April 23:
2013 Q1 monuments samples - read 1A and 1B
2018 Q2 albright speech samples - read 2A and 2B
Read Q2 part of chief reader report
then score yourself
2013 Q3 ownership samples - read 3A and 3B
Read 2013 Q1 & Q3 parts of chief reader report
then score yourself
See my Q2 and Q3 scores/comments
Read 2017 Q1 newspapers prompt and check samples for it & chief reader comments for Q1 on it
DO THE GOOGLE FORM TASK by end of period (25 easy pts)
2013 Q1 monuments samples - read 1A and 1B
2018 Q2 albright speech samples - read 2A and 2B
Read Q2 part of chief reader report
then score yourself
2013 Q3 ownership samples - read 3A and 3B
Read 2013 Q1 & Q3 parts of chief reader report
then score yourself
See my Q2 and Q3 scores/comments
Read 2017 Q1 newspapers prompt and check samples for it & chief reader comments for Q1 on it
DO THE GOOGLE FORM TASK by end of period (25 easy pts)
April 19
See lines 113 Sedaris or 15 EB White in AP Lang Essays/Speeches Reading List with links
See the PDF for the task below (White on pg 1; Sedaris on pg 4)
Your Google Form task tied the the above two things; due end of period
See lines 113 Sedaris or 15 EB White in AP Lang Essays/Speeches Reading List with links
See the PDF for the task below (White on pg 1; Sedaris on pg 4)
Your Google Form task tied the the above two things; due end of period
white_and_sedaris_questions.pdf | |
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April 18:
Write an intro paragraph (or thesis statement of central argument)
Write three argumentative claims (topic sentences with assertions that appear to come from you ... aka don't mention sources) & Beneath each claim explain how you will use 2 source (or original pieces of evidence) per claim/paragraph
Template (do on paper or copy below and send me in email [email protected] :
Thesis (overall argumentative umbrella statement of your position):
Argumentative Claim or Line of argument #1:
Evidence/sources to support your claim (& how they do that):
Argumentative Claim or Line of argument #2:
Evidence/sources to support your claim (& how they do that):
Argumentative Claim or Line of argument #3:
Evidence/sources to support your claim (& how they do that):
Write an intro paragraph (or thesis statement of central argument)
Write three argumentative claims (topic sentences with assertions that appear to come from you ... aka don't mention sources) & Beneath each claim explain how you will use 2 source (or original pieces of evidence) per claim/paragraph
Template (do on paper or copy below and send me in email [email protected] :
Thesis (overall argumentative umbrella statement of your position):
Argumentative Claim or Line of argument #1:
Evidence/sources to support your claim (& how they do that):
Argumentative Claim or Line of argument #2:
Evidence/sources to support your claim (& how they do that):
Argumentative Claim or Line of argument #3:
Evidence/sources to support your claim (& how they do that):
ap05_englang_synthesi_46827_tv_prez.pdf | |
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college_admissions_scandal_synthesis_question_and_sources_final.docx | |
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A Q2 style of a college admissions scandal prompt
Q1 sources list:
https://wakelet.com/wake/4678e73f-b3e2-4aa1-9fdf-747fb37511ab?fbclid=IwAR1kiPiNhjvao3HdBJLRff_BUI_4yev9SJA2cz3uIyY8SYQKw37PVG5YGaY
As colleges become more difficult to get into, and the education gap keeps widening, there has been considerable debate on how much merit plays a role in the college admissions process, the idea that any student who works hard can go to college if they want to. “Instead, events like the indictment of 33 adults charged with bribery and fraud relating to college admissions force us to confront the uncomfortable truth that no amount of hard work can equal the impact that money and class status have on higher education.” (The Daily Cardinal). How much influence should a parent have on their child’s education? Does society have the right to punish parents who are trying to do the best for their children?
Carefully read the following seven sources, including the introductory information for each source. Then synthesize material from at least three of the sources and incorporate it into a coherent, well-written essay in which you develop a position on the impact of merit or parental influence as a key ingredient to college admittance.
Your argument should be the focus of your essay. Use the sources to develop your argument and explain the reasoning for it. Avoid merely summarizing the sources. Indicate clearly which sources you are drawing from, whether through direct quotation, paraphrase, or summary. You may cite the sources as Source A, Source B, etc.
https://www.dailycardinal.com/.../college-admissions...
https://www.nytimes.com/.../college-admissions-cheating...
B. http://www.pewresearch.org/.../most-americans-say.../
C. https://www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovich/2019/03/13
D. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/.../david-mamet-pens...
E. https://www.cnn.com/.../college-admissions.../index.html...
F. https://www.chicagotribune.com/.../ct-life-stevens...
G. https://www.theatlantic.com/.../stop-college.../584749/
H. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../kelley-williams-bolar...
Not used articles:
https://www.nytimes.com/.../college-bribery-admissions.html
https://www.newyorker.com/.../jared-kushners-harvard...
https://www.nytimes.com/.../college-admission-scandal...
https://www.newyorker.com/.../jared-kushners-harvard...
https://www.huffpost.com/.../college-admissions-scandal...
Q1 sources list:
https://wakelet.com/wake/4678e73f-b3e2-4aa1-9fdf-747fb37511ab?fbclid=IwAR1kiPiNhjvao3HdBJLRff_BUI_4yev9SJA2cz3uIyY8SYQKw37PVG5YGaY
As colleges become more difficult to get into, and the education gap keeps widening, there has been considerable debate on how much merit plays a role in the college admissions process, the idea that any student who works hard can go to college if they want to. “Instead, events like the indictment of 33 adults charged with bribery and fraud relating to college admissions force us to confront the uncomfortable truth that no amount of hard work can equal the impact that money and class status have on higher education.” (The Daily Cardinal). How much influence should a parent have on their child’s education? Does society have the right to punish parents who are trying to do the best for their children?
Carefully read the following seven sources, including the introductory information for each source. Then synthesize material from at least three of the sources and incorporate it into a coherent, well-written essay in which you develop a position on the impact of merit or parental influence as a key ingredient to college admittance.
Your argument should be the focus of your essay. Use the sources to develop your argument and explain the reasoning for it. Avoid merely summarizing the sources. Indicate clearly which sources you are drawing from, whether through direct quotation, paraphrase, or summary. You may cite the sources as Source A, Source B, etc.
https://www.dailycardinal.com/.../college-admissions...
https://www.nytimes.com/.../college-admissions-cheating...
B. http://www.pewresearch.org/.../most-americans-say.../
C. https://www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovich/2019/03/13
D. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/.../david-mamet-pens...
E. https://www.cnn.com/.../college-admissions.../index.html...
F. https://www.chicagotribune.com/.../ct-life-stevens...
G. https://www.theatlantic.com/.../stop-college.../584749/
H. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../kelley-williams-bolar...
Not used articles:
https://www.nytimes.com/.../college-bribery-admissions.html
https://www.newyorker.com/.../jared-kushners-harvard...
https://www.nytimes.com/.../college-admission-scandal...
https://www.newyorker.com/.../jared-kushners-harvard...
https://www.huffpost.com/.../college-admissions-scandal...
AlbertIO AP Lang tips mult choice1 & mult choice tips 2
Mult Choice 7 min movie of tips
MC 2001 29-43 test link
Mult Choice 7 min movie of tips
MC 2001 29-43 test link
April 17:
86 Q3: "It is human nature to want patterns, standards, and a structure of behavior. A pattern to conform to is a kind of shelter." Evaluate the truth of the assertion using evidence and examples from your reading, observation or experience to make your argument convincing
& pick a quote from the C-14 wall you think might make a good Q3 discussion/prompt
86 Q3: "It is human nature to want patterns, standards, and a structure of behavior. A pattern to conform to is a kind of shelter." Evaluate the truth of the assertion using evidence and examples from your reading, observation or experience to make your argument convincing
& pick a quote from the C-14 wall you think might make a good Q3 discussion/prompt
q3_essay_philosophical_chat_-_somewhat_from_tok.doc | |
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gettysburg_devices.pdf | |
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AlbertIO login. Use Class Enrollment Code TU96JB13RCUD
FYI - getting started with AlbertIO
**** Important note – when having students sign up, tell them to use their [email protected] email. Also, they are only allowed one account for ALL AP classes. If they have another AP teacher using Albert, they can just sign in and join your “class”.
provide your students with this link, and instruct students to complete the following steps:
MLK mult choice
practice exam
Read 2013 Q1 monuments - SAMPLE ESSAYS; A = 8; B=5; C=2
On the Queen Liz and Gettysburg passages, do this for Thurs:
FYI - getting started with AlbertIO
**** Important note – when having students sign up, tell them to use their [email protected] email. Also, they are only allowed one account for ALL AP classes. If they have another AP teacher using Albert, they can just sign in and join your “class”.
provide your students with this link, and instruct students to complete the following steps:
- Create an account if they don't already have one. If they have an account, they should log in at Albert.io
- Have them click on their Classes tab at the top of the page and click "Join a Class."
