AP Scholars, your Do-Now, which
means enter and do this now:
• In a three-column Graphic Organizer of your
choosing, list the following brainstorming info
into the appropriate column.
• Column 1: Texts we read
• Column 2: Rhetorical strategies we studied
• Column 3: Your favorite terminology, either
AP-course specific or Classical Roots
• You’ve been warned! I will check between
12:42-12:45.
Written Tasks
A different way to demonstrate
Mastery of Content
First, let’s brainstorm! What texts have
we studied?
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DOI
CC
DOS
HF
Emerson
Thoreau
JFK speech
FD
Academic Literacy
One-Breasted Women
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Poe
SA Winds
9-11 para
Argument, Violent
Rhetoric
Julius Lester
Immigration essay
Malcolm X
Community Service
essays/texts
Next, what rhetorical strategies have
we learned?
• Diction and syntax
• RT
• Red herring and other
fallacies
• Imagery
• Imaging literature
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Metaphors
Alliteration
Assonance
Meter
Rhyme scheme
Anaphora
Buzz words
Now, what rhetorical terms or classical
roots terms have we used quite often?
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Potentate
Archaic
Juxtapose
Antithesis/antithetical
Interloper
Cataclysm
Paradox
Paragon
Endemic/pandemic
Traduce
Incongruity
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Hypothesis
Anarchy
Imponderable
Oligarchy
Gregarious
Subterfuge
Egregious
Efficacious
Debase
Anomaly
Finally, what’s going on in the world
right now?
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Obamacare
Pakistan vs. Israel
Syrian immigration
Drone usage, warfare or
otherwise
• China eliminates 1-child
policy
• Chimp and pigs = humans
• Social Security is going
away
• Gun control: teachers
with guns
• China’s pollution affecting
other countries
• USA space exploration
• Riots around the globe
• Eliminate the penny
• Population is too elderly
Ready are you (anastrophe, by the way ) to
discover the Written Task?
• Written Tasks demonstrate a student’s ability
to choose an imaginative way of exploring an
aspect of the materials studied in the course.
It must show a critical engagement with an
aspect (racism, for example) of a text (HF) or a
topic (affirmative action). The content of the
task must relate to one of the aspects of
rhetoric studied in this course. Students are
free to choose the text type that is
appropriate for the content of the task.
Criteria for WT:
• The actual Task: 900-1100 words.
• The Rationale: 100-200 words.
• Word count for both sections must come at
the end of each section.
2 parts to a WT:
The Rationale explains:
• how the content of the task is
linked to a particular aspect of
the course
• how the task is intended to
explore particular aspects of
the course
• the nature of the task chosen
(the text type)
• information about audience,
purpose, and the social,
cultural or historical context in
which the task is set
Written Task Itself
• Can be a variety of texts:
speeches, opinion pieces,
blog, editorial, short story,
screenplay, etc.
• Can be electronic or
printed, but word count
must still be obeyed.
Samples of Written Tasks:
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A short story exploring a minor character’s view of the main action of a literary
text
A public information document explaining the effects of new legislation on a
community
A diary entry in which a character from a work of fiction reveals his true feelings
about another character or the action of a literary text
An episode from a literary text rewritten to place the action in another time or
place
An opinion column that emphasizes the pervasiveness of female stereotyping in
advertising and how these stereotypes are promoted for the purpose of raising
company profits
A newspaper report on a local news event from the perspective of a national
newspaper
A screenplay for a documentary on the effects of global warming
The creation of a mass emailing campaign by a candidate running for public office
A parody of a literary text that highlights a significant feature of the text
So: let’s brainstorm a WT and get
started.
• Due 12/16-17/13.