AP Language: REHUGO Evidence Assignment



AP Language: CHERPS Evidence Assignment

Name: __________________________________________________

 

C: Current events

H: History

E: Entertainment/Arts

R: Reading

P: Philosophy/ers

S: Science

 

 C.H.E.R.P.S. is an acronym for developing acceptable evidence in argument essays which could include:

specific examples

expert opinion

hypothetical example

personal anecdote

scenario

developing and arranging details

case study

quotations (including historical documents)

cause and effect reasoning

compare/contrast

definition

classification

 

 

Assignment:

Create a collection of C.H.E.R.P.S entries to use as reference and review for the AP Language Exam and life in general.

 

o Collect at least two examples of each source (two C’s, two H’s et cetera).

o First six entries due: __________

o Final six entries due: __________

FORMAT CHOICE #1 Some Version of The Rhetorical Précis[1]

Sentence #1: Name of author, [optional: a phrase describing the author], the genre and title of the work, a rhetorically accurate verb (such as "assert," "argue," "suggest," "imply," "claim,"), and a THAT clause containing the major assertion (thesis statement) of the work.

Sentence #2: An explanation of how the author develops and/or supports the thesis usually in chronological order.

Sentence #3: A statement of the author’s apparent purpose, followed by an "in order" phrase

Sentence #4: A description of the intended audience and/or the relationship the author establishes with the audience.

#1 Margaret Bourke-White, the pioneering female photojournalist, in her photograph “At the Time of the Louisville Flood” argues against the popular propaganda of the time that the American Dream was not being lived by all. #2 Bourke-White ironically contrasts the “World’s Highest Standard of Living” billboard with the destitute population standing in the foreground waiting on a bread line for relief from the devastation of flooding and poverty. #3 Her purpose is not only to juxtapose the blatant hypocrisy of the 1930s American media’s assertion that professed the “World’s Highest Standard of Living” but to awaken the readers of Life magazine to a deeper sensibility in order to change reality.

#4 She alters the perception of her readers/viewers who trust the magazine’s content, and the medium of photography itself, to portray truth.

PERSONAL COMMENTARY: This image never ceases to blow my mind. How can people just stand by and keep consuming “stuff” when other people are homeless? I can see the distance when it’s another country but our own country? Are there any photojournalists out there now showing us what is going on in our own country?

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FORMAT CHOICE #2 Some Version of the Summary

Bibliographic Information: Margaret Bourke-White (photographer) America’s first female war correspondent, also something of a media star, with the portrait of her decked out in flying gear, camera in hand, about to set off on a bombing raid, being a favorite pin-up among U.S. forces. “At the Time of the Louisville Flood” (photograph) LIFE Magazine 1937.

Relevance: propaganda exposed, irony of billboard title versus image, purpose of truth in journalism and art

Theme/Thesis: The still image, as an art form, has the force to change perception.

Connections: other famous photographs, “Migrant Mother,” “Falling Man”; journalistic ethics (Nightcrawler film, Kevin Carter Sudan photo), purpose of art, function of media

FORMAT CHOICE #3 Some Version of Your Own (that gives you enough information to study and use on an evidence essay).

IDEAS:

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[1] Adapted from Dr. William Banks

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