What do you mean you haven't started working on your research paper?!

Get started!  As you work on organizing your paper, you are simultaneously practicing for the AP Exam!!

Today we reviewed Question 2:  Rhetorical Analysis

Some pointers:

Use the 15-minute reading period to read AND plan for Question 1.  You may also read Questions 2 and 3,  but don't start planning for those essays yet.  Using the 15 minutes wisely will allow you time to plan well for Question 1, thereby allowing you enough time to finish that essay (possibly earlier) so that you can have enough time to work on Question 2.

Carefully read the prompts for all questions before you begin organizing/planning.  Be sure that you have a clear understanding of what you are asked to argue or address.  Misunderstanding the prompt is the kiss of death for that essay, so read the prompt carefully!

For Question 2, after you have read the prompt carefully, read the selection once for an understanding of the speaker's purpose/message.  Then read it again to annotate, dividing up the paragraphs for you to follow the speaker's organization in your own draft, and marking, underlining, or circling key words and phrases.  Jot down ideas as you go.

Remember SOAPS tone for you introduction will be sufficient.  Consider the speech we read today as you read the following sentence:

Florence Kelley, in her speech before the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage     Association, forcefully communicates the need for reform of child labor laws and of working conditions for women while advocating for women's right to vote.


When you quote, unless it is absolutely necessary (which it shouldn't), avoid quoting complete sentences.  Pick out specific words and phrases around which you can wrap your own words.

Example:  Kelley argues that the children are treated as "little beasts of burden."