Oh Maybe AP Language and Composition
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Saint So and So
God wills for YOU to be a saint. Therefore, that's your goal. You will be a saint someday. What kind of saint will you be? What will your holy card look like? What are you wearing? What are you holding in your hands? What's in the background? What's your title? What are you the patron or patroness of? Tell us!
Friday, May 20, 2016
Friday, May 13, 2016
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Go Team?
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/725/02/
Complete a rhetorical analysis of one of these visual texts. Follow the format from the link.
Complete a rhetorical analysis of one of these visual texts. Follow the format from the link.
Friday, April 29, 2016
Homeboy Industries
Listen to this TedTalk by Father Greg Boyle. What is his argument? What rhetorical strategies does he use to make his argument. Are those strategies effective? Also, reflect on how this argument, and how the pieces we have read about gender shape the way you think about people who are different than you. Do not limit yourself in talking strictly about gender, but in any way that you are different from others.
List of things we read recently:
Women's Brains
Professions for Women
I Want a Wife
Walk on By
Barbie Doll
Those Winter Days
My Papa's Waltz
List of things we read recently:
Women's Brains
Professions for Women
I Want a Wife
Walk on By
Barbie Doll
Those Winter Days
My Papa's Waltz
Friday, April 22, 2016
Rhetorical Analysis
Reagan's Speech
Read this awesome speech. What rhetorical strategies does Reagan employ to convey his feelings about an event that caught the country so off guard? Complete a rhetorical analysis of the speech.
Friday, April 15, 2016
Choose One
To what extent should ethical considerations influence our decision making process?
On Compassion
A Hanging
Lies We Tell Kids
Reference at least one of these pieces.
or
Write about a time when you were faced with an ethical dilemma/decision and what factors you considered when making that decision. What were the consequences?
On Compassion
A Hanging
Lies We Tell Kids
Reference at least one of these pieces.
or
Write about a time when you were faced with an ethical dilemma/decision and what factors you considered when making that decision. What were the consequences?
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