AP Language Class Notes
Objective(s): APELC students 1) practiced style through sentence-mimicking, and 2) analyzed an editorial.
Period 5, you picked up where you left off Tuesday, replacing existing lexical items with your own in the sentences:
In many ways, writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying listen to me, see it my way, change your mind. It’s an aggressive, even hostile act.
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear…All I know about grammar is its infinite power. To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.
Several of you managed the substitutions very well, but it was an unmistakable challenge for everyone. I may collect a few and post them tomorrow. (If anyone would like to email their final products, I’ll try to post the best.)
You then examined the “Palantir Perspective” in the latest issue of the school paper, and you had the unique opportunity to speak with one of its authors, Emily D., who offered some insight into the process of creating the editorial piece. We discussed your analysis of the editorial, and tried to separate evaluations from inferences, and so on.
Check your class page for homework details, and have a good weekend.
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