AP English III Agenda: 1St Quarter (Subject to Change)

AP English III Agenda: 1st Quarter (subject to change)

Monday, August 22nd (1st & 5th):

1)Welcome and discuss syllabus

2) Science cat activity (2 kinds of people---similar to “getting it” in AP)

Monday, August 22nd (3A) and Tuesday, August 23rd (4B):

1)Welcome and discuss syllabus

2)Science cat activity (2 kinds of people---similar to “getting it” in AP)

3)The Things They Carried25-minute writing activity

Homework: Bring annotated book next class; develop three questions for discussion of TTTC

Tuesday, August 23rd (1st & 5th):

1)The Things They Carried25-minute writing activity

Homework: Bring annotated book next class; develop three questions for discussion of TTTC

Wednesday, August 24th (1st & 5th):

1)Discuss TTTC annotation double-entry assignment and test (due 9/8)

2)TTTC inner outer discussion (1 hour-ish/most of the class)

Wednesday, August 24th (3A) and Thursday, August 25th (4B):

1)Discuss TTTC annotation double-entry assignment and test (due 9/8 (A) 9/9 (B))

2)TTTC inner outer discussion (1 hour-ish/most of the class)

Homework: work on double entry journal

Thursday, August 25th (1st & 5th):

1)Finish inner outer discussion

2)Introduction to AP test PowerPoint

Homework: work on double entry journal

Friday, August 26th (1st & 5th):

1)Discuss fiction independent reading assignment (due 10/13)

2)Discuss PATTR (look at a short piece of nonfiction using PATTR) and rhetorical terms

Homework: Read and familiarize yourself with the rhetorical terms handouts; read “The Yellow Wallpaper” and identify at least three rhetorical devices used and their effects on the story (half a page each)by 9/30

Friday, August 26th (3A) and Monday, August 29th (4B):

1)Discuss fiction independent reading assignment (due 10/13 (A) 10/14 (B))

2)Discuss PATTR (look at a short piece of nonfiction using PATTR) and rhetorical terms

3)Introduction to AP test PowerPoint

Homework: Read and familiarize yourself with the rhetorical terms handouts; read “The Yellow Wallpaper” and identify at least three rhetorical devices used and their effects on the story (half a page each) by 9/30-31

Monday, August 29th (1st & 5th):

1)Begin deconstructing AP multiple choice test

2)Work on homework

Tuesday, August 30th (1st & 5th):

1)Discuss “The Yellow Wallpaper”

2)Choose, refine, and submit “The Yellow Wallpaper” response

3)Continue deconstructing AP multiple choice test

Homework: work on double-entry journal; Dual credit students complete diagnostic essay (due 9/12-19)

Tuesday, August 30th (3A) and Wednesday, August 31st (4B):

1)Discuss “The Yellow Wallpaper”

2)Choose, refine, and submit “The Yellow Wallpaper” response

3)Begin deconstructing AP multiple choice test

Homework: work on double-entry journal; Dual credit students complete diagnostic essay (due 9/12-19)

Wednesday, August 31st (1st & 5th):

1)Continue deconstructing AP multiple choice test

Thursday, September 1st (1st & 5th):

1)Continue AP test deconstruction

2)Receive TTTC tone and diction vocabulary (test on 9/12)

Homework: Review vocabulary, review for TTTC test, and work on double-entry journal

Thursday, September 1st (3A) and Friday, September 2nd (4B):

1)Continue AP test deconstruction

2)Receive TTTC tone and diction vocabulary (test on 9/12 and 9/13)

Homework: Review vocabulary, review for TTTC test, and work on double-entry journal

Friday, September 2nd (1st & 5th):

1)Finish AP test deconstruction

Homework: review for TTTC test and work on double-entry journal

Tuesday, September 6th (1st & 5th):

***Picture Day 9/6

1)Revise and analyze anonymous student Yellow Wallpaper responses in groups

Homework: Finish journal and study for TTTC test (may bring book and/or handwritten notes)

Tuesday, September 6th (3A) and Wednesday, September 7th (4B):

