Socratic Seminar Tomorrow!!

You can use article you prepared for last seminar that we didn't get to or a fresh article- up
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Structure and types of questions reflection

What areas do you need to review over the break in order to increase your chances of success in multiple choice section? How are you going to review?( have you found good websites, old notes, blog, etcc)
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Structures and Types of Questions

Straight forward question	The passage is an example of… A. compare and contrast essay
Questions that refer to a specific line	Lines 52-57 serve to… A. reinforce the author’s thesis
All…Except	The AP language and Comp exam is all of the following except… A.  It is given every May B.   It is open to high school students C.  It is published in the NY times D. It is a three hour exam
Inferential	In letters from a Birmingham Jail, the reader can infer that… E. Religious
Roman Numeral	In the passage, Night refers to I.             Death of young woman II.          A pun on sir Williams title III.       The end of the affair a.   I only b.  I and II c.   II and III d.  I,II and III

Factual	Technical	Analytical	Inferential
·      Word referral ·      Allusions ·      Grammatical (pronouns, etc..)	·      Style ·      Grammatical purpose ·      Dominant technique ·      Imagery ·      Point of view ·      Organization ·      Irony ·      Function of…	·      Rhetorical strategy ·      Shifts ·      Argument ·      Cause and effect ·      Compare and contrast ·      Inductive/deductive ·      Rhetorical stance/ rhetorical situation	·      Effect of diction ·      Tone ·      Effect of description ·      Effect of last paragraph ·      Effect on reader ·      Narrators attitude ·      Image effect ·      Effect of detail ·      Author implications ·      symbols

Attacking the Multiple Choice Learning Strategies Reflection

What strategies have you employed that we have learned over the last few days to help tackle the multiple choice?

What advice have you found is helpful?

What areas do you need to work on?

Critical Reading Advice

Critical Reading Advice

·      Reading text carefully is a must. Do not read just with your eyes.

·      Track with your finger- use your finger as a pointer

·       and mouth words if you find helpful

·      Read as if you were going to read this aloud to an audience

·      Make sure you are hearing your voice read the words in your head

·      Underline circle annotate

·      Pay attention to punctuation, syntax, diction and organization

·      Use all information given to you to access prior knowledge

·      Quickly skim questions (ignoring choices) to get an idea of what is expected of you

OVERVIEW OF MULTIPLE CHOICE SECTION

OVERVIEW  OF MULTIPLE CHOICE SECTION

·      You are allotted one hour to answer 45-60 questions on 4-5 prose passages

·      Passages will be from different time periods, different styles and different purposes

·      They are not easy readings. You will be expected to

o   Follow sophisticated syntax

o   Respond to diction

o   Be comfortable with upper level vocabulary

o   Be familiar with rhetorical terms

o   Make inferences

o   Be sensitive to irony and tone

o   Recognize components of organization and style

o   Be familiar with modes of discourse( rhetorical modes) and citations

·      If the piece is about a historical period and you know nothing about this period- rely on your analytical skills

·      You will be expected to be aware of basic historical, biblical and mythological (literary) allusions

·      The test does not get more difficult as it progresses

·      Work at a pace of approx. one question per minute.

·      Each question worth same amount of points

·      You do not lose points for wrong answers. Scores are based on amount you get correct

A Modest Proposal

TASK: READ A MODEST PROPOSAL (PG 914 IN TEXTBOOK) OR PRINT FROM INTERNET IF YOU WISH TO ANNOTATE.

ANSWER  QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS ON RHETORIC AND STYLE

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, also known as A Modest Proposal, is a juvenialian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. 

Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general.

Swift's Ireland was a country that had been effectively controlled by England for nearly 500 years. The Stuarts had established a Protestant governing aristocracy amid the country's relatively poor Catholic population. Denied union with England in 1707 (when Scotland was granted it), Ireland continued to suffer under English trade restrictions and found the authority of its own Parliament in Dublin severely limited. Swift, though born a member of Ireland's colonial ruling class, came to be known as one of the greatest of Irish patriots. He, however, considered himself more English than Irish, and his loyalty to Ireland was often ambivalent in spite of his staunch support for certain Irish causes. The complicated nature of his own relationship with England may have left him particularly sympathetic to the injustices and exploitation Ireland suffered at the hand of its more powerful neighbor.

Particularly in the 1720s, Swift became vehemently engaged in Irish politics. He reacted to the debilitating effects of English commercial and political injustices in a large body of pamphlets, essays, and satirical works, including the perennially popular Gulliver's Travels

A Modest Proposal, published is a response to worsening conditions in Ireland, is perhaps the severest and most scathing of all Swift's pamphlets. The tract did not shock or outrage contemporary readers as Swift must have intended; its economics was taken as a great joke, its more incisive critiques ignored. Although Swift's disgust with the state of the nation continued to increase, A Modest Proposalwas the last of his essays about Ireland. Swift wrote mostly poetry in the later years of his life, and he died in 1745.

you can view the Spark Notes for this piece at

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/modestproposal/

You can get more background information for this at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

DO NOT RELY ON SPARK NOTES! READ SPARKNOTES FIRST IF YOU WISH AND THEN READ TEXT TO AID WITH COMPREHENSION