1. September 5 and 8 I can edit sentences for mistakes in comma usage (introductory phrases and interrupters). I can analyze a writer’s use of figurative language and its effects on tone. I can use a graphic organizer to analyze a writer’s tone and rhetoric.

2. Nutshell Rule: Commas # 2, 3 Looking poised and calm Jill walked to the podium. Your painting Andy is very original. After I had locked the car door I remembered that the keys were still in the ignition. Thousands of homes, in the Philippines, were destroyed, when Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991. When Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991 thousands of homes in the Philippines were destroyed.

3. A Block, September 5 What is tone? What words can we use to describe a writer’s tone? As AP students, we need to move beyond simple, clich éd words such as funny, angry, or sad to describe tone. Take a few minutes and brainstorm other words that can be used to describe the tone words that are on the board. You MAY use your phones.

4. SOAPSTone and SIFTS analysis organizers Using the SOAPSTone and SIFTS organizers, analyze Jonathan Edwards’s sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”

5. A Block Homework: Vocabulary packet exercise Read “A Model of Christian Charity” and do the SOAPSTone and SIFTS analysis