***Picture Day 9/6

1)Revise and analyze anonymous student Yellow Wallpaper responses in groups

2)Finish AP test deconstruction

3)Review TTTC

Homework: Finish journal and study for TTTC test (may bring book and/or handwritten notes)

Wednesday, September 7th (1st & 5th):

1)Finish group revision and sharing

2)Review TTTC

Thursday, September 8th (1st & 5th):

***TTTC Journal Due

1)TTTC Test

2)Begin reading “The Minister’s Black Veil” and annotate with regard to Hawthorne’s style and use/effect of rhetorical devices

Homework: 

Thursday, September 8th (3A) and Friday, September 9th (4B):

***TTTC Journal Due

1)TTTC Test

2)Read “The Minister’s Black Veil” and annotate with regard to Hawthorne’s style and use/effect of rhetorical devices

Homework: study TTTC tone and diction vocabulary

Friday, September 9th (1st & 5th):

1)Finish reading “The Minister’s Black Veil” and annotating with regard to Hawthorne’s style and use/effect of rhetorical devices

2)Discuss “The Minister’s Black Veil”

Homework: study TTTC tone and diction vocabulary

Monday, September 12th (1st & 5th):

1)TTTC tone and diction vocabulary test

Homework: 

Monday, September 12th (3A) and Tuesday, September 13th (4B):

1)Discuss “The Minister’s Black Veil”

2)TTTC tone and diction vocabulary test

Homework: 

Tuesday, September 13th (1st & 5th):

1)Receive SAT Vocab. Book; SAT Vocab. 1 Diagnostic

2)Look at rhetorical analysis model (document camera)

Wednesday, September 14th (1st & 5th):

1)Discussion of rhetoric (triangle, appeals, Toulmin method, visual rhetoric)

2)Look at rhetorical analysis models

Homework: read and annotate Arthur Miller’s “Why I Wrote The Crucible” by 9/16

Wednesday, September 14th (3A) and Thursday, September 15th (4B):

1)Receive SAT Vocab. Book; SAT Vocab. 1 Diagnostic

2)Discussion of rhetoric (triangle, appeals, Toulmin method, visual rhetoric)

3)Look at rhetorical analysis model (document camera)

Homework: read and annotate Arthur Miller’s “Why I Wrote The Crucible” 9/16 (A) and 9/19 (B)

Thursday, September 15th (1st & 5th):

1)Look at Onion articles and analyze rhetorical strategies

Friday, September 16th (1st & 5th):

1)Discuss homework

2)Read and discuss “The Devil in Massachusetts” and excerpts from Nine Years Among the Indians

3)Receive The Crucible and begin reading Act I

Homework: study for SAT Vocab. 1 Quiz and write meaningful sentences by 9/20

Friday, September 16th (3A) and Monday, September 19th (4B):

1)Discuss homework

2)Read and discuss “The Devil in Massachusetts” and excerpts from Nine Years Among the Indians

3)Receive The Crucible and begin reading Act I

Homework: study for SAT Vocab. 1 Quiz and write meaningful sentences by 9/20-21

Monday, September 19th (1st & 5th):

1)Continue reading Act I

Tuesday, September 20th (1st & 5th):

1)SAT Vocab. 1 Quiz

2)Finish Act I

Tuesday, September 20th (3A) and Wednesday, September 21st (4B):

1)SAT Vocab. 1 Quiz

2)Finish Act I

Homework: Finish Act I if not finished in class

Wednesday, September 21st (1st & 5th):

1)Begin Act II

Thursday, September 22nd (1st & 5th):

1)SAT Vocab. 2 Diagnostic

2)AP multiple choice warm-up (on The Crucible)

3)Read Act II

Homework: study for SAT Vocab. 2 Quiz and write meaningful sentences by 9/26

Thursday, September 22nd (3A) and Friday, September 23rd (4B):

1)SAT Vocab. 2 Diagnostic

2)AP multiple choice warm-up (on The Crucible)

3)Discuss Act I

4)Read Act II

Homework: Finish Act II if not finished in class; study for SAT Vocab. 2 Quiz and write meaningful sentences by 9/26-27

