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APUnit7 Gender

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Mon, Apr 9

 

DUE: n/a

HMWK: Polish off responses to Rodriguez and Orwell

TODAY: see below

 

MC exam review:

  1. Question 3 – word meaning
  2. Question 4 – phrase meaning
  3. Question 8 – word meaning
  4. Question 9 – word choice/effectiveness

Quick questions from Part I of Rodriguez:

  1. What is the antecedent of “their” and “them” in the final sentence of paragraph 2?
  2. What is the author’s main purpose in paragraphs 14-15?
  3. What is the meaning of the word “feigned” at the end of paragraph 16? What part of speech is the word, as used in the sentence?
  4. What is the meaning of the word “cloistered” in sentence 3 of paragraph 24? What part of speech is the word?
  5. Identify the sentence pattern: “Voices singing and sighing, rising, straining, then surging, teeming with pleasure that burst syllables into fragments of laughter.”

TODAY: Rhetoric and Style Qs 1 and 4

 

 

Wed, Mar 28

 

DUE: Kindlon/Thompson

HMWK: None - happy early vacation

TODAY: In-class synthesis

 

This was the prompt:

 

In a recent court case, a former Rutgers student was charged and found guilty for committing a hate crime centered around alleged “anti-gay intimidation.”

 

Carefully read the five sources. Then synthesize information from at least three of the sources and incorporate it into a coherent, well-developed essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies the claim that the Dharun Ravi court case is, in fact, about anti-gay intimidation.

 

Sources all concerned the Tyler Clementi/Dharun Ravi case.

 

Tue, Mar 27

 

DUE: n/a

HMWK: n/a

TODAY: In-class timed response prompt

 

It has been said that adolescence is not only different for girls, but more difficult as well. Write a well-structured essay in which you support, qualify, or refute this assertion using appropriate evidence.

 

40 min.

 

Mon, Mar 26

 

DUE: Collins

HMWK: Pipher questions and read Kindlon/Thompson

FOCUS: Use of evidence

 

AP Language – Pipher

  1. Characterize the structure of paragraphs 17-20. How does this structure differ from that used in paragraphs 9-12?
  2. This extract is taken from the text Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. In what area of the extract does the author address the Shakespearean character, and how does the text’s topic and theme relate to the title? Be as specific as possible.
  3. What is the purpose of paragraphs 1-4? How does this first-person anecdote about the author’s cousin compare or contrast with the content of the rest of the essay?
  4. Paragraphs 33 and 34 begin with the words “Second” and “Third” respectively. Where is the “first” in the set? To what does the list refer?
  5. What is the purpose of paragraphs 40-43? What long-range implications are mentioned?

 

Plus the first fifteen minutes of "Still Killing Us Softly" presented by Jean Kilbourne 

 

Tue, Mar 13

 

DUE: Research paper - FINAL and ROUGH drafts

HMWK: In LC Gould QD 1,4 and QRS 1,2,6,11

TODAY: Self-assessment; research reflection; Gould's structure

 

Students utilize the scoring guide to score their own research paper, then respond to reflection questions

 

Investigation of Gould's "Women's Brains"

 

Mr. Rice's thoughts on Questions for Discussion #s 1 and 4:

 

He suggests that scientists like Broca may be experts at taking readings and measurements, but that observable data do not always mean reliable conclusions. He shoots holes in Broca’s conclusions in paragraphs 9-12, showing how, although Broca’s numbers were “sound … his interpretation [was] ill-founded.” In general, Gould has no problem with Broca’s methodology, and believes the measurements. (However, he excepts the limited samples from L’Homme Mort.) Gould’s problem is that he looks at this study as an example of how scientists can skew data for a purpose that may be harmful to specific people groups. In this case, the people group harmed was women.

 

Gould reveals his desire to extend the subject beyond the study of women’s brains in paragraph 13 where he states that Broca’s statements about women “must be weighed in the context of a general theory that supported contemporary social distinctions as biologically ordained.” With this quote, he extends the discussion to include other marginalized groups of Broca’s time, such as the “black races” discussed later in the same paragraph. In paragraph 16, Gould says, “I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant and highly injurious.” Here, he asserts that what Broca did with his data suggests a desire for one group to find inferiority in another in order to establish a kind of biological hierarchy. Such a hierarchy would harm human relations, argues the author. In fact, we have seen that the practice of slavery was and continues to be injurious to the relations between those with light skin and those with dark. If we see short people as inferior, for example, then those who are naturally tall, like Danes and other Scandinavians, will be favored peoples, whereas tribal peoples throughout Asia and Africa will be discounted as inferior. Not only do stereotypes ensue, a breakdown in the ability to communicate across nations occurs as well.

 

Mon, Mar 12

 

DUE: n/a

HMWK: Revise and polish research essay - DUE TUESDAY

TODAY: A look at the March-April calendar AND some work time

 

Handouts

 

Work time on TAS and Gould's "Women's Brains"

 

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