AP Language and Composition “It’s a Wind-up Wednesday!” January 16, 2013 Mr. Houghteling

AGENDA “Let Teen-agers Try Adulthood” Claim / Evidence charting Multiple-choice quiz on “Teen- agers” will be Thursday!

Tracking Botstein’s Argument Claim ◦ Supporting Evidence ◦ Possible counter-argument Claim ◦ Supporting Evidence ◦ Possible counter-argument ◦ Etcetera…

Tracking Botstein’s Argument—Example, Paragraph 6 Claim ◦ Supporting Evidence ◦ Possible counter-argument Adults do not like adolescents. ◦ They isolate them in high schools. ◦ Adolescents are not children, they are not adults. ◦ Many adults spend the majority of their time, professionally and personally, working with adolescents. ◦ There is much personal, anecdotal evidence that contradicts Botstein’s claim that adults do not like adolescents.

1. Identify Leon Botstein’s main idea: 2. Analyze Leon Botstein’s tone. How would you describe Botstein’s attitude toward teachers? Use descriptive adjectives to discuss his tone. Explain your answer, using references from the text when possible. 3. Based on the information presented in the passage, identify one reason teenagers should enter the real world and explain whether you agree or disagree with Botstein’s reasoning.

4. Analyze and explain the meaning of Botstein’s statement that “…the rules of high school turn out not to be the rules of life” (para. 3). 5. Explain why Botstein makes a reference to the Columbine High School tragedy (“Littleton shootings” para. 1). 6. Raise one counterargument to Botstein’s argument and discuss it in depth.

The Quiz (22 minutes)—Thursday You may use the text while taking the quiz. You must use POE. What does this mean? ◦ You must WRITE on your quiz: underline or mark keywords of phrases in the questions. ◦ Cross off bad answer choices. ◦ Write the letter of your answer in the margin.

Anticipation Guide 1. The American high school, as it is now constructed, is not working.  2. Teenagers are much more mature now than they ever have been.  3. It is more likely that a student treated like an outsider in high school will be more successful as an adult than other students.  4. Individuality and dissent are discouraged in an American high school. 5. Most adults don’t like adolescents.  6. Students should enter college at age 16.  7. A high school is one of the only places in which people are segregated by age so restrictively. 