AP English Language and Composition Monday, October 20th, 2014

Warm-Up: Consider: write this down in your journal: Think/Pair/Share: “Once I am sure there’s nothing going on I step inside letting the door thud shut.” – Philip Larkin Think/Pair/Share: What feelings are evoked by the word thud? How would the meaning change if the speaker let the door slam shut? Individually: copy down and complete the chart: Verb expressing the closing of a door Feeling evoked by the verb Thud 2. Slam 3. 4. 5.

Notes: Impact Aid Forms – first 3 classes returned = donuts!! Conference Schedule – questions? Due – Obama 2002/2009 annot. + compare/contrast paragraph (staple together & turn in)

OPTIC Look over the OPTIC sheet. Annotate the instructions. Summarize the directions in your own words. Resource: CA p. 26-32 (Visual Rhetoric) Complete an OPTIC sheet for each of the following visual arguments. Answer the corresponding question for each visual argument on the back of the OPTIC sheet (or on a separate sheet of paper) Franklin – “Join or Die” + question #3 CA p. 119-120 Adams – “Saigon Execution” + question #2 CA p. 480-481 Ut – “The Terror of War” + question #1 CA p. 478-479

Homework Due Weds. 10/22/14 Finish OPTIC + Questions Find, print, and bring 2+ editorial cartoons One from 1970’s or earlier One from 2000 or later