Learning Objectives

-- Explore features of the Rhetorical Triangle
-- Learn about the AP Language multiple choice test
-- Investigate the AP Language essay
-- Engage in formal and informal writing tasks
-- Research a current issue
-- Maintain and utilize a writing journal
-- Employ various deep reading strategies while reading exposition
-- Utilize online tools for communication and course work

Readings

-- David J. Birnbaum's "Catbird Seat"

-- Brent Staples' "Just Walk on By A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space"

Materials
By our second day of class you will need...

--One spiral (college rule) notebook
--One binder (two inch ring)
--Pens and pencils (mechanical is preferred)

Reading Focus: The Rhetorical Triangle
--Explore the Aristotelian Rhetorical Triangle (Speaker, Audience, and Subject)

Readings

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

-- "Modern Applications of Ancient Rhetoric"

Reading Focus: The Five Canons of Rhetoric
--Learn each of the five canons

Writing Focus: Rhetorical Analysis

Test Prep: We will take the Multiple Choice Diagnostis Test this week.

Readings

-- "Modern Approaches to Argument"

-- Selection from Benjamin Banneker

Reading Focus: Learning about Argument

Writing Focus: Rhetorical Analysis
Diagnostic Essay

Readings

-- Jonathan Edward's "from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

-- Thomas Jefferson's "from the Declaration of Independence"

Reading Focus: Speaker, Audience, Context

Writing Focus: Rhetorical Analysis
--Studying relationships between speaker, audience, and context

Readings

-- Benjamin Franklin's "from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"

-- Olaudah Equiano "from the Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano"

Reading Focus: Genre Study (modes)
--Learn each of the five canons

Writing Focus: Rhetorical Analysis

Readings

-- Booker T. Washington's "1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech"

-- W.E.B. Du Bois' opposition to Booker T. Washington's ideas on social integration (Title not available)

Reading Focus: Analyzing Claims and Evidence

Writing Focus: Argument Analysis

Readings

-- Zora Hurston's "How It Feels To Be Colored Me"

-- Judith Ortez Cofer's "Myth of the Latin Woman"

Reading Focus: Rhetorical Analysis

Writing Focus: Rhetorical and Argument Analysis
--In week 7 we will focus on two types of writing

Readings

-- Nancy Mairs' "On Being a Cripple"

-- Daniel Sullivan's "What are Homosexuals For?"

Writing Exercises and Tools
3-part Source Integration
Argument Summary: Rhetorical Precis
Quickwrite
Metadiscourse: Synthesis
Purposes for Using What Others Say