Carnaval and Other Happenings

Remember to write down your observation about both of your images. Have something for each of the terms -- if your image doesn't have one, observe the effect of its absence. That is for next Thursday.

Blog Entries: You should have done through #22 for break. Last week, on Monday, you should have done #23. This Friday is #24. The following Monday #25 will be due.  Double check where you are in the process and numbers. You should also have commented on a classmate's blog.

Have a marvelous Carnaval by having fun and staying out of trouble ;-)

Images of Art: Old and New

Remember to send me two images tonight: one of an older piece of art and one of a contemporary work. (Old > 150 years, contemporary < 50 years). If you have any question, email me. 

Remember your blogs. 

His,
anderson

chadmanderson@hotmail.com

Week One of Second Semester

I promise to come up with better titles in the future. 

Monday: From your break reading, take the three questions and apply them to the essays at the end of the chapter. Everyone applies them to "Stone Soup" then you need to choose one of King's essays and one of Didion's, for a total of three. 

Wednesday: Respond to one of your classmate's blogs from break. 

For Thursday: Write an essay analyzing the Didion essay you didn't write about before. Basically I'm looking at a five+ paragraph essay. Please include your personal response the issue she addresses, as well as a thorough analysis of the techniques she uses to argue her point. 

Christmas Vacation Homework

·         Read and annotate p.571-605

·         Three blog posts, #20,21,22

·         DUE January 28, 2013

Homework & Vocabulary December 3-7

AP Language Homework

DUE Tuesday, December 4

·         Read “A War Against Boys?” p.543

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading #1-4, p.549

·         Answer Questions About the Writer’s Craft, #1-2, p.549

·         Read “A Moral Solution to the Organ Shortage” p.551

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading #1-4, p.553

·         Questions About the Writer’s Craft #3-4, p.553

DUE Wednesday, December 5

·         -Read “Need Transplant Donors? Pay Them” p.555

·         -Answer Questions for Close Reading ALL p.557

·         -Read “The Border on Our Backs” p.559

·         -Answer Questions for Close Reading, #1-4 p.561

·         -Answer Questions About the Writer’s Craft #3, p.562

DUE Thursday, December 6

·         -Read “Se Habla Entitlement” p.564

·         -Answer Questions for Close Reading #1-4, p.566

·         -Answer Questions About the Writer’s Craft #2-3 p.566-567

·         -Study for Vocabulary “Test” THURSDAY

DUE Friday, December 7

·         -Essay p.569, 1st draft, handwritten, double-spaced

DUE Monday, December 10

·         -Final draft of argument-persuasion essay TYPED, MLA due Monday  3:30 including rough draft WORTH 45 POINTS ON THE FINAL EXAM

·         -Blog Post #19 WORTH 10 POINTS ON THE FINAL EXAM

Vocabulary- Quiz 11  Test Date, Thursday, December 6

FILL IN the BLANK:

·         Antanagoge: placing a good point or benefit next to a fault criticism, or problem in order to reduce the impact or significance of the negative point. EXAMPLE: True, he always forgets my birthday, but he buys me presents all year round.

·         METABASIS- consists of a brief statement of what has been said and what will follow. It might be called a linking, running, or transitional summary, whose function is to keep the discussion ordered and clear in its progress. EXAMPLE: Such, then, would be my diagnosis of the present condition of art. I must now, by special request, say what I think will happen to art in the future. --Kenneth Clark

·         Scesis Onomaton emphasizes an idea by expressing it in a string of generally synonymous phrases or statements. While it should be used carefully, this deliberate and obvious restatement can be quite effective. EXAMPLE: We succeeded, we were victorious, we accomplished the feat!

·         Apophasis (also called praeteritio or occupatio) asserts or emphasizes something by pointedly seeming to pass over, ignore, or deny it. This device has both legitimate and illegitimate uses. Legitimately, a writer uses it to call attention to sensitive or inflammatory facts or statements while he remains apparently detached from them. EXAMPLE: We will not bring up the matter of the budget deficit here, or how programs like the one under consideration have nearly pushed us into bankruptcy, because other reasons clearly enough show . . . .

·         Catachresis is an extravagant, implied metaphor using words in an alien or unusual way. While difficult to invent, it can be wonderfully effective. EXAMPLE: I will speak daggers to her. --Hamlet [In a more futuristic metaphor, we might say, "I will laser-tongue her." Or as a more romantic student suggested, "I will speak flowers to her."]

