08/24/19 — Tuesday

Post date: Aug 28, 2019 2:9:39 PM

Unit 1 Skill Focus

1.A READING: Identify and describe components of the rhetorical situation: the exigence, audience, writer, purpose, context, and message.

3.A READING: Identify and explain claims and evidence within an argument.

4.B READING: Identify and describe the overarching thesis of an argument. and any indication it provides of the argument's structure.

4.B WRITING: Write a thesis statement that requires proof or defense and that may preview the structure of the argument.

4.A WRITING: Develop a paragraph that includes a claim and evidence supporting the claim.

Homework:

1. Bring in The Fire Next Time

Outcome Objective:

1. Use the AP Argument Rubric, the Argument Essay Scoring Sheet and your classmates' essays to score the essays that were written in answer to the "Leadership and Solitude" prompt

First Thing:

1. Get the the Argument Essay Scoring Sheet and an argument essay (not your own) from up front

2. Get out your scoring rubric and begin to read through the essay (don't score yet!)

Agenda:

1. Talk through why I gave essay B the lowest score

2. Scoring walk around