AP Lang Post Exam: What is satire?

Unit Objective: I can demonstrate my understanding of key techniques of satire in my analysis of the writing of others and in my own writing.

1. What is satire?

Terms to know:

• satire
• sarcasm
• sardonic
• parody
• mocking 
• lampoon
• epigram
• farce
• facetious
• self-deprecating
• tongue-in-cheek
• urbane

2. The Onion: The World's Finest News Source

http://www.theonion.com/article/socialites-without-borders-teach-rwandans-how-to-m-2793

Questions groups will consider:

1. What does the author assume about the attitudes of the audience in the piece?

2. What aspect of society is the author satirizing?

3. What is the goal or purpose of the satire?

4. What methods/techniques does the author employ to create the satire?

5. How effective are the author’s methods?

HW: Bring in a satirical cartoon/image and be ready to discuss what is being satirized and its purpose.

Multiple Choice Review

Obj: I can explain my reasoning in my selection of MC answers in order to practice and improve my MC testing strategies.

1. Groups of 4: Answer questions together and come to a consensus.
2. Score Check!

Next time:

Synthesis (quick) and Argument Review

Review Time!

Calendar:
Monday: RA Review- Ben Banneker Lesson
Wednesday: Argument Review
Friday: Multiple Choice Review
Tuesday: Review, Refresh, Relax
Wednesday: Exam Day!

1. Review Rhetorical Analysis rubric and sample essays
2. Give your essay a score and explain WHY you gave it the score you did
3. Tips for Rhetorical Analysis:

• You must understand the meaning of the passage, the author's purpose in writing the passage, and the effect of the passage on the intended audience before you begin writing
• Next, decide what rhetorical devices the writer uses to convey meaning to the reader
• Does the writer uses particular phrases or details to appeal to the emotions or the logic of his or her intended audience?
• Are the paragraphs arranged so that each paragraph contributes to the desired effect?
• Do any stylistic devices (imagery, diction, figurative language, etc.) contribute to the overall effect and purpose?

4. Banneker close reading

Chief Seattle

LT: I can demonstrate my knowledge of rhetorical terms. I can read a text closely and pick out rhetorical strategies that contribute to the author's purpose.

1. Rhetorical Terms Quiz
2. Chief Seattle- Read, annotate and complete 1st reading Q's in partners

HW over break:

• Chief Seattle Rhetorical Analysis (TIMED 40 Min)
• Prompt: Analyze the rhetorical strategies that contribute to the author's purpose
• Reminders!
• → Your #1 overall goal--always--is purpose. What is the meaning of the piece? What did the author sit down to say? 
• → Then you explore HOW the author did so… Strategies (big ideas: E, P, L, tone shifts, recurring devices--paragraph worthy AND linking to MEANING always!)
• → Then sprinkle in the little things (rhetorical devices)... word choice, images, specific details that create _________ (a specific tone, an effect on the reader)
• → Use many quotes! Short ones, or “lists” of phrases are great!
• → Make your ending about the essay’s ending… 
• Water Synthesis (TIMED 1 hour)
• 1. Your essay should be clear, organized, logical, and thoughtful.
  2. In developing each of your major points, make certain to:
  1. Relate it to the thesis/claim
  2. Use specific examples (personal and otherwise)
  3. Use selected sources to support the major point
  4. Incorporate sources into the development of your point by using
  1. Attribution and introduction of cited sources
  2. Transitions
  3. Mix of direct quotations, summary and paraphrase.
  3. The synthesis essay asks you to be familiar with both analysis and argument.

The Lives of a Cell

Obj: I can analyze the structure of a text by completing a says/does analysis.

1. Rhetorical Terms Review: Quiz next class!

2. "The Lives of a Cell" Says/Does Analysis: Pick out rhetorical strategies (diction, imagery, arrangement, etc.) and note how they work to generate his comparison of earth to a cell.

HW: Synthesis Essay and Study for Quiz on Terms

Synthesis Prompt : Consider the focus of the excerpts from Dillard and Thoreau, Thomas’s essay, and the White letter. Write an essay in which you defend, challenge or qualify Thomas’s claim that “man is embedded in nature.” Refer to at least three of the texts for support.

