AP Language 12th Grade: Day Four Friday August 28,2015

Day Four     AP Language 12th Grade     Friday August 28, 2015

Learning Objective: Today we will analyze and annotates Frederick Douglass’s piece, “Learning to Read and Write”
C: Bell Ringer, Annotative and Dialectical Journal: Frederick Douglass

1) Bell Ringer
2) Annotative and Dialectic Journals + Class Analysis: “Learning to Read and Write”
3) Chapter One: Everything’s An Argument (Cornell Notes”
4) Ethos, Pathos, and Logos: Lecture
5) Independent Practices
Closing: Exit Ticket or Discussion

Homework:
First Dialectic Journal Turn in Monday August 31, 2015, Monday 08/31/2015 Practice AP Multiple Choice Test (Rescheduled due to fire drill), Dialectic and Annotative Journals for:

Wilberforce – 1789 Abolition Speech………………………………………………… 7
Douglass – Learning to Read and Write……………………………………………… 10
Adams – 1780 Letter to John Quincy………………………………………………… 13
Swift – A Modest Proposal…………………………………………………………… 14
Rodriguez – Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood……………………………….. 20
Marian and Shook – The Cognitive Benefits of Being Bilingual………………………. 22
Cisneros – Only Daughter……………………………………………………………. 27


Bell Ringer:

In the Frederick Douglass excerpt “Learning to Read and Write” what is Douglass’ purpose for learning to read and write? Why is education a threat to the ruling class? In other words, why was it important to keep slave and indentured servants uneducated? As Douglass learned to read and write, what types of writing interested him? Provide textual examples and cite your sources.

Write a 200-300 word response