Silent Reading...25 mins

Change of plan regarding grading of the pre-assessment... AP style close reading pre-assessment - 20 mins. 
8 questions for 8 points (2 question curve). The next AP style close reading will be 8 questions at 2 points each (16 points)  

You do not need to post questions tonight, however, I will post a question that I want everyone to respond to.

Friday...
Most of you took the following:
Scarlet Letter ch 1-6 vocab quizzes (15 points)
Scarlet Letter ch 1-10 content quizzes (30 points)

HW: 

Finish reading XI-XIV (95-120)

Turnitin.com (4 points) Please carefully read the directions below:

Building Glossary of Rhetorical Terms

3AP Language and Comp – Wesley

September 11, 2017

Please carefully read all of the directions below.

Rhetorical Terms…Tonight I want us as a class (and each of you individually), to begin building your own notebook of rhetorical terms and vocabulary.

First, write (or copy and paste) the definitions and one example of each of the following and put them into a handwritten or digital notebook. This is for your own benefit.

Second, you must post definitions and examples (a sentence or two) of two terms to turnitin.com. (4 points)  This is for everyone's benefit.. It will help students see definitions and examples other students have found. 

I challenge you, as a class, to provide a relatively equal number of  definitions and examples for each of the terms, rather than, for example, having perhaps ten people respond to "hyperbole" and only one to "metonymy",  Also try to find and provide different, fresh examples when responding to a term, rather than simply repeating the same examples already posted by other students. By the way, the example do not have to come from The Scarlet Letter!  Use the internet to find examples or make up your own.

Whether handwriting or typing your glossary of rhetorical terms, please save your materials in a notebook (handwritten or digital) which you will not lose.  This notebook will be a valuable asset on future close-reading quizzes and in preparing for the AP test. Remember, although you are only responding to two terms on turnitin.com, in your notebook you should include definitions and example for all of the terms (1-10) on this list.

The terms below are from the AP-style close reading questions following a passage from chapter 11 of The Scarlet Letter. To help promote a balanced number of response to the terms, if your last name begins with A-M, provide definitions and examples for two of the terms in 1-5; If your last name begins with N-Z, please provide definitions and examples for two of the terms in 6-11. 

Again, if you notice, that a term had already been responded to by several people, while another has no responses, or only one or two, please try to show some love (provide definitions and examples) to the neglected term.  We simply want balanced coverage of the terms, and a diversity of definitions and examples for each.   

1.     Parallel structure

2.     Exclamatory sentences

3.     Hyperbole

4.     Metaphor

5.     allusion

6.     Rhetorical question

7.     Euphemism

8.     Mollifying 

9.     Metonymy

10.   Oxymoron

11.   Paradox

9/11 Discussion of Scarlet Letter Topics (25 mins) Silent Reading (25 mins)

9/12 SL XI-XIV (95-120) Disc

9/13 SL Reading Day Post disc quests

9/14 N.C. OPEN HOUSE SL XV-XVIII (120-141) disc

9/15 TBD