The Battle of the Ants

Obj: I can read a text closely and discuss analysis questions. I can review rhetorical terms by finding and creating examples to teach the class.

1. Review Synthesis Essay
2.  Discuss Thoreau
3. Read Gilbert White's letter and annotate 1st and 2nd reading questions- discuss
4. Rhetorical Terms Review

HW: Read and annotate "Lives of a Cell" and complete slides for rhetorical terms review

Emerson and Thoreau

Obj: I can recognize the strengths and weaknesses of my partner's essay. I can read a text closely and answer analysis questions.

1. Sharing essays
2. How can we tighten our language?

• Edit paragraph
• Confusing antecedents

3. What is Transcendentalism?
4. Discuss "big ideas" from Emerson's Nature
5. Read Thoreau and divide up 2nd reading Q's

HW: Read Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne and complete 1st and 2nd reading questions

Environmental Responsibility

Obj: I can analyze texts by reading closely and answering questions on rhetoric and style.

1. John Francis Ted Talk: Environmental Responsibility

What is your reaction to John Francis and the way he chose to live his life? Explain what you think about the effectiveness of this speech as a whole.

2. Discuss Dillard Excerpt

Describe your initial response to the Dillard excerpt. Be specific. How did it make you feel? What does it make you think about? How would you have felt had you been watching the events from a distance?

Look over your annotations of the text. You’re each going to get a question to specifically focus on and share out about. Then, we will discuss the piece as a whole in the end. 

1. Find images that suggest beauty. Explain the incongruity of finding beauty in a moth.
2. Who was Polyphemus? Explain the allusion to him in the moth’s name? Where else does this come up in the text?
3. What does Dillard’s comparison of the moth to a bear in paragraph 3 (lines 22-30) suggest and how does it suggest that?
4. Find the sequence of causes and effects that lead to the irreconcilable change in the moth. Paraphrase these events.
5. Since Dillard tells about the activities of children and a teacher, what do such subjects suggest about unintended consequences?
6. Explain the significance of the repetition in the last sentence.
7. Dillard relates a childhood event through adult eyes. What does this point of view suggest and how so?
8. Explain the similarities of this seemingly small event in the larger context of human interaction with the natural world.

HW: Choose ONE of the following and write an essay that answers the prompt, and bring a printed copy to class on Monday.

Argument--Write your own description of a similar chain of events focused on another aspect of human interaction with the natural world. Arrange your essay using the Dillard excerpt as a guide. Include specific details, images, and incongruities.

Analysis--Write an essay in which you analyze how Dillard’s rhetorical strategies convey her attitude regarding innocence and interference with natural cycles.

What is our Responsibility to the Natural World?

Obj: I can identify my strengths and weaknesses as a writer. I can analyze a visual text and discuss how a photographer can convey a meaning/message through a photograph. I can write an on demand prompt using my personal beliefs and experiences as a guide for writing.

1. Rhetorical Terms Presentations!
2. R.A. Reflection: Review the last two rhetorical analysis essays you wrote. What were their strengths and weaknesses? Which parts of this type of writing comes easily to you, and which parts do you struggle with?
3. Synthesis Self-Assessment

4. We are beginning our Nature Unit today!

• Earth from Apollo 17
• Writing Prompt: What is our responsibility to the natural world?
• Ted Talk: John Francis Walks the Earth

HW: Read and annotate Annie Dillard excerpt. Be ready to discuss the following next time:

• Her attitude toward the subject
• Rhetorical strategies that convey her attitude

Synthesis Essay and New Rhetorical Terms

1. Synthesis Prompt- 45 Minutes
2. New Rhetorical Terms

Divide up rhetorical terms to teach. "Research" definitions and examples. Create a "poster" (could be a keynote) to teach the class!