·         Antiphrasis: one word irony, established by context. EXAMPLE: "Come here, Tiny," he said to the fat man.

·         Aposiopesis: stopping abruptly and leaving a statement unfinished. EXAMPLE: If they use that section of the desert for bombing practice, the rock hunters will--.

·         Sententia: quoting a maxim or wise saying to apply a general truth to the situation; concluding or summing foregoing material by offering a single, pithy statement of general wisdom. EXAMPLE: But, of course, to understand all is to forgive all.

MATCHING/FILL IN THE BLANK:

·         STAID- unemotional; serious

·         FRACTIOUS- quarrelsome; unruly

·         HACKNEYED- worn out through overuse; trite

·         TIMOROUS- timid; fearful about the future

·         NASCENT- coming into existence; emerging

·         CANDOR- sincerity; openness

·         SONOROUS- producing a deep or full sound

·         COPIOUS- large in scope or content

·         LAUDATORY- giving praise

·         SARDONIC- disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh, bitter, or caustic

·         PROPITIOUS- presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious

·         DISPARITY- inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference

Homework November 26-30

Homework

 

DUE Tuesday, November 27

·         Read and annotate p. 474-508

·         Come to class with an example of 4 of the fallacies from page 493-494

DUE Wednesday, November 28

·         Read “Free-Speech Follies” p.509

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading #1-4 p.514

·         Answer Questions About the Writer’s Craft #1-2 p.514

      ·         Read “In Praise of the ‘F’ Word” p.516

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading, #1-4

·         Answer Questions About the Writer’s Craft ALL p.518

DUE Thursday, November 29

·         Read “Farming and the Global Economy” p.520

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading #1-4 p.523

·         Answer Questions about the Writer’s Craft ALL p.524

DUE Friday, November 30

·         Read “The Damned Human Race” p.525

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading ALL, p.530

·         Answer Questions About the Writer’s Craft, #2,4, p.530

DUE Monday, December 3

·         Read “Driving to the Funeral” p.532

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading, #1-4 p.534

·         Answer Questions about the Writer’s Craft, #1,4 p.534

·         Answer Pre-Reading Journal Entry p.536

·         Read “How the Schools Shortchange Boys” p.536

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading, #1-4 p.540-541

·         Blog Post #18

Homework & Vocabulary November 6-26

Homework November 6-26:

Due Tuesday, November 6

·         Read and annotate p.431-442

·         Complete Prewriting Activities, #2, p.442, #4, p.443

·         Complete Pre-Reading Journal Entry p.444

Due Thursday, November 8

·         Read “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” p.444

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading #1-4 p.446

·         Answer Questions about the Writer´s Craft #1,4 p.446

·         Writing Assignment #5, p.448

Due Friday, November 9

·         Read “Who´s a Pirate? In Court, A Duel over Definitions” p.449

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading #1-4, p.453

·         Questions about Writer´s Craft ALL p.454

Vocabulary List for Quiz November 9

•     arbiter- a judge who decides a disputed issue

•     vindicated- freed from blame

•     indolent- lazy

•     florid- describing flowery or elaborate speech

•     ebullience- intense enthusiasm

•     superfluous- extra; unnecessary

•     auspicious- favorable; promising

•     clandestine- secretive

•     disingenuous- not straightforward; crafty

•     inveterate- long established; deep-rooted; habitual

•     dilettante-  one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge

•     equanimity- the quality of being clam and even-tempered; composure

•     pejorative- describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone

•     deleterious- having a harmful effect; injurious

•     prosaic- unimaginative; dull

Due Monday, November 12

·         Blog Post # 16

Due Monday, November 26

·         Read “Life As Type A” p.455

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading #1-4, p.459

·         Answer Questions About the Writer´s Craft #1,3,4 p.459

·         Read “The Cute Factor” p.461

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading #1-4 p.466

·         Answer Writing Assignments Using Definition as  a Pattern of Development #1 p.466

·         Read “The Handicap of Definition” p.468

·         Answer ALL Questions for Close Reading p.470

·         Essay #3, p.471

·         Definition Essay- p.472 TYPED/MLA  DUE at the end of the day Monday, November 26

·         FULL practice exam, three essays + multiple choice

·         Blog Post #17