Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Thursday, March 19, 2015

2007 Ethicist Prompt for Friday

 
For Friday-Introduction+ 2 support paragraph.  Start taking chances with your intro.  Show your feathers!

Thursday, March 12, 2015

IRP Book review

For Monday:

  1.  Research question posted on Classroom-not My Big Campus 
  2. IRP Book Review- We will use this to help next year's AP Language classes choose their IRP books.  

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

In the Field + Good Form

For Thursday-

  1. What is the effect of "Good Form" in this part of the book?  In other words, how and why is the author messing with our grip on truth?  
  2. Read "In the Field" + "Good Form"
  3. For written response-Can you identify a symbol from "In the Field"?  Let's consider major events and who experienced it.




Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Speaking of Courage-Synthesis of a soldier's burden


Prussian general and military theorist Carl Von Clausewitz once wrote that "War is the continuation of politics by other means." This platitude serves to help rationalize the function of war; however, those who send soldiers off to war do not anticipate the enduring effects of war that surviving soldiers face upon their return.

Carefully review the sources from class discussing war and the soldier. Then, synthesize information from at least four of the sources and incorporate it into a coherent, well-developed essay that examines the range issues associated with soldiers emotional state during and after war.

Make sure your argument is central; use the sources to illustrate and support your reasoning. Avoid merely summarizing the sources. Indicate clearly which sources you are drawing from, whether through direct quotation, paraphrase, or summary. You may cite the sources as Source A, Source B, etc., or by using the descriptions in parentheses.

On Classroom, I posted a note page to manage your sources. Remember we are looking for a range of issues so do not be content to park your examination at just one issue.

Source Requirements minimums- Source A, one visual-photo/graph/data (only 1). 2 others from list.

Source A- The Things They Carried
Source B-What makes a moral soldier? NPR Interview of Gen. Pace- Transcript
Source C-The Cat by Ryan Alexander (Read along in War poetry packet)
Source D-from Manchester's journal Goodbye Darkness via War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Source E-Photos-A-B-C-D-E
Source F- The Marlboro Marine
Source-G The War Within-
Source-H-Why veterans miss war TED Talk- Sebastian Junger (Text)
Source-I New York Times- Home Fires series
Source-J I am Sorry it has Come to This
Source-K Marked (Photo Essay- Portraits of Soldiers before, during, and after)
Source- L Virginia Woolf Quote
Source -M-Why I am a Marine
Source- N Rambo III Trailer
Source-O- Chart on current soldier mortality
Source- P 1st Squad, 3rd platoon.

Source Q- Female Veterans

Source R- Top ten charities that support veterans
Source S- Photo Essay(James Nachtwey)  and article
Source T- Nature of War
Source U- The German in the Woods

For Tuesday:  Write as much of the essay as possible.  (share with me if you want me to give it a quick look/respond)  Please do not wait to jam this out Tuesday night.  We are taking this in chunks so that we can closely sculpt our evidence and our sentence structure.

For Monday:
Introduction- Bring to class and draft it with serious consideration to the following components.  Let's not lose sight of form so little review of our syntax options as we draft our synthesis introduction:
  • leads/Hook ideas
  • thesis (adverbial conjunction)
  • parallel structure
  • rhetorical question
  • options from "Index of Templates"
  • implement source
For Friday:

Outline of the synthesis-

INTRODUCTION:
I.
       A.
            1.
            2.
       B.
            1.
            2.
II.   ETC...