- If the students are not linked to your school, they will need to search for it in addition to entering the classroom enrollment code you give them.
- Once they've successfully joined, they will show as "Enrolled" on the 'Manage Roster' page.
MLK mult choice
practice exam
Read 2013 Q1 monuments - SAMPLE ESSAYS; A = 8; B=5; C=2
On the Queen Liz and Gettysburg passages, do this for Thurs:
monuments_12b_6719_ap_ai_english_cm_web_130605.pdf | |
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Review April 4 - start pg 39 for GMO prompt Q1
Debate from your created AP Lang Q1 prompts
Write a complex essay about considering whether allowing high school students to have a part-time job is beneficial or damaging to the health and educational growth of teenagers.
WED 4/3 are Teen jobs useful = sepanic
take a side and then do:
BENEFICIAL prep doc
DAMAGING prep doc
Which is worse: book burning or flag burning?
MONDAY 4/1 should college athletes be paid (Whyte)
others:
Should they be paid - both sides of the debate - click in to get to other articles
The Shame of College Sports
Should college athletes be paid - NY Times
NCAA exploits college athletes as slave labor
50 min video PBS Frontline: Money and March Madness
Schooled: the price of college sports (see me for DVD)
Here's a fair way to pay college athletes
Paying college athletes would break the NCAA?
Here's why we shouldn't pay college athletes
Why NCAA athletes shouldn't be paid
attempted unionization of Northwestern athletes
the average Duke basketball player is worth 1.3 mil to the school
How much is Tim Tebow worth to UF
stats/graphics 1amp.businessinsider.com/images/580100d5da177d1b008b5070-750-563.png
stats/graphics 2
stats/graphics 3
graphic 4
graphic 5
Voting age to 16 = Stellone & Rigby
Zero Tolerance policy in schools = wilhelm
role of vocational education (Swenson);
March 29
Turn in Modest Proposal Mult Choice answers (10 pts; curved 1.5pts per right answer)
GOOGLE FORM submission needed by midnight Friday (20pts)
tip: use your handouts, vocab lists and the links on the AP Lang main page that has vocab terms
Question 4 = AP Lang Essays/Speeches Reading List with links
Question 5 - see above (April 1)
I Have a Dream Speech
Rhetorical Strategies List for that speech
March 27: Satire
AP Lang Satire website
Satire handout
Satire handouts - (the ones Gufford used to make the handout you have)
Satire Defined
The use of mockery, irony, humor, and/or wit to attack or ridicule something, such as a person, habit, idea, institution, society, or custom that is, or is considered to be, foolish, flawed, or wrong. The aim of satire is, or should be, to improve human institutions and/or humanity. Satire attempts through humor and laughter to inspire individuals, institutions, and humankind to improve or to encourage its readers to put pressure on individuals and institutions so that they may be improved for the benefit of all.
“The best satire does not seek to do harm or damage by its ridicule, unless we speak of damage to the structure of vice, but rather it seeks to create a shock of recognition and to make vice repulsive so that the vice will be expunged from the person or society under attack or from the person or society intended to benefit by the attack (regardless of who is the immediate object of attack); whenever possible this shock of recognition is to be conveyed through laughter or wit: the formula for satire is one of honey and medicine. Far from being simply destructive, satire is implicitly constructive, and the satirists themselves, whom I trust concerning such matters, often depict themselves as such constructive critics.
Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form, although in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humor in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.
Type of Satire: Horation Satire vs. Juvenalian Satire
Traditionally, satire was classified according to two basic types, named after the Roman satirists Horace and Juvenal. “Horation” satire is light and amusing, whereas “Juvenalian” satire is bitter and shocking. But between these two extremes lies a vast range of attitudes; amusement and contempt may be blended in varying proportions. You might imagine these two qualities as the oil and the vinegar in a salad dressing, differing in proportion according to the chef’s taste.
Horation satire is found in the following passages from Gulliver’s Travels, part 1:
…the rope dancing diversion, in which vacant political offices in Lilliput are filled by whoever jumps the highest without falling off the tightrope. Also, honor in office is awarded to those who show the most agility in leaping and creeping over a stick held by the emperor.
Juvenalian satire is found in the following passage from Gulliver’s Travels, Part 2, the King’s response to Gulliver’s descriptions of government in England:
You have made a most admirable [speech of praise] upon your country. You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice are the proper ingredients for qualifying as a legislator…I cannot but conclude the bulk or your natives to be the most pernicious race of odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the earth.
Strategies/Devices/Techniques of Satire (3)
Parody works well as an “umbrella” term because the whole piece is a parody. Introduce it as your first strategy and show how all other strategies contribute to the parody. To analyze parody, identify the satirical target, that is, what is being mocked through imitation.
Write a complex essay about considering whether allowing high school students to have a part-time job is beneficial or damaging to the health and educational growth of teenagers.
WED 4/3 are Teen jobs useful = sepanic
take a side and then do:
BENEFICIAL prep doc
DAMAGING prep doc
Which is worse: book burning or flag burning?
MONDAY 4/1 should college athletes be paid (Whyte)
others:
Should they be paid - both sides of the debate - click in to get to other articles
The Shame of College Sports
Should college athletes be paid - NY Times
NCAA exploits college athletes as slave labor
50 min video PBS Frontline: Money and March Madness
Schooled: the price of college sports (see me for DVD)
Here's a fair way to pay college athletes
Paying college athletes would break the NCAA?
Here's why we shouldn't pay college athletes
Why NCAA athletes shouldn't be paid
attempted unionization of Northwestern athletes
the average Duke basketball player is worth 1.3 mil to the school
How much is Tim Tebow worth to UF
stats/graphics 1amp.businessinsider.com/images/580100d5da177d1b008b5070-750-563.png
stats/graphics 2
stats/graphics 3
graphic 4
graphic 5
Voting age to 16 = Stellone & Rigby
Zero Tolerance policy in schools = wilhelm
role of vocational education (Swenson);
March 29
Turn in Modest Proposal Mult Choice answers (10 pts; curved 1.5pts per right answer)
GOOGLE FORM submission needed by midnight Friday (20pts)
tip: use your handouts, vocab lists and the links on the AP Lang main page that has vocab terms
Question 4 = AP Lang Essays/Speeches Reading List with links
Question 5 - see above (April 1)
I Have a Dream Speech
Rhetorical Strategies List for that speech
March 27: Satire
AP Lang Satire website
Satire handout
Satire handouts - (the ones Gufford used to make the handout you have)
Satire Defined
The use of mockery, irony, humor, and/or wit to attack or ridicule something, such as a person, habit, idea, institution, society, or custom that is, or is considered to be, foolish, flawed, or wrong. The aim of satire is, or should be, to improve human institutions and/or humanity. Satire attempts through humor and laughter to inspire individuals, institutions, and humankind to improve or to encourage its readers to put pressure on individuals and institutions so that they may be improved for the benefit of all.
“The best satire does not seek to do harm or damage by its ridicule, unless we speak of damage to the structure of vice, but rather it seeks to create a shock of recognition and to make vice repulsive so that the vice will be expunged from the person or society under attack or from the person or society intended to benefit by the attack (regardless of who is the immediate object of attack); whenever possible this shock of recognition is to be conveyed through laughter or wit: the formula for satire is one of honey and medicine. Far from being simply destructive, satire is implicitly constructive, and the satirists themselves, whom I trust concerning such matters, often depict themselves as such constructive critics.
Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form, although in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humor in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.
Type of Satire: Horation Satire vs. Juvenalian Satire
Traditionally, satire was classified according to two basic types, named after the Roman satirists Horace and Juvenal. “Horation” satire is light and amusing, whereas “Juvenalian” satire is bitter and shocking. But between these two extremes lies a vast range of attitudes; amusement and contempt may be blended in varying proportions. You might imagine these two qualities as the oil and the vinegar in a salad dressing, differing in proportion according to the chef’s taste.
