Blind Assassin, Halfway Structurally speaking, we have settled into a kind of rhythm with the sections of The Blind Assassin: the odd sections bring us to the text and plot of Laura Chase's The Blind Assassin, interspersed with newspaper articles that discuss the lives of the Griffins and Chases from a contemporary, outside-in perspective; the even sections bring us old lady Iris and the memoir she is navigating and writing. In this second quarter of the book, Laura's The Blind Assassin and Iris' memoir seem to dovetail together with the introduction of a new character: Alex. After Alex appears on the scene, Iris memoir becomes at least as interesting as The Blind Assassin chapters, at least for me. I can't get over the way that Atwood structures her plot, and the way that this plot structure can heighten the dramatic effect of the story for the reader (me). Atwood really earned that Man Booker prize, as far as I'm concerned. To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again, said the ancient Egyptians: not always what one might wish. AP Poetry Rubric, Progress Check, Unit 3 AssessmentJust a reminder about your Unit 2 poetry assessments. To assess them, I used the AP Scoring Rubric for Essay 1, the essay where you will be analyzing poetry. I discuss this rubric and the grading scale in an earlier post written after your Unit 1 assessment (where I used the Scoring Rubric for Essay 2). So in the HUB, you received a score somewhere between 0 and 6, 6 being the highest. In the comments, I indicated which row(s) of the rubric you lost points on: Row A is the claim, Row B is the development, evidence, explanation of the claim, and Row C is sophistication. On that note, for those of you who are so inclined to take advantage of the opportunity for practice, I have released the Free Response Unit 2 Progress Check in AP Classroom. While we're on the topic of assessments and the like, it seems like an appropriate time to tell you what your Unit 3 assessment will look like. You won't be writing a regular analytical paragraph, but you also won't be writing a full-blown analytical paper until Unit 4. This assessment will be a transitional assessment. You will write an introductory paragraph for a ghost paper, complete with a claim, explanation, and thesis statement. Then, you will plan (but not write) an outline for an analytical paper composed of "paragraphs" with claims and text evidence. Your last set of AP Classroom videos from Unit 3 discusses the differences between claims and thesis statements. We will start looking at those together in class starting next week. The biggest difference just to help you start wrapping your mind around it, is that your thesis statement will contain an arguable abstract idea that refers to the work as a whole. Writing Workshop DebriefingI will be restructuring the Writing Workshops for our next round on Thursday afternoon. That means your debriefing form is due by noon on Thursday. This might be the last time I restructure the workshops for a while, so take advantage of this opportunity if you wish to switch groups. I shared the Google Form for the debriefing in the Announcement section of the HUB.
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