Exam Facts
In most public universities, scoring a 4 or higher on the AP Language and Composition exam earns you what college credits?
Comp 1 and 2
If you do not explain the connections or progression between the student’s claims (so a line of reasoning is not clearly established), the highest you can score on any essay in Row B is...
2
It's typically the first one or two sentences of your body paragraphs that outlines the supporting claim and how it applies to your thesis.
The Topic Sentence
The speaker utilizes these types of rhetorical devices when they are attempting to write through a poetic voice. Through the use of this type of language, readers analyze deeper to understand the speaker's purpose or message in a selected passage.
Figurative Language
Florence Kelley (1859-1932) was a United States social worker and reformer who fought successfully for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women. She delivered the following speech before the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22, 1905. Read the speech carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze the rhetorical strategies Kelley uses to convey her message about child labor to her audience. Support your analysis with specific references to the text.
What's two pieces of context could you expand on to analyze the significance or relevance of this author's message?
...social worker and reformer who fought successfully for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women...
...National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22, 1905...
Context is anything that is happening outside of the argument.
What are the two different types of multiple-choice questions you'll receive on the final exam?
Rhetorical Analysis
Student Draft
In the argumentative and synthesis essays, how do you articulate the implications or limitations of an argument (either your argument or an argument related to the prompt) by situating it within a broader context?
(This will give you the Sophistication Point)
Consistently delivering a counterclaim (concession and rebuttal)
In Unit 7, we talked about unifying the argument. How does one typically do that?
Generally speaking, making connections from the introduction into the conclusion is what we practiced.
There are a variety of these choices that speakers use to support or contextualize their arguments. An example would use using facts or statistics.
Types of evidence
On April 10, 1962, as the United States was emerging from a recession, the nation’s largest steel companies raised steel prices by 3.5 percent. President John F. Kennedy, who had repeatedly called for stable prices and wages as part of a program of national sacrifice during a period of economic distress, held a news conference on April 11, 1962, which he opened with the following commentary regarding the hike in steel prices. Read Kennedy’s remarks carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze the rhetorical strategies President Kennedy uses to achieve his purpose. Support your analysis with specific references to the text.
Although we cannot pinpoint Kennedy's exactly purpose in this prompt, what language in this prompt infers the subject of his purpose?
To provide "commentary regarding the hike in steel prices" and advocate for "stable prices and wages".
How long do you have to write the three essays on the second part of the AP exam?
2 hours and 15 minutes
Explaining the significance or relevance of the writer’s rhetorical choices (given the rhetorical situation) will satisfy which row on the rhetorical analysis rubric?
Row C, Sophistication
Whether it's writing an argument or rhetorically analyzing someone's argument, these are the four different variables that should be considered when thinking of an audience.
The audience's values, needs, beliefs, and backgrounds
By understanding the author's attitude on a subject matter, we can make a clear inference about their purpose or message they impart with the reader.
What's another word for author's attitude, and how do readers pick up on an author's attitude in a passage?
1. Tone
2. Looking closely at Diction (word choice) through different connotations
In the following letter, Abigail Adams (1744–1818) writes to her son John Quincy Adams, who is traveling abroad with his father, John Adams, a United States diplomat and later the country’s second president. Read the letter carefully. Then, in a well-developed essay, analyze the rhetorical strategies Adams uses to advise her son. Support your analysis with specific references to the text.
What's Abigail Adam's exigence? What language from the prompt best helps you make this inference?
Her exigence is to give advice to her son who is traveling abroad.
"who is traveling abroad with his father"
Generally speaking, how many of the multiple-choice questions should you be getting correct, and what score should you average on the essays to receive at least a 3.
Two part
Half of MCQ
3 on essays
If you explain how at least one rhetorical choice in the passage contributes to the writer’s argument, purpose, or message, what's the highest score you can receive for Row B on the rhetorical analysis rubric?
3
These types of sentences link your supporting claims and show how they are interconnected, developing a line of reasoning. If you cannot achieve this, it's difficult to achieve higher than a 2 in row B.
Transition sentences
Once you identify the choice the speaker uses to persuade an audience, students should analyze the effect that is created from the choice...
or the __________.
appeal
On the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., labor union organizer and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez published an article in the magazine of a religious organization devoted to helping those in need. Read the following excerpt from the article carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze the rhetorical choices Chavez makes to develop his argument about nonviolent resistance.
Who can we assume is Chavez's intended audience? What language from the prompt can you use to make this inference?
People with a deep religious conviction.
"Cesar Chavez published an article in the magazine of a religious organization devoted to helping those in need."
Choose an essay, and discuss the planning steps prior to writing the essay:
A. Synthesis
B. Rhetorical Analysis
C. Argumentative
Subjective answers that I approve or disapprove of... :)
Which row is affected by writing that suffers from grammatical and/or mechanical errors that interfere with the communication of the essay?
What's the highest a student can earn in this row if their essay suffers from these errors?
1. Row B
2. 3
In a nutshell, what have I insisted that an argumentative thesis statement should consist of?
4 steps required. I'll settle for 3.
Argumentative:
1. A specific concession on your position
2. Providing a clear position on the prompt using prompt language
3. A thematic defense of your position.
4. All kept in one concise statement.
The textbook outlines five of these rhetorical choices that writers use to structure their paragraphs.
What's the general term for these devices, and what are the five listed from the textbook?
1. Methods of Development
2. Narration, Description, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, and Definition
On June 11. 2004, Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister of Great Britain, delivered the following eulogy to the American people in honor of former United States president Ronald Reagan, with whom she had worked closely. Read the eulogy carefully. Then, in a well-developed essay, analyze the rhetorical strategies that Thatcher uses to convey her message.
Based on the prompt, what's most likely Thatcher's purpose?
How would this be different from what the prompt is asking you to analyze?
Purpose: Reagan = great guy
Message: To inspire Americans to be like Reagan.