Thursday 4 January: Scarlet Letter annotations due; Custom House presentations
Friday 5 January: discussion of approaches to Hawthorne's argument; winter reading guide Monday 8 January: More work with Scarlet Letter winter reading guide Tuesday 9 January: Synthesis essay practice in class; Here are the rubric, samples, and scoring for cursive handwriting (2021). Thesis and Informal outline due for Sourced Argument due; here is Transcendentalism packet Wednesday 10 January: Scarlet Letter in context: Emerson, Thoreau, "Thanatopsis" due for discussion; American nature writing; specific prep for the in-class writing Thursday 11 January: In-class writing on The Scarlet Letter Friday 12 January: Review for Midterm: Synthesis essay practice; here is rubric for wind power synth (2019); here are student samples; here is scoring; and here's the prompt Midterms: AP Lang midterm will consist of one course-related synthesis prompt with some cold materials and one rhetorical analysis from a text we have read previously. Here are more synthesis materials. How to study For the synthesis essay, you should: • be familiar with the texts in the Transcendentalism packet • remember the major ideas of American Romanticism (of which Transcendentalism is a subset) • look at what the synthesis prompts tend to ask--sometimes it's a pro or con, but other times it is some different approach • practice another synthesis prompt to get good at incorporating a wide array of sources with coherence For the rhetorical analysis, you should: • know that I am likely to pull a text from the packet (and not include it as a synthesis source), use an excerpt of The Scarlet Letter or of The Great Gatsby • review that Modernism handout so that you are up on the kind of stylistic devices Fitzgerald is likely to use and the ends to which he is likely to use them • be glad that you reviewed the American Romanticism handout in preparation for the synthesis essay, so that if I give you an excerpt from The Scarlet Letter, you have a good sense of the likely sensibility of the text • review the old rhetorical analysis assignment sheet with the 11 ways in to rhetorical analysis, with special attention to the stases and appeals, but also more literary elements, since I am pulling from a literary text • look at my comments on your various rhetorical analyses Coming Up: Monday 22 January; hot seat opens for Sourced Argument Paper Friday 9 February: hot seat closes for Sourced Argument Paper Tuesday 13 February: Sourced Argument Paper due Comments are closed.
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