The link below is for the images of the paintings and cartoons we will go over in class. I'm providing you with the links so that you can look at them outside of class if you so choose.
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This next link is for the information we will discuss about the paintings and images.
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Takes you to a college board publication. Notes on these pages correspond to the images we will be analyzing in class.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
PSA Assignment
On Wednesday, 30 September, you will meet in your group in preparation for the PSA presentation on Thursday, 1 October. All groups must be ready for their PSA-even if a group member is absent! That means that everyone must have the necessary materials.
You do not have to bring your textbook this week.
You do not have to bring your textbook this week.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Rhetorical Device Project
An upcoming independent project. Your class presentation can take any form. This is just an example. I will write names of rhetorical devices on index cards, place them into an envelope, and then you will reach into that envelope and make your selection.
You will essentially teach the rhetorical device to the class.
Timed-Write Make-Ups
Effective immediately-actually with timed-write #2-if you are absent when a timed-write is given-you must make-it up during the 37 1/2 minute tutoring session.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Tips for Analyzing and Responding to AP Prompts
You may want to print this document and to place it your notebook for reference throughout the year.
Once you log-in, click on the "Documents" link.
Once you log-in, click on the "Documents" link.
The Art of Persuasion ppt
For those experiencing confusion...Or for those who would like a review... .
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Timed Write
Your second forty-minute timed write will be on Friday, 25 September. Review rhetorical analysis resources (including the rubric).
Registration Deadline
You have until midnight, 27 September to sign-on to this site.Just click on the link above, when the page opens, click on "Join a Class." Then enter the "Class Key (N263376A70)." Next, provide your first and last name (no nicknames). Click on "link sharing." Examine the resources provided. This action will "count" as a homework assignment. You will soon engage in "conferencing" on this site.
Rhetorical Analysis Assignment
Complete a rhetorical analysis of JFK's Inaugural Address. Use class notes and other resources (handouts, nicenet.org, etc.). Your response should be typed (word-processed). Due: Friday, 25 September!
Thursday, September 17, 2009
The Language of Composition
Homework: Chapter 1: An Inroduction to Rhetoric
Refer to ASSIGNMENT BOX on page 26 and the ASSIGNMENT BOX on page 28. Rememer to ALWAYS provide an explanation/rationale for your analysis. Both assignments are due on Monday, 21 September 2009. Late assignments will NOT be accepted!
Refer to ASSIGNMENT BOX on page 26 and the ASSIGNMENT BOX on page 28. Rememer to ALWAYS provide an explanation/rationale for your analysis. Both assignments are due on Monday, 21 September 2009. Late assignments will NOT be accepted!
Banned Books Week Readout
September 26th-October 3rd 2009. Click on the link (title/heading) and discover banned books-"newly banned" as well as the "old" ones. read the "Manifesto" and about the events for the week.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
What does education look like?
We will discuss this video in class. Be prepared to write a DCQ paragraph.
"Mad as Hell"
How is this video related to AP English Language and Composition? OR Is It? Perhaps, Diedrich is "out in left field" and has no clue...
Vocabulary Workshop Level G Practice Tests
Unfortunately, funds were not available to purchase the Sadlier-Oxford Book H. Therefore, you must prepare for each quiz by clicking on the link provided by the publisher of this text. All vocabulary quizzes will be multiple choice and cumulative. For example, quiz 2 will contain vocabulary words over both lessons one and two. You should review "learning definitions" and the "vocabulary completion" section since both will appear on your quiz. If time permits, we will review the words at the beginning of the week and you will be tested on these words at the end of the week.
http://www.vocabtest.com/vw/levelg.htm
Quizlet
An opportunity to "quiz" yourself-only you will know the results. On the other hand, I will know if you have prepared when I test you on these words in class.
http://quizlet.com/68616/ap-language-and-composition-glossary-of-literary-and-rhetorical-terms-flash-cards/
A Valuable Resource for AP Students
Glossary of Key Terms with Pronunciation: Click on a glossary term to listen to the audio.
http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_harmon_handbook_10/39/10119/2590685.cw/index.html
Internet Classroom Assistant
A Reminder: A reference to www.nicenet.org was cited in your summer reading packet. You were directed to use "Class Key" N263376A70 and sign on using your name. If you have not visited this site yet, you must do so immediately! You will discover a "wealth" of information that we will be referring to throughout the year. Furthermore, we will be using this site "conferencing" with one another.
