Welcome back, AP English Language and Composition (APLANG)

AGENDA:

EQ: What is peer editing?

1. Taking care of business:  Discuss course criteria sheet for course overview and expectations again. Sign out The Things They Carried,

2. Using technology.  Use the computers to access the class blog when  in A239 or at home: View Stephen Fry youtube video:

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  Go over Handout: AP Resource packet

4. 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 are 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, 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 tomorrow (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: PLEASE POST YOUR SUMMER READING SELECTION!

HW Assignment: Go over AP terms --first ten words-- "the A list" for quiz next week on Friday.
Peer Edit the papers you have shared.
READ: Ch. 1 "The Things They Carried" in The Things They Carried (novel) --note use of quotation marks versus italics!