- HORATION SATIRE is light and playfully amusing, and seeks to correct vice or foolishness with gentle laughter and understanding. (also Horatian)
Horation satire is found in the following passages from Gulliver’s Travels, part 1:
…the rope dancing diversion, in which vacant political offices in Lilliput are filled by whoever jumps the highest without falling off the tightrope. Also, honor in office is awarded to those who show the most agility in leaping and creeping over a stick held by the emperor.
- JUVENALIAN SATIRE provokes a darker kind of laughter. It is often bitter and shocking, and criticizes corruption or incompetence with scorn and outrage.
Juvenalian satire is found in the following passage from Gulliver’s Travels, Part 2, the King’s response to Gulliver’s descriptions of government in England:
You have made a most admirable [speech of praise] upon your country. You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice are the proper ingredients for qualifying as a legislator…I cannot but conclude the bulk or your natives to be the most pernicious race of odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the earth.
Strategies/Devices/Techniques of Satire (3)
- Burlesque: work that ridicules people, or actions by mimicry and ridiculous exaggeration achieved through a variety of ways intending to cause laughter. For example, the sublime may be absurd, honest emotions may be turned to sentimentality. STYLE is the essential quality in burlesque. A style ordinarily dignified may be used for nonsensical matters, etc. Characterized by ribald humor and immodestly dressed women; impertinent comedy, the point being to spoof and titillate and not to offend.
- Caricature: An exaggerated parody, "over the top" portrayal of a person's mental, physical, or personality traits in wisecrack form. Can be insulting, complimentary, and political or can be drawn solely for entertainment too.
- Diminution: Reduces the size of something in order that it may be made to appear ridiculous or in order to be examined closely and have its faults seen close up. Also known as deflation. To analyze diminution, identify what has been reduced, as well as why it would be reduced (satirical purpose).
- Double entendre: a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways. Often the first (more obvious) meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so: often risqué (with a sexual connotation) or ironic to convey an indelicate meaning.
- Farce—exciting laughter through exaggerated, improbable situations. This usually contains low comedy: quarreling, fighting, coarse wit, horseplay, noisy singing, boisterous conduct, trickery, clownishness, drunkenness, slap-stick. Farce is literature that combines exaggeration with an improbable plot and stereotyped characters to achieve humor. Ex. Three Stooges, Frasier, 3rd Rock
- Grotesque: creating a tension between laughter and horror or revulsion; the essence of al “sick” humor or black humor. Ex. A baby seal walks into a club… OR dead baby jokes
- Hyperbole – exaggeration. To enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen.
- Incongruity. To present something that is out of place or are absurd in relation to its surroundings. To analyze incongruity, describe the scene, as well as what is out of place, with an explanation for why it is out of place.
- Inflation: A common technique of satire is to take a real-life situation and exaggerate it to such a degree that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen, and thus satirical. To analyze inflation, identify what is being exaggerated, how you know it is exaggerated, and why it is exaggerated (satirical purpose).
- Invective—harsh, abusive language directed against a person or cause. Invective is a vehicle, a tool of anger. Invective is the bitterest of all satire. An invective is an angry, critical or abusive tirade directed at someone or something.
- Irony
- Cosmic irony: when a deity, or fate, is represented as though deliberately manipulating events so as to lead the protagonist to false hopes, only to frustrate and mock them.
- Dramatic irony: reader knows something important that a character does not know. Dramatic irony is a relationship of contrast between a character's limited understanding of his or her situation in some particular moment of the unfolding action and what the audience, at the same instant, understands the character's situation actually to be.
- Situational irony: what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate. Situational irony results from recognizing the oddness or unfairness of a given situation, be it positive or negative. Even though a person typically cannot justifiably explain this unfairness logically, the coincidental nature of the situation is still very obvious to those evaluating it.
- Socratic irony: named after Socrates. Presenting a willingness to learn, for the sake of exposing an opponents errors. Feigned ignorance for a purpose. Socrates pretended ignorance of a subject in order to draw knowledge out of his students by a question and answer device. Socratic irony is feigning ignorance to achieve some advantage over an opponent.
- Verbal irony: meaning is different, often opposite, from what it says, a contrast between what is stated and what is meant. Often using sarcasm, overstatement, understatement, and/or litotes.
- Juxtaposition: Places things of unequal importance side by side. It brings all the things down to the lowest level of importance on the list.
- Knaves & Fools—in comedy there are no villains and no innocent victims. Instead, there are rogues (knaves) and suckers (fools). The knave exploits someone “asking for it”. When these two interact, comic satire results. When knaves & fools meet, they expose each other.
- Malapropism—a deliberate mispronunciation of a name or term with the intent of poking fun. Ex. “Lorraine, my density has brought me to you.” George McFly, Back to the Future (destiny). To analyze a malapropism, point to the intentionally incorrect word, as well as identify the real word, the word that should have been used and how it mocks its target.
- Mock Encomium: praise which is only apparent and which suggests blame instead
- Mock Epic: using elevated diction and devices from the epic or the heroic to deal with low or trival subjects
- Parody: To imitate the techniques and/or style of some person, place, or thing. An imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialize an original work or its subject matter (or some other target). Designed to ridicule in nonsensical fashion an original piece of work. Parody is in literature what the caricature and cartoon are in art. Parody is used for mocking or mocking its idea of the person, place, or thing.
Parody works well as an “umbrella” term because the whole piece is a parody. Introduce it as your first strategy and show how all other strategies contribute to the parody. To analyze parody, identify the satirical target, that is, what is being mocked through imitation.
- Reversal. To present the opposite of the normal order (e.g., the order of events, hierarchical order). To analyze reversal, identify what the normal order is and then where and why that order has been violated.
- Sarcasm: use of language to hurt or ridicule; not subtle; a sharply mocking or contemptuous remark. To analyze sarcasm, identify the verbal irony (meaning opposite of what is stated), as well as evidence of “attitude,” the words (diction) that indicates the snarky tone, which is the defining feature of sarcasm.
- Syllepsis: one word modifies or governs two or more words with different senses. Ex. "He was deep in thought and debt."
- Travesty—presents a serious (often religious) subject frivolously it reduces everything to its lowest level; a mockingly undignified or trivializing treatment of a dignified subject, usually as a kind of parody. Travesty may be distinguished from the mock epic and other kinds of burlesque in that it treats a solemn subject frivolously, while they treat frivolous subjects with mock solemnity.
- Understatement – Reference to something as exaggeratedly lesser than its true nature; for example, describing a flooded area as "slightly soggy" (Litotes: deliberate understatement)
- Wit: humor in order to criticize, verbal cleverness
- Word Play: the words that are used become the main subject of the work: puns, phonetic mix-ups, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, telling character names, etc.
Analysis of Visual Data / Images / Cartoons: (March 26)
The Roots - Things Fall Apart #17
Model UN gun
Obama (bad) satire cover
Banksy protest/street art
Ai Weiwei protest art
Trump New Yorker cover
Trump Time covers
Trump wall (right wing)
Trump tariffs
Trump wall pt2
Antifa
Germs Invade
TASK:
Pick a likely issue/debate/social issue that might be tackled in a Q1 or Q3 question
Your group/row is responsible for finding one cartoon which show OPPOSITION about the issue.
Your row is responsible for finding one cartoon which show AGREEMENT/favor/support about the issue.
Provide 1-2 sentences of analysis on your choices or interpretations of the chosen cartoons.
& EXTRA CREDIT for submitting a new cartoon that uses visual argumentative techniques on this or another topic.
TIP = Screenshot/snipping tool the cartoon images
Email it to brentrohol@gmail. com WITH ALL GROUP MEMBERS NAMES LISTED ON LINE 1 OF EMAIL
FYI: AP's Reading Images site
http://www.politicalcartoons.com/
http://www.thestate.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/robert-ariail/
Definition: An editorial cartoon, also known as a political cartoon, is an illustration containing a commentary that usually relates to current events or personalities.
(1) Drawing, design and layout:
After you identify the symbols in a cartoon, think about what the cartoonist intends each symbol to stand for.
ExaggerationSometimes cartoonists overdo, or exaggerate, the physical characteristics of people or things in order to make a point.
