Thursday, March 5, 2015

HW DUE/REMINDERS FOR FRI. 3/6

1st/3rdAP LANG

**FOR FRI. 3/6:

BE PREPARED TOMORROW FRI. 3/6, IN CLASS FOR A TIMED AP EXAM RHETORICAL ESSAY PRACTICE '#1'--this time NO ROUGH DRAFT; just a new rhetorical analysis prompt/question and 40 minutes to respond thoughtfully!!! 
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**HW DUE MON. 3/9: 

1) MAKE SURE YOU HAVE READ (given to you in class THURSDAY/'supplemental' section) "Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement by John Kerry, 1971 to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations"

**SPEECH LINK:
KERRY 1971 VIETNAM VETERAN SPEECH 


**ALSO I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU READ THE FOLLOWING BACKGROUND INFORMATION REGARDING JOHN KERRY/THIS SPEECH/KERRY'S ACTIONS:
JOHN KERRY 
KERRY MILITARY SERVICE 
KERRY'S ANTI-WAR ACTIVISM 

2) AS YOU READ, ANNOTATE THIS SPEECH, and TAKE NOTE OF/FIND/MARK (**AND I WILL BE LOOKING TO SEE THAT YOU DID THIS!!!):

**ANNOTATE CREDIBILITY ISSUES
**ANNOTATE LOGICAL APPEALS
**ANYTHING YOU SEE and/or QUESTION RHETORICALLY

**AND...

**3) EACH OF YOU, IN SMALL GROUPS/PAIRS, WERE ASSIGNED A SPECIFIC LOGICAL/RHETORICAL FALLACY ('THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT LOGICAL FALLACIES" GUIDE SHEET GIVEN IN CLASS) TO LOCATE/FIND AN EXAMPLE OF WITHIN THE SPEECH: BE READY TO SHARE YOUR FINDINGS!!!

**HERE'S A LINK TO THE LOGICAL FALLACIES SHEET AS WELL:
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT LOGICAL FALLACIES!!!  

**NOTE: BE DILIGENT IN COMPLETING THIS ANALYSIS/ANNOTATION ASSIGNMENT; USE THE TEXT TO BACK UP YOUR ASSERTIONS, AND BE PREPARED FOR EVERYONE TO CONTRIBUTE TO DISCUSSION MONDAY IN CLASS!



4th 9th Lit./Comp.

**NO HW DUE FRI. 3/6!


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