Monday

Students will be able to write an analysis of “any” prose connecting a variety of rhetorical devices – including tone, structure, figurative language, diction, syntax, etc. – and be able to write a timed-AP analysis essay scoring in the upper half on the AP rubric.

4 – On an AP analysis prompt the student can successfully answer the prompt and write an essay scoring a 7 or higher on the AP rubric.

3 – On an AP analysis prompt the student can successfully answer the prompt and write an essay scoring a 5 or higher on the AP rubric.

2 – On an AP analysis prompt the student cannot successfully answer the prompt and write an analysis essay.  Student scores 3-4 on the AP rubric.

1 -  Student is unable to write an analysis essay.

Today, we are going to read "Portrait of an Ideal World" by  Mencken and discuss your Synthesis essays that you will be writing this week.  You will have time to work on these tomorrow and on Friday.  You also need to hand in your "OPEN QUESTION" quiz from Friday.

First let's look at the following: https://academyedstudies.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/normanreviewfinal.pdf

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/07/the-long-steady-decline-of-literary-reading/?utm_term=.7555575dade3

Remember, we will be having a vocabulary quiz (tomorrow - I moved it back) and on Wednesday, a MC section quiz.  You will also need to post another "news" response by Friday.

Remember, some of you are still missing 1) the outline of chapter 3; 2) Precis for "Why I Went Into the Woods", and a Precis for "The Morals of a Prince".  Also note, everyone - who has turned it in - needs to rewrite the Precis for "The Morals of a Prince".