AP Language October 1-2 I can edit sentences for mistakes in punctuation and misplaced modifiers. I...

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AP Language October 1-2 I can edit sentences for mistakes in punctuation and misplaced modifiers. I can identify ellipsis, rhetorical questions, and sentence inversion in a text. I can analyze how a writer’s rhetoric helps persuade the reader

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Page 1: AP Language October 1-2 I can edit sentences for mistakes in punctuation and misplaced modifiers. I can identify ellipsis, rhetorical questions, and sentence.

AP LanguageOctober 1-2

• I can edit sentences for mistakes in punctuation and misplaced modifiers.

• I can identify ellipsis, rhetorical questions, and sentence inversion in a text.

• I can analyze how a writer’s rhetoric helps persuade the reader

Page 2: AP Language October 1-2 I can edit sentences for mistakes in punctuation and misplaced modifiers. I can identify ellipsis, rhetorical questions, and sentence.

Edit for semicolons, hyphens, misplaced modifiers, titles, and commas.

• My dog all ready had laser surgery on his cataracts that worked well, now he’s supposed to get a pacemaker for his heart that keeps a regular rhythm.

• Running good that day, the race was won by Paul Bly an insurance agent from Boston Massachusetts.

• Shelly’s birthstone is an amethyst Faith’s an opal.• The waiter brought fresh shrimp which was heaped on a bed of lettuce

herring which had been marinated in a sour cream sauce and soft shell crabs which were sautéed in lemon and butter.

• This side of the lake which has never had any public beaches has always been a secluded private retreat for our family but we will have to abandon it now because of high taxes.

Page 3: AP Language October 1-2 I can edit sentences for mistakes in punctuation and misplaced modifiers. I can identify ellipsis, rhetorical questions, and sentence.

Reading Quiz

• Complete the multiple choice quiz over Human Intelligence

• You will have 12 minutes to complete the quiz.

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Finish reading Olaudah Equiano

• 1A begin on page 59.• 1B and 2B begin on page 57.• Complete the Tone and Rhetorical Devices

packet for Equiano.