AP Language & Composition
Spring Semester Article of the Week Reading Notebook
AoW
- RHETORICAL SITUATION (RHS) - Individuals write within a particular situation and make strategic writing choices based on that situation.
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- CLAIMS AND EVIDENCE (CLE) - Writers make claims about subjects, rely on evidence that supports the reasoning that justifies the claim, and often acknowledge or respond to other, possibly opposing, arguments.
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- REASONING AND ORGANIZATION (REO) - Writers guide understanding of a text’s lines of reasoning and claims through that text’s organization and integration of evidence.
- Identify notable patterns of diction and syntax and how they affect the work. Explain how these patterns have certain connotations and/or how they develop the author’s tone, persona, or appeals to ethos, logos, or pathos.
- For fiction, write a summary of the chapter or passage. For non-fiction note the way that the author develops his argument.
- For fiction, identify the key figures and explain how they are developing, changing or staying the same.
- Identify and explain the author’s use of symbolism.
- STYLE (STL) - The rhetorical situation informs the strategic stylistic choices that writers make.
- List the rhetorical strategies and figurative language that the author uses and explain their effect on the overall work.
- Plan to learn at least twenty-five new words as you read these books. Do this by writing the word, page number, the phrase or sentence where you found it, and an appropriate definition from a dictionary.
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