Rhetorical terms test -- December 2014

Rhetorical terms test (click here) -- 40 terms:  multiple choice and matching.
Have teacher record score on hard copy (after one attempt) and continue with fill-in-the-blank portion (choose 10).

August 2014 Assignment (speech, essays, short story)

I.      Read ALL of the following (linked here below).   You will be using your notes/reflections to this literature to complete an in-class timed writing during the first or second week of school.

1.      Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address

2.      Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience

3.      Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self –Reliance

4.      Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour

II.    Remember, too, that I will be checking your notes for the previous readings as well.

III.     VOCABULARY LEARNING

In the AP courses, we study vocabulary involved with rhetorical and poetic writing. The master lists are linked here below (links also found on the AP page at the Alcove classroom website). The first week back in class, you will be quizzed on words 1-85 from the rhetoric terms list.  You can see that various groupings of the terms are on Quizlet for practicing and out-of-class testing. (Those of you who have had this list last year, be prepared for some non-multiple-choice situations.)

·  Literary Devices--original links Rhetorical Strategies: http://www.nisd.net/jay/la/LitTerms-RhetoricalDev.pdf

·  Poetry terms: http://www.homewood.k12.al.us/~ksmith/AP_Poetry_Terms.html

On QUIZLET --PLEASE SIGN INTO CLASS MEMBERSHIP on QUIZLET.  

AP CLASS LIST -- particular lists
AP Poetry terms -- complete list
and
AP rhetoric terms -- complete list

Current Documents

• Summer 2014 Reading (AP Language & Composition 2014-15) and with
• more SPECIFICS about summer assignments, including vocabulary assignment 
• Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour
• Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address
• Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
• Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self –Reliance
• Major Works Data Sheet (general prose)