Friday, December 18, 2009
Research Link
Hello, AP Students and happy last day before break. Today's class will be spent reading research, making notecards, and perhaps printing articles in the library. If you've already done all that you can begin to compose your summary paragraphs.
Here's a better link to the CPS library databases
Once you've gone to the above link click on Student Resource Gold, put in our school name or school code and you're in business.
Happy researching!!!
Remember the blog is always here, even when school is out. This paper is due Tuesday January, 5th!! email me at emeckart@cps.edu if anything is unclear.
Here's a better link to the CPS library databases
Once you've gone to the above link click on Student Resource Gold, put in our school name or school code and you're in business.
Happy researching!!!
Remember the blog is always here, even when school is out. This paper is due Tuesday January, 5th!! email me at emeckart@cps.edu if anything is unclear.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Research summary
Hi, today we will be using the blog as our text!
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Like this one:
Hip Hop is now: an evolving youth culture. Carl Taylor, and Virgil Taylor.
Reclaiming Children and Youth 15.4 (Wntr 2007): p210(4).
COPYRIGHT 2007 Reclaiming Children and Youth
Emerging from Rap music, Hip Hop has become a lifestyle to many modern youth around the world. Embodying both creativity and controversy, Hip Hop mirrors the values, violence, and hypocrisy of modern culture. The authors dispel some of the simplistic views that surround this evolving youth movement embraced by millions of young people who are struggling to find meaning in communities that too often lack hope and pathways to purpose.
**********
Recently during a focus group interaction, a young college woman was asked what Hip Hop was. This young neatly dressed, articulate student thought for a moment before responding in a way that was very matter of fact. "Hip Hop is now; it's in your face, and it's real and honest." When asked what separated herself and her peers from adult culture she pondered for a moment and then responded, "We're not all that different from older adults except that ya'll were punks and we're not." Punks! The adults in the discussion did not like being referred to as punks but managed to contain their composure in order to try to understand the meaning behind this young woman's words.
Hip Hop, the latest form of youthful expression by thousands of young people around the world, has evolved over the last twenty years. Once exclusively related to rap music, this form of expression has now become a lifestyle. The influence of Hip Hop can be seen in fashion, electronic design, auto design, movies, music, literary works, and hundreds of other mediums in every facet of modern society.
The idea that older adults are "punks" revolves around the belief that adult culture is hypocritical, that older adults did the same things that young people do now but were afraid to admit their indiscretions. Compounding the problem is the fact that indiscretions committed by adults, not only in the past but also including current sins, are routinely focused on in the news and in historic accounts of individuals' pasts. Hip Hop is a vast and varied collection of ideas and values that are continuously fueled by new truths as well as misinformation and lies, rhetoric, and ever changing ideology and concepts that are relayed in the varying forms of Hip Hop music.
Use the sample article to practice writing a citation
How to make a MLA Works Cited page: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/
This is the schools library databases--which can be accessed from any computer with internet:
http://www.accessmyschool.com/cps/home.php?id=cps1860
Research Summary
Your objective for this assignment is to find, read, evaluate, discuss and cite three sources on one issue. For each source you must write a detailed paragraph-long summary, integrating (weaving) quotes with paraphrase. Finally, you must compose a two paragraph interpretation of the issue based on your reading of the three sources. All your sources must be cited in a properly formatted Works Cited page.
Here are your topic choices:
Education and racial inequality: Is there a educational genocide taking place?
Sweatshop Labor: Are your shoes worth it?
Factory Farming: If we knew what our food went through would we eat it?
Hip-hop and gender
Hip-hop and violence
The moral implications of Stem Cell research
Conflict in post-colonial Africa
Week 16 day 1
AP Language
Bellringer(1-2 sentence journal)
How do you decide what is real on the internet and what isn't?
Objectives: I will be able to use library databases to find academic articles; I will be able to find the main idea and extract useful quotes from complicated academic articles; I will be able to make an MLA works cited page.
Agenda
Bellringer
Objective and agenda review
What is an academic article?
How to read an academic article and keep notecards?
How do I cite an article in a works cited page?
How do I use the school library databases?
Assign Research Survey (due upon return from Christmas break)
Student research time
Exit ticket: One complete notecard.
Like this one:
Hip Hop is now: an evolving youth culture. Carl Taylor, and Virgil Taylor.
Reclaiming Children and Youth 15.4 (Wntr 2007): p210(4).
COPYRIGHT 2007 Reclaiming Children and Youth
Emerging from Rap music, Hip Hop has become a lifestyle to many modern youth around the world. Embodying both creativity and controversy, Hip Hop mirrors the values, violence, and hypocrisy of modern culture. The authors dispel some of the simplistic views that surround this evolving youth movement embraced by millions of young people who are struggling to find meaning in communities that too often lack hope and pathways to purpose.