Timed Writings
Don't Worry about Timed Writing Grades
When you look at your son or daughter's grades in AP English Language, the lowest grades you will probably see are for Timed Writings (TW). Outstanding English students often make "Cs" on these assignments at the beginning of the semester. The assignments are difficult and the grades are lower because these are assignments from previously released AP exams, and they are scored according to College Board scoring criteria. I explain the criteria to students at the beginning of the semester and make them understand that they may not like the "C" that they receive in the beginning of the semester, but that they will learn how to improve as the semester progresses.
If you see a "C" for a Timed Writing, that "C" represents an average score for all AP students who took the test that year. PLEASE do not think the "C" is indicative of your child not working hard enough! A "C" on other grades may indeed indicate lack of effort, but not for Timed Writings. Because the grades for Timed Writings tend to be lower, I do not grade out-of-class papers as hard. This tends to balance the overall grade in AP English Language.
We will complete a timed writing each week, and it is important for students to work hard and to improve. If a student works hard and makes a "C," I keep encouraging him, and in time he will improve.
How hard are AP timed writings? Imagine walking into your English class bright and early on a Monday morning. Your English teacher welcomes you and then hands you an assignment. You are given 40 minutes to read a difficult passage on your own and then write a 3-4 page essay on the following topic:
"In the following excerpt from her memoirs, Virginia Woolf reflects upon her childhood summers spent in a seaside village in Cornwall, England. Read the passage carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze how Woolf uses language to convey the lasting significance of these moments from her past." [from the AP English Language 2002 exam]
Timed Writings are difficult. The AP exam in May will require students to write 3 essays within 2 hours and 15 minutes. Students who practice hard during the semester will be prepared for the AP exam, and they will be able to handle any writing assignment they are given in college.
Public Service Announcement Assignment (PSA)
The More You Know: Environment
Here is another website that includes scores of Public Service Announcements (PSAs). Please see the post below for the full assignment
AD Council
On September ____, you will select a group (no more than 4 people in a group) and begin working on the creation of a Public Service Announcement (PSA) for a topic of your choice (and my approval). You will have one week to create a 30 second television commercial, a 30-second PowerPoint presentation that runs automatically, OR a one-page print magazine advertisement. Your PSA will be judged on its effectiveness, originality, attractiveness, and its use of ethos, pathos, or logos (or perhaps all 3). Take a look at this website that includes hundreds of PSAs for television and print.
Class Reading Assignments
AP English Language and Composition: LINKS TO ALL CLASS REQUIRED READING ASSIGNMENTS
Alphabetized by Title of Piece
*Please inform Mr. Diedrich A.S.A.P. if any of these links do not work.
The Abdication Speech of Edward VIII - 1936
The Abominations of War by Cindy Sheehan - 2006
Against School: How Public Education Cripples Our Kids and Why by John Taylor Gatto - 2003
Ain't I a Woman by Sojourner Truth - 1851
Areopagitica by John Milton: A Speech For The Liberty Of Unlicensed Printing To The Parliament Of England
The Age of White Guilt: And the Disappearance of the Black Individual by Shelby Steele - 1999
AIDS Has A Woman's Face by Stephen Lewis - 2004
The Allegory of the Cave by Plato
Dr. Maya Angelou's Speech to the Democratic National Convention - 2004
United States President George Bush Announces War Against Iraq in 1991
Apology from The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 2 - 399 BC
An Argument About Beauty (pdf) by Susan Sontag
The Ballot or the Bullet by Malcolm X - 1964
Best in Class by Margaret Talbot - 2005
Beyond Personality - Mere Men by C.S. Lewis - 1944
Billie Jean King Remembers Life as an Outsider in the 1950s and 1960s
by Billie Jean King and Frank Deford - 1982
Biology in the Twenty-First Century by Ernst Mayr - 2000
The Bird and the Machine by Loren Eiseley - 2006
Can We Know the Universe? by Carl Sagan - 1979
The Case for Staying Home by Claudia Wallis - 2004
The Epilogue to The Clan of One Breasted Women by Terry Tempest Williams - 1991
Class Division Among African Americans by Shelby Steele - 1988
Clear and Present Danger by John F. Kennedy - 1962
