APELC Class Notes

Objectives: APELCers processed texts from multiple genres.

Period 3 eleventh and twelfth graders, we began by processing the Alexie piece which again, as the other pieces in this chapter of the reader, stirred much discussion over identity.

After this, we began to process three pieces of campaign rhetoric from the presidential primary season, banners from the campaigns of Senators Clinton, Obama, and McCain. All of you posited creative interpretations and analyses of the presentations of the banners. I was darned impressed.

The idea to look at the was born from two different texts I came across last spring, the first, “May the best logo win” at Salon, and the second, “Scott Dadich on Campaign Art”, a podcast from The Economist’s “Democracy in America” blog (the links to which no longer appear to work, at least from where I am now).

Check your class page for homework details, and I’ll see you next class.

September 30, 2008 | Filed Under AP Language

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