1. AP Lang
Week 7

2. Monday, March 6, 2017 Put away phones, please.
Turn your logical fallacy mini-project into basket.
Have your “The Ways We Lie” homework on your desk.
Class Business
Modes Test on Wednesday (see your study guide)
No current even this week
Classification/Division presentations this Friday
HW due tomorrow: Read “Tolerance,” and answer questions

3. MCM
10 Minutes
34. C A
35. C B
36. A C
37. D D
38. B E

4. The Ways We Lie
Study the division chart. Does Ericsson’s choice of examples reveal a political bias? What does this imply about her intended audience?
What determines the order in which Ericsson arranges her categories?
Referring to the chart, identify authors and times they represent. What is the rhetorical purpose of Ericsson’s choices?
Discuss her tone.
Lies of deflection are also the logical fallacy of _______________________.
The selection on out-and-out lies is much shorter than the other sections. What is the rhetorical function of this?
In addition to division, what other rhetorical patterns does Ericsson use?

6. Classification/Division Topics

7. Classification/Division Topics

8. Cause & Effect Presentations
Time limit 3-5 minutes (you will give given a one-minute warning).
Visual is aesthetically pleasing, easy to understand, informative, and clear. (x 5)
Effort indicates a significant amount of time planning and creating the visual.
Professional demeanor: speak clearly and loudly with well- measured tone; appear well-rehearsed.
Maintain eye contact, eliminate fidgety or distracting mannerisms
Listens attentively to other presenters (no sleeping, talking, working on other assignments; maintain eye contact and keeps hands/feet still).

9. Homework HW due tomorrow: Read “Tolerance,” and answer questions
Modes Test on Wednesday (see your study guide)
No current even this week
Classification/Division presentations this Friday

10. Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Put away phones, please.
Have your “Tolerance” homework on your desk.
Get your Voice warm-up out.
Due Dates
Modes test tomorrow!
No current even this week
Due Thursday: Read “I Want a Wife” (Patterns), and answer questions
Classification/Division presentations this Friday

11. Voice
But that is Cooper’s way; frequently he will explain and justify little things that do not need it and then make up for this by as frequently failing to explain important ones that do need it. For instance he allowed that astute and cautious person, Deerslayer-Hawkeye, to throw his rifle heedlessly down and leave it lying on the round where some hostile Indians would presently be sure to find it – a rifle prized by that person above all things else in the earth – and the reader gets no word of explanation of that strange act. There was a reason, but it wouldn’t bear exposure. Cooper meant to get a find dramatic effect out of the finding of the rifle by the Indians, and he accomplished this at the happy time; but all the same, Hawkeye could have hidden the rifle in a quarter of a minute where the Indians could not have found it. Cooper couldn’t think of any way to explain why Hawkeye didn’t do that, so he just shirked the difficulty and did not explain at all. – Mark Twin, “Cooper’s Prose Style,” Letters from the Earth
1. What is Twain’s tone in this passage? What is central to the tone of this passage: the attitude toward the speaker, the subject, or the readers?
2. How does Twain create the tone?

12. 1. Circle any “use,” forms of be, and passive voice. Correct it now.
2. Circle any vague diction, definitions, or shallow analysis (if it can be said of other texts and isn’t specific to Twain, it’s fluff).
2. Do you mention DIDLS? More importantly, did you mention how DIDLS leads to the tone?

13. Sample Analysis
1. Twain’s tone in this passage is contemptuous and sarcastic. Central to the tone is Twain’s attitude toward the subject: Cooper’s writing, which he finds inconsistent and irresponsible.
2. Twain creates his tone through diction and selection of detail. He criticizes Cooper and states, “but that is Cooper’s way,” generalizing the criticism. He accuses Cooper of “shirk[ing]” difficulties in writing. He calls Hawkeye that “astute and cautious person” then shows him to be “heedless.” Through detail he contrasts Hawkeye’s reputation as a character (“astute and cautious”) with Hawkeye’s careless actions: “Hawkeye [throws] his rifle heedlessly down and leave[s] it lying on the ground where some hostile Indians would presently be sure to find it – a rifle prized by that person above all things else in the earth.” He supports the contrast with the contention that the carelessness has no cogent motivation: “Hawkeye could have hidden the rifle in a quarter of a minute where the Indians could not have found it.” Further, Twain’s contempt for Cooper’s writing is underscored by direct criticism of Cooper’s style. He states: “frequently he will explain and justify little things that do not need it and then make up for this by a frequently failing to explain important ones that do need it” and “Cooper couldn’t think of any way to explain why Hawkeye didn’t do that, so he just shirked the difficulty and did not explain at all.”

14. Pattern: Definition

15. Pattern: Definition

16. Structuring a Definition Essay
Exemplification: To define “success,” you could give multiple examples of it.
Description: You can explain the nature of something by describing it.
Comparison and Contrast: An extended definition of “success” could use a comparison-and-contrast structure.
Process: Because mitosis is a process, trace the process from stage to stage.
Classification and Division: One could define “authority” into subcategories: traditional, charismatic, & legal-bureaucratic.