**********
Recently during a focus group interaction, a young college woman was asked what Hip Hop was. This young neatly dressed, articulate student thought for a moment before responding in a way that was very matter of fact. "Hip Hop is now; it's in your face, and it's real and honest." When asked what separated herself and her peers from adult culture she pondered for a moment and then responded, "We're not all that different from older adults except that ya'll were punks and we're not." Punks! The adults in the discussion did not like being referred to as punks but managed to contain their composure in order to try to understand the meaning behind this young woman's words.
Hip Hop, the latest form of youthful expression by thousands of young people around the world, has evolved over the last twenty years. Once exclusively related to rap music, this form of expression has now become a lifestyle. The influence of Hip Hop can be seen in fashion, electronic design, auto design, movies, music, literary works, and hundreds of other mediums in every facet of modern society.
The idea that older adults are "punks" revolves around the belief that adult culture is hypocritical, that older adults did the same things that young people do now but were afraid to admit their indiscretions. Compounding the problem is the fact that indiscretions committed by adults, not only in the past but also including current sins, are routinely focused on in the news and in historic accounts of individuals' pasts. Hip Hop is a vast and varied collection of ideas and values that are continuously fueled by new truths as well as misinformation and lies, rhetoric, and ever changing ideology and concepts that are relayed in the varying forms of Hip Hop music.
Use the sample article to practice writing a citation
How to make a MLA Works Cited page: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/
This is the schools library databases--which can be accessed from any computer with internet:
http://www.accessmyschool.com/cps/home.php?id=cps1860
Research Summary
Your objective for this assignment is to find, read, evaluate, discuss and cite three sources on one issue. For each source you must write a detailed paragraph-long summary, integrating (weaving) quotes with paraphrase. Finally, you must compose a two paragraph interpretation of the issue based on your reading of the three sources. All your sources must be cited in a properly formatted Works Cited page.
Here are your topic choices:
Education and racial inequality: Is there a educational genocide taking place?
Sweatshop Labor: Are your shoes worth it?
Factory Farming: If we knew what our food went through would we eat it?
Hip-hop and gender
Hip-hop and violence
The moral implications of Stem Cell research
Conflict in post-colonial Africa
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
AP Updates
Hello students,
Visiting the blog just like I asked, that's why I like you guys. Here are some likes I've been talking about:
First of all here's a link to AP central--where you can find the penny question, along with student work. The Penny question is essay question one from the 2008 exam. Make sure to read the student work and scoring guide!
Also here's Grammar Girl's website for all you comma and clause needs.
Don't say I never gave you anything!
Visiting the blog just like I asked, that's why I like you guys. Here are some likes I've been talking about:
First of all here's a link to AP central--where you can find the penny question, along with student work. The Penny question is essay question one from the 2008 exam. Make sure to read the student work and scoring guide!
Also here's Grammar Girl's website for all you comma and clause needs.
Don't say I never gave you anything!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Professions for Women
Hey AP students! I miss you guys and I especially miss talking about analysis and gender. Little baby Ella is not that interested in discussing Literature yet. (see image to the left)Alright so you got this paper on Virginia Wolff to write and you're starting early, right?
Here's the prompt: You will write a 4-5 page analytical essay on Woolf's “Professions for Women” that will answer the following questions: Virginia Woolf is careful to acknowledge the unmeasured and immeasurable value of the labor women have traditionally done, yet she also projects a future in which women will have access to all kinds of careers. Does Woolf come down in favor of one or the other of these lifestyles? What does she take to be the pros and cons of each? Do you think her predictions have come to fruition? How does her philosophy apply to
today's gender landscape?
Also you need to look at sarcasm and irony.
Let's unpack the above question: What does she say in the essay and how does she say it? What obstacles exist for women who want to become doctors, or writers? How does she use sarcasm? (btw--to the right a pic of Woolf)
These are just a few questions you need to answer for yourself before writing a thesis. However, know that you thesis should not be a laundry list of the answers, rather it should be an arguable statement about what Woolf meant, and how she achieved that meaning. You can then proceed to prove your thesis with answers like the above.
Your thesis might sound like this "In the essay 'Professions for Women' Woolf used sarcasm, understatement and self-deprecating humor to convey her message: that women face both phantom and tangible obstacles to joining the ranks of men- and that we can not call it equality just because there is no law preventing women from running for office or practicing medicine."
Then your essay would follow through proving the above assertion using direct quotes, paraphrase and summary. Easy, right??
Comment here if you need specific help. Remember don't use your full name.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
bell hooks
This is an awesome article. It may help you with your essay. Just remember if you use hooks' ideas or words you must credit her with a citation.
Extra Credit: Write a 2 page anlysis of hook's argument. What is her rehtorical strategy and what is its effect on the reader?
Extra Credit: Write a 2 page anlysis of hook's argument. What is her rehtorical strategy and what is its effect on the reader?
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