2.16 Fri warm-up: Returning to Dillard! activity 1: Writing analytically with Annie Dillard! activity 2: Writing analytically with JFK! close: Watching analytically with The Great Gatsby, The Movie! HW DUE: none! It’s an extra class! HW Tonight: vocab. 7! (2.19) Sedaris essay readin’! (2.19) Writing’ an FRQ about JFK! (2.21) Upcoming: 2.19/2.20: vocab. 7 due 2.23/2.26: Gatsby 7-9 assessment 2.27: ACT day 2.28 (“B” day)/3.1 (“A” day): Diction, syntax, tone test 3.2/3.5: Rhetorical analysis FRQ 3.6/3.7: Begin rhetoric unit (NOTE: “B” day will be going first for this entire unit, all the way up to the AP Lang test. Adjust accordingly!) 5.16: AP Lang test

2.16 warm-up: Dillard and you A few classes ago, you were given a prompt for a passage from “The Stunt Pilot” and an isolated passage. You wrote an intro and a BP for that passage. Retrieve all of that now.

2.16 warm-up: Dillard and you We’ll begin with . . . An AP MC styled quiz over this passage! Hooray! You have nine minutes. Before I reveal the key, compare your answers with a neighbor. Don’t change any of your answers, but attempt to come to a consensus on a key.

2.16 activity: MC Annie Dillard B Dillard is looking at a twig . . . She’s thinking to herself . . . “This twig is just like a skyscraper.” Poor Annie Dillard.

2.16 notes: Writing analytically The passage below is from an essay collection by American writer Annie Dillard. In this essay, Dillard relates her experiences watching Dave Rahm, a stunt pilot, fly at the Bellingham (WA) Air Show in 1975. The essay is part of a collection titled The Writing Life in which Dillard details her relationship to creativity, art and beauty. Read the passage carefully. Then, in a well-developed essay, analyze how Dillard communicates her views to the audience. Support your analysis of her rhetoric with specific references to the text. You had 20 minutes to write an intro and a BP. I gave myself the same amount of time and completed the same task. Which of these intros sets up my essay better? (Pssst. It’s never the first one.)

2.16 notes: Writing analytically Dillard writes about a stunt pilot, Dave Rahm, in her essay “The Stunt Pilot.” In the essay, Dillard uses strategies involving diction and syntax to explain how Rahm’s performance impacted her. She believes that Rahm’s performance was art. In “The Stunt Pilot,” Dillard uses diction and syntax to convey her views to the audience. Dillard writes about the difficulty of creating something beautiful in her essay “The Stunt Pilot.” Relating her experiences watching Dave Rahm, a famous stunt pilot, perform his show, Dillard metaphorically explains the effort needed to create. It’s not something easily done but is worthwhile in order to transform the world. Beauty and art, in other words, are worth the effort.

2.16 notes: Writing analytically Dillard writes about the difficulty of creating something beautiful in her essay “The Stunt Pilot.” Relating her experiences watching Dave Rahm, a famous stunt pilot, perform his show, Dillard metaphorically explains the effort needed to create. For Dillard, the process of creation is necessarily difficult, but it must be so in order to create something wholly new and inspirational. What are my two BPs about? Which of these topic sentences is better? Dillard uses a plethora of metaphors to explain what she felt while watching Dave Rahm. The act of creation changes the world.

2.16 notes: Writing analytically When analyzing, remember that your thesis is the rhetor’s thesis. Your topic sentences should avoid explicitly mentioning rhetorical strategies. Save those for your grounds. You don’t have to agree with the rhetor’s views; rather, you just need to explain what those views are and how she communicates them to her audience.

2.16 activity: Writing analytically You have ten minutes to write a final BP for your essay. Here is the prompt again: The passage below is from an essay collection by American writer Annie Dillard. In this essay, Dillard relates her experiences watching Dave Rahm, a stunt pilot, fly at the Bellingham (WA) Air Show in 1975. The essay is part of a collection titled The Writing Life in which Dillard details her relationship to creativity, art and beauty. Read the passage carefully. Then, in a well-developed essay, analyze how Dillard communicates her views to the audience. Support your analysis of her rhetoric with specific references to the text.

2.16 activity: peer swapping Swap your essay with a peer. Score that thing!

2.16 activity: FRQ practice again! Now this is all well and good, but College Board hasn’t given anything quite as . . . philosophical as Dillard in a while. It’s tended to political speeches and eulogies and such. Let’s take a look at one now. I’ll give you ten minutes to read and outline. Then we’ll discuss it. Are you ready for . . .

Don’t you wish all your presidents could be this handsome Don’t you wish all your presidents could be this handsome? Like, seriously.

2.16 activity: FRQ practice again! What did you find? How would you plot this essay? And you’re going to have to write this essay for HW. It will be due on 2.21/2.22.

2.16 close: Gatsby movie watching? We can watch a few scenes. In order to watch them, we need to compare them with the book. We’ll read three passages in the book. Pick out the diction choices that you think are important. Mark them and categorize them. Consider how they should be visualized; then we’ll compare it to the movie. The scenes are:

2.16 close: Gatsby movie watching? PASSAGE ONE: Valley of Ashes p. 23-24 (14:30 in movie) PASSAGE TWO: Gatsby’s party p. 39-41 PASSAGE THREE: Gatsby and Daisy together again! p. 88-89 (58:00 in movie) PASSAGE FOUR: Rich dude fight! p. 130 (1:34:00 in movie)

CLOSE and HW 2.16 HW (Due 2.19/2.20) Vocab. 7 Sedaris essay 1. Write your JFK essay. Time yourself. Do not take longer than 40 minutes.