APEnglish–Los Al

By: Maria Cuamani on December 17, 2007 in Daily Scribe

Zero Period:

Tone #9 was passed out: It was a satire from Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciating Correct Behavior by Judith Martin.
-Satire: Making fun of human folly, sarcasm.

Reading worksheet was passed out: “The Birth of American Freedom.”

Groups had to work on the anecdote 1996 AP English Language and Composition Free Response Essay Questions
-Anecdote: Short story.
and groups had to find:

1. Main Idea of the question: Analyze how Lady Mary uses rhetorical strategies and stylistic devices…-Views on role of women.
2. Context of excerpt: Letter to her daughter.
3. Role of eduaction:

1. Protects (women from men)
2. Civilizes women
3. Education brings independence

KNOW:

Speaker: Lady Mary
Occasion: Letter- An important moment in child’s education
Audience: Daughter
Purpose: Encourage the role of proper education

Quotes from the 1996 AP English Language and Composition Free Response Essay Questions:

1. 1) “The use of knowledge…is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are at certain effects of a studious life…”
   -Acknowledging (education)= wealth and power (respect).
2. “…and it may be preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves, and will not suffer us to share.
   -Men will not give women full power.

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