February Assignments

February 3rd

Vocabulary and Rhetorical Terms

And so it begins. In the google drive Assignment Resources folder you will find a folder entitled "Vocabulary and Rhetorical Terms". Over the course of the next three weeks you will master these.

February 10th you will turn in the first quiz (I will post quiz on Feburary 3rd). It will be on the vocabulary A-G.
February 17th you will turn in the second quiz. It will be on the vocabulary H-P.
February 24th you will turn in the final quiz. It will be on vocabulary Q-Z.

In addition, you will have some related homework to post each week in the Weekly Discussion forum under the subheading "Vocabulary and Rhetorical Terms". This homework is designed to help you practice using words and properly identifying different rhetorical terms.

Your assignment for each set of words (February 3rd, A-G; February 10th, H-P; February 17th Q-Z. You will note the homework is due the week before the quiz so you have practice) is as follows:

1) For the vocabulary words you need to construct three sentences using each word (try to come up with at least one absurd sentence that properly uses the word. I find that absurdity helps usage and definition stick in the brain a bit).
2) For the rhetorical terms you need to find three examples of each (I have no problems with you using the power of google here to find examples and in fact encourage it to help clarify the terms in definition and usage) and then write two of your own examples (this can be a bit tricky at times).
3) Construct a paragraph on any topic you wish using six of the vocabulary words and two of the literary techniques. I recommend you use this as an opportunity to practice those concepts that you find most tricky.


Barrons Practice Test C

See Assignment Resources folder for this. As with last week, take your time.

Readings

Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=etas
(This is a rhetorically powerful piece and Edwards knows how to craft words and imagery to maximum effect. Pay attention to this. That said, I'll show my hand, I find this piece somewhat abusive.)

George Washington's "Farewell Address"

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp

Benjamin Banneker's "Letter to Jefferson"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h71t.html

Thomas Jefferson's "Letter to Banneker"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h72t.html

Paper

Assigned January 20th and due February 3rd. I'm going to give you an extra week.

Posts

Keep posting stuff, guys. It's the fun part. I am keeping track of posts for extra credit purposes.




Will fill in below in the next couple of days. What you see below is only partial.

February 10th

Readings:


And so it begins, our foray into Emerson.

"Self Reliance":  http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm
"The Over-Soul": http://www.emersoncentral.com/oversoul.htm

And Hawthorne's rebuttal.

"Earth's Holocaust": http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9231/9231-h/9231-h.htm

And Thoreau.

"Life without Principle": http://thoreau.eserver.org/life1.html (Be sure to read both parts).


Vocabulary and Rhetorical Terms

Homework A-G due.
Quiz A-G assigned: see Exam Folder.
This should take you only about fifty minutes but no rush. Please. Be honest.

Barrons Practice Test D

See Assignment Resources folder for this. As with last week, take your time.

February 17th

Paper:

Do the first Document Based Essay. We need to speed this up a bit. You all will be fine. Two weeks!

http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap14_frq_english_language.pdf


Readings:
Back to Emerson.
"Divinity School Address" : http://www.emersoncentral.com/divaddr.htm

Back to Thoreau.
"On Civil Disobedience": http://thoreau.eserver.org/wendy.html



Paper

Finish it up.

February 24th


Readings:


Recall how I discussed romanticism as a response to the rationalism of the Enlightenment? The goal of the romantics (and this is a major simplification) was to put an emphasis on both head and heart and the mysterious interplay not only between the emotions and the head, but also that mysterious thing called insight that leads to genius and thus the creation of new and better works of art. That's what they felt (ha!) and you can see it seeping through the works of Emerson. There is a darker side to this exploration of the soul through divine insight: there is also the fear of the diabolical, the freakish, the broken, and the weird in the mind. This is where romanticism goes dark, and goes into the Gothic literature of the night. Last year I had the students read Wuthering Heights, but I will spare you this year and throw a little Poe your way. This is one of his short stories.

Edgar Alan Poe: "Ligeia":  http://pinkmonkey.com/dl/library1/ligeia.pdf

One thing both enlightenment rationalists and romantic idealists agreed about was the invioliability of a person's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This does not mean they believed all men were equal in skill or even mental ability (indeed, racist assumptions and tendency were not uncommon), but it does mean they thought man deserved the fruit of his labor. Below is a famous and original look into the life of a slave by the ex-slave Frederick Douglass. I'm not having you read the whole thing, but pay note not only to how Douglass tells his story and the details of that story, but also the introduction material written by his contemporary abolitionists.


Narrative of the Life of a Slave: 2-44; 81-99: http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/f-douglas/narrative-douglass.pdf

Vocabulary and Rhetorical Terms

I'm giving you an extra week here. Have the quiz done by the 24th.

Homework H-P due.
Quiz H-P assigned.

Remember:

1) For the vocabulary words you need to construct three sentences using each word (try to come up with at least one absurd sentence that properly uses the word. I find that absurdity helps usage and definition stick in the brain a bit).
2) For the rhetorical terms you need to find three examples of each (I have no problems with you using the power of google here to find examples and in fact encourage it to help clarify the terms in definition and usage) and then write two of your own examples (this can be a bit tricky at times).
3) Construct a paragraph on any topic you wish using six of the vocabulary words and two of the literary techniques. I recommend you use this as an opportunity to practice those concepts that you find most tricky.

So, for the paper - it's due February 3rd or February 10th? Because February 3rd, I'm pretty sure, was the original due date?

Abigail, right.

Right for the 10th?

who whom are we paired with for the paper exchange?

The 10th. Sorry. That was ambiguous.

What about, like Logan said, the paper swap? (I mean, there are 5 of us, so idk how this is going to work . . .)

Also, for the vocab sentences, do you want us just to use the 'AP English Language and Composition Vocabulary List' or use the Glossary too? Some of them aren't really vocabulary words, more like a random mix of words and phrases and idioms . . .

The glossary you should use to supplement the other (primary) list to create a master list.

I can't find the subheading 'Vocabulary and Rhetorical Terms' in the Weekly Discussions forum. Should we each post our own?

I re-ask Abigail's question, where do we put our homework?

just checking, you want us to take the quiz before next weeks class?

Mr. Peterson,
Where do we put our vocab homework from this and last week?

The essay that we're supposed to do about college. I am 99% certain we've done this one before??? No, 100%. It's in my folder, I don't think you ever graded it. lol

I have it in my drive as well, but he graded mine.
Mr. Peterson, shall we do this paper again or do question number three from this same link.

Another question/comment: On the readings, you have assigned to us Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience, or that's kind of what it looks like. But the link you gave us isn't actually Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience, it's a commentary on that paper. I've already read it and everything . . . and I don't like Thoreau . . . but I guess maybe that wasn't actually the link you intended to post? =/

Mr. Peterson, I haven't seen the second quiz in the exams folder.