Rhetorical Terms List:

1. What is the difference between rhetorical function, strategies, devices, questions, and effectiveness?  
2. understatement and litotes
3. extended metaphor and analogy
4. paradox and oxymoron
5. metonymy and synecdoche
6. euphemisms and colloquial language
7. Antecedent
8. didactic  

Tone Words:

1. Sardonic

2. Sanguine

In-class Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Obj: I can write an essay that analyzes how a writer's use of rhetoric achieve a specific purpose.

1. No Red Ink: Growth Quiz!
2. Rhetorical Analysis Essay: 40 Minutes
3. Synthesis Prompt for next time:

Synthesis Question: Is war an inevitable element of human existence? Refer directly to MacArthur’s speech, Eisenhower’s Farewell Address and Margaret Mead’s essay. You may use any other texts you see fit, as well.  After considering these sources, as well as the current state of affairs, develop a position on the question and support your position with multiple sources and your own thinking.

Partner up: One Sentence Summaries

1. Cicero “On Duties”
2. Catiline “To His Army Before Defeat in Battle”
3. Eisenhower “Message to Invasion Troops”
4. Boswell “On War”
5. Eisenhower “Farewell Address”
6. MacArthur “Commencement Address”
7. SIPRI “Patterns of Major Armed Conflicts, 1990-2005”
8. Margaret Mead “Warfare: An Invention--Not a Biological Necessity”
9. Jarecki’s “Why We Fight”
10. Louisa May Alcott’s “Death of a Soldier”

How to prepare? Organize your research, highlight and color code, outline main ideas, find quotes that both support and refute your claims, etc. We will write the essay during class on Friday.

Double Down on Punctuation and Rhetorical Analysis

Obj: I can use scoring criteria to assess the strengths and weaknesses in a rhetorical analysis essay. I can teach the class about rhetorical terms.

1. Grammar growth quiz
2. Death of a Soldier Essay Review

• Partner up! 
• Read sample intro paragraphs. What does each of them do? What are the similarities and differences? Which ones do you like best and why?
• Body paragraphs
• How do I write about different rhetorical devices?
• How do I weave in quotes?
• How do I answer the effect on the reader part of the question?
• How do I choose what to write about?
• Putting it all together: Student sample essays

3. Death of a Soldier Self (or peer?) Assessment--defend your score!

Coming up: Rhetorical Analysis in-class essay and grammar growth quiz (Wednesday)

Synthesis in-class essay (Friday- we will discuss prompt and review texts Wednesday).

Death of a Soldier

Obj: I can read a text closely and outline my ideas for a rhetorical analysis essay

1. More grammar practice
2. Margaret Mead- quick discussion, first reading questions
3. Death of a Soldier- read silently, annotate, create a rhetorical analysis outline

HW: Time yourself (40 minutes) and write a rhetorical analysis for "Death of a Soldier."

Complete Punctuation Practice on No Red Ink- growth quiz next class!

Is war an invention?

1. No Red Ink: We will practice grammar and active vs. passive voice
2. Discuss MacArthur
3. Margaret Mead: Is War an Invention?

HW: First Reading Questions and No Red Ink diagnostic

MacArthur's Commencement Address

ObJ: I  can analyze a text for rhetorical strategies and devices (structure, appeals, logic, and language) to understand how an author conveys his meaning.

Opener: STORY TIME!!

Listen to The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Suess. What is the point of this story? How does Suess develop his message?

1. Read MacArthur’s speech out loud
2. First reading Q’s
3. Second reading Q’s
4. Read Graph
5. How does it compare to MacArthur’s desire to end war?

HW: Create a thesis sentence and OUTLINE for how you would write a rhetorical analysis of MacArthur's speech. Be ready to discuss next time!

Boswell: On War

I  can analyze the structure of a text and how this structure contributes to the text as a whole by tracing the focus of each paragraph.

Please do both of the following on a separate piece of paper and hand in at the end of class:

1. In partners: Second Reading Questions
2. On your own: Multiple Choice

HW: Write a short essay (1 page or less) that analyzes how Bodwell deliberately structures his essay. Is this structure effective in conveying his position on war? Explain.

The Classical Model for Argument  (remember this?)

