AP Scholars, your Do-Now, which means enter and do this now:

• In a three-column Graphic Organizer of your choosing, list the following brainstorming info into the appropriate column.

• Column 1: Texts we read• Column 2: Rhetorical strategies we studied• Column 3: Your favorite terminology, either

AP-course specific or Classical Roots• You’ve been warned! I will check between

12:42-12:45.

Written Tasks

A different way to demonstrate Mastery of Content

First, let’s brainstorm! What texts have we studied?

• DOI• CC• DOS• HF• Emerson• Thoreau• JFK speech• FD• Academic Literacy• One-Breasted Women

• Poe• SA Winds• 9-11 para• Argument, Violent

Rhetoric• Julius Lester• Immigration essay• Malcolm X• Community Service

essays/texts

Next, what rhetorical strategies have we learned?

• Diction and syntax• RT• Red herring and other

fallacies• Imagery• Imaging literature

• Metaphors• Alliteration• Assonance• Meter• Rhyme scheme• Anaphora• Buzz words

Now, what rhetorical terms or classical roots terms have we used quite often?• Potentate• Archaic• Juxtapose• Antithesis/antithetical• Interloper• Cataclysm• Paradox• Paragon• Endemic/pandemic• Traduce• Incongruity

• Hypothesis• Anarchy• Imponderable• Oligarchy• Gregarious• Subterfuge• Egregious• Efficacious• Debase• Anomaly

Finally, what’s going on in the world right now?

• Obamacare• Pakistan vs. Israel• Syrian immigration• Drone usage, warfare or

otherwise• China eliminates 1-child

policy• Chimp and pigs = humans• Social Security is going

away

• Gun control: teachers with guns

• China’s pollution affecting other countries

• USA space exploration• Riots around the globe• Eliminate the penny• Population is too elderly

Ready are you (anastrophe, by the way ) to discover the Written Task?

• Written Tasks demonstrate a student’s ability to choose an imaginative way of exploring an aspect of the materials studied in the course. It must show a critical engagement with an aspect (racism, for example) of a text (HF) or a topic (affirmative action). The content of the task must relate to one of the aspects of rhetoric studied in this course. Students are free to choose the text type that is appropriate for the content of the task.

Criteria for WT:

• The actual Task: 900-1100 words.• The Rationale: 100-200 words.• Word count for both sections must come at

the end of each section.

2 parts to a WT:

The Rationale explains:• how the content of the task is

linked to a particular aspect of the course

• how the task is intended to explore particular aspects of the course

• the nature of the task chosen (the text type)

• information about audience, purpose, and the social, cultural or historical context in which the task is set

Written Task Itself• Can be a variety of texts:

speeches, opinion pieces, blog, editorial, short story, screenplay, etc.

• Can be electronic or printed, but word count must still be obeyed.

Samples of Written Tasks:• A short story exploring a minor character’s view of the main action of a literary

text• A public information document explaining the effects of new legislation on a

community• A diary entry in which a character from a work of fiction reveals his true feelings

about another character or the action of a literary text• An episode from a literary text rewritten to place the action in another time or

place• An opinion column that emphasizes the pervasiveness of female stereotyping in

advertising and how these stereotypes are promoted for the purpose of raising company profits

• A newspaper report on a local news event from the perspective of a national newspaper

• A screenplay for a documentary on the effects of global warming • The creation of a mass emailing campaign by a candidate running for public office • A parody of a literary text that highlights a significant feature of the text

So: let’s brainstorm a WT and get started.

• Due 12/16-17/13.