AP Language: April 2010. *Subject to change!
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday12 Tone and Syntax. Dubliners groupwork
HW: reading, multiple choice, and rhetorical response worksheet – from A Vindication For the Rights of Women / 13 Multiple Choice practice.
HW: Complete multiple choice packet / 14 Dubliners symbols themes and motifs.
Dubliners groupwork.
HW: Bedford 5. Terms quiz tomorrow. / 15 Terms quiz.
Complete groupwork. Rhetorical analysis of Bedford.
HW: quiz tomorrow on Dubliners. reading, multiple choice, and rhetorical response worksheet – from The Diary of Samuel Pepys / 16 Dubliners quiz. Bedford analysis.
HW: Process Analysis essay due Monday. Reading “The Dead.”
19 Tone and Syntax. Discussion of “The Dead.”
HW:Bedford 6. / 20 Rhetorical essay practice.
HW: Synthesis reading. reading, multiple choice, and rhetorical response worksheet – “A Warning Against Passion” / 21 Synthesis writing.
HW: Terms quiz tomorrow. Bedford 7 / 22 Quiz.
AP Practice day, TBA.
HW: Free response essay. / 23 Shakespeare's Birthday! Shakespeare and Rhetoric!
HW: read Lord of the Flies. Classification essay due Monday.
26 Tone and Syntax.
Multiple Choice Practice.
HW: Bedford 8 / 27 Lord of the Flies groupwork.
HW: Cause and Effect perfect page essay (on Lord of the Flies) due Thursday / 28 Lord of the Flies symbols, themes and motifs.
HW: Bedford 9. / 29 TBA.
HW: Lord of the Flies test tomorrow. / 30 Test.
HW: Rhetoric Essay.
Quiz on Essay types Monday.
5 Process Analysis 219-224, “How To Poison the Earth” 228-230, “Confessions of a Shusher” 237-242, “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain” 244-253.
6 Division or Analysis 265-71, “In Defense Of Talk Shows” 283-285, “Our Barbies, Ourselves” 288-290, and “Girl” 304-305
7 Classification 311-316, “The Ways We Lie” 340-347, and “The World of Doublespeak” 350-356
8 Cause and Effect 361-69 and “The Arrow of Time” 378-381
9 Definition 409-416, “The Meaning of a Word” 418-421, “Being a Chink” 424-427