Prologue from Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond - 2005
Commencement Address at Wellesley College by Former First Lady Mrs. Barbara P. Bush - 1990
Compassion: The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel - excerpt from Sogyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - 1992
A Crime of Compassion by Barbara Huttman - 1983
Cybergysies and the Net's Wilderness Years
by Peter James - 1999
The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo - 1989
The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf - 1925
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions by Elizabeth Cady Stanton - 1848
Exerpt from Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary by Henry Hitchings - 2005
Designer Babies: U.S. Couples Seek Embryo Screening by Marilynn Marchione and Lindsey Tanner - 2006
The Destructive Male by Elizabeth Cady Stanton - 1868
Dispensing Morality by Ellen Goodman - 2005
The Divine Revolution by Vaclav Havel - 1998
Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments by Robert L. Heilbroner
DNA as Destiny by David Ewing Duncan - 2002
Drugs, Sports, Body Image and G.I. Joe by Natalie Angier - 1998
Drumroll Please by Evany Thomas - 2006
from Dust Tracks on a Road (chapter one) by Zora Neale Hurston - 1942
from The End of the Story by Lydia Davis - 1995 - (the link is about one-third of the way down the page, on the left side)
An Essay on Modern Education by Jonathan Swift - 1728
An Evolutionist Look at Modern Man by Loren Eiseley - 1959
Fearing the Worst Should Anyone Produce a Cloned Baby by Philip M. Boffey - 2003
The First Fireside Chat: The Banking Crisis by Former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt - 1933
For Fasting and Football, A Dedicated Game Play by Samuel G. Freedman - 2005
For a Polyglot Federation by Umberto Eco - 1993
The Future of the Book by Umberto Eco - 1994
Mohandas Gandhi's Address at Kingsley Hall - 1931
Mohandas K. Gandhi's Speech At Montessori Training College in London - 1931
GeoSigns: The Big Thaw by Daniel Glick - 2004
The Gettysburg Address by President Abraham Lincoln - 1863
Give me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry - 1775
Global Greening? The Time for a 'Global Green Deal' Has Come by Mark Hertsgaard - 1999
God's Love to Fallen Man by John Wesley
Godzilla vs. the Giant Scissors: Cutting the Antiwar Heart Out of a Classic by Brent Staples - 2005
The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie - 1889
Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrast by Bruce Catton
A Hanging by George Orwell - 1931
Excerpt from A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers - 2003
Help Us Overthrow the Tall/Short Mafia at Starbucks Coffee by Tom Magliozzi - 2007
Introduction to Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage by Diane Middlebrook - 2003
The Hidden Life of Dogs by Dave Barry - 1993
Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation by Jonathan Swift - 1709
Chapter One of His Excellency, George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis - 2005
The Holy War: Mac vs. Dos by Umberto Eco - 1994
Homelessness by Anna Quindlen - 1988
The House that Fell Down by Evan Taylor - 2005
How Boys Become Men by Jon Katz - 1993
from How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle by Frances Willard - 1895
How it Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston - 1928
How Much Wallop Can a Simple Word Pack? by Geoffrey Nunberg - 2004
The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society by Jonathon Kozol - 1985
I Am Prepared to Die by Nelson Mandela - 1964
I Have a Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1963
I Just Wanna be Average by Mike Rose - 1989
The Imprint of Evolution, Chapter One of Simon Conway-Morris's The Crucible of Creation - 1998
Prologue to The Informant: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald - 2001
The Inheritance of Tools by Scott Russell Sanders - 1987
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell - 1932
In Praise of a Snail's Pace by Ellen Goodman - 2005
Excerpt from Iran - A Country on the Brink by Stephen Kinzer - 2007
from In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker - 1983
The Insufficiency of Honesty by Stephen L. Carter - 1996
Into the Electronic Millenium by Sven Birkerts - 1991
I Think You're Fat by A.J. Jacobs - 2007
Justice for Ireland by Daniel O'Connell - 1836
Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space by Brent Staples - 1994
U.S. President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address - 1961
The Laughing Animal - This article takes a time-lapse view of Encyclopædia Britannica's articles on laughter, with brief excerpts from past editions.
