Propaganda Exam Materials and Study Guide

The propaganda exam will take place on Monday, March 23rd. All of the class notes and a study guide are available in this folder.

“I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.” –Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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AP Language: Rhetorical Devices 6/7

Your next writing assignment is two rhetorical devices, due Monday, March 23 before the propaganda exam.

For the devices, remember to use two that you haven’t used before and to take them from one of the following pieces:

 

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Deadline Revisions for AP Language This Week

There were enough changes to the deadlines for this week that I thought it might best to list your due dates here.

For Friday: Read and annotate George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language

For Sunday: Turn in (using Google Drive) your two rhetorical devices.

For Monday: Turn in your Sanders revision, complete with peer edits. Printed out at the beginning of class.

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AP Language Writing Assignment This Week

This week, we’ll return to rhetorical devices. I’d like you to complete two rhetorical devices from either the A Time for Choosing speech by Ronald Reagan or The Four Freedoms speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The assignment is due in class (printed out before class begins) on Friday. If you haven’t received great grades on these in previous weeks, consider dropping in to chat about them!

 

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