• Exordium/Introduction: the writer gains the reader’s attention
• Narratio/Background info: the writer gives the context or facts of the case
• Propositio/Proposition: the writer presents his or her thesis or main idea
• Partitio/Main headings or topics: the writer outlines what will follow (*)
• Confirmatio/Supporting arguments: the writer gives evidence to prop up thesis
• Refutatio/Counterargument: the writer anticipates and refutes any objections the opponents may raise
• Peroratio/Conclusion: the writer summarizes the chief arguments, calls for a specific response and/or makes an emotional appeal

Why We Fight

Obj: I can analyze a documentary for its rhetorical qualities and write an essay that evaluates how the director reaches an intended audience.

Upcoming dates:
1. Final Draft of Essay/Bibliography due this Friday by 11:00 a.m.
2. Presentations the week after vacation!! Requirements for presentation:

• Provide an overview of the main points of your essay (share your point of view and sources)
• Include multi-media elements (documentary, interactive website, ted talk, etc.)
• 7-10 minutes in length

Why We Fight

We will be watching this documentary today and Thursday during class. You will take notes as you are watching: What is the message? Who is the intended audience? How well does the director achieve his purpose- what strategies do you notice?

Rhetorical Analysis Essay due after vacation

Eisenhower and D-Day Photo Analysis

I can analyze texts by reading closely and answering questions on rhetoric and style and then draw comparisons between these texts.

1. Class brainstorm: Should we have entered WWII? Why or why not?
2. Eisenhower's message to troops

Read the letter silently and annotate the text for persuasive techniques.

→ What is your initial response to the letter? Be specific. (First reading questions)

1. Subject:
2. Occassion:
3. Audience:
4. Purpose:
5. Speaker:
6. Tone:

→ Second reading questions (orally and mark text)

3. D-Day Photo Analysis

4. Eisenhower's Farewell Address
Homework: Finish reading this address. Answer the “Second Reading” Questions on separate paper.
Remember: rough draft of Synthesis paper due Friday!!

Intro to Politics and War

Obj:  I can analyze texts by reading closely and answering questions on rhetoric and style and then draw comparisons between these texts.

1. Writing Prompt: What is your position on war? (NEVER! When we must, we will. We shouldn't but...) Write a paragraph explanation.
2. Intro to Cicero
3. Catiline's speech
4. Visual Text analysis

H.W. Create an outline of your synthesis essay--each paragraph lead by a topic sentence/idea with relevant sources indicated.

Sources and Prompt Feedback

LT: I can develop ideas for synthesis essay prompts. I can explain my thinking for multiple choice questions. 

1. Ms. Moore presents on finding valid, reliable sources

2. Round robin topic discussion

STEP ONE: Write your topic (or one you are considering) on a piece of paper. Try to make it AS SIMPLE and NEUTRAL as possible. For example: GLOBAL WARMING, HEALTH CARE, REFUGEES, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, CHARTER SCHOOLS, etc. PASS.

STEP TWO: Add possible subtopics to the topic on the paper--still neutral!  For example: Effects on oceans, effects on weather patterns, PASS.

STEP THREE: Add two more possible subtopics of the original topic. Still neutral. PASS.

STEP FOUR: Add a question for two of the four subtopics. For example: Are the effects of global warming on the oceans reversible?  Is the rise in current temperatures linked to man made causes? PASS.

STEP FIVE: Add two more questions for subtopics--this time they have to be controversial, debatable, arguable. For example: Should we regulate businesses and industries in order to protect the environment? PASS.

STEP SIX: Look over the questions written on the subtopic. Add an extension idea or another subtopic that the original question generates. For example: What effect does regulating businesses to protect the environment have on the economy? PASS.

STEP SEVEN--Back to the original person: Look over your topic paper. What ideas did your classmates add on to your topic? What directions did they take it that you had not yet thought of? Which ideas do you think are the most intriguing to explore?

3. Review multiple choice questions

HW: Continue working on your synthesis prompt- turn in next class!
Annotated Bibliography due Thursday

Midterm Review and Research Intro

LT: I can dissect an AP rhetorical analysis prompt and explain the strengths and weaknesses I see in a sample rhetorical analysis essay. I can develop an AP style prompt to guide my research of a selected topic.

