3.21

All Argument Analysis testing from Day 3.19 is concluded. 

Objective:  Increase your understanding of the context of the reading, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
  
Language Objective:  
1.  Read your copy of "White clergymen urge local Negroes to withdraw from demonstrations"

          from the archives of the Birmingham City Library:
http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p4017coll2/id/746
http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4017coll2/id/746/rec/1
          * print copies available on handout counter

2.  View & take notes about this background information: http://youtu.be/XIpfCVt2eb4



Objective:  To model further analysis ("deconstruction") of a text in preparation for next assessment.
Language Objective:  Expect Q & A (aka "Socratic Seminar") over "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" about your analysis of the sentences and the words themselves. Be ready for this GRADED* verbal demonstration of your research and understanding. 

*on the basis of the depth and initiative displayed in your overall contribution to the discourse. 

3.20

Objective:  Add to your understanding.  
Language Objective:  

1. Read your copy of "White clergymen urge local Negroes to withdraw from demonstrations"

          from the archives of the Birmingham City Library: 
http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p4017coll2/id/746
http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4017coll2/id/746/rec/1

2.  View & take notes about this background information
http://youtu.be/XIpfCVt2eb4


Objective:  Assess understanding of ARGUMENT THEORY
Language Objective:  Follow directions to demonstrate your mastery of the key ideas (presented in class, in required reading) and their implications for decision-making on the AP Language Exam, should you undertake that challenge.   You may use your own notes. 

Make up 2.19 quiz with an excused admit or for late credit outside class time--before Day 3.21. 
All others
Objective: Agree on the structures of the 9 arguments in "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
Language Objective:  Using your transcript of the reading, work together to determine the structures of the arguments in both Aristotelian and Toulmin terms. 

Next class period
Objective:  To model further analysis ("deconstruction") of a text in preparation for next assessment.
Language Objective:  Expect Q & A (aka "Socratic Seminar") over "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" about your analysis of the sentences and the words themselves. Be ready for this verbal demonstration of your research and understanding.