When you study a cartoon, look for any characteristics that seem overdone or overblown. (Facial characteristics and clothing are some of the most commonly exaggerated characteristics.) Then, try to decide what point the cartoonist was trying to make through exaggeration.
LabelingCartoonists often label objects or people to make it clear exactly what they stand for.
Watch out for the different labels that appear in a cartoon, and ask yourself why the cartoonist chose to label that particular person or object. Does the label make the meaning of the object more clear?
AnalogyAn analogy is a comparison between two unlike things that share some characteristics. By comparing a complex issue or situation with a more familiar one, cartoonists can help their readers see it in a different light.
After you’ve studied a cartoon for a while, try to decide what the cartoon’s main analogy is. What two situations does the cartoon compare? Once you understand the main analogy, decide if this comparison makes the cartoonist’s point more clear to you.
IronyIrony is the difference between the ways things are and the way things should be, or the way things are expected to be. Cartoonists often use irony to express their opinion on an issue.
When you look at a cartoon, see if you can find any irony in the situation the cartoon depicts. If you can, think about what point the irony might be intended to emphasize. Does the irony help the cartoonist express his or her opinion more effectively?
Once you’ve identified the persuasive techniques that the cartoonist used, ask yourself:
The Roots - Things Fall Apart #17
Model UN gun
Obama (bad) satire cover
Banksy protest/street art
Ai Weiwei protest art
Trump New Yorker cover
Trump Time covers
Trump wall (right wing)
Trump tariffs
Trump wall pt2
Antifa
Germs Invade
TASK:
Pick a likely issue/debate/social issue that might be tackled in a Q1 or Q3 question
Your group/row is responsible for finding one cartoon which show OPPOSITION about the issue.
Your row is responsible for finding one cartoon which show AGREEMENT/favor/support about the issue.
Provide 1-2 sentences of analysis on your choices or interpretations of the chosen cartoons.
& EXTRA CREDIT for submitting a new cartoon that uses visual argumentative techniques on this or another topic.
TIP = Screenshot/snipping tool the cartoon images
Email it to brentrohol@gmail. com WITH ALL GROUP MEMBERS NAMES LISTED ON LINE 1 OF EMAIL
FYI: AP's Reading Images site
http://www.politicalcartoons.com/
http://www.thestate.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/robert-ariail/
Definition: An editorial cartoon, also known as a political cartoon, is an illustration containing a commentary that usually relates to current events or personalities.
(1) Drawing, design and layout:
- Things to consider: What facial expressions are needed to convey the message? How can contrast in color or shading enhance the message?
- What number of elements or objects are needed? What is the focal point? Which visuals need to be emphasized? Did the artist avoid clutter?
- Things to consider: Is the story or historical reference widely known? Is there a present day reference? If there are historical people, are they easily identified? If phrases are used from a literary source, is it well known? What background knowledge does the viewer need to understand the references?
- Things to consider: How do the words work with the visual features of the cartoon? How does the title help you understand the cartoon? How many words, if any , are needed to communicate with the viewer? Are the words familiar to the viewers? Which words aren’t necessary? Is the heading necessary?
- Things to consider: How does the cartoon show an ideas or opinion without stating the opinion? (What is used to represent something else? symbol) Is the issue or idea likened to something else? (analogy) Does the cartoon make the viewer “stretch” his/ her imagination? Is this fair?
- Symbols: Are the symbols well known? Do the symbols add to other elements of the cartoon? Does the symbol not only represent something but help the cartoonist make a point?
- Analogy: Is it clear what the analogy represents?
- (Irony is an implied difference between what is said or expected and what is meant or actually occurs.) Things to consider: Do the words or images express a meaning contrary to the overall point of the cartoon? (irony) Does the message make fun of something or someone to suggest change is needed? (satire) Is the humor respectful? What makes the cartoon humorous or ironic? (images, words) Does the humor or irony make the reader more open to the cartoonist’s point of view?
- Things to consider: What is the point of changing the proportion of objects or people in a cartoon? What does the proportion tell you about the relationships between the objects and / or people? How does the exaggeration or understatement grab the viewers attention or force a response? Is the exaggeration or understatement used to encourage debate or force the viewer to think? Does the exaggeration or understatement look too ridiculous or silly?
- Things to consider: What does the caricature of the person emphasize or exaggerate? Is it a fair exaggeration? What does the exaggeration in the caricature (nose, jaw, eyes, ears, etc.) indicate about the cartoonist’s view of the person? Do the exaggerations encourage debate or an emotional response? Is it effective? Stereotypes have to be used carefully. Is the stereotype harmful? Prejudicial? Naïve? Unfairly insulting to an entire group? Does the stereotype reinforce the cartoonist’s opinion or distract from his/her opinion?
- Things to consider: Is there one topic or issue? Does it express one opinion? Does the cartoonist understand the issue or topic? Does the cartoon force the viewer to use his/ her imagination while clearly communicating the cartoonist’ opinion?
After you identify the symbols in a cartoon, think about what the cartoonist intends each symbol to stand for.
ExaggerationSometimes cartoonists overdo, or exaggerate, the physical characteristics of people or things in order to make a point.
When you study a cartoon, look for any characteristics that seem overdone or overblown. (Facial characteristics and clothing are some of the most commonly exaggerated characteristics.) Then, try to decide what point the cartoonist was trying to make through exaggeration.
LabelingCartoonists often label objects or people to make it clear exactly what they stand for.
Watch out for the different labels that appear in a cartoon, and ask yourself why the cartoonist chose to label that particular person or object. Does the label make the meaning of the object more clear?
AnalogyAn analogy is a comparison between two unlike things that share some characteristics. By comparing a complex issue or situation with a more familiar one, cartoonists can help their readers see it in a different light.
After you’ve studied a cartoon for a while, try to decide what the cartoon’s main analogy is. What two situations does the cartoon compare? Once you understand the main analogy, decide if this comparison makes the cartoonist’s point more clear to you.
IronyIrony is the difference between the ways things are and the way things should be, or the way things are expected to be. Cartoonists often use irony to express their opinion on an issue.
When you look at a cartoon, see if you can find any irony in the situation the cartoon depicts. If you can, think about what point the irony might be intended to emphasize. Does the irony help the cartoonist express his or her opinion more effectively?
Once you’ve identified the persuasive techniques that the cartoonist used, ask yourself:
- What issue is this political cartoon about?
- What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
- What other opinion can you imagine another person having on this issue?
- Did you find this cartoon persuasive? Why or why not?
- What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?
Your ultimate stat day task (ask Rohol) - March 25
SCHS Climate Survey - due march 15
NEW: The 25 Songs that Matter Right Now (rather well written model unpacking from individual song titles)
NEW: The 25 Songs that Matter Right Now (rather well written model unpacking from individual song titles)
TASK=
Write a 250-400 word (can go over word count) review/critique of your favorite (or least favorite or most complex relationship with) MOVIE or ALBUM. Submit it to our Turnitin.com class; feedback will be done on the document in Turnitin; peer edits in class Tuesday; 40 points; DUE: should be written/finished in class Wednesday (due March 12 730am)
- you should title your article (this can be fun)
- not required, but can use a five star rating system (or come up with your own system)
- I would encourage a 3-4 paragraph narrative/essay style but you can go with your own style
- make value judgments; don't be afraid of 1st person; don't be afraid to cite or call out other critic reviews you disagree with in your review; you can have a sense of humor; you need to have a point of view
- the voice can be rather sassy, critical, gushingly loving. You can look to historical precedents or allude to similar movies/musicians/etc.
