Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Happy Birthday Jamie and Donald!!

AP studs did the following today:

Wrote a brief paragraph on Socrative on the following prompt:

"Write a brief paragraph on an issue about which you are passionate." 

Then you watched a dated, albeit fascinating, video, "William's Doll."  If you missed this video (or would like to watch it again, please click the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lshobg1Wt2M

We then listed the pros and cons of William receiving a doll, with a view to applying these factors to structures of arguments tomorrow.

Please remember that your writing on the scoop-it article "Hip Hop Speaks to Guns," by Ta-Nehisi Coates is due tomorrow on or before 11:59 p.m.  A link to this very article appears below:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/opinion/coates-hip-hop-speaks-to-the-guns.html?_r=2&

Please also recall that your writing on this article must take the shape pursuant to the following requirements:

First paragraph - a short prĂ©cis containing the following:  author's name, article's title, publication's name, and the author's thesis, which you will highlight in yellow.

Second paragraph - a summary of the argument with at least one embedded quote, which you will highlight in pink.

Third paragraph - your opinion of the article with a concession and rebuttal highlighted in green.




Your piece must be at least 500 words in length.

Have a wonderful night!  I'm off to the opera!

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