Full Multiple Choice Test

 Big Idea: TBA

Learning Target: TBA

Reading: We will read for fifteen minutes. Follow the reading schedule listed on this document.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Today you will take a full multiple choice test. It is found on AP Classroom. You can only take it in class. The assignment will close when class is over.

Homework:

1. Work on 2-3 page essay. Due next Friday.

Double Timed writing

 Big Idea: TBA

Learning Target: TBA

Reading: We will read for fifteen minutes. Follow the reading schedule listed on this document.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. On the scored six samples, both of them, highlight and write the following items:
1. in one color highlight the thesis and topic sentences for each paragraph. Underline transition words.
2. in another color highlight citations for RA and specific evidence for Argument.
3. in a third color, highlight what you also noticed in your own writing.
4. in a fourth color, highlight what you wish you had noticed or wrote about.
5. Write the following paragraph:
1. This essay received a six because...Like this essay, I...However, I wish I had...Based on this sample, I think I scored...

Homework:

1. Work on 2-3 page essay. Due next Friday.

Iron Chef RA presentations

 Big Idea: TBA

Learning Target: TBA

Reading: We will read for fifteen minutes. Follow the reading schedule listed on this document.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Iron chef presentations. Make sure you share them with me. Put the names of the people in your group.
2. Practice multiple choice

Homework:

1. RDW Hyperbole due on Friday

Handing back RA essays

 Big Idea: TBA

Learning Target: TBA

Reading: We will read for fifteen minutes. Follow the reading schedule listed on this document.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Hand back rhetorical analysis essays.
2. Look at model essays. Iron chef presentations for RA.
1. Sample #1 - pages 4-7
2. Sample #2 - pages 3-6
1. Partner 1 - Rhetorical choices
2. Partner 2 - effective evidence
3. Partner 3- Context and audience
4. Partner 4- introduction and conclusion
3. Practice multiple choice

Homework:

1. RDW Hyperbole due on Friday

Satire

 Big Idea: How do you synthesize multiple sources to create an argument?

Learning Target: TBA

Reading: We will read for fifteen minutes. Follow the reading schedule listed on this document.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Rhetorical Analysis: Satire
1. Finish up to paragraph 25 today. The whole document will need to be done by Friday.

Homework:

1. RDW Satire due 4/3

Satire in A Modest Proposal

 Big Idea: How do you synthesize multiple sources to create an argument?

Learning Target: TBA

Reading: We will read for fifteen minutes. Follow the reading schedule listed on this document.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Rhetorical Analysis: Satire
1. Discuss what you discovered yesterday.
2. Today you should be finished with half of the document. I am going to check the first half. The only chance to get the points is today in class.

Homework:

1. RDW Satire due 4/3

Rhetorical Analysis: Satire

 Big Idea: How do you synthesize multiple sources to create an argument?

Learning Target: TBA

Reading: We will read for fifteen minutes. Follow the reading schedule listed on this document.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Rhetorical Analysis: Satire
1. NYT Op-Ed about guns on college campuses
2. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. The assignment is in Google Classroom.

Homework:

1. RDW Satire due 4/3