Leaps of Consciousness by Gloria Steinem - 2004
Learning to Read - by Malcolm X - 1965
Learning to Read and Write by Frederick Douglas - 1845
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1963
A Letter from Eighteen Writers: Including Three Nobel Prize Recipients
The Liberal Arts in an Age of Info-Glut by Tom Gitlin - 1998
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor by Garrett Hardin - 1974
Life at the Edge by Paul Nicklen - 2007
Lizbeth by Lars Eighner - 1992
Lost in America by Dave Barry - 1987
Lost in the Kitchen by Dave Barry
Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Soldiers by Cindy Sheehan - 2006
Nelson Mandela's Address during a joint sitting of Parliament to mark ten years of Democracy In South Africa - 2004
Nelson Mandela's Address to the United Nations Security Council on the Arusha Peace Process - 2000
Nelson Mandela's Nobel Peace Prize Address - 1993
Nelson Mandela's Speech upon his Release from Prison - 1990
Marrying Absurd by Joan Didion - 1979
The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1836
A Model for High Schools by David S. Broder - 2005
The Moral Equivalent of War by William James - 1910
More Working Parents Play 'Beat the Clock' by Marilyn Gardner - 2004
Toni Morrison's Speech at the Nobel Banquet on December 10th, 1993
Wangari Muta Maathai's Nobel Lecture on December 10th, 2004
Mother Tongue by Amy Tan - 1991
My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation by James Baldwin - 1963
My Fellow Americans: What I'd Say If They Asked Me by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - 1988
My Luminous Universe by Helen Keller - 1956
My Outsourced Life by A.J. Jacobs - 2005
My Wood by E.M. Forster
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria (pdf) by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Nader 2004 (pdf) by Lou Novak - 2004 (located on page 14)
'A New Mexican Rebecca': Imagining Pueblo Women by Barbara A. Babcock
No Name Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston - 1976
Not Worth My Son's Sacrifice by Cindy Sheehan - 2005
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce - 1890
Introduction to The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (pdf) by Michael Pollan - 2006
On the Backs of Blacks by Toni Morrison - 1993
On Being a Cripple (pdf) by Nancy Mairs - 1986
On Compassion by Barbara Lazear Ascher - 1988
On The Different Kinds of Republic and Of What Kind The Roman Republic Was by Niccolo Machiavelli - 1519
Of the Different Species of Philosophy by David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - 2004
On Being Black and Middle Class by Shelby Steele - 1988
On Dumpster Diving by Lars Eighner - 1992
On Keeping a Notebook (pdf) by Joan Didion - 1966
On Women's Right to Vote by Susan B. Anthony - 1872
On Writing by Arundhati Roy
The Penalty of Death by H.L. Mencken - 1949
Pet Clones Spur Call for Limits by Rick Weiss - 2005
The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe - 1846
Planet of the Bacteria by Stephen Jay Gould - 1996
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - 1946
Popular Culture in the Aftermath of Sept. 11 Is a Chorus Without a Hook,
a Movie Without an Ending by Teresa Wiltz - 2001 Pride to One is Prejudice to Another by Courtland Milloy - 2005 Professions for Women by Virginia Woolf - 1931
Chapter One (all eleven pages) of Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
(all eleven pages) by Robert Sullivan - 2004
The Real New York Giants by Rick Reilly - 2002
Reflections on Working Toward Peace by Alice Walker
from Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education by Horace Mann - 1848
A Report on Mesopotamia by T.E. Lawrence - 1920
Richard Rodriguez's passage about his attitude toward his family and himself
(pdf)
The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered, Chapter One of The Vindication of the Rights of a Woman
- by Mary Wollstonecraft - 1792
from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf - 1929 - (it's at the end of the page)
Rwanda: How the Genocide Happened from BBC News - 2004
