Due Monday 4/30

Please read the following synthesis essay documents available here. Two of the documents could not be posted on the AP site. One is available if you follow this link. (This is an external site, so I do not endorse any ads or content you might encounter.) The other is excerpted and available here.

After reading the articles, please write an introduction and one body paragraph that in response to the topic. Your focus should be on creating and argumentative tone, so you may need to refer to the slides we discussed in class today which are available here.

Due Monday 4/23

Please read the prompt for the analysis essay available here. Brainstorm what we can already infer about audience and purpose based solely on the prompt.

Then read and mark the text for the actual passage.

Your job is to write an introduction and one body paragraph (this is a minimum; you can write more) of an analysis essay based on this prompt and passage.

Your body paragraph will need to:

convey complex purposes
explicitly connect back to the idea of the specific audience
address multiple devices

Updated Synthesis Slideshow

Here is the updated synthesis essay slideshow.

Outline Due Tuesday 4/17

Before reading the passages, please complete the speech assignment from the previous post.


Please read the documents for the Honor Code Synthesis prompt that are available here. Create an outline of paraphrases/quotations (at lease half should be paraphrases) that will allow you to address your argument on the issue. Most likely a source will either 1. agree with your claim 2. present a counterargument (antithesis) that you want to acknowledge as valid or 3. present a counterargument that you wish to refute which will then allow you to support your original claim.

On your outline, please create a place where you write down specific evidence that you can use that is not from one of the documents. This could be personal anecdote, current event, historical event, etc.

If your reading of the documents results in you changing your original opinion about the issue, that is okay.

Due Monday 4/16

For Monday, you will be writing a short persuasive speech on the following prompt. You speech should be between 1 and 1 1/2 pages long. You will need to use specific examples as supports for you claim(s). These examples can come from a wide range of areas: personal experience, hypothetical examples, texts, human nature, etc. Your speech should sound like an impassioned speech (not a boring homework assignment), so work on using devices (see below) to help in creating a persuasive tone in your essay. For this assignment to be complete, you will need to include the following requirements below.

You must have at least one of the following:

parallel structure
periodic structure
epanorthosis
rhetorical question


You must have at least one of the following:

counterargument/antithesis
refutation of counterargument
faulty dilemma
appeal to ethos


Prompt:

Many high schools, colleges, and universities have honor codes or honor systems: sets of rules or principles that are
intended to cultivate integrity. These rules or principles often take the form of written positions on practices like
cheating, stealing, and plagiarizing as well as on the consequences of violating the established codes. Often times these honor codes are self enforced or enforced by students and not the school administration. Develop a position on whether you feel self-enforced honor codes are an effective deterrent to cheating and plagiarism.

Class Activity 4/12

Here is the passage needed for today's class activity

Due Thursday

Absent people-

We had a fire drill during English time, so I didn't get as much done as I thought. We reminded ourselves about Q3 introductions and then wrote one for the "fractured self" prompt that we turned in. Three examples of introductions for a Q3 prompt are found in this slideshow. We looked at these before I was gone, so they should seem familiar to you.

Due Wednesday

Some famous person once said that the concept of a true individual self is deception. Instead of being one true self, we are many fractured selves, each one created to meet a specific person or purpose. For some, this is done consciously, whereas for others, this process is done on a subconscious level, so that people may never know how their different selves work.


Given this thought, create an argument in which you make the claim as whether people must develop “fractured selves” to survive in the world, or if they instead have what can be termed an authentic self.

1. Brainstorm Evidence from Gatsby
2. Brainstorm Evidence from everything else
3. Write your claim statement

Sample Essays for lesson

Absent Gatsby Assignment

Quotation Part

Explain the following quotations and identify the speaker and circumstance. Show the significance to the novel:
1. ”Whenever you feel like criticizing . . . just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you have had. (5)
2. Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn (5)
3. Tom would drift on forever seeking, …some irrecoverable football game” (7)
4. “I’ve got a nice place here,” (8)
5. We all looked – the knuckle was black and blue (10)
6. “…I know you didn’t mean to, but you did do it. That’s what I get … specimen of a --“ (10)
7. “Hulking,” insisted Daisy (10)
8. “I’m glad it’s a girl….that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (12)
9. He stretched his arms toward the dark water . . . I could have sworn he was trembling (14)
10. “I want you to meet my girl” (14)
11. A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit . . . as it veiled
everything…--except his wife, who moved closer to Tom
(15)
12. “Wilson? …He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive” (15)
13. “I want one of those dogs,” (16)
14. “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,”
(19)
15. “Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!” (20)
16. Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her
nose with his open hand”(20)

Character Trait Part

For each of the characters, find and list examples of five character traits. Write down the trait and an example which shows the trait.
Tom
Daisy
Nick
Gatsby
Jordan
Wilson
Myrtle


Example of trait and proof of trait; Trait: Tom is cruel.
This is shown by the way he treats Myrtle “...Tom broke her nose with his open hand” (20).

Paragraph Part

Paragraph 1: Then choose one character and write a paragraph showing that person, based on his/her character traits. Use examples from the novel to prove.

Paragraph 2: Explain the difference between the East and the West. (2nd paragraph, not related)
Students are to finish the novel over the break. Julie's are too.