AP Language Documents - Lowndes AP Lang Presentation The following documents are available below if they're not clickable. If they are clickable, they are Google Docs you can make a copy of. Rhetorical Analysis Reinterpreting the AP Scoring Rubric (see both below) a. b. Patterns for A+ Thesis Statements Sample Queen Elizabeth's Speech Student Thesis Statements Zombie Synthesis Prompt (see below) Steps to Research 1. 2. b. How to Squeeze in American Literature and More Nonfiction 1.
5 Things That Should Be Taught in Every School Let’s be honest: our education system is fucked. I mean, almost all of the important history I learned between grades 5 and 12 I could probably find on Wikipedia and understand within a few weeks now. And pretty much any basic scientific knowledge you could ever want to learn is explained with pretty videos on YouTube. On top of that, you have the most unstable job market in almost 100 years, technology developing so rapidly that robots will be doing half the work in another decade, college degrees that some argue are now worthless, and new industries and technologies being invented practically every six months. Yet we’re still pushing kids through the same curriculum their grandparents went through. It’s cliche at this point to say that the most important things you learn in life you don’t learn in school. But why couldn’t these things be taught in school? Call me bitter. But before I get carried away fantasizing, let’s get real. 1. Seriously, compound interest runs the fucking planet.
ETHICS MAN | Culture | The Independent IT HAS BEEN more than 10 years since the disaster at Hillsborough football stadium. Ninety-six football fans were crushed to death that afternoon; yet the final victim, 17-year-old Tony Bland, didn't actually die there - at least, not technically. He was trampled so badly that his chest caved in and his lungs collapsed. Cut off from its oxygen supply, his cerebral cortex was destroyed within minutes. Four years later, this is how Lord Justice Hoffman described his condition: "Since April 15, 1989, Anthony Bland has been in a persistent vegetative state. He lies in Airedale General Hospital ... fed liquid food by a pump through a tube passing through his nose...His bladder is emptied through a catheter... The justices decided not to let that happen. "The day had to come, just as the day had to come when Copernicus proved that the earth is not at the centre of the universe," Singer told me not long ago. Singer's beliefs have led him to places where few others are willing to go.
How to Write a Problem Solution Essay: Step-by-Step Instructions | LetterPile Picking a Topic These sorts of essays are something you will write in your work and in life. Start by thinking about things that bother you or problems that you find irritating. If you've thought, "I know how this could be done better!" you have a great idea for this essay. How to Find a Topic Idea Step One: Get ideas for this essay by thinking about what sorts of problems you encounter. SchoolHometown communityClubsSports teamsHobby groupsPeople groups (teenagers, high school students, college students, family, males, females, race, culture, or language group) Step Two: Make a list of problems you have encountered in some of these groups. Step Three: Once you have your topic, you might want to go through the exercises in my problem solution guide to get ready to write your paper. Finding a Solution Once you've decided what problem you want to solve, you need to decide on a solution. Essay Outline To be effective, you need to organize your essay carefully. Introduction Introduction ideas
ASD1-Middle-School-Common-Core-Connections - Nonfiction Reading Strategies The traditional method of teaching content reading was assign reading, independent reading, discussion and worksheets. The strategic method of teaching reading is pre-reading strategies, guided reading, and reflection. Why should you teach strategies when you are concerned with covering all of your content? Pre-Reading Strategies: These strategies will activate prior knowledge, develop interest, introduce concepts, previews vocabulary and sets the purpose of the reading. Read the Pictures Students will "read" the pictures in the text to form hypotheses about what they see. During Reading Strategies: During reading strategies ensure fluent reading, identify main ideas, organize ideas and details, and enhance meaning. Post Reading Strategies Post reading strategies will help your students clarify, summarize and reflect on the material.
New Horizons for Learning | EdTech Resource Database List of fallacies List of faulty argument types Because of their variety, fallacies are challenging to classify. They can be classified by their structure (formal fallacies) or content (informal fallacies). The use of fallacies is common when the speaker's goal of achieving common agreement is more important to them than utilizing sound reasoning. Formal fallacies[edit] Propositional fallacies[edit] A propositional fallacy is an error that concerns compound propositions. Quantification fallacies[edit] Existential fallacy – an argument that has a universal premise and a particular conclusion. Formal syllogistic fallacies[edit] Syllogistic fallacies – logical fallacies that occur in syllogisms. Informal fallacies[edit] Informal fallacies – arguments that are logically unsound for lack of well-grounded premises. Improper premise[edit] Faulty generalizations[edit] Faulty generalization – reaching a conclusion from weak premises. Questionable cause[edit] Questionable cause is a general type of error with many variants.
