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