8/25 Monday (minimum day) – Welcome to the 2014-15 school year! We will go over the following to set the stage for the year: course description, my blog, what you will need, questions, etc.
HW: Bring a dedicated AP English journal, highlighters, post-it notes and index cards to class tomorrow. Contract is due Wednesday.
8/26 Tuesday – A look at Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech. In class reading and note taking of chapter one The Language of Composition, focusing on rhetoric. Terms you will need to know: context, purpose, thesis, claim, assertion, Aristotelian triangle, ethos, logos, pathos, counterargument, concede (concession), refute, connotation(s), propagandistic, polemical, satiric.
HW: Finish terms on note cards, contract is due tomorrow.
8/27 Wednesday – We will be going to the textbook room, review of chapter one.
8/28 Thursday – Quiz on chapter one terms (see 8/26 Tuesday above); review and discussion.
8/29 Friday – A little more time to work on yesterday’s quiz, thorough review, finish chapter one outline, start reading from the Norton Reader (your textbook): Graduation, 32-40 and How It Feels To Be Colored Me, 41-44; answer questions 1,2 and 3 (40,41) and 1,2,3 (44). Due Tuesday.
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My book does not have Graduation or How it Feels To Be Colored Me on. Instead they drop you into the middle of a story about how to dumpster dive on page 32, and then a story about a crippled girl fir pages 41 threw 44. My book was also one of the books with a cereal box cover my guess is the just labeled it wrong. All im asking for is the correct book and an extra day to finish.
Nathan, sorry about that. They must have given you the other edition. Of course you get more time. Please remind me tomorrow. Thanks, Mr. R.