AP English Language and Composition—Fall 2014
Overall Unit Questions: To what extent are our perceptions affected by language? How is this accomplished? How can we control and/or resist this power?Note: This is a tentative schedule. It is subject to change as needed. Unannounced reading check quizzes may be given at any time. Tutorials make ups are Tues/Wed during B block lunch and Tues/Wed after school. You MUST schedule these with me to make sure that there is sufficient space/time available.
August 25
Class overview: How to manipulate others with language, and how to avoid being manipulated!
HW: Start your Me Collage / 26
Diagnostic Essay
Bring your brain (plus pen and paper!)
HW: Read p. 35-47 in The Language of Composition / 27/28
Okefenokee Swamp AP Prompt: Annotation & Analysis practice; Responding to visuals
HW: Read/Re-read & annotate BOTH introductions and first chapter “Who We Are” / 29
Discussion of 1 Dead in Attic intros and chapter one
HW: Read & annotate “The Nightmare after Katrina”; Annotate at least 1 passage in 1 Dead in Attic where Rose seems to agree or disagree with Gibbs
September 1
LABOR
DAY / 2
Discussion of Gibbs’ article and 1 Dead in Attic
HW: Read & annotate “Hurricane Katrina Slams Into Gulf Coast”; compare to at least 2 places in 1 Dead in Attic; Finish Me Collage / 3/4
Me Collages due!
Discussion of 1 Dead in Attic and “Hurricane Katrina Slams Into Gulf Coast”
HW: Read & annotate Carr’s “More Horrible Than Truth”; Study for Terms Quiz / 5
Terms Quiz
Discussion of 1 Dead in Attic and “More Horrible Than Truth”
HW: Read & annotate “Why Katrina’s Victims Aren’t ‘Refugees’”
8
Discussion of 1 Dead in Attic and “Why Katrina’s Victims Aren’t ‘Refugees’”
HW: Text charts / 9
Test Review: Making connections
HW: Study for test! / 10/11
Unit 1 Test: Scantron with short essay
HW: Catch up on sleep J / Progress Report Cut Off 12
Descriptive Essay Intro and Practice
HW: Read & annotate “Just Walk on By: Black Men in Public Spaces”; Pick your picture
15
Discussion of “Just Walk on By”; Revising Bad Description
HW: Read & annotate the excerpts from Stanley’s Through the Dark Continent / 16
Discussion of Sir Henry Morton Stanley’s Through the Dark Continent; Sample Thesis Evaluation
HW: Read & annotate the excerpts from Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa / 17/18
Discussion of Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa; Sample Essay Evaluation
HW: Read & annotate “Death in the Grand Canyon” / 19
Discussion of “Death in the Grand Canyon”; Revision Tips
HW: Finish your Descriptive Essay!
22
Descriptive Essay Due!
In-class Reading and Discussion of Diamond’s “Who Killed Easter Island?”
HW: Read & annotate up to the end of “Something in the Air” in DITF (p.26) / 23
Discussion of The Demon in the Freezer up to the end of “Something in the Air”
HW: Read & annotate up to the end of “The Dreaming Demon” in DITF (p.59) / 24/25
Diagnostic Essay Postmortem with Samples; Discussion of DITF up to the end of “The Dreaming Demon”
HW: Read & annotate up to the end of “Strange Trip” in DITF (p. 86); Study for Vocab Quiz / 26
Vocabulary Quiz Unit 1
Discussion of DITF up to the end of “Strange Trip”
HW: Read & annotate up to the end of “Forbidden Planet” in DITF (p. 122); Pick one passage to fully annotate, and write an AP thesis for it.
29
Discussion of DITF and passage theses
HW: Read & annotate up to the end of “A Woman with a Peaceful Life” in DITF (p.176) for block day / 30
Full Practice AP Essay / October 1/2
Practice Essay Postmortem; Discussion of DITF up to the end of “A Woman with a Peaceful Life”
HW: Read & annotate up to the end of “Into the Submarine” (p.204) / Progress Report Cut Off 3
Discussion of DITF up to the end of “Into the Submarine”
HW: Read & annotate up to the end of “Tricks” (p.233)
6
Discussion of DITF up to the end of “Tricks”
HW: Read & annotate up to the end of “The Anthrax Skulls” (p.260) for block day / 7
AP Timed Writing
(Test Grade) / 8/9
Discussion of DITF up to the end of “The Anthrax Skulls”
HW: Read & annotate the rest of the book (p.283); Study for Vocab Quiz / 10
Vocabulary Quiz Unit 2
Discussion of the end of DITF
HW: Prepare for graded discussion
13
Columbus Day
No School! / 14
Graded Discussion
(Quiz Grade)
HW: Study for Test! / 15/16
Unit 2 Test!
HW: Read & annotate up to the middle of “The Trouble is just Begun” in The Devil in the White City (p.18) looking for patterns in syntax and diction / 17
Discussion of TDITWC up to p.18
HW: Read & annotate up to the end of “The Necessary Supply” in TDITWC (p.47)
20
Discussion of TDITWC up to the end of “The Necessary Supply”
HW: Read & annotate up to the end of “Don’t Be Afraid” in TDITWC (p.74) / 21
TW#1 postmortem;
TDITWC Discussion up to the end of “Don’t Be Afraid”
HW: Read & annotate up to the end of “The Landscape of Regret” (p.99) / 22/23
Unit II Test Postmortem;
TDITWC Discussion up to the end of “The Landscape of Regret”
HW: Read & annotate up to the end of “Cuckoldry” (p.127) / 24
TW practice;
TDITWC Discussion up to the
end of “Cuckoldry”
HW: Read & annotate up to the end of “Remains of the Day” (p.152)
Summatives: 75%
1. Unit 1 Test
2. AP Rhetorical Analysis Timed Writing (in-class)
3. Descriptive Essay (typed, out of class)
4. Unit 2 Test
Formatives: 25%
Announced Formatives:
1. Me Collage (Quiz grade = two daily grades)
2. Diagnostic Essay (Daily grade)
3. Terms Quiz (Quiz grade)
4. Vocab Quiz 1 (Quiz grade)
5. Vocab Quiz 2 (Quiz grade)
6. Graded Discussion (Quiz grade)
Unannounced Formatives: (These will be given/collected/checked at my discretion—not all will be entered as grades.)
7. Reading Check Quizzes (Quiz grades)
8. In-class activities/Homework/annotation checks (Daily and/or quiz grades if entered)
9. Warm-up quizzes (Quiz grades)