AP Language Class Notes
Objective: APELCers completed a practice timed-writing.
Juniors and seniors, today you completed a practice timed-writing, a rhetorical analysis, that you’re to highlight and assess yourselves using our rubric and the scoring guidelines I provided to you in class. Please be ready to discuss your papers with your peers next class. I’ll post an assignment sheet tomorrow with details for this self-evaluation assignment and I’ll also post details for the reflection letter I’ll ask you to submit at before the end of the semester.
Also, remember that your third synthesis drafts are due tomorrow (fifth) and Wednesday (second), and they should be close to being polished and finished by now. I don’t want you to be scrambling for information at the last minute so make sure you’re prepared.
Some of you asked after the Yale “art” controversy we talked about recently, so I looked around and collected some of the ideas floating in the ether.
Immediately following the original story in the Yale Daily News, one blogger at RH Reality Check, ostensibly a repoductive health and rights site, questioned the validity of the project and the maturity of the artist: “Yale Performance Art: Where Are the Grown-Ups?”. However, another blogger at the same site effusively praised the student for creating a “funny hoax”: “A+ for Abortion Art”.
One Yale lecturer admonished his school for banning the student’s work, but a Los Angeles Times columnist took to task the student’s unoriginality, her prententions and those of the sophisticated art community, writing of the student’s jargon-filled justification of her piece “It’s hard to say what causes the worse case of dry heaves, the graphic bodily-function-speak or the gratuitously inaccessible art-speak”, in a cutely titled piece: “It’s period art”.
Finally, Newsweek offered some insight in to the history of provocative art: “Art Aimed to Shock”.
Get ready for the new world of ideas you’re about to enter, kids. I hope you’re ready evaluate the best way to to navigate the straits of academia. I hope my best will have served you.
See you soon.