17. Definition Strategies

19. “Tolerance” Group Activity
On a piece of paper, write (in a sentence) what Forster’s argument is.
Complete the graphic organizer, and analyze the validity of Forster’s argument.
As a group, discuss whether or not you agree with Forster’s claim. Come to a consensus. Then, on your piece of paper, write an argument in which you defend, qualify, or refute Forster’s claim.
Choose a spokesperson from each group to share.

20. Homework Study for Modes Test!
Due Thursday: Read “I Want a Wife,” and answer questions.
Due Friday: Classification/Division Project

21. Wednesday, March 8, 2017 Clear desks; phones away entirely Due Dates
Due tomorrow: Read “I Want a Wife” (Patterns), and answer questions
No current issue this week
Classification/Division presentations Friday

22. Thursday, March 9, 2017 Put away phones, please.
Have your “I Want a Wife” homework on your desk.

23. Satire
“Satire must spare the single foe to charge whole armies.” – John Dryden ( )
“Satire is a mirror in which a man sees every face excepting his own.” –Jonathan Swift ( )
“The essence of satire is incongruity.” --Gilbert Highet ( )

24. Satire

25. Satire
Satire is a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society. It intends to improve humanity by criticizing its follies and foibles. A writer in a satire uses fictional characters, which stand for real people, to expose and condemn their corruption. Satire exposes one’s stupidity and shortcomings in hopes of causing change.

26. Horatian satire (after the Roman satirist Horace) is characterized by a cheerful, urbane, tongue-in-cheek tone. The writer of Horatian satire attempts to make readers smile at the foibles committed by the individuals under attack. He does not anger his readers nor make them feel moral indignation; he aims to correct by employing broadly sympathetic laughter.
Juvenalian satire (after the Roman satirist Juvenal) exhibits a cutting, biting, bitter, and angry tone. This form of satire does not attempt to cheer or amuse the audience. It points with contempt and indignation to the corruption of human beings and institutions and strives to produce in the reader both contempt and moral indignation for those voices and corruption.

27. Humor
(however dark)
wit
Irony
Paradox
tone
SATIRE

28. Twain
Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for – annually, not oftener – if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man’s side, consequently on the Lord’s side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments.”
– Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (University of California Press, 2010).

29. Satire Modern Family, season 4, episode 19
Which social or cultural issues are mocked?
Immigration/Assimilation of Cultures
Homosexuality
Biracial families
Adoption
Race
Age
Is this Horatian or Juvenalian satire?
What point/message is the show making with this scene? How is humor an effective aid in achieving this purpose?

30. The Office https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOGoarYmZio
Which social or cultural issues are mocked?
Is this Horatian or Juvenalian satire?
What point/message is the show making with this scene? How is humor an effective aid in achieving this purpose?

31. Satire
John Oliver – Chipotle:
1.  What are the underlying assumptions in the piece?
2.  What foolish, flawed, or wrong human action or aspect of society is being lampooned?
3.  What would the author’s argument look like stripped of its humor?
4.  What resources of language does the satirist use to skewer the target?
5.  In what ways do these techniques disarm the intended target or sweeten the criticism to make it acceptable to its target?
6.  What is the goal of the satirist (i.e., how does the satirist wish society, the individual, the body politic, or an institution to change or amend itself?)
7.  How effective are the methods of this particular satirist?

34. I Want a Wife How is this text a satire? Ironic reversal
-elevates the trivial/lifts up fools
-understatement/ diminishes the significant
2. juxtaposition
3. violation of social contract
4. author’s persona
5. invented or misused authority
6. targets
7. social reform
8. importance of tone
9. humor
10. parody?

35. I Want a Wife What is the rhetorical situation? Style & Structure
Throughout the essay, Brady repeats the words “I want a wife.” What is the effect of this repetition?
Brady’s avalanche of action verbs delineates a wife’s duties. List several from each paragraph and explain the function of this rhetorical device.
Comment on Brady’s use of phrases such as of course (used several times), needless to say, after all, and naturally.
Comment on Brady’s use of the phrase “a good nurturant attendant” in paragraph 3.
Comment on the syntax of the sentence about the care of guests in paragraph 6.
What pronouns are used extensively? Which are noticeably missing? What is the function of this strategy?
Reread the last sentence of paragraphs What do these sentences have in common?
Patterns
In one sentence, define what Brady means by wife.
What else does Brady define?
How does Brady use classification/division in the essay?
List and briefly discuss the essay’s other patterns.
Discuss how Brady opens and closes the essay.

36. Notebook Check
Referring to your checklist, have your notebooks organized by Monday.
Graded work
Keep all your essays
Put quizzes/tests/homework in the folder for me to collect

37. Homework Presentations for Classification/Division tomorrow!
Read the two Onion articles, and complete the chart (Due Monday)

38. Friday, March 10, 2017 Put away phones, please.
Turn Classification/Division assignment into basket.
Homework: Read the two Onion articles, and answer the questions.

39. Definition Essay

40. Presentations