AP Language and Composition

Week

Assignments

 5/20-5/24

  Go over free response questions from national exam

  Watch Death of a Salesman  video

 5/14-16

 5/14--Bring independent novel/assignment to class.  You will have the

          opportunity to work on the assignment during class.

 5/16--discuss national exam

 5/6-5/10

 5/6 and 5/8--student generated questions/review for exam

 5/10--National exam--Woodland--Be there between 7:15 and 7:30--GOOD

         LUCK!!!  :)

 4/29-5/3

 We will be working on the synthesis question both class days this

 week.  Come to class with paper and a pen each day.

4/22-4/26

 4/22--independent reading check/go over Patterns assignments/go over

         Lear argument

 4/24--multiple choice practice/score/discuss

 4/26--practice synthesis question Don't forget to sign on to apscore.org

         (due 4/30)

 4/15-4/19

 4/16--Multiple choice strategies/discussion of Brady/Smith essays

 4/18--Peer review of Antigone argument/strategies/timed argument

          essay

 4/8-4/12

 4/8--Those absent on Thursday will complete multiple choice practice test/

        Others compare/contrast Jacoby and Paglia arguments

        Homework--Read "On Dumpster Diving" (660-672) and complete P&A--

        1-6 and S&S--1-4.Due 4/10-ink or typed (late work not accepted)

 4/10--Discuss rhetorical modes present in "Dumpster"

         Homework--Brady "I Want a Wife" (505-507)  Answer P&A 1-3 and

         S&S-1-5 and read"The "Wife Beater" (521-522) and answer P&A 1-4

         and S&S 1-4.Due 4/12--ink or typed (late work not accepted)

 4/12--Analyze Brady and Smith pieces.

 4/2-4/5

 4/2--Class discussion of TTTC/reflection

 4/4--multiple choice practice test/complete discussion TTTC

 3/25-3/28

 3/25--Go over synthesis essay/argument

 3/27--The Things They Carried TEST and dialectical journal due--

          Late work NOT accepted

 3/18-3/22

 3/19--Go over editorial cartoons/photographs and discuss citations

         Review synthesis essay (penny)/check for sources and length

 3/21--Write timed synthesis essay  (55 minutes) Continue reading

           TTTC/dialectical journal  Journal and novel due 3/27

 3/4-3/8

 3/4--Patterns--due  Read 345-350 "A Peaceful..." Answer C-1-6,

        P-1-4, S-1,3,4,5 and JE (one page) INK  (20 points)

        Secure copy of The Things They Carried and begin dialectical

        journal project.  Do not put this off.  Bring copy of novel to

        class each day.Novel and dialectical journal due March 27th

           Classwork--read 27-36 RfW, discuss,cartoons/#5, p.39

         Homework--Study images on 384-5 (Patterns) Answer 1-3, 385

 3/6--review aspects of the synthesis essay/return penny essay/

        analyze

 3/6--write released synthesis essay for practice

Homework over break --(1)Students absent on Wednesday or Friday should access the PowerPoint on the synthesis essay covered in class.

Go online and Google "PowerPoint synthesis essay greenville sc" to access the site and review.

(2)--Continue reading The Things They Carried and work on the dialectical journal.

(3) Go online and Google EITHER editorial photographs OR editorial cartoons.  Find ONE that you like and make a copy of it.  Bring it to class on our first day back.

Have a great, safe break!

 2/25-3/1

 2/26--SOAPS from "LBJ" and "Ballot or Bullet"/discussion of loaded words

         and their affect on the audience

 2/28--return to the syntesis essay/strategies/ review prior essay (penny)

 2/19-2/22

 2/20--review life of Malcolm X--Listen to "The Ballot or the Bullet"

 2/22--compare/contrast the tone(s) of "Ballot" and "LBJ"/Who is the audience for each?  Multiple choice practice

 2/11-15

2/11--arguments in 23-end of "LBJ"  analysis of antithesis, clouds, sickness

2/13--"Civil Disobedience"--Thoreau's influence on King  SOAPS comparison

2/15--complete Thoreau and analogies present

 2/4-2/8

 2/5--Discussion of paragraphs 13 and 14 "LBJ"--Be prepared for in depth

        analysis of arguments and strategies

 2/7--Paragraphs 15-22 "LBJ"  arguments/strategies

        References to clouds, sickness/health/darkness/light, allusions, 

        antithesis

 1/28-2/1

 1/28--review/discuss the four arguments in the clergymen's letter

          discuss validity/effectiveness of the arguments

         Homework--Read the first paragraph of "LBJ" (570) and

         identify Dr. King's tone in that paragraph.  Read page 555

         and answer questions 1-4, page 556.  Answers should be in

         ink.

 1/30--Analysis of the first paragraph of "Letter from Birmingham

          Jail" (tone, diction, strategies)

&nbs