Salvation by Langston Hughes - 1940
Science: It's Just Not Fair by Dave Barry - 1998
Science and Religion Can Coexist by Freeman J. Dyson - 2000
Seeking a New Globalism in Chiapas by Tom Hayden - 2003
The Sense of Place by Wallace Stegner - 1992
Sexism and Misogyny: Who Takes the Rap? Misogyny, gangsta rap, and The Piano by bell hooks - 1994
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell - 1936
Sick Parents Go to Work, Stay Home When Kids are Ill by Chritopher Mele - 2002
Silent Dancing by Judith Ortiz Cofer - 1990
The Simplest Way to be Happy by Helen Keller - 1933
The Singer Solution to World Poverty by Peter Singer - 1999
Sixteen Hours Ago by U.S. President Harry S. Truman - 1945
The Smurfette Principle by Katha Pollitt - 1991
Soap and Water by Aanzia Yezierska - 1920
The Solitude of Latin America: Gabriel García Márquez Nobel Prize Lecture - 1982
Soul of a Surgeon by Richard Selzer, M.D. - 2004
Stranger in the Village by James Baldwin - 1955
Strike Against War by Helen Keller - 1916
Students for Sale by Stephen Manning - 1999
Studying Islam, Strengthening the Nation by Peter Berkowitz and Michael McFaul - 2005
Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie - 1998
Sweeping the Clouds Away by Virginia Heffernan - 2007
Television News Coverage by Spiro T. Agnew - 1969
Theme for English B by Langston Hughes - 1951
Selection from Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments:
Part I - Of the Propriety of Action Consisting of Three Sections, Section I - Of the Sense of Propriety, Chapter I - Of Sympathy
Thirty-Eight Who Saw Muder Didn't Call the Police by Martin Gansberg - 1964
This Country is at War with Germany by Neville Chamberlain - 1939
This Won't Hurt a Bit by Dave Barry - 1996
Tragedy and the Common Man by Arthur Miller - 1949
Transsexual Frogs by Elizabeth Roye - 2003
Tribute to the Dog by George Graham Vest
The True Story of American Soccer by Dave Eggers - 2006
The Truman Doctrine by Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman - 1947
Turbulence by David Sedaris - 2005
Twenty-Seven Articles by T. E. Lawrence - 1917
Two Ways to Belong in America by Bharati Mukerjee - 1996
Uncle John's Farm by Mark Twain
The Undertaker's Racket by Jessica Mitford - 1963
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948
Waiting for Salmon by Barry Lopez - 2005
Walking by Henry David Thoreau - 1862
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges - 2002
A War I Opposed and Despised with a Depth or Feeling I had Reserved Solely
for Racism in America Before Vietnam by Bill Clinton - 1969
War Message by Former U.S President Woodrow Wilson - 1917
Watching TV Makes You Smarter by Steven Johnson - 2005
Water in the Waterwonderland (pdf) by Priscilla Dziubek - 2004 (located on pages 15 & 16)
We Are Family by Change-Rae Lee - 2003
We Are Not Immune by Ronald J. Glasser - 2004
We are the Patriots by Gore Vidal - 2003
Wears Jumpsuit. Sensible Shoes. Uses Husbands Last Name. by Deborah Tannen - 1993
We Choose to Go to the Moon by U.S. President John F. Kennedy - 1962
What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace by Brent Staples - 2004
What is an American? by Harold Ickes - 1941
What's Wrong with Animal Rights? (pdf) by Vicki Hearne - 1991
When School Is Out, Getting Food In by Jane E. Brody - 2007
Where I lived, and What I Lived For, Chapter Two of Walden by Henry David Thoreau - 1854
White Guilt and the Western Past by Shelby Steele - 2006
The White Man Unburdened by Norman Mailer - 2003
Why Don't We Complain? by William F. Buckley, Jr. - 1961
Why Johnny Won't Read by Mark Bauerlein and Sandra Stotsky - 2005
Why Men Don't Last: Self-Destruction as a Way of Life by Natalie Angier - 1999
Why Women Have to Work by Amelia Warren Tyagi - 2004
Will We Figure Out How Life Began? by Steven Jay Gould - 2000
Woman as an Athlete by Arabella Kenealy. M.D. - 1899
Women's Brains by Stephen Jay Gould
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 1892
Yes, This Is About Islam by Salman Rushdie - 2001
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