Period 7 - AP English Language and Composition-Kavalauskas 002 Assignments

Choose ONE of the two options to complete for your Final.

Upload a screenshot of your current points or bowls for points in the gradebook.

Depending on your plans next year (college or workforce/union/trade school), choose a resource guide to fill out.  This will help you next year! I promise! Adulting at college or in the real world is not always fun and these are the things you need to think about :)


This will go in the gradebook :)

Copy and Paste your work from the Pear Deck in here....as we work over a few days....

Feel free to actively read and comment as we go through in class.

Eminem Rhetorical Analysis Q2 Prompt

Watch Video only
Read song lyrics and actively read/annotate
Fill in Close Reading Frame WKSHT
BE READY FOR AN IN-CLASS WRITING PROMPT ON THIS Wednesday!!!

Please upload a picture/screenshot of your completion page or confirmation email that the survey has been submitted.

Everyone should fill out their own Close Reading Frame and have their own Question to ask and answer. You will discuss and help one another but craft your own interpretation...

Make a copy of the attached doc for your group. Everyone can work on one doc. Make sue you label what observations each person makes for #1.

Each group needs to attach ONE letter with everyone's names on it.

The love letter is a genre of writing that has been around forever, that is pervasive, that touches all of our lives – but that we barely ever spend any time talking or thinking about. Well, today, we’re going to talk about love letters.

Attached, you’ll find two different excerpts from two different love letters, written between two different couples. Close read them, annotate them, describe any key similarities and differences, and be prepared to share your findings with the class.

Complete this Practice Test before the end of class.

Last week, you and a partner went over 4 prompts and gathered evidence and thought about how you would answer at least two of them. Today, you will write on one of them.

Prompt #1 - ...develop a position on Kohn’s claim about the nature of competition.
Prompt #2 - ....examine the extent to which Paine’s characterization of America holds true today.
Prompt #3 - ...defends, challenges, or qualifies de Botton’s claim about the vital role of humorists.
Prompt #4 - ...examine the extent to which Emerson’s assertion about the power of books is true or relevant today.

Use the link to join this Pear Deck activity!

Use the link to join this Pear Deck activity!

Depending on your assignment in breakouts rooms (Room #1, 3, 5 --> Emerson or #2, 4, 6 --> Thoreau), you will need to make a copy of the text you were assigned below.

1. In your breakout rooms, READ ALOUD the text stopping to clarify with one another and help each other understand. Share your annotations with one another! You can turn in annotations for credit.
2. Answer the Qs on Google Classroom as a group...ONE PERSON in your group needs to make a copy of the Qs for that text and share it with everyone.
3. Identify the most powerful line in the whole text that you want to share with the rest of the class. Put it on the Jamboard
4. As a group, write a rhetorical precis for your text. Refresh on precis by looking at the attached doc.

Use the link to join this Pear Deck activity!

Use this sheet to get ready for the seminar on Thursday. You will be turning this in as a part of the whole grade for the seminar. Everyone is expected to speak at the seminar but this is an additional way to show me your thoughts...

Link in your Google Doc with your groups questions.

Please link in your questions from today. Make sure everyone's name is on it.

In The Social Dilemma we watch as the director creatively uses three puppeteers that collaborate to manipulate users. The three puppeteers engage in conversation as they figure out how to “lure” users back to their screens. In one scene, they use pictures of an ex-girlfriend posted to social media in order to get the teenage boy back to using his phone.

Over the past few weeks, you have tracked your own internet usage. It is now time to look at your log and provide analysis over what your screen usage says about you and what your puppeteers are saying about you behind your screen.

Your writing (minimum 200 words) should be broken into three sections, exploring the following:
Reflective thinking: What trends have you noticed in your screen usage? Do you look at specific apps during particular times of the day? What particular apps do you use the most? Least? Are there any consistencies in content?
Analysis: Describe your overall reaction to the findings of your log. Do you believe that it gave an accurate portrayal of your screen behavior? Did your findings surprise you and/or did you learn something about yourself when it comes to your usage? What conclusions or realizations did you come to after analyzing your screen behaviors?
Drawing connections: Describe one specific time over the course of the last few weeks in which you felt manipulated by your 3 puppeteers behind your screen. What steps did they take in order to reel you in? Why do you think they did this? Were you self aware during the manipulation and went along complicitly, or was it something you have now realized after the fact? What would you do differently or the same in the future?
If you don’t believe this has happened, please write your own mini-counterargument to the documentary.

You have from now until Jan 28th (2nd period) and Jan 29th (7th, 8th). On the 28th and 29th, we will be doing Ted Talks still.... If you complete this ahead of time, you will extra credit! To get extra credit, you need to complete it by the 27th.

ALL ANSWERS MUST BE IN THE GOOGLE FORM TO BE GRADED.

Feel free to annotate while reading/listening to the speech...this is a possible place to find evidence for the Socratic Seminar that begs the question: Have internet platforms shifted the way humans communicate in a positive, negative or neutral manner?

Feel free to annotate while reading/listening to the speech...this is a possible place to find evidence for the Socratic Seminar that begs the question: Have internet platforms shifted the way humans communicate in a positive, negative or neutral manner?

Over the next week or so, we will be individually tracking our social media and internet usage. From Instagram to TikTok to shopping on Amazon or playing Xbox Live, our time spent on social media or the internet has skyrocketed since the outbreak of covid-19.

Your job is to track what date, what platform, and what exactly you liked or posted to social media or how you used the internet. Considering most of us spend 3+ hours on our phones per day, this is no small feat.