- maintain some balance between the forest (big picture questions about art or the totality of this artist/director) and the trees (individual songs/lyrics)
- You can consider the elements of music (album sequence, pace/melody/harmony/etc (formal elements of music), instruments used, artist persona or public image, how it fits into the arc of their career, album highlights/lowlights, social commentary, the overall unity of the album (is it a concept album)) OR movies (cinematography, the soundtrack, the plotting, the individual actor performances, visual effects/CGI, best scenes/quotes, thematic elements or social commentary, how it fits in the filmmaker's oeuvre/career, perhaps the ending, the genre of the film, film editing,
MUSIC Reviews samples:
pick a recent album review at Pitchfork - generally the closest to our desired style/length
Rolling Stone mag reviews
Consequence of Sound reviews
NME
The most brutal music reviews of all time OR sassy segments from the most negative reviews ever (is a 15 part slideshow)
The 15 most significant Pitchfork reviews
Styles of Reviews:
a sort of bullet list (non-narrative) & Attacking review (Lil Pump) OR Hozier's new album review has a nicely hostile start
a narrative style using paragraphs & a positive review (Solange) - but is 1000 words
TWO historic perfect scoring Pitchfork album reviews: Radiohead's Kid A and Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Rohol's album reviews back in high school (1994) for a Pearl Jam and REM album (think you can only read one before you hit their pay wall)
MOVIE Reviews samples:
Orlando Sentinel movie reviews
Daytona News Journal movie reviews
Metacritic reviews - pick a movie, look under critic reviews; then click a "read full review"
NPR movie reviews
Look for a historic movie review written by Roger Ebert (dead now, but was likely the most famous critic)
13 most essential reviews by Roger Ebert
Ebert's glowing review of 1994's Hoop Dreams documentary
Pick a Rotten Tomatoes approved critic (and then pick a review and then click "read more")
NOTE: you can pick a streamable movie with some TOK/AP Lang utility from this list
(if you wish to an artist/director profile piece instead see Rohol)
Write a 250-400 word (can go over word count) review/critique of your favorite (or least favorite or most complex relationship with) MOVIE or ALBUM. Submit it to our Turnitin.com class; feedback will be done on the document in Turnitin; peer edits in class Tuesday; 40 points; DUE: should be written/finished in class Wednesday (due March 12 730am)
- you should title your article (this can be fun)
- not required, but can use a five star rating system (or come up with your own system)
- I would encourage a 3-4 paragraph narrative/essay style but you can go with your own style
- make value judgments; don't be afraid of 1st person; don't be afraid to cite or call out other critic reviews you disagree with in your review; you can have a sense of humor; you need to have a point of view
- the voice can be rather sassy, critical, gushingly loving. You can look to historical precedents or allude to similar movies/musicians/etc.
- maintain some balance between the forest (big picture questions about art or the totality of this artist/director) and the trees (individual songs/lyrics)
- You can consider the elements of music (album sequence, pace/melody/harmony/etc (formal elements of music), instruments used, artist persona or public image, how it fits into the arc of their career, album highlights/lowlights, social commentary, the overall unity of the album (is it a concept album)) OR movies (cinematography, the soundtrack, the plotting, the individual actor performances, visual effects/CGI, best scenes/quotes, thematic elements or social commentary, how it fits in the filmmaker's oeuvre/career, perhaps the ending, the genre of the film, film editing,
MUSIC Reviews samples:
pick a recent album review at Pitchfork - generally the closest to our desired style/length
Rolling Stone mag reviews
Consequence of Sound reviews
NME
The most brutal music reviews of all time OR sassy segments from the most negative reviews ever (is a 15 part slideshow)
The 15 most significant Pitchfork reviews
Styles of Reviews:
a sort of bullet list (non-narrative) & Attacking review (Lil Pump) OR Hozier's new album review has a nicely hostile start
a narrative style using paragraphs & a positive review (Solange) - but is 1000 words
TWO historic perfect scoring Pitchfork album reviews: Radiohead's Kid A and Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Rohol's album reviews back in high school (1994) for a Pearl Jam and REM album (think you can only read one before you hit their pay wall)
MOVIE Reviews samples:
Orlando Sentinel movie reviews
Daytona News Journal movie reviews
Metacritic reviews - pick a movie, look under critic reviews; then click a "read full review"
NPR movie reviews
Look for a historic movie review written by Roger Ebert (dead now, but was likely the most famous critic)
13 most essential reviews by Roger Ebert
Ebert's glowing review of 1994's Hoop Dreams documentary
Pick a Rotten Tomatoes approved critic (and then pick a review and then click "read more")
NOTE: you can pick a streamable movie with some TOK/AP Lang utility from this list
(if you wish to an artist/director profile piece instead see Rohol)
TASK = Writing a Letter to the Editor (max word count expected = 400 words; submit it to our Turnitin.com class; peer edits will be done Monday; feedback will be done on the document in Turnitin; 40 points; DUE: should be written/finished in class Wednesday (due March 11 730am)
Google form Grade for TUESDAY
Options:
1) pick a recent article from a major magazine/newspaper (anywhere below) and write a direct response to it (pro/extension vs rebuttal/rejection vs clarification/recontextualization/reapplications) that is persuasive of your viewpoint on the topic OR Look through local news sources for either a NEWS article that interests you or a COMMENTARY piece (letter, cartoon, editorial, or commentary) that you read and have a reaction to. & Read this piece thoroughly and think through your opinion.
2) pick a recent social debate/issue (or something that upsets you or needs social action/awareness) and write an argumentative/persuasive essay as though to a local newspaper. Consider local, national, global topics & topics that might be a good AP Lang Q1. (this would basically be writing an "opinion editorial")
3) Do a letter to the school board, principal, President/congressperson, a corporation, etc OR do an open letter (personal manifesto)
Consider your audience (the readership of the newspaper, the specific target of the letter)
Consider forms of appeals, rhetorical strategies, how to make a call to action, how to do effective social protest
TIPS for writing a letter to an editor
another set of Tips
Templates for transitions - strategies in rhetoric/phrasing
TED video on how to create political change through letter writing
Consider elements in a letter to the editor such as direct appeal to your audience, appeals to experts, appeals to tradition, concessions to the opposing viewpoint, anecdotes, quotations, analogy/metaphors, cause & effect, comparison/contrast, control/definitions of terms of debate, framing the context, logos/ethos/pathos (try to build your credibility to speak (aka ethos), hyperbole, humor, shaming, implied threat/invective, rhetorical questions, the identification of common ground/common cause/common values,allusions, concrete examples (or use a case study), parallelism, see the 5 canons of rhetoric on main page of website (particularly consider arrangement/sequence), use of 1st person, sentence length variation, chiasmus, paragraphing, use of firstly, secondly... therefore, thusly
A letter to the editor:
Your letter should include:
Claim:
Reasons:
Evidence:
Explanation/Warrant:
Counter:
Concession:
Rebuttal:
Call to action:
The structure of a successful letter tends to have:
Read Letter from a Birmingham Jail by MLK on readling list page
ARTICLES TO READ (from TOK): LIST 1 and LIST 2
Check articles on SCHSTOK
NON Fiction Book Lists to read before May (from TOK)
Magazine/Print Content of AP LANG Interest (also check who @SCHSTOK is following on twitter)
NEWSPAPERS:
Daytona Beach News-Journal - opinion section AND how to submit a letters to the editor
Volusia Hometown News - letters to the editor & how to submit
Washington Post - letters to the editor & how to submit one
The New York Times - letters to the editor & how to submit one
Tampa Bay Times - letters to the editor & how to submit one
LA Times - letter to the editor & how to submit one
The Guardian UK
MAGAZINES:
Arts & Letters Daily - not exactly current news articles but is useful for AP Lang
The Economist
The Atlantic Online & THEIR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The New Yorker
The New Atlantis
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Independent
Utne Reader
Harper's Magazine
NPR: National Public Radio
13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
Scientific American
Science Daily
Discover Magazine
New Scientist
news @ nature.com
Psychology Today
Big Think
Newsweek, Time, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, New Republic, Forbes, The Economist, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Harper’s, and Scientific American
The New York Times, The Hartford Courant, The National Post, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The State, The Herald-Journal, The Post and Courier, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post
Samples of short letters to an editor:
Handwriting article
Examples of recent letters to editor in Volusia on Q1/Q3 topics:
School Choice debate
for SCHS based issues consider looking at past school climate survey results HERE
NEW letter to the editor on tax revenue - this is pretty clearly over 250 words
Google form Grade for TUESDAY
Options:
1) pick a recent article from a major magazine/newspaper (anywhere below) and write a direct response to it (pro/extension vs rebuttal/rejection vs clarification/recontextualization/reapplications) that is persuasive of your viewpoint on the topic OR Look through local news sources for either a NEWS article that interests you or a COMMENTARY piece (letter, cartoon, editorial, or commentary) that you read and have a reaction to. & Read this piece thoroughly and think through your opinion.
