Unit+05+Homework+Archive

** ANNOUNCEMENTS **
1. All homework assignments and information for Unit 04, which includes everything on Transcendentalism, Romanticism, and // The Scarlet Letter, // has been moved to the homework archive page listed above. 2. The midterm exam will consist of both a multiple choice and essay section. The essay will be a synthesis essay. 3. Here is the handout on  4. Review for the midterm exam by downloading this list of. 5. Use [|this website] to check out essay questions, rubrics, and selected student responses from previous AP Language exams. 6. Prepare for the midterm exam by reading and annotating the. As with earlier timed essays, you are encouraged to prepare by annotating the texts, but you will NOT be allowed to bring pre-annotated copies to the exam. For a synthesis essay, you should focus your reading of sources mostly on grasping main arguments and identifying textual material that concisely and effectively conveys those arguments. In general, you can save your close reading skills for rhetorical analysis essays (which will not show up on the coming midterm).

MAJOR ESSAYS AND PROJECTS
// None for this unit. However, the midterm exam essay section will focus on a question of slavery and contemporary culture. //

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**Assignment #1: Syntax as Rhetoric in Douglass' //Narrative//** ===== Read // The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass // and identify five examples of language patterns described on the from class. To clarify, the assignment you hand in should contain five quotes from the text, each one illustrating a ** //different// ** syntax pattern. For each quote, a) write down the quote and page, b) label the syntax pattern (annotate its parts, if appropriate), and c) write a brief analysis of the effect of the syntax pattern and its relationship with the meaning of the sentence.
 * Due: 1/11 **