cannibals (paragraph-by-paragraph)What does the paragraph say? What does the paragraph do?

1. American Indians are not savage; Europeans only think they’re savage because they’re unfamiliar to Europeans. What we think of “savage” is actually closer to nature, uncorrupted by civilization. There’s no reason to think that the ability to alter nature is superior to living in nature without changing it. Europeans are actually “savage” because we’ve altered things that nature made perfect to fit our “corrupted taste.” Nevertheless, nature is superior to technology and art.

Montaigne introduces his argument by countering the European definition of “wild” and arguing for a redefinition of the term “savage.” He develops a contrast between art (technology or any alteration of nature) and Nature, personifying nature with reverent diction (“beauty,” “riches,” “purity”) and using violent diction to characterize the actions of Europeans toward nature (“surcharged” and “overchoked”). He emphasizes the inherent superiority of nature by dismissing all human enterprise to change it, using diction that belittles and undermines those to seek to alter nature, like “vain,” “frivolous,” and ashamed.”


Objective: To continue practicing different approaches to rhetorical analysis

DOL #28 Vocab 14 Quiz (10 minutes) Finish Of Cannibals “says / does” analysis and discuss Good examples of Gatsby what / how analyses Analyze Uncle Tom’s Cabin in groups, then together. Homework

Gatsby paper due Thursday, March 27th at 5:00 P.M. to turnitin.com Read “Common Sense” for Friday Declarations of Independence due Friday @ 5PM to turnitin Letter reflections due Monday, 3/24 (paper copy) Read “The Devil and Tom Walker” for Wednesday, 3/26

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