AP Language Class Notes
Objective(s): APELC students 1) reviewed arrangement and essay organziation, and 2) practiced mimicking others’ sentence style.
Period 5, after reviewing some organization strategies for your revisions, we discussed idea-generation and attempted to apply it to style practice. I offered you two new adjectives to describe the words we use daily: lexical and grammatical. Lexical words have some semantic value, that is, they have some conventional meaning attached to them as do nouns, verbs, adjectives, some adverbs (quickly, happily, cluelessly, et cetera), and some prepositions (against, before, up, et cetera). Grammatical words have no real conventional meaning and function only to make sentences cohere, and include words such as conjunctions, some determiners, some adverbs (very, too, et cetera), and some prepositions (of, like, not, et cetera). This was confusing for many of you, I’m not sure why. But recall that you’re introduced to new words in math and science all the time. Deal.
I asked you then to mimic a sentence I typed on the screen by replacing all of the lexical words with your own and keeping the grammatical words. Things then fell apart.
The due date for your revisions has been changed to Monday, October 1. I know many of you want to write the perfect paper and therefore many of you are also worried about making your sure your essay is just so. I understand that your grades are very important, but I’d advise those of you who let your grade drive your learning consider, rather, letting the learning drive your learning. If you do this thoroughly and earnestly, the grade will take care of itself and you won’t lose yourself to anxiety.
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“Period 2, after reviewing some organization strategies for your revisions, we discussed idea-generation and attempted to apply it to style practice.”
Mr. Girard, we are period 5! We are much cooler than those punks in period 2.
Indeed, you are period 5 Clay. Look out 2, Clay’s just served you.