Welcome Back, AP English Per. 6 and 9!
AGENDA:
EQ: What is peer editing?
1. Taking care of business: Discuss course criteria sheet for course overview and expectations again.
How to be awesome this year!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwlhUcSGqgs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY&feature=youtube_gdata
and write a short response after learning how to log on to class blog (use your ID and birth date today to create a new password that you can easily remember) and write a comment after viewing the video clip. Think about language, grammar, and the conventions of English language usage. Your daily comments will count towards your classwork grade.
3. Addressing the Essential Question:
In the next 3 days, we will examine peer editing as a model for your work this year in composition and ultimately for preparation for all the standardized exams you will be asked to take.
CLOSE READING involves the ability not only to write about what we read, but also to be able to discuss it. EVIDENCE and CLAIMS is also part of the Common Core, but also part of studying other content areas. The STRATEGY is that you make an ARGUMENT (involving one or several CLAIMS from the TEXT) and provide EVIDENCE after CLOSE READING of the EVIDENCE and CLAIMS you are presented with. (Sounds like we're building a nation of lawyers, huh?) Yet, I've always told you to think like a DETECTIVE and write like a LAWYER.
Question #2 on the AP exam asks you to read a passage (unknown, not studied before) and then analyze it. Yet, you have the skills. So how do you do it?
Handout: Peer editing Worksheets
We will share the 5 SOAPSTONE essays you wrote this summer (BRAVO!) and begin to peer edit in groups of 4. First, let's discuss the PEER EDITING HANDOUT:
What is the prompt and how does it want us to handle it?
Let's look at organization and development.
Is a four or five paragraph organization appropriate or satisfactory for a test response?
Long enough? Developed enough?
Language and mechanics. This is a big category (we need to discuss this later, but you can sense it now as you read):
sentence structure (SYNTAX),
use of language (DICTION),
grammar and usage.
For tomorrow:
Handout: AP Resource packet
Assignment: Go over AP terms --first ten words-- "the A list" for quiz next week
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