2) pick a recent social debate/issue (or something that upsets you or needs social action/awareness) and write an argumentative/persuasive essay as though to a local newspaper. Consider local, national, global topics & topics that might be a good AP Lang Q1. (this would basically be writing an "opinion editorial")
3) Do a letter to the school board, principal, President/congressperson, a corporation, etc OR do an open letter (personal manifesto)
Consider your audience (the readership of the newspaper, the specific target of the letter)
Consider forms of appeals, rhetorical strategies, how to make a call to action, how to do effective social protest
TIPS for writing a letter to an editor
another set of Tips
Templates for transitions - strategies in rhetoric/phrasing
TED video on how to create political change through letter writing
Consider elements in a letter to the editor such as direct appeal to your audience, appeals to experts, appeals to tradition, concessions to the opposing viewpoint, anecdotes, quotations, analogy/metaphors, cause & effect, comparison/contrast, control/definitions of terms of debate, framing the context, logos/ethos/pathos (try to build your credibility to speak (aka ethos), hyperbole, humor, shaming, implied threat/invective, rhetorical questions, the identification of common ground/common cause/common values,allusions, concrete examples (or use a case study), parallelism, see the 5 canons of rhetoric on main page of website (particularly consider arrangement/sequence), use of 1st person, sentence length variation, chiasmus, paragraphing, use of firstly, secondly... therefore, thusly
A letter to the editor:
- Has a purpose: agree with something, disagree, or add information that the article left out
- Has a summary or mention of the article it refers to
- Highly edited: every word has a purpose
- Includes all of the elements of argument, just not so obvious
- Facts and stats to back up claim
- Rhetorical questions
- Allusion
- Specific details
- parallel structure
- Description
- Repetition
- Persuasive appeals (ethos, logos, pathos)
- Has a call to action
- Has a specific tone appropriate to its purpose
Your letter should include:
Claim:
Reasons:
Evidence:
Explanation/Warrant:
Counter:
Concession:
Rebuttal:
Call to action:
The structure of a successful letter tends to have:
- A statement of the position you are responding to (someone else’s)
- A statement of your opposing or strengthening position
- Citation of credible evidence to defend your claim
- An explanation of why your position is stronger than the other(s)
- To be able to access and read closely from national and local news sites
- To have an opinion on something that matters to them
- To defend it using the elements of argument
- To demonstrate their knowledge of basic rhetorical strategies by employing them in their own writing
Read Letter from a Birmingham Jail by MLK on readling list page
ARTICLES TO READ (from TOK): LIST 1 and LIST 2
Check articles on SCHSTOK
NON Fiction Book Lists to read before May (from TOK)
Magazine/Print Content of AP LANG Interest (also check who @SCHSTOK is following on twitter)
NEWSPAPERS:
Daytona Beach News-Journal - opinion section AND how to submit a letters to the editor
Volusia Hometown News - letters to the editor & how to submit
Washington Post - letters to the editor & how to submit one
The New York Times - letters to the editor & how to submit one
Tampa Bay Times - letters to the editor & how to submit one
LA Times - letter to the editor & how to submit one
The Guardian UK
MAGAZINES:
Arts & Letters Daily - not exactly current news articles but is useful for AP Lang
The Economist
The Atlantic Online & THEIR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The New Yorker
The New Atlantis
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Independent
Utne Reader
Harper's Magazine
NPR: National Public Radio
13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
Scientific American
Science Daily
Discover Magazine
New Scientist
news @ nature.com
Psychology Today
Big Think
Newsweek, Time, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, New Republic, Forbes, The Economist, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Harper’s, and Scientific American
The New York Times, The Hartford Courant, The National Post, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The State, The Herald-Journal, The Post and Courier, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post
Samples of short letters to an editor:
Handwriting article
Examples of recent letters to editor in Volusia on Q1/Q3 topics:
School Choice debate
for SCHS based issues consider looking at past school climate survey results HERE
NEW letter to the editor on tax revenue - this is pretty clearly over 250 words
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Google Form grade for Mon March 4
WATCH/EXPERIENCE SOMETHING you think has a chance of being relevant to a Q3, Q1 essay task:
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Vice News (weekly episodes on HBO)
on Netflix: check episodes for Patriot Act with Hassan Minaj
PBS Frontline episodes
PBS Nova episodes
if you have ESPN+ watch episodes of Enhanced series
TED Video Talks
suggestions for TED talks that deal mostly with Technology or see attachment below
YoutubeEDU
PHD TV
BIg Think videos
Documentaries to Watch (Suggestions)
and easy to stream list of documentaries -- (haven't updated in a few months so some might be no longer available)
PODCASTS (see options below):
PODCASTS TO SUBSCRIBE TO FOR TOK-ness:
WNYC Radiolab
NPR's Hidden Brain
99% Invisible (design/architecture)
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History (most recent season isn't great)
NPR Invisibilia
Slate's Lexicon Valley - for future linguists
Pessimists Archive
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect (on the Supreme Court)
You are Not So Smart
Freakanomics Radio
Rough Translation
Stuff to Blow Your Mind
Philosophy Bites
This American Life
Uncivil
Open Questions
Everyday Ethics
Serial (season 1) & S-Town
WATCH/EXPERIENCE SOMETHING you think has a chance of being relevant to a Q3, Q1 essay task:
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Vice News (weekly episodes on HBO)
on Netflix: check episodes for Patriot Act with Hassan Minaj
PBS Frontline episodes
PBS Nova episodes
if you have ESPN+ watch episodes of Enhanced series
TED Video Talks
suggestions for TED talks that deal mostly with Technology or see attachment below
YoutubeEDU
PHD TV
BIg Think videos
Documentaries to Watch (Suggestions)
and easy to stream list of documentaries -- (haven't updated in a few months so some might be no longer available)
PODCASTS (see options below):
- Radiolab: Colors
- Radiolab: Out of Sight (on imagination, blindness, etc)
- Radiolab: The Skull (storytelling, artifacts, knowledge of the past)
- Radiolab: The Buried Bodies Cases (legal conventions, ethics, etc)
- Radiolab: Driverless Dilemma
- Radiolab: Translation
- Lexicon Valley: New Life for Dying Languages
- Uncivil podcast: The Assets (a podcast correcting the historical record about slavery; this one about big insurance companies who saw human life as a commodity)
- Open Questions podcast: Can Helping Strangers Make Up for Past Injustices? (on how to operationalize a process for reparations)
- You are Not So Smart: The Half Life of Facts (NOT AN OPTION BUT CONSIDER TRYING LATER: Biased against Trump but is a core TOK issue on “post truth” (from Canada))
- You are Not So Smart: Change My View (somewhat on the value of that Reddit community in public debate)
- You are Not So Smart: How we transferred our biases into our machines/algorithms
- Pessimists Archive: Coffee (episode 9)
- Pessimists Archive: Recorded Music (scroll down to episode 3)
- Revisionist History: Hallelujah (mostly about music and form tied to that song)
- Revisionist History: The Satire Paradox (deals with Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, artistic mockery of reality)
- Studio 360: All Shakespeare All the Time (49 min)- for the Hamlet fans
- 1A podcast: The Great Unknown with Marcus Du Satoy (big nat sci questions, free will)
- Ted Radio Hour: The Unknown Brain
- Pessimist Archive: The Novel (scroll to Episode 14)
- NPR'S Hidden Brain: One Head, Two Brains
- NPR'S Hidden Brain: Vegetable Lamb (on how misinformation spreads)
- NPR's Hidden Brain: Man Up (the prison of masculinity)
- This American Life: 81 words (on the story behind removing homosexuality as a DSM disorder in 1971)
- RadioLab: Post No Evil
- Freakanomics: Who Decides How Much a Life is Worth
- Stuff To Blow Your Mind: Ship of Theseus
- You Are Not So Smart: Reality
- You are not So Smart: 124 – Belief Change Blindness (40ish min) https://soundcloud.com/youarenotsosmart/124-belief-change-blindness
- 99& Invisible: 306 - Breaking Bad News (41 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/breaking-bad-news/
- 99% Invisible: 309 – The Vault (29 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-vault/
- 99% Invisible: 303 – The Hair Chart (28 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-hair-chart/
- PBS The Hidden Brain: Creating God (53 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/628792048/creating-god
- PBS The Hidden Brain: The Edge Effect (38 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/07/02/625426015/the-edge-effect
- Stuff to Blow your Mind: From the Vault – Post-Empirical Science (72 min) https://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/podcasts/from-the-vault-post-empirical-science.htm
- Pessimists Archive: Electricity (43 min) https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/pessimists-archive-podcast/e/54030934 & fyi (Coalesce and the voice actors in the Electricity episode as a collection of Creek IB grads from 03+04): https://blog.coalesce.nyc/pessimists-archive-a-visual-compendium-on-electricity-cc2e9b6905d8
- WNYC – Radiolab: More or Less Human (60min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ2OU4uT1U0
- Stuff you Should Know: How the Stanford Prison Experiment Worked (50 min; at the bottom on the first page) https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/stanford-prison-experiment.htm ( fyi too on this HERE)
