Objectives:
After this class, students will be able to:
1. write for a specific audience and purpose.
2. organize opinion into a formal essay.
3. read informational text.
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: In your notebooks, please answer the following question: Make a list of all the ways by which a person can be entertained. List at least seven forms of entertainment.
2. Students will write a formal essay based on the following AP English Practice Essay Prompt:
In his 1998 book Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, Neal Gabler wrote the following:
One does not necessarily have to cluck in disapproval to admit that entertainment is all the things its detractors say it is: fun, effortless, sensational, mindless, formulaic, predictable and subversive. In fact, one might argue that those are the very reasons so many people love it.
At the same time, it is not hard to see why … critics say that entertainment’s eventual effect would be to “overturn all morality, to poison the springs of domestic happiness, to dissolve the ties of our socials order, and to involve our country in ruin.”
Write a thoughtful and carefully constructed essay in which you use specific evidence to defend, challenge, or qualify the assertion that entertainment has the capacity to “ruin” society.
Homework: Students should complete any final work they want graded for the firsy marking period.
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