1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1101
IMPORTANT SEMESTER FINAL EXAM ASSIGNMENT(S) FOR ENG1101 and AP LANG for tonight MON. 12/6 and IN CLASS TUES. 12/7:
1) **FOR THE FINAL EXAM FOR BOTH YOUR ENG1101 and AP LANG COURSE, make sure your understand the following:
- using your The Things They Carried (TTTC) Rhetorical Analysis Extended paragraph DRAFT (x3) given back to you in class today MON. 12/6, make sure you've chosen x1 (ONE) paragraph to REVISE/add to/PROOFREAD tonight
- use the following resources from today in class to help you compose/turn your EXTENDED PARAGRAPH into a MULTI-PARAGRAPH ESSAY
- advice/tip from me today in class
- THESIS DEVELOPMENT we started on today
- FINAL EXAM PROMPT sheet w/RA Q2 SCORING RUBRIC
- SOPHISTICATION POINT sheet w/advice & tips
- the sample multi-paragraph essay I composed below (*SCORE POINT 5-6*)
**2) FINALLY, IN CLASS TUES. 12/7:
- for the FINAL portion of this ENG1101/AP LANG FINAL EXAM GRADE, YOU WILL BE GIVEN 40 MINUTES IN CLASS TUES. 12/7 TO REWRITE YOUR DRAFTED TTTC RHET. ANALYSIS ESSAY RESPONSE THAT IS DUE TOMORROW/YOU REVISED AND MADE ADDITIONS TO, AND TURN THIS IN AS A 'FINAL' DRAFT
- YOUR SCORE ON THIS 'FINAL' TIMED REWRITE ASSIGNMENT WILL BE BASED ON THE AP EXAM ESSAY 1-6 ANALYTIC SCORING SCALE AS WELL AS A % GRADE
**FOR CONVENIENCE-SAKE, KEEP ALL THE RESOURCES I GAVE YOU MON. 12/6 & THE EXTENDED PARAGRAPH TOGETHER IN THE 'AP EXAMS/TEST PRACTICE' SECTION OF YOUR BINDER TO TURN IN WITH YOUR REWRITE TUESDAY**
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SAMPLE EXTENDED PARAGRAPH RESPONSE FOR THE CHAPTER "SPIN" TURNED INTO A MULTI-PARAGRAPH ESSAY ADDRESSING THE FINAL EXAM PROMPT (APLANG Q2 RUBRIC SCORE: 5/6)
THESIS/ASSERTION: 1
EVIDENCE/COMMENTARY: 3
SOPHISTICATION: 1
The Things They Carried: "Spin”
Throughout Tim O’Brien’s narrative, he reminds his readers of the importance of storytelling in a world where nothing remains perpetual, where life is finite. The chapter "Spin" captures both the best and the worst of men at war, thus helping readers confront these dichotomous truths. Using his authoritative voice and straightforward storytelling concerning the grimness of combat, author/narrator O'Brien draws his audience into the ethos-evoking world of a ‘true war story,’ seeking to convince readers of the raw truth and intensity that must come with the territory.
Indeed, the importance of narrative style comes though in its ability to immortalize—to bind—time forever. O’Brien’s claim that “stories are for joining the past to the future…Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story" validates the importance of preserving memories through the art of storytelling (38). However, for O’Brien, stories will never replace the memories of actually having been there to experience a scenario, namely the grim realities of war. For instance, in “Spin” O’Brien states that he is a forty-three year-old writer holding on to a passionate obsession for war stories. As he writes about his violent past, it “turns into a kind of rehappening” (32). O’Brien potently lives in his past, yet he still says “…I should forget it. But the thing about remembering is that you don’t forget…” (33). Here, the repetition of the word “forget” rhetorically reminds readers—and civilians—of the heavy burden that comes with memories of war, thus evoking a response from readers to remind them that O’Brien speaks credibly about this volatile subject.
As he continues his narrative style, quick and fragmented tales of days before, during, and after his platoon flow with sorrow and regret. Astounding readers with his details, O’Brien persuades readers to believe his tales through gruesome scenes of terror and violence—whether physical or psychological. Most peculiar, though, are his pleas that, at times, the war was not all death and pandemonium; at times came peace—but peace tempered with subtle mental chaos. For example, as G.I. Norman Bowker lies under the stars on a calm night, he longs for his father to write him a letter telling him that it is acceptable to come home without medals—a story that indicates the heavy internal conflict Bowker carries amidst the physical chaos of combat.
O’Brien’s ability to tell his war stories unflinchingly grips readers with intensity. Through narrative techniques that evoke an ethos-reaction, The Things They Carried exhibits the quality of “joining the past to the future”: a penchant that O’Brien himself so intensely strives for within his own narrative (34).
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