Agenda A: 1/2 B: 1/3 Vocabulary Grammar Review Unit V Calendar and Current Events/Annotated Bibliography assignment Introduction to the argument essay.

AgendaA: 1/2 B: 1/3

Vocabulary Grammar Review Unit V Calendar and Current Events/Annotated

Bibliography assignment Introduction to the argument essay and argument thesis

statements Practice writing argument Thesis statements with Truth’s

Ain’t I a Woman? Homework

By the end of class, you will be able to write argumentative thesis statements.

VocabularyA: 1/2 B: 1/3

Melancholy

What does this word mean?

When would an author choose to use this tone? To achieve what purpose?Or to write in which form or genre?

Grammar

Diction and Syntax Chart and Analysis Homework Packet Review

Reflective Letters Homework Annotations MC Practice Identifying mode and rhetorical strategies Current Events Project Compare and Contrast Paper Reading vs. Writing Hands on activities vs. notes Confidence

SSS – January 26th• Breakfast and lunch will NOT be provided this time.• The time has changed to prevent problems that may occur if

we were to receive snow or ice. The new time for the mock exam is from 1pm to 4:30pm.

• All students MUST attend. If there is any reason you cannot attend you must notify me and provide documentation of your absence (parent letter, coach letter, etc.) by the 10th and 11th of next week in order to be exempt from Saturday’s session. Work is not a valid excuse since you have known about this date since August. You will have to make up the mock exam even if your absence is excused.

Review of Unit V Calendar and Current Events Annotated Bibliography Assignment

Skills Notes: Argumentative Essays

andThesis Statements

Argumentative Essay Two types of prompts:

1) Scenario or topic presented then you take a position2) Short passage presented—you read it to identify the

author’s argument then you take a position You have THREE options:

› AGREE› DISAGREE› QUALIFY

You should QUALIFY . . . “Under certain circumstances, one should agree with _____ , but one should also disagree with _____.”

Argumentative Thesis Statements

• Start your sentence with a Subordinate Conjunction, like since, although, even though, unless, when, while

• Select an idea or quote from the prompt• Take a position on the issue by creating a verb

phrase with the topic• List THREE supporting reasons

AP PROMPT EXAMPLE:SCENARIO OR TOPIC PRESENTED

Sojourner Truth(1797 – 1883)

• Born a slave• Saw fighting for

African American and women’s rights as inseparable

• Had a vision from God about her calling as an orator

• Never learned to read or write

AP Prompt Example:Passage Presented

Read the following passage by the famous orator Sojourner Truth (1797 – 1883). Then write a

carefully reasoned essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies one of Truth’s claims.

Support your argument with appropriate evidence.

AP Prompt Example: Passage Presented“Ain’t I A Woman?” Speech

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? . . . Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Banned Book Project

Banned Book Project: Selecting a Text

• Capote’s In Cold Blood (justice system)• Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

(race and class)• Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (gender)• O’Brien’s The Things They Carried (war)• Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

(race and gender)

Homework

Complete Diction and Syntax Review Chart Select a text for the Banned Book Project and

bring a copy of the novel to our next class. Bring Index Cards to next class for Banned

Book Project Begin working on your Current Events

Annotated Bibliography Assignment for January—this is not due until January 31st or February 1st