- Everyday Ethics: College (18 min; load / scroll down to April 18 2018 episode; not the greatest but kinda relevant) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/484357984/everyday-ethics
- Radiolab Presents: More Perfect Union – American Pendulum Reprise (46 min; June 26 2018 episode) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/481105292/more-perfect
- NPR Embedded: The Apology Broker (41 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/06/13/619746115/the-apology-broker
- (for Shakespeare lovers only) Lend Me Your Ears: Julius Caesar (41 min) http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lend_me_your_ears/2018/05/lend_me_your_ears_podcast_episode_1_shakespeare_s_julius_caesar.html
PODCASTS TO SUBSCRIBE TO FOR TOK-ness:
WNYC Radiolab
NPR's Hidden Brain
99% Invisible (design/architecture)
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History (most recent season isn't great)
NPR Invisibilia
Slate's Lexicon Valley - for future linguists
Pessimists Archive
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect (on the Supreme Court)
You are Not So Smart
Freakanomics Radio
Rough Translation
Stuff to Blow Your Mind
Philosophy Bites
This American Life
Uncivil
Open Questions
Everyday Ethics
Serial (season 1) & S-Town
1987 AP Lang mult choice 52-60 Google doc edit task
start Pg 12 - Burke vs Paine dual MC passage
start pg 9 - answers/explanations for Burke/Paine passage
start Pg 12 - Burke vs Paine dual MC passage
start pg 9 - answers/explanations for Burke/Paine passage
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NOTE: you can try the Walden passage HERE which has good answer justifications/explanations
Misc Mult Choice from AP gospel; pg 20-36 - 2 PASSAGES with good answer explanations
2nd passage; questions 11-14; get your answers then either click HERE or go:
Misc Mult Choice from AP gospel; pg 20-36 - 2 PASSAGES with good answer explanations
2nd passage; questions 11-14; get your answers then either click HERE or go:
MAKE YOUR OWN AP LANG Q1 - assignment / template doc - DUE 3pm Feb 22 and share it to [email protected] by then
AP Lang Q1 sample folder drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B04AA4i4sOu8WVhhbGZVYWtqczg?usp=sharing
A sample of the finished product for an AP Lang Q1
TOK class of 2020 ideas
civil forfeiture
internet privacy invasion
the utility of insider vs outsider art
the modern relevance of indigenous knowledge
whether school teachers should be armed
AP Lang Q1 sample folder drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B04AA4i4sOu8WVhhbGZVYWtqczg?usp=sharing
A sample of the finished product for an AP Lang Q1
TOK class of 2020 ideas
civil forfeiture
internet privacy invasion
the utility of insider vs outsider art
the modern relevance of indigenous knowledge
whether school teachers should be armed
2010 Q1 tech exam:
How to write a Q1 synthesis essay
Intro Paragraph OR Thesis statement (Your central/unifying argumentative claim/position taken):
Line of argument 1 (in support of thesis):
Sources Used for Support:
Line of argument 2 (in support of thesis):
Sources Used for Support:
Line of argument 3 (in support of thesis):
Sources Used for Support:
Examples (from reading, observation, experience) to be used that aren’t in the sources:
Counterargument that opposes your viewpoint (and whether/how you will attack its merits OR how you will grant it ground while still not overthrowing your thesis):
Sources Used for Support:
Sample 2010 Q1 Essay (give its letter):
Score (out of 9):
What is your reaction to the nature of technology and how we access knowledge in the 21st century – Is Google making us smarter or stupider? OR 2002 Q8: In what ways has technology expanded or limited the acquisitions of knowledge? OR Was BYOT a good thing educationally for SCHS? How do we (old teachers) communicate with students who are “digital natives” (born into broadband technology)? OR more philosophically: Can the human mind master what the human mind has made (aka all these forms of tech)? Are you scared of the future of AI? OR Shakespeare: “We are consumed by that which we are nourished by” – do you agree, modify, reject this claim in terms of your relationship to technology? OR Technology is like a hammer – you can use it to build a house or you can use it to kill a dude (aka that technology isn’t inherently good or bad) OR can Prometheus myth with fire be applied to technology now. Your comments on that idea or try to come up with your best metaphor for what technology is? Can you be addicted to the internet? Can your generation effectively multi-task? Should laptops be thrown out of college classrooms or should education adapt to the favored methods of its target audience (students)? Will 20th century ideas of plagiarism (or how we use/cite info sources) have to change in the next 20 years and if it does will that be good/bad/dangerous? What does technology want/demand? In you life, what are contexts when you responsibly or irresponsibily use technology (when is technology using you and when are you using technology)?Are we at the dawn of a new age of creativity (or just an ugly form of voyeurism/amateurism/anarchy)? What are the responsibilities of the “knower” (you) in your digital generation? Do you feel freed up to have more time and better live life OR overwhelmed like a hamster running faster on their wheel because of how much info is readily accessible and easy to go through? Does technology take you to or from the process of living life? What do you think of the phrase “continuous partial attention” and are you a victim of it (how long could you live without your checking your cell phone)? Where do you find authenticity and connection and meaning in the digital age? Has you generation gotten better or worse at delayed gratification? How did technology change/alter your childhood? Does tech actually improve the quality of your life?Are you using technology or is technology using/owning/dictating to you? What is the future of democracy in the age of tech (big data + surveillance)... will tyrants be smashed by the organizing/protest tools that require transparency/accountability from political leaders or was George Orwell right about everything)? We have resource wars (for oil, water, land, etc) ... will we have privacy/technology wars this century? How important is personal privacy? How important is volition (personal choice and control) in technological questions?
How to write a Q1 synthesis essay
Intro Paragraph OR Thesis statement (Your central/unifying argumentative claim/position taken):
Line of argument 1 (in support of thesis):
Sources Used for Support:
Line of argument 2 (in support of thesis):
Sources Used for Support:
Line of argument 3 (in support of thesis):
Sources Used for Support:
Examples (from reading, observation, experience) to be used that aren’t in the sources:
Counterargument that opposes your viewpoint (and whether/how you will attack its merits OR how you will grant it ground while still not overthrowing your thesis):
Sources Used for Support:
Sample 2010 Q1 Essay (give its letter):
Score (out of 9):
What is your reaction to the nature of technology and how we access knowledge in the 21st century – Is Google making us smarter or stupider? OR 2002 Q8: In what ways has technology expanded or limited the acquisitions of knowledge? OR Was BYOT a good thing educationally for SCHS? How do we (old teachers) communicate with students who are “digital natives” (born into broadband technology)? OR more philosophically: Can the human mind master what the human mind has made (aka all these forms of tech)? Are you scared of the future of AI? OR Shakespeare: “We are consumed by that which we are nourished by” – do you agree, modify, reject this claim in terms of your relationship to technology? OR Technology is like a hammer – you can use it to build a house or you can use it to kill a dude (aka that technology isn’t inherently good or bad) OR can Prometheus myth with fire be applied to technology now. Your comments on that idea or try to come up with your best metaphor for what technology is? Can you be addicted to the internet? Can your generation effectively multi-task? Should laptops be thrown out of college classrooms or should education adapt to the favored methods of its target audience (students)? Will 20th century ideas of plagiarism (or how we use/cite info sources) have to change in the next 20 years and if it does will that be good/bad/dangerous? What does technology want/demand? In you life, what are contexts when you responsibly or irresponsibily use technology (when is technology using you and when are you using technology)?Are we at the dawn of a new age of creativity (or just an ugly form of voyeurism/amateurism/anarchy)? What are the responsibilities of the “knower” (you) in your digital generation? Do you feel freed up to have more time and better live life OR overwhelmed like a hamster running faster on their wheel because of how much info is readily accessible and easy to go through? Does technology take you to or from the process of living life? What do you think of the phrase “continuous partial attention” and are you a victim of it (how long could you live without your checking your cell phone)? Where do you find authenticity and connection and meaning in the digital age? Has you generation gotten better or worse at delayed gratification? How did technology change/alter your childhood? Does tech actually improve the quality of your life?Are you using technology or is technology using/owning/dictating to you? What is the future of democracy in the age of tech (big data + surveillance)... will tyrants be smashed by the organizing/protest tools that require transparency/accountability from political leaders or was George Orwell right about everything)? We have resource wars (for oil, water, land, etc) ... will we have privacy/technology wars this century? How important is personal privacy? How important is volition (personal choice and control) in technological questions?
