Learning Target: Using essay examples from actual AP exams, I can reflect on how I can best organize and express my insights into how Orwell's uses language (e.g., word choices/selection of details/organization of the passage/juxtaposition of images/sentence structure etc) to help him create particular effects (e.g., create a particular atmosphere/mood in a scene/shift the atmosphere/mood) and achieve particular purposes (e.g., develop themes, emphasize certain conflicts/dangers, juxtapose what should be with what is).  

Today we will practice for your essay writing by looking at two example essays and again at our 1984 passage.

Tomorrow we will meet in Library Room B and you will write your essays.

Regarding yesterday's quiz...after looking at the data, I have decided that I will likely break your grades down the following way:

6-8 correct = 95% 
4-5 correct = 85%
1-3 correct = 75%

Activity: Reviewing two solid essay responses to a prompt similar to our 1984 prompt.
Rhetorical Analysis AP essay examples Santa Ana winds (20 mins)

Read the essays and the critiques, keeping in mind that even the "average" response would be a strong essay in a typical class.  Remember, that is "average" for an AP exam, which means it is still a strong essay for an in-class effort (seeing both the passage and the prompt for the first time and then writing the response, all in 40 minutes).  But also keep in mind that both students wrote these in May, so they had approximately 6 -7 months more practice in writing rhetorical analysis essays; so, if this is hard for you now, just know that it will get easier and better with practice.

Homework: Review the example essays, your 1984 passage, and practice your essay.