Deductive, inductive, and dialectic reasoning Research argument/ debate Multiple-choice test strategies Vocabulary 3 The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Reading 18th and 19th century Patterns of old and new Synthesis essays Lincoln, and four related texts information Socratic seminar primary and secondary sources Schemes and tropes Transitional devices Times essay (using satire or other Blink by Malcolm Gladwell More multiple-choice test Coordinate structures forms of irony) Current events from topical strategies Subordinate structures Student-designed multiple-choice magazines and newspapers Analyze more student responses Emphasis and stress questions Modest Proposal” by Jonathan to past AP synthesis essay Rhythm questions Blink “A Swift prompts Varying sentence lengths Blink synthesis project Articles from the Onion Vocabulary: prefixes and word Other sentence styles Schemes and tropes booklist roots Synthesis project expansion of Satire video project – Irony and satiric method Satiric ideas in Blink method (litotes, satire, euphemism, hyperbole, understatement, metonymy, antiphrasis, sarcasm, Horatian satire, Juvenalisn satire, irony) 4 Time of Breaking of Rhetorical argument in fiction and Timed rhetorical analysis essay Timed rhetorical analysis essay “In ‘The Nations,’” a poem by Thomas Hardy poetry Timed argument essay Timed argument essay Matter of Chance,” a short story by synthesis essay Timed synthesis essay “A Vladimir Nabokov Multiple choice questions Multiple choice questions Bennett and Mrs. Brown” by Timed multiple-choice questions “Mr. Virginia Woolf story project (after exam) More to the Lake” by E. B. “Once White John Ruskin Current events from topical magazines and newspapers Key to abbreviations: NS = Norton Sampler, Seventh Edition; US = Understanding Style, Second Edition; BR = The Bedford Reader
Deductive, inductive, and dialectic reasoning Research argument/ debate Multiple-choice test strategies Vocabulary 3 The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln, and four related primary and secondary sources Blink by Malcolm Gladwell Current events from topical magazines and newspapers “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift Articles from the Onion Reading 18th and 19th century texts Schemes and tropes More multiple-choice test strategies Analyze more student responses to past AP synthesis essay prompts Vocabulary: prefixes and word roots Irony and satiric method Satiric method (litotes, satire, euphemism, hyperbole, understatement, metonymy, antiphrasis, sarcasm, Horatian satire, Juvenalisn satire, irony) Patterns of old and new information Transitional devices Coordinate structures Subordinate structures Emphasis and stress Rhythm Varying sentence lengths Other sentence styles Synthesis project – expansion of ideas in Blink Synthesis essays Socratic seminar Times essay (using satire or other forms of irony) Student-designed multiple-choice questions Blink questions Blink synthesis project Schemes and tropes booklist Satire video project 4 “In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations,’” a poem by Thomas Hardy “A Matter of Chance,” a short story by Vladimir Nabokov “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” by Virginia Woolf “Once More to the Lake” by E. B. White John Ruskin Current events from topical magazines and newspapers Rhetorical argument in fiction and poetry Timed rhetorical analysis essay Timed argument essay synthesis essay Multiple choice questions Timed rhetorical analysis essay Timed argument essay Timed synthesis essay Multiple choice questions Timed multiple-choice questions story project (after exam) Key to abbreviations: NS = Norton Sampler, Seventh Edition; US = Understanding Style, Second Edition; BR = The Bedford Reader
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