The AP Boot CampOverview The purpose of the AP Boot Camp is to teach students those necessary skills they need to have mastered before they begin working with rhetorical analysis. Not all parts of the AP Boot Camp need to be used for all classes; the ability of the classes themselves should determine the degree to which the lessons are used. Generally speaking, these lessons should go in this order.
Claim, Data, Warrant This page gives a brief overview of all three terms and defines them for future reference.
Data Management This page details how to manage data, including embedding quotes, keeping it simple, and matching the data to the claim.
Writing Warrants This page details a specific template for writing warrants and gives an example from Othello.
Warrants: What to Beware Of This page discusses the problems many warrants face, along with student examples of each.
More About Warrants! This page gives a student exercise on a letter by George Bernard Shaw.
Thesis=Topics This page explains that a thesis is simply a "superclaim": a compilation of all the major claim sentences being made in the essay. It also provides an exercise to help students see the relationship.