1. Welcome to Semester 2!
2. Dissect speech on Toussaint-Louverture

• What background information is given in the prompt? 
• Put it all together- ask yourself WHY Phillips talks about Louverture in his speech to address audience and purpose. 
• What rhetorical strategy does Phillips rely on most heavily?

• Read the sample essay together. What do you notice?

3. Research Project Intro- Brainstorm topics. Prompt due next class!

HW: Synthesis Prompt

Faulkner's "Innocence at Rinkside"

LT: I can explain what MC questions require of me and demonstrate effective close reading skills.

1. Discuss Reading: what did you notice about message and use of language? 

2.On your own: Multiple Choice Practice

3. Groupwork: Come to a consensus on the answers to each question, then determine what the question is asking. What skills are you implementing when answering the question?

HW: Prep for Midterms! 

Synthesis and MC Review

LT: I can analyze sample synthesis essays for effectiveness. I can explain what MC questions require of me and demonstrate effective close reading skills.

1. Synthesis Review

• Read the sample Synthesis Essay Prompt
• What is being asked of the writer?
• Read the sample essays and give scores

2. Multiple Choice Review: using multiple choice questions to unpack a text

3. Faulkner Says/Does

HW: Complete Says/Does Analysis

Synthesis Essay

Obj:  I can synthesize multiple sources’ viewpoints in order to write a coherent, well-supported essay that takes a stand on A.H.A’s perspectives.


1. Opener: what did you think of the articles? Which one was your favorite and why?
2. Writing Tips:
Introducing Standard Views:

• Many people assume that……
• My whole life I heard it said that….
• Conventional wisdom has it that…
• Common sense seems to dictate that…
• It is often said that…

Explaining/Summaryizing Quotations:

• Basically, ________ is suggesting that…..
• In other words, ________ believes that….
• In making this comment, _______ argues that…
• _______’s point is that….
• The essence of ______’s argument is that…..

Agreeing/Disagreeing:

• Although I agree with _________ up to a point, I cannot accept his overall conclusion that…..
• Although I disagree with much of what _____ says, I fully endorse his final conclusion that…..
• Though I concede (admit) that_______, I still insist that ___________

Agreeing/Adding On:

• I agree that ________ because my experience________ confirms it.
• ____ is surely right about _____ because, as she may not be aware, recent studies have confirmed that….
• I agree that _______, a point that needs emphasizing since so many people believe…

Voice: Adding Confidence:

• X overlooks what I consider an important point about…..
• My own view is that what X insists is a _________ is in fact a __________
• I wholeheartedly endorse what X calls __________

3.Synthesis Essay Rubric
4. Write Essay!

Infidel Discussion

LT: I can select passages to show the intellectual and spiritual evolution of a character and explain their significance.

1. Welcome back!
2. WP: How do our childhood experiences shape or define us as adults?
3. Discuss structure of Infidel: Part I vs. Part II. How does the structure of the novel help shape the book as a whole? Why go into so much detail about childhood/adolescence? Do you think it is relevant?
4. Partner Activity

HW: Review the below sources in preparation for the in-class synthesis essay next class!
Source A: Infidel

Source B: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/04/16/liberals-islam-misogyny-hirsi-ali-war-women-column/7782657/

Source C: http://observer.com/2016/04/why-ayaan-hirsi-alis-criticism-of-islam-angers-western-liberals/

Source D:

http://time.com/3825345/what-ayaan-hirsi-ali-doesnt-get-about-islam/

Source E:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-lean/ayaan-hirsi-ali-neither-a_b_5175604.html

Source F:

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/04/ayaan_hirsi_ali_is_dangerous_why_we_must_reject_her_hateful_worldview/

Source G:

http://www.thescavenger.net/feminism-a-pop-culture-sp-9560/feminism-a-pop-culture/387-why-white-people-like-ayaan-hirsi-ali-83967.html
Source H: Source H:https://youtu.be/6NX0MRBFRHE