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AP English Language and Composition
Friday, January 30th, 2015
Grade MC
• Grade your own MC (yes, really. The only person you hurt by lying is yourself – don’t do that). Use a pen with colored ink.
• As you grade, identify and think about trends
• After you are done grading, complete a 3-part statement for yourself:• What I did well:
• What I need to improve:
• My specific plan to make this improvement:
Partner-Score Homework
Due: Read and Annotate
• Lincoln – “Gettysburg Address”
• King, Jr. – “I Have a Dream”
Reminder:
• Be honest and accurate in your scoring
• Record the score on the text and on the rubric
• Initial next to the score on the rubric
Lincoln & King, Jr. Comparison
You may work in partners or small groups, but every person is responsible for completing his/her own work (individual papers).
1. Have a short conversation with a peer – discuss the similarities and differences in each text (think “Venn Diagram”!)
2. Create a bullet-point précis pre-write for EACH text.
3. In addition to your bullet-point pre-write:• Identify two rhetorical devices and/or patterns of development that both texts have
in common. Analyze the effect of these RD/PoD in each text (2-4 sentences).
• Identify two rhetorical devices and/or patterns of development that both texts DO NOT have in common. Analyze the effect of these RD/PoD in each text (2-4 sentences).
Homework
Due Monday, 2/2/15• Précis (3 parts)
• Lincoln
• King, Jr.
• Annotations:
• Anthony – “Women’s Right to Vote”
• Chief Seattle – “Message to President Franklin Pierce”
Due Tuesday, 2/3/15• Annotations:
• Thoreau – On the Duty of Civil Disobedience