Periods 5,6 AP Lang Monday, October 19, 2015

Group Project: Current Event/ Historical Context Presentation

Learning Objectives:

To understand and explain a current event through multiple perspectives and in historical context

Day One in library:

Step One: Choose a CE categories from the following list from your LOC:

Education, Work, Community, Gender, Sports, Science and Technology, Popular Culture, Nature, and Politics

Step Two: Find a current event that falls into your category. For example, if you are interested in politics, you might pick a CE about  the most recent presidential debate or the rise of Donald Trump. If you are interested in nature, perhaps you will pick a current event related to the unprecedented flooding in South Carolina or the unprecedented fire in California, or perhaps the loss of Moose in northern MN. If you are interested in culture, perhaps you will find a CE about the new practice of using gender neutral pronouns. Print out three (one per group member) articles pertaining to your event. Use a variety of sources: New York Times, Atlantic, Twitter, Network sources, People, College publications, European sources. Several sources will allow you to discern how each source's mission and audience influences reporting.  Due Monday with the PPT Presentation: Read the essay and identify its purpose, its intended audience, a summary of its content, and two rhetorical strategies the author uses to achieve his purpose. (20 points) You may type or write neatly.

Step Three: Choose essays from LOC textbook (one per group member) that fall into your chosen category. Due Monday with the PPT Presentation: Read the essay and identify its purpose, its intended audience, a summary of its content, and two rhetorical strategies the author uses to achieve his purpose. (20 points total-- in combination with Step Two article journals) You may type or write neatly.

Day Two in library (with Mr. Peters): Using Gale database, find three (one per member) relevant articles addressing your category's historical context. Print them out! For example, if you are investigating the drove of ladybugs who landed last weekend in MN, you might want to find articles that help readers understand ladybug migration. If you are researching the presidential debate(s), you might want to find and print out two articles that discuss the first debates, and how they came to be part of our election process. Due Monday with the PPT Presentation: Read the essay and identify its purpose, its intended audience, a summary of its content, and two rhetorical strategies the author uses to achieve his purpose. (10 points) You may type or write neatly.

Day Three in Library

Organize your group/ Create a 8-10 or more as appropriate) slide Powerpoint or Prezi that addresses:

1.  The topic and the Current Event

2.  Historical Context

3.  Three 'versions" of the event and how they compare/contrast

4. Why should we care about this

5.  Your responses to the CE

6.  Create an MLA style Works Cited page that includes the articles as well as the essays from the text.

Please keep verbiage on the slides to a bare minimum; explain rather than read your presentation.



Here is a capsule summary of our agenda for the coming two weeks:

·      Monday, October 19, 2015: Jeopardy and review for Chapters 1,2 assessment

·      Tuesday October 20, 2015: Media Lab Day One of CE Project

·      Wednesday, October 21, 2015:  Assessment on Chapters 1,2 Terms

·      Thursday, October 22, 2015: Red lab Day Two CE Project

·      Friday, October 23, 2015: Blue lab Day Three CE Project

·      Monday, October 26, 2015: Present CE Projects

·      Tuesday, October 27, 2015: Lit Circle 2 (and ACT review)

·      Wednesday, October 28, 2015: Lit Circle 3 (and ACT review)

·     Thursday, October 29, 2015: Lit Circle 4 (and ACT review)

·      Friday, October 30, 2015: Lit Circle 5 (and ACT review)

Rhetorical Strategy Term of the Day: JUXTAPOSITION