2007 exam
AP Lang 2007 Q1 student samples - scores of 4, 6, 8
Q&A on the Q1 performances (pg1-2)
Due by Feb 11: AP LANG Textbook/Reader Review/Critique
AP Lang 2007 Q1 student samples - scores of 4, 6, 8
Q&A on the Q1 performances (pg1-2)
Due by Feb 11: AP LANG Textbook/Reader Review/Critique
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Feb 11: Vote for the best claims on Q1 prompt on school start times
Additional Feb 11 Sources
35) CDC article
36) NewsJournal article
37) NPR article about Seattle schools
Additional Feb 11 Sources
35) CDC article
36) NewsJournal article
37) NPR article about Seattle schools
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2018 Q3 - guidelines, rubrics, stats
read the AP released Q3 samples; scores on last page
read THIS and score the 3 samples
submit your scores by Google Form here
2018 Q3 - guidelines, rubrics, stats
read the AP released Q3 samples; scores on last page
read THIS and score the 3 samples
submit your scores by Google Form here
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Jan 23 - Q3 intro
1. A weekly feature of The New York Times Magazine is a column by Randy Cohen called “The Ethicist”, in which people raise ethical questions to which Cohen provides answers. The question below is from the column that appeared on April 4, 2003.At my high school, various clubs and organizations sponsor charity drives, asking students to bring in money, food and clothing. Some teachers offer bonus points on tests and final averages as incentives to participate. Some parents believe that this sends a morally wrong message, undermining the value of charity as a selfless act. Is the exchange of donations for grades OK?
The practice of offering incentives for charitable acts is widespread, from school projects to fund drives by organizations such as public television stations, to federal income tax deductions for contributions to charities. In a well-written essay, develop a position on the ethics of offering incentives for charitable acts. Support your position with evidence from your reading, observation, and/or experience.
2. Any change for the better brings its own evil with it, and so one powerful consideration should always be in the back of our minds: if we release this good thing, what evil is likely to escape with it?
Select a change for the better that has occurred or that you would like to see occur in society and, in a well-organized essay, analyze both its desirable and undesirable effects. 1983 Q1
3. The list below is made up of pairs of words that are closely related in meaning but differ in connotation. Select one or more pairs; then write an essay in which you discuss and elaborate on the distinctions between the words. Include considerations such as how, when, where, why and by whom each word is likely to be used:
Art..Craft/Faith..Creed/Gang..Club/Intelligent..Smart/Labor..Work/Lady..Woman/Religion..Cult/Terrorist..Revolutionary 86 Q2
4. “It is human nature to want patterns, standards, and a structure of behavior. A pattern to conform to is a kind of shelter.”
In a well-written essay, evaluate the truth of the assertion above. Use evidence or examples from your reading or experience to make your argument convincing. 86Q3
5. Imagine that you have been asked to contribute to a magazine or newspaper an article about a specific place. Write such an article, describing a place that you know well and that might be of interest or significance to your readers. Besides defining that interest or significance, your article should use its descriptive detail to make clear your attitude towards the place you describe. 88Q3
6. The first chapter of Ecclesiastes, a book in the Bible, concludes with these words, “For in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.”
Write a carefully reasoned, persuasive essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies this assertion. Use evidence from your observation, experience, or reading to develop your position. 91Q3
7. In The Spectator (12/15/1711), Joseph Addison wrote: “If the talent of ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use to the world; but instead of this, we find that it is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything that is solemn and serious, decent and praiseworthy in human life.”
Write a carefully reasoned persuasive essay that defends, challenges or qualifies Addison’s assertion. Use evidence from your observation, experience, or reading to develop your position. 92Q2
. 99Q39. 8. Contemporary life is marked by controversy. Choose a controversial local, national, or global issue with which you are familiar. Then, using appropriate evidence, write an essay that carefully considers the opposing positions on this controversy and proposes a solution or compromise. 04Q29. Michael Ignatieff, Professor of the Practice of Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, made the following observation: “To belong is to understand the tacit codes of the people you live with.”
Consider how unspoken rules help define group identity. Then write a carefully reasoned essay that examines the relationship between unspoken rules and belonging. Use specific examples to develop your position. 04 FormB Q3
1. A weekly feature of The New York Times Magazine is a column by Randy Cohen called “The Ethicist”, in which people raise ethical questions to which Cohen provides answers. The question below is from the column that appeared on April 4, 2003.At my high school, various clubs and organizations sponsor charity drives, asking students to bring in money, food and clothing. Some teachers offer bonus points on tests and final averages as incentives to participate. Some parents believe that this sends a morally wrong message, undermining the value of charity as a selfless act. Is the exchange of donations for grades OK?
The practice of offering incentives for charitable acts is widespread, from school projects to fund drives by organizations such as public television stations, to federal income tax deductions for contributions to charities. In a well-written essay, develop a position on the ethics of offering incentives for charitable acts. Support your position with evidence from your reading, observation, and/or experience.
2. Any change for the better brings its own evil with it, and so one powerful consideration should always be in the back of our minds: if we release this good thing, what evil is likely to escape with it?
Select a change for the better that has occurred or that you would like to see occur in society and, in a well-organized essay, analyze both its desirable and undesirable effects. 1983 Q1
3. The list below is made up of pairs of words that are closely related in meaning but differ in connotation. Select one or more pairs; then write an essay in which you discuss and elaborate on the distinctions between the words. Include considerations such as how, when, where, why and by whom each word is likely to be used:
Art..Craft/Faith..Creed/Gang..Club/Intelligent..Smart/Labor..Work/Lady..Woman/Religion..Cult/Terrorist..Revolutionary 86 Q2
4. “It is human nature to want patterns, standards, and a structure of behavior. A pattern to conform to is a kind of shelter.”
In a well-written essay, evaluate the truth of the assertion above. Use evidence or examples from your reading or experience to make your argument convincing. 86Q3
5. Imagine that you have been asked to contribute to a magazine or newspaper an article about a specific place. Write such an article, describing a place that you know well and that might be of interest or significance to your readers. Besides defining that interest or significance, your article should use its descriptive detail to make clear your attitude towards the place you describe. 88Q3
6. The first chapter of Ecclesiastes, a book in the Bible, concludes with these words, “For in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.”
Write a carefully reasoned, persuasive essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies this assertion. Use evidence from your observation, experience, or reading to develop your position. 91Q3
7. In The Spectator (12/15/1711), Joseph Addison wrote: “If the talent of ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use to the world; but instead of this, we find that it is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything that is solemn and serious, decent and praiseworthy in human life.”
Write a carefully reasoned persuasive essay that defends, challenges or qualifies Addison’s assertion. Use evidence from your observation, experience, or reading to develop your position. 92Q2
. 99Q39. 8. Contemporary life is marked by controversy. Choose a controversial local, national, or global issue with which you are familiar. Then, using appropriate evidence, write an essay that carefully considers the opposing positions on this controversy and proposes a solution or compromise. 04Q29. Michael Ignatieff, Professor of the Practice of Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, made the following observation: “To belong is to understand the tacit codes of the people you live with.”
Consider how unspoken rules help define group identity. Then write a carefully reasoned essay that examines the relationship between unspoken rules and belonging. Use specific examples to develop your position. 04 FormB Q3
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1999 Q3: In Antigone, wise Teiresias observes, “Think: all men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil: the only crime is pride.”
Take some time to think about the implications of the quotation. Then write a carefully reasoned essay that explores the validity of the assertion, using examples from your reading, observation, or experience to develop your position
Submit your best evidence for this prompt here by end of period
Take some time to think about the implications of the quotation. Then write a carefully reasoned essay that explores the validity of the assertion, using examples from your reading, observation, or experience to develop your position
Submit your best evidence for this prompt here by end of period