Homework for Monday

We will be doing some review with our red books and white books in class on Monday. Please coordinate within your history groups, and make sure that half of your members bring their white books to class, and the other half bring their red books.

Synthesis Samples

Synthesis essay samples are available here.

Synthesis Practice

Please print and/or work with the Synthesis documents available here prior to class on Monday.

As a minimum, you should brainstorm your own argumentation to the prompt, read and mark each passage, plan on direct quotation vs. paragraph and outline your essay. Students who want the most preparation for the AP test might choose to then write the practice essay to compare with examples on Monday, but that is not required--just a really good idea.

Harlem Renaissance Paragraph

We looked at the rest of the slide show for examples and options of how we might organize this essay. Then we looked at slides for how we might use transitional phrases to help us develop a complex paragraph that might address various positions in the same paragraph. Please write once "complex" style body paragraph, using a combination of paraphrase and direct quotations.

Harlem Renaissance Synthesis

Please read the prompt and mark the following texts, paying extra attention to evidence that you would like to paraphrase or summarize in your essay, and moments that you'd like to quote directly. Texts are available here.

Q3 Sample Essays

Here are three sample essays on the "adversity" prompt.

Practice Q3 Essay

Please use the prompt below as the basis for a practice in class essay. Set your timer for 40 minutes, read the prompt, and then write an entire essay, ending at the 40 time. Please write by hand and in ink.

Prompt:

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant". —Horace

Consider this quotation about adversity from the Roman poet Horace. Then write an essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies Horace’s assertion about the role that adversity (financial or political hardship, danger, misfortune, etc.) plays in developing a person’s character. Support your argument with appropriate evidence from your reading, observation, or experience.

Harlem Renaissance Poetry

Poems are available here.

Assignment outline:

 After everyone has read the poems at your station, please discuss the STRUCTURE, (poem format, rhyme scheme, line length etc) STYLE (figurative language, imagery, allusions, etc.) and CONTENT (meaning, topics, etc.) of each poem.

For each station, you must record your observations on a chart resembling the following.

Author(s):
Titles of Poems:

Structure and Style Observations:


Content Observations:


Which poem did you find most interesting/ meaningful/ compelling?

Reading Due Friday

If you have not already done so, please complete the reading of Kennedy's inaugural speech (77-84).