APELC Class Notes

Objectives: APELCers 1) processed an excerpt from an autobiography, and 2) responded to their peers’ narration drafts.

First and third seniors and juniors, we reviewed your work on the Soto piece and I discussed in particular theses, syntax and diction, and schemes and tropes. Roughly, you thesis should follow this model: clear observation + precise evaluation (+/- reasons). I attempted to help you disambiguate the rhetorical analysis prompts as they’re written by the College Board, and tried to clarify the relationship between syntax and schemes and diction and tropes and how you might identify and analyze them to the end of answering the former prompts. You spent the last half of class reviewing the first draft of your peers’ narrations.

We’ll dedicate most of Monday to revision work. Please check your class page for homework details.

September 24, 2009 | Filed Under AP Language

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