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AP Language and Composition Summer Work 2019Mountain Ridge High SchoolMr. Mark Faust Email: mark.faust@ The Outliers Analysis Due Date: Friday August 9, 2019 @ 7:30 am-171450144781A hard copy submission is due Friday August 9, 2019 at the beginning of class & an electronic submission to Canvas is required by 7:30 AM on Friday August 9, 2019 Any late submissions will receive a 50% penalty (after 5 days / not accepted).Additional submission details and processes will be shared with you during the first week of school.00A hard copy submission is due Friday August 9, 2019 at the beginning of class & an electronic submission to Canvas is required by 7:30 AM on Friday August 9, 2019 Any late submissions will receive a 50% penalty (after 5 days / not accepted).Additional submission details and processes will be shared with you during the first week of school.Rhetorical Device Activities Due Date: Friday August 16, 2019 @ 7:30 AM-171450115571A hard copy submission is due Friday August 16, 2019 at the beginning of class & an electronic submission to Canvas is required by 7:30 AM on Friday August 16, 2019 Any late submissions will receive a 50% penalty (after 5 days / not accepted).Additional submission details and processes will be shared with you during the first week of school.00A hard copy submission is due Friday August 16, 2019 at the beginning of class & an electronic submission to Canvas is required by 7:30 AM on Friday August 16, 2019 Any late submissions will receive a 50% penalty (after 5 days / not accepted).Additional submission details and processes will be shared with you during the first week of school.Text #1: Outliers by Malcolm GladwellDescription: A #1 National Bestseller. “Explosively entertaining…Outliers is riveting science, self-help, and entertainment, all in one book.” -Entertainment WeeklyIn understanding successful people, we have come to focus far too much on their intelligence and ambition and personality traits. Instead, Malcolm Gladwell argues in Outliers, we should look at the world that surrounds the successful – their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way, Gladwell reveals what the Beatles and Bill Gates have in common, the reason you’ve never heard of the smartest man in the world, why almost no star hockey players are born in the fall, and why, when it comes to plane crashes, where the pilots are born matters as much as how well they are trained.Lives of outliers – people whose achievements fall outside normal experience – follow a peculiar and unexpected logic, and in uncovering that logic, Gladwell presents a fascinating and provocative blueprint for making the most of human potential. *Please check-out or purchase a hard copy of Outliers and understand that you will need to bring your copy of the book with you to class each day during the first 2-3 weeks of the course. Reading Assignment:Identify and correctly cite 10 significant quotes from the novel. Explain their significance using 3-5 sentences each. Your explanation of the quote should be insightful, highlight your interpretations and perceptions of the novel and demonstrate higher-level thinking.In a well-written, academic response that is 550-700 words in length, challenge, qualify or defend the claims made by Gladwell in his book. Use appropriate evidence from your reading, experience or observations to support your argument. **You should only have direct quotes from Gladwell’s novel [3 required]. Type in one correctly formatted MLA document and submit a hard copy.Your response will be graded using the AP Writing Rubric and this assignment is worth 75 points.Length Requirements and Limitations:Your essay should be between 550 & 700 words in length, excluding the title and MLA header and heading information.Essays that fail to follow the length guidelines will lose points. Essays under 550 words or over 700 words will lose points.The word limit is non-negotiable. It is imperative that you begin practicing concise, clear, well-articulated arguments.Format & Citations:Your academic essay should include an introduction with thesis, two to three body paragraphs of appropriate length and a concluding paragraph (conclusion).All essays should follow MLA format (double-spaced, size 12-font, heading, header, etc.) and submitted essays should be free of grammatical errors.All quoted material embedded in your essay should be cited in the paper and a works cited entry for Outliers should be included on its own page.You should not have any additional sources.Rubric:Your essay will be graded using the AP rubric. Please review this rubric (on my website) and use it as a guideline for crafting your essay.Text #2: Rhetorical Devices: A Handbook and Activities for Student Writers*Please note that these activities are not due until August 16, 2019. Description: This handbook outlines and discusses the 33 most commonly used rhetorical devices. Each section includes a detailed, expanded explanation of the term in easy to understand language. Each section also includes a series of short exercises.You can purchase this book online via Amazon or other booksellers. You may only use a hardcopy of the book. We will be using this book all year and is one of the best resources at your disposal for analyzing and crafting an argument. Rhetorical Device Activities: (30 points)Using the text, Rhetorical Devices: A Handbook and Activities for Student Writers complete the following tasks:Read and annotate the following sections: Introduction, Examples of Rhetorical Pitfalls, & Four Aims of RhetoricComplete the exercises for the following activities outlined in the table below*:TopicExercise #Rhetorical Question: Exercise 1 (5 pts)Allusion: Exercise 2 (5 pts)Parallelism: Exercise 2 (10 pts)Anaphora, Epistrophe & Symploce: Exercise 4 (10 pts)*You are only required to complete the exercises indicated next to each rhetorical term.Format:Please put all of your rhetorical device activities in one Word document. Please label each section and indicate the exercise numbers. Please follow standard MLA formatting.Definition of outlier: a person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system: such asa: a person differing from all other members of a particular group or set. ................
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