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