Language Objective:
- 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.
