Friday, Aug 21

The AP English Language and Composition course focuses on how writers use rhetorical devices in order to make effective arguments. During our class this year you will have a chance to analyze how visual images — with or without words — argue, influence, and persuade. This year you will learn the basic elements of argumentation and rhetorical strategies. We, as a class, will grapple with these essential questions:

 • What makes a visual text argumentative?
 • What are the elements of a visual analysis?
• What are the similarities and differences among rhetorical strategies in written and visual texts?
 • How are visual images used to make immediate and subtle arguments?

Please look at the following picture article in Time Magazine and be prepared to address some of the above questions in groups on Tuesday, Aug 25. Ask yourself, what point is the artist trying to make?

The World According to Banksy

http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1678584_1477709,00.html

Also bring a copy ( old fashioned or electronic) of Ibsen's A Doll's House to class on Tuesday.

P.S. I did a first read of your Virginia Wolf papers and was pleased! Happy to have ALL of you in my class.