Visual Literacy: Argument
“Two Scoreboards” –Edward Koren
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View the visual argument. Analyze it like you would
a written text.
What subject is Koren depicting?
Does Koren make a claim? If so, what is it?
Do the words support the images or vice versa?
What point is being made about the relationship
between sports and academics? Do you agree?
What does the American flag add to the impact of
the cartoon?
January 22, 2013
“It’s a ‘Treated!’ Tuesday!”
AP Language and
Composition
Mr. Houghteling
AGENDA
Visual Literacy practice.
 Reading and Analyzing “I Know Why the
Caged Bird Cannot Read.”
 The use of the Appositive
 Quick Quiz on Francine Prose
 Discussion of Homework and summary
statements.
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Visual Literacy: Argument
“Two Scoreboards” –Edward Koren
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View the visual argument. Analyze it like you would
a written text.
What subject is Koren depicting?
Does Koren make a claim? If so, what is it?
Do the words support the images or vice versa?
What point is being made about the relationship
between sports and academics? Do you agree?
What does the American flag add to the impact of
the cartoon?
HOMEWORK
 Read
pages 89 through 92
(paragraph 14) of Francine
Prose’s essay.
 Complete the ODD-numbered
questions from Exercise 2 in
“Grammar as Rhetoric and Style”
(PAGE 171).
Creating Summary Statements
What is the most important information
from the paragraph?
 Should or could you use a direct quote
as part of the summary statement?
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Creating Summary Statements-Examples
1. Although Prose contends that “literary
tastes and allegiances are formed”
during high school, she is dismayed by
what students are required to read
during high school.
Creating Summary Statements-Examples
2.Prose gives examples of lists of top
books for high schools, and she
suggests that many of those “mediocre”
books were read when the creators of
the lists were young.
Creating Summary Statements-Examples
3. Since high school is when these literary
tastes are formed, students should be
exposed to great literature and taught
how to read it. Prose is disgusted by
both the choices of texts and how they
are taught.
Quick Quiz Part 1
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2.
List two authors (besides
Dante or Homer) that Prose
likes or respects.
List two authors or book titles
(besides Maya Angelou) that
Prose does not like or respect.
Quick Quiz Part 2
3. Discuss
briefly who Dante and
Homer are.
NOTE: Neither Dante nor Homer
can be used as a correct
answer for #1.
Quick Quiz Part 1
1.
2.
List two authors (besides
Dante or Homer) that Prose
likes or respects.
List two authors or book titles
(besides Maya Angelou) that
Prose does not like or respect.
Quick Quiz Part 2
3. Discuss
briefly who Dante and
Homer are.
NOTE: Neither Dante nor Homer
can be used as a correct
answer for #1.
Make a Dialectical Journal
 NOTE-TAKING
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Quotations
 NOTE-MAKING
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Your responses,
comments, or questions
about the quotations
you’ve selected.
Answers to Quick Quiz questions
1.Authors Prose likes or
respects include
Shakespeare, Hawthorne,
Melville, Kafka, Alice Munro,
Orwell, and the Brontes.
Answers to Quick Quiz questions
2. Authors or books that Prose
does not like or respect include
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird;
Alice Walker, A Separate Peace,
the weaker novels of John
Steinbeck, Ray Bradbury, and
Ordinary People by Judith Guest.
Answers to Quick Quiz questions
3. Dante, whose full name was Dante
Alighieri, was called the “Father of
Italian language” and “The Supreme
Poet.” Dante’s most famous work was
The Divine Comedy. Homer was the
Greek poet who wrote The Iliad and
The Odyssey.