Friday, September 23rd (1st & 5th):

1)Finish Act II

Monday, September 26th (1st & 5th):

1)SAT Vocab. 2 Quiz

2)Read Act III

Monday, September 26th (3A) and Tuesday, September 27th (4B):

1)SAT Vocab. 2 Quiz

2)Discuss Act II

3)Read Act III

Homework: Finish Act III if not finished in class

Tuesday, September 27th (1st & 5th):

1)Finish Act III

Wednesday, September 28th (1st & 5th):

1)AP multiple choice warm-up (on The Crucible)

2)Read Act IV

Wednesday, September 28th(3A) and Thursday, September 29th (4B):

1)AP multiple choice warm-up (on The Crucible)

2)Discuss Act III

3)Read Act IV

4)Introduce Rhetorical analysis activity (3A)

Homework: 

Thursday, September 29th (1st & 5th):

1)Rhetorical analysis activity

Friday, September 30th (1st & 5th):

***DYER ABSENT

1)Finish reading Act IV

Homework: Read and annotate “Yes, She’s a Christ Figure” from How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Friday, September 30th (3A)and Monday, October 3rd(4B):

***DYER ABSENT 9/30

1)Rhetorical Analysis Activity

2)Finish reading Act IV

Homework: Read and annotate “Yes, She’s a Christ Figure” from How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Monday, October 3rd (1st & 5th):

1)SAT Vocab. 3 Diagnostic

2)Discuss homework and the play as a whole

Homework: study for SAT Vocab. 3 Quiz and write meaningful sentences by 10/5

Tuesday, October 4th (1st & 5th):

1)The Crucible rhetorical analysis essay (how Miller uses rhetorical devices to frame Proctor as a Christ-like figure)

Tuesday, October 4th (3A) and Wednesday, October 5th (4B):

1)SAT Vocab. 3 Diagnostic

2)Discuss homework and the play as a whole

3)The Crucible rhetorical analysis essay (how Miller uses rhetorical devices to frame Proctor as a Christ-like figure)

Homework: study for SAT Vocab. 3 Quiz and write meaningful sentences by 10/6-7

Wednesday, October 5th (1st & 5th):

1)SAT Vocab. 3 Quiz

2)Deconstruct rhetorical analysis prompt

Thursday, October 6th (1st & 5th):

1)Class rhetorical analysis essay (teacher types and puts on projector; students work in pairs—each pair responsible for a certain part of the essay)

Homework: work on IRP

Thursday, October 6th (3A) and Friday, October 7th (4B):

1)SAT Vocab. 3 Quiz

2)Class rhetorical analysis essay (teacher types and puts on projector; students work in pairs—each pair responsible for a certain part of the essay)

Homework: work on IRP

Friday, October 7th (1st & 5th):

1) Read IRP book

Monday, October 10th
***No School

Tuesday, October 11th (1st & 5th):

1)SAT Vocab. 4 Diagnostic

2)Grammar warm-up (based on mistakes made in rhetorical analysis essay)

3)Finish class essay

Homework: finish IRP; study for Vocab. 4 Quiz and write meaningful sentences by 10/13

Tuesday, October 11th (3A) and Wednesday, October 12th (4B):

1)SAT Vocab. 4 Diagnostic

2)Grammar warm-up (based on mistakes made in rhetorical analysis essay)

3)Finish class essay

Homework: finish IRP; study for Vocab. 4 Quiz and write meaningful sentences by 10/13-14

Wednesday, October 12th (1st & 5th):

1)PSAT???

Thursday, October 13th (1st & 5th):

***Fiction Independent Reading Project due

1)SAT Vocab. 4 Quiz

2)Crucible rhetorical analysis rewrite

Homework: read and annotate “They Say” handout by 10/17

Thursday, October 13th (3A) and Friday, October 14th (4B):

***Fiction Independent Reading Project due

1)SAT Vocab. 4 Quiz

2)Crucible rhetorical analysis rewrite

Homework: read and annotate “They Say” handout by 10/17

Friday, October 14th (1st & 5th):

1)Finish rewrite