However, do your best to remember to log your “movement”. The more honest and accurate you are, the more you will get out of this assignment. *Reminder - the internet can be a vast wasteland...please remain appropriate in the actions that you log.

Choose one image from slides 7 or 8.

In one paragraph, describe the following:
1. What title would you give this artist's work?
2. What argument is the artist trying to make? Explain your reasoning.

Write a rhetorical precis in a google doc (you create) for the article. Attached are the details of a precis with more examples. DO NOT STRAY FAR FROM THE STRUCTURE. It can only be FOUR SENTECES!!!

This will make you a more concise (and, I argue, better) writer!

Read and annotate the attached article.

See attached

Actively read the article, highlighting rhetorical devices uses, EPL, claims, logical fallacies, main points, questions you have, thought-provoking moments, etc.

Pay special attention to HOW Domini organizes her argument....

In your breakout rooms, you will research your fallacy using the website (CLICK HERE) provided and complete the table for your group. Do the fallacy that matches your breakout room #. For example, Breakout room #1 will be researching RED HERRING. You will be presenting your fallacy to the class so they can take notes.

PLEASE PICK A PRESENTER BEFORE WE GET BACK TO THE MAIN ROOM.

Everyone must hand in the notecatcher … so listen carefully!

Attached is the prompt, rubric, transitions cheat sheet and the jamboard of thesis statements. You must submit by the time assigned here. THIS IS A TIMED ESSAY.

Annotate and do whatever you need to do to be prepared to answer this prompt in class on Monday, Dec 7th. This includes but is not limited to...
-annotating
-highlighting
-underlining
-SOAPSTone
-identifying rhetorical devices
-venn diagramming to connect sources and much more....

Use the link to join this Pear Deck activity!

Use your INFERENCE & SYNTHESIS skills to decide if this is an accident or crime? Slip or trip? Read between the lines in the text and image = INFERENCE. Use the different pieces of information in the text and image to form a conclusion = SYNTHESIS. Pay attention to the information in the text and every detail in the picture.

1. Go back to the 3 sources you used for Challenger Prompt & put each one in a circle
2. Put your thesis in the middle (get from the actual writing on classroom)
3. Type a brief summary of how that sources supports your argument in the outer circles
4. Then, any similarities in the overlapping circles

You have done all the prep work already! Now it is time to put it to work!

Few reminders...
--THESIS is so important! You cannot get higher than a C if you do not have a thesis.
--200 words tops (introduction would be beneficial, but don't worry about a conclusion for this shorter writing piece
--YOU MUST USE THREE SOURCES to get higher than a B.

This is a little tougher than the HS DRAMA SYNTHESIS prompt....but you got it! We will work through it all week :)
Mon: Sources A & B
Tues: OFF (finish SOAPSTONE for Source B)
Wed: Sources C, D, E
Thurs: Asynch Prep Day
Mon: In Class Writing

Tell me your thesis so I can give you feedback before Monday. Remember, your thesis must include: your clear position & line of reasoning (why you believe this). It is optional to include the sources you chose. NO FIRST PERSON!

See attached docs for instructions.

When you are ready, attach your essay and PRESS THE TURN IN BUTTON :)

1. Read the article
2. Complete the Similarities and Differences Close Reading Chart
2. Complete the Says VS Does chart for each paragraph

ONE person from each group can TURN IN their synthesis letter to Marc here. Please make sure everyone who CONTRIBUTED has their name in the closing.

You will work in groups on this synthesis prompt. Only ONE PERSON needs to turn in the final copy with everyone's name on it.

See attached

ONE PERSON FROM EACH GROUP NEEDS TO MAKE A COPY of the "Mini SOAPSTone/EPL Practice" AND SHARE IT WITH EVERYONE ELSE. You will only hand in one doc per group. Make sure everyone's name is on the doc. The texts are linked into that sheet as well.

For the article, please annotate/actively read for 1 point.

For the SOAPSTone, fill in as we have been for 2 points.

In the article, you should annotate using highlighting and/or the comment feature.

Fill in the SOAPStone like we have been.

We are reading Kincaid's "Girl" in class but there are other options on here if you would like to read more memoirs for STUDENT CHOICE points. I did the first row for the first memoir I offered to you guys "Me Talk Pretty" by Davis Sedaris as an example. See attached graphic organizer. Just make a copy for yourself.

Copy of the slides we went over in class today and the reflection to turn in for credit.

Complete 1, 2 3 or more! That is up to you! Where do you need help? Attention Getters or grammar or making stronger claims or maybe just seeing other examples or conferencing with me. You choose!

I highly encourage you all to find a peer (preferably in our class but anyone will do) to edit your essay via SOAPSTone. All the seniors in English IV and AP have had exposure to SOAPSTone. However, I would never require you to share such personal writing, so if you want to opt out of this you will not be penalized.

You should have already SOAPSTone'd your own essay and turned that in on Google Classroom. Both of these activities are to encourage true revision and not just editing. Revision is structurally and organizationally and thoughtfully changing your essay. Editing is making sure your grammar and syntax is correct. WE ARE REVISING and EDITING...

Take the period to either complete your SOAPSTone for your essay (turn it in by the end of class) or find a peer to SOAPSTone with or stop by the google meet attached for some guidance from me in a smaller group setting. I will have both our large and this google meet open to offer help vocally or in the chat.

**You will notice that the DUE DATE is Wednesday end of day but the sooner the better because the essay is due on Friday and you need time to revise after this is completed**

Use Kami to read along and annotate. You can turn this in for STUDENT CHOICE points which are due next Friday.