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Warm-up:  Respond to the following statements about my syllabus with True or False.  We will discuss.
1.  The AP English Language and Composition course and exam are challenging, but success is likely for all students who work hard in the course.
2.  Absolutely no homework assignments in this course will be accepted beyond the due date.
3. Essays and assessments, combined, are worth 55% of your quarter grade.  Classwork and homework comprise the other 45%. 
4.  If you miss your AP Lang class but come to school for another class or activity, you must submit any work that is due that day for AP Lang.
5. Most of the essays you will write in this class are either analytical or persuasive.
6. Allowing another student to copy three questions from your homework assignment is not technically cheating.
7.  Most of what we will read in AP Language will be fiction, poetry, and drama.
8.  Formal, take-home essays must be typed.
9.  Every assignment you complete in this course will be graded and returned to you.
10.  If your final quarter average is a 79.5, you will receive a B for that quarter on your
report card.  

Classwork:  syllabus discussion, group work with class rules and ways to behave scholarly, discuss homework

Homework:  Thank You for Arguing homework assignment

Step 1:  Choose a desire that you have that is dependent upon the cooperation of someone else and write an explanation of what you want & what you need to persuade that person to do/say/think/feel to make your dream a reality. (Ex:  You want to borrow something, you want a later curfew, you want less homework/chores)

Step 2:  Identify 2 different audiences (can be just 1 person or a group) that you would potentially have to persuade.  The audiences should be as different as possible.  Ex:  One familiar/one formal… similar age/ older.

Step 3:  For each audience write 5 sentences or statements that you would say to persuade that audience to give you what you want.  For each of those 10 statements (5 per audience), explain why that statement is persuasive, what rhetorical strategy you are using, or why you had to say that.  You can use terms from TYfA or just explain it in your own words.