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Unit 4: Community Witness  Please blog your response(s) to the movie, Witness , below by 8am Monday 1/8/18.  1. Are there communities, similar to the Amish, that they intentionally choose to live apart from the mainstream society of the United States? What about in other countries?  2. What is the relationship of the individual to the community? Think about John Book's relationship to his community and then the Amish community. Think about the Lapp's relationship to their Amish community and "city life" community.  3. Does the individual impact the community or vice versa? Choose ONE side and use examples from the movie to support your answer. 
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Unit 4: Community Please blog your responses to the questions below. Blog responses are due by the end of class on Wednesday 1/3/18. Essential Questions : What is the relationship of the individual to the community?                                     Does the individual impact the community or vice versa?  You should respond to TWO posts from your classmates by 8am Thursday 1/4/18.
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Unit 3: Work AP Language and Composition Using information from class today, the visuals, and the four attached PDFs, write a response in how this can relate back to the essential question and your thoughts on work. Due 11/30/17. 
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Unit 3: Work AP Language and Composition Blog your response to the essential question:                  How does work shape and/or influence our lives?  
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The Truman Show Final Thoughts "Reality"-Group 1: Carla, Emily, Gaby, Jena, Alec, Jasmin "Advertising and Product Placement"-Group 2: Paula, Joshua, Vivian, Maria, Jamie-Ann "Responsibility and Ethics"-Group 3: Janeal, Christina, Theresa, Justinne, Camilliah  You will hold a discussion on your topic within your group only on the blog. You are responsible to post your own original post and then respond to each of your other group members.  Reality -What does the term “reality” signify to viewers? To makers? (in Truman’s world) To Truman Burbank?                             -Are we truly real?                            -What is real in our world? -How is Seahaven like our world? Because for us too it’s difficult to distinguish between the real and the phony. Are we real? Can we trust our mentality? -Do we see reality as it is or as we are? What and who conforms our mentality? Advertising and Product Placement. -Why might
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Unit 2: Popular Culture AP Language and Composition Blog your response to the essential questions:                 1. How is history defined by the “pop” culture of a society?                 2. How does a person’s individual history (or life) differ from that of history textbooks?                          Why are both “versions” important for us to remember and study?                3. How has American pop culture evolved from the past to today?
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Unit Readings "Best in Class"  Margaret Talbot 1. Margaret Thlbot spends a good deal of time at the outset of the essay describing the situation at Sarasota High School and then returns to it at the end; however, her primary subject is neither that school nor its students. What is her rhetorical strategy in examining this one school in such depth? 2. In paragraph 14, Thlbot refers to her own experience'in high school. What is the effect of this personal element? 3. Why does Thlbot rely so heavily on interviews with students? Why would this approach appeal to her audience? 4.Does this essay rely more heavily on logos or pathos? Cite specific examples to illustrate your response.
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