APELC Class Notes

Objective: APELCers wrote a rhetorical analysis.

Third period, you completed timed-writing 5 today, the last of this type until next semester. You will complete three timed-writings in rapid succession near the end of the semester as part of exam prep, but I’ll not be grading those. Rather, you’ll be scoring yourselves and writing a self-assessment of your progress. More on that later, though.

I had a couple of lines of investigation to propose to you after the timed-writing, but somehow we got into a rather heated and valuable discussion of the merit of Stephanie Meyers’ Twilight novels. Since all were present, there’s no need to summarize, but it was interesting, in light of the recent assertion by some there exist no ultimate referents or objective standards by which we can measure our judgments, the ire that several students expressed toward the author and her “books” and the tastes of her audience.

I love it.

November 13, 2008 | Filed Under AP Language

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