1. Twain and Godzilla
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

2. Agenda Aim: How does popular culture reflect a society’s values?
Do Now: Where do your opinions come from?
AP Review: Thursdays Ninth Period
“Corn-Pone Opinions”
“Godzilla vs. the Giant Scissors”
Annotation and Critical Questions
Homework:
Read LoC p , , "We Talk, You Listen" and From Show and Tell. For each essay, annotate 2 paragraphs/panels and write a critical question for each annotation (4 total questions).
Synthesis Essay Exam on Friday – Prompt and Source Review on Thursday.
Wordly Wise 11 due Friday. WW11 Quiz on Monday.

3. AP Review
AP Review will begin on Thursday at Ninth Period in Room 347.
Students who are interested in coming to the review must sign the attendance sheet by tomorrow so that I know how many copies of review materials to make.
This Thursday we will read a practice AP section 1 passage.
We will also be having review in class in the days leading up to the exam on May 10.

4. “Corn-Pone Opinions”

5. “Godzilla vs. the Giant Scissors: Cutting the Antiwar Heart out of a Classic”

6. Upton Sinclair
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

7. Annotation and Critical Questions
For each essay, identify what you think is an important paragraph, write an annotation for it in your binder, and write a critical question based on the annotation. You may have to share your annotation and question in class.

8. Annotation
An annotation is a short commentary of a few sentences on what is being said in the paragraph.
Things you can write in your annotation:
Paraphrase the passage – especially helpful if it is a particularly difficult passage.
Analyze the passage, including discussion of the author's rhetorical strategies.
Identify literary/rhetorical techniques the author is using in the passage.
Develop text-to-world/self/text connections.
Respond to the passage – whether in agreement, disagreement, or with a question.

9. Critical Questions
Critical Question: A question used to provoke class discussion.
How to create critical questions:
Annotate first. Your annotation may contain a critical question in it, or you may be able to frame your response to the passage as a question.
See the questions in LoC for examples of types of critical questions.

10. Critical Question Starters
Here are a few critical question starters:
How does the author…
What does the author mean when she says…
Why do you think the author [writes/argues]…
How effective is the author's use of [named rhetorical strategy]…
Do not limit yourself to just these, and do not simply copy/paraphrase questions from LoC.

11. Example Annotation Critical Questions
In paragraph 9, Twain uses the example of how hoop skirts became fashionable. At first people laughed at them, but over time everyone was wearing them. He argues that they did this because humans have a natural need for self-approval, and self-approval is only possible when one has approval from others.
Is the need for self-approval natural, or is it something we learn from our culture?
In the same paragraph, Twain discusses how a person of "vast consequences" can introduce any kind of novelty and it will eventually be adopted.
Who are these people? How do they have this power? Are they immune to the need for approval, or do they have it as well?