AP English Language and Composition Spring Welcome Back

What is assumed about students entering the AP Language and Composition course?

• They have a background in creative writing

• They understand and use Standard English grammar

• They are proficient in a second language

• They have published a book

What is one of the 'Big Ideas' related to the Rhetorical Situation?

• Writing poetry

• Understanding a writer's choice in reflecting the rhetorical situation

• Memorizing historical dates

• Learning new languages

How will students' grades be determined in this course?

• Based solely on final exams

• Based on mastery of skills through practice and assessments

• Based on attendance

• Based on class participation only

Which text is used as an example of classical oration?

• "Graduation" by Maya Angelou

• "Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Jefferson

• "Learning to Read" by Frederick Douglass

• "The Miss Dennis School of Writing" by Alice Steinbach

What is one of the skills students are expected to demonstrate?

• Memorize historical dates

• Demonstrate an understanding of an audience’s beliefs, values, or needs

• Solve complex mathematical equations

• Perform scientific experiments

A rhetorical situation includes the following (check all that apply)...

• A speaker/writer

• An intended audience

• An exigency

• A rhetorical mode

• A purpose

True/False: A classroom is a rhetorical situation.

• True

• False

What does rhetorical situation mean or refer to?

• A reference to the exigence, purpose, audience, context, and message. and conclusions appropriate to the purpose and context of the rhetorical situation.

• Any set of circumstances that involves a person using some sort of communication to change the perspective of another person.

• It answers the question "Who is talking to whom about what, how, and why?

• All of the above.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

An event or situation that catches the writer's attention and triggers a response

• persuasion

• occasion

• coronation

• attribution

Argumentation is...

• is the writer's attempt to convince his reader to agree with him.

• Said of a word or expression used in a nonliteral way.

• The principle of clarity and logical adherence to a topic that binds together all parts of a composition.

• word choice.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.W.11-12.1

CCSS.W.11-12.1A

CCSS.W.11-12.1B