5 Reasons Why Climate Change Is a Social Issue, Not Just an Environmental One | The Huffington Post As illustrated by the 400,000 attendees at the People’s Climate March in New York City and the solidarity events that took place around the word, the realities of climate change are no longer only being stressed by environmentalists. The effects of climate change will be economic, social, and environmental and will alter people’s lives in a myriad of ways that we are just beginning to understand. Acceptance of this complex interaction, which follows the prescription laid out by the concept of sustainable development, is key to beginning to enact effective policy on climate. Since the recent New Climate Economy Report focused on climate change through an economic lens, it is time to facilitate discussion on the social effects. Here are 5 reasons why climate change needs to be considered a social issue as well: 1. 2. 1 billion people will still live in extreme poverty in 2015 and many depend on their surrounding natural resources for survival. 3. 4. 5.
#NCTE14 J.44 The Landscape of Workshop in AP English | Three Teachers Talk Shana, Jackie, Erika, and I will be presenting at NCTE in Washington, D.C. on Saturday at 2:45 pm. Penny Kittle is our Chair. We are session J.44. Readers and Writers Workshop was a mystery to me for a while, literally. My first three years of teaching, I pretty much taught the same way I was taught in high school. When I finally came to understand how Workshop could revamp my instruction, that guilt grew. I am different now. My goal as an educator is to foster the literacy skills in my students that will provide them with the confidence and the capability to contribute to our community and our world. A week ago I sat in a department meeting and listened as the department manager explained the direction our district is moving in terms of English instruction: Readers and Writers Workshop. I sat there stumped when one veteran teacher began to fidget. “What’s the point then? What?!? Shouldn’t the equity be in the literacy skills our students possess more than the books they have read? We
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Bertrand Russell: The Value of Philosophy Chapter XV of The Problems of Philosophy Having now come to the end of our brief and very incomplete review of the problems of philosophy, it will be well to consider, in conclusion, what is the value of philosophy and why it ought to be studied. It is the more necessary to consider this question, in view of the fact that many men, under the influence of science or of practical affairs, are inclined to doubt whether philosophy is anything better than innocent but useless trifling, hair-splitting distinctions, and controversies on matters concerning which knowledge is impossible. This view of philosophy appears to result, partly from a wrong conception of the ends of life, partly from a wrong conception of the kind of goods which philosophy strives to achieve. But further, if we are not to fail in our endeavour to determine the value of philosophy, we must first free our minds from the prejudices of what are wrongly called 'practical' men.
12 Stereotypes About The Spanish That Are Totally NOT True | The Huffington Post What do you REALLY know about Spanish people? If you were to ask a foreigner, his response would probably consist of one accurate statement and many, many misconceptions. That’s how it appeared to us in a cliche-ridden New York Times article called “Spain, Land of 10 P.M. Foreign films and television series only serve to reinforce these cliches. The time has come to shatter these myths about the Spanish. 1. No, we don’t. 2. Actually, bullfighting is quite controversial in Spain. 3. No one’s denying that we invented the siesta and that, in fact, we’re quite proud of it, but that doesn’t mean that we take one every day (we wish!). 4. Not even close. 5. Actually, we prefer wine or beer, whereas sangria tends to be more popular among foreigners. 6. News flash: This is not Mexico. 7. The Spanish don’t all look like Penélope Cruz or Antonio Banderas (though we’re flattered you think so). 8. Sure, Pedro Almodóvar gave a very saintly speech when he won the Oscar for “Talk To Her.” 9. 10. 11.
Three Ways to Improve Students’ Test Scores With Kahoot – The Rhetor's Toolbox AP Lang multiple choice can be tough to tackle. When my students took their second full-length mock exam at the beginning of April, I was hopeful that students might gain four or five questions over their first exam. Try an average of NINE questions’ growth in eight weeks! I was floored. Multiple kids actually doubled their original scores. What made the difference? Prep the passage first. It’s worth noting a couple of drawbacks at this point. Go ahead, give it a try. Like this: Like Loading... The Analytical Thesis: A Student Writer's Frenemy As the facts change, change your thesis. In "Teaching" Close Reading With Costa's Levels of Questioning Have you ever told your students to find the "deeper meaning" of a text? I'm a high school English teacher with a passion for teaching AP Language and Composition.
The Flipped Classroom Guide for Teachers - eLearning Industry As technology becomes increasingly common in instruction at all levels of education from kindergarten to college, the modern classroom is changing. The traditional teacher-centered classroom is falling away to give students a student-centered classroom where collaborative learning is stressed. One way educators are effectively utilizing online learning and changing the way they teach is by flipping their classrooms. What is a Flipped Classroom? High school teachers Aaron Sanns and Jonathan Bergman were the first to flip their classrooms. In order to watch this video you need to have advertising cookies enabled. While a traditional classroom is teacher-centered, a Fipped Classroom is student-centered. The Flipped Classroom model might sound like new-age mumbo jumbo to you, but it has been proven to be effective even in the most difficult classrooms. Unlike the traditional classroom model, a Flipped Classroom puts students in charge of their own learning. Action? Homebase Make work easier.