FRIDAY!!!!!!

AP students experienced the following:

Received their graded annotations (Deep made a 199!);
Received an assignment sheet for the week, which is copied below; and
Listened to a story about three veterans and wrote a page in response.

The link to the story is below:

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/07/362010372/bomb-techs-work-through-dark-spots-to-brighter-lives

The prompts for this story are below:

Write a letter from the husband, Max, to his wife, Kim;

Conversation between Max and Mary;

Write a story about a soldier’s courage;

Write about a soldier with PTSD;

Write about Mary who enlisted and why;

Write a journalistic article about any of the events in this story; or

Making jokes to help one feel positive. 

Your assignment sheet is copied below:

Rhetorical Analysis cheat sheet & Due Dates

First paragraph: state the author’s/speaker’s purpose using information from your Aristotelian triangle.

To find the rhetorically important parts of a text, it may help you to recall the following:

DIDLS (Diction, imagery, details, language, syntax) AND SOAPSTONE (speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, and TONE (which DIDLS will help you infer).

Find part of the speech that you think is important;

Embed that quote;

Comment on and describe that embedded quote;

Describe the effect of that embedded quote on the audience; and

Connect that effect to the author’s specific purpose.

(Remember that merely engaging the audience is NOT enough!)

A complete (about two pages) rhetorical analysis of Emma Watson’s speech is due Wednesday, November 19, 2014.

Three discussion questions through page 147 of The Handmaid’s Tale are due Monday, November 17, 2014.

Your annotations through page 197 of The Handmaid’s Tale are due Tuesday, November 18, 2014.

Seventh period listened to the following story from Story Corps:

http://www.kunc.org/post/honor-student-turned-bank-robber-returns-forgiveness

Then you all wrote a page in response to the following prompts:

Write about a time when someone apologized to you, but that apology wasn’t enough;

Write about a time your life flashed before your eyes; 

Write about a time that someone asked for a second chance;

Write about someone who has failed many times, but keeps trying to be a better person;

Write about a criminal who is really a good person; or

Write about a good person that you later discover is a criminal.

AND you may always freewrite!

 

Have a safe, warm weekend!