Thursday

AP Studs did the following:

 

Erica, Esme, Valerie, Stefani, Michael, Gabriela C., Gabino, Zulfiya, Karina, Eduardo, Robert, and Gabby M. earned extra credit by responding to the request for extra credit.

 

AP students did the following: 

 

Wrote a rhetorical analysis of the following sentence:

 

"The New York Times HELPS STUDENTS SUCCEED - IN COLLEGE, IN THEIR CAREERS, IN LIFE"

 

Certain students chose to write about the entire advertisement, not just the first sentence.  What portions of the text you analyzed was your choice.    An example of a rhetorcial analysis of this text is as follows:

 

Today’s advertisement from the NYT encourages young people to buy and read that newspaper.

In order to emphasize the Times’s importance, the writer included a dash, which conveys that buying the Times is a matter of some urgence, some drama.  After the dash, the reader notices the asyndeton, which begins with “college” and ends with “life.”  Due to the asyndeton, which speeds up the reader, this sentence takes just a moment to read.  When the reader finishes, she will quickly notice that the Times is a newspaper, not just for students, not just for professionals, but for everyone and will help everyone throughout everyone’s life.  If the reader decides that the Times will help her throughout her life, she may decide to buy that paper.

 

You also presented your vocabulary projects.  On some classes, everyone read his or her writing to the small groups.  In others, we heard a students or two present to the entire class.

 

Tomorrow you have a rhetorical analysis and an after-school movie.