Teacher: T. McKee
Week: 10/31/11 / Course: AP Language and Composition
Unit: Education and rhetorical analysis
  • AP Standards:
  • Apply effective strategies and techniques in their own writing
  • I can rhetorically analyze author’s purpose, intended audience, and goals
  • Create and sustain arguments based on readings, research, and/or personal experience
  • Analyze and interpret samples of good writing, identifying and explaining an author’s use of rhetorical strategies and techniques
  • Analyze how two of more texts address similar themes of topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.

Learning Target / Activity (include DOK) / Assessment / Homework / Materials/
Technology
M /
  • I can rhetorically analyze author’s purpose, intended audience, and goals.
  • I can Analyze how two of more texts address similar themes of topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take
/
  • Word of the Day (Vocab review, latin roots, prefixes, suffixes)
  • Camel Check-Grammar
  • Discuss text “School” pg. 140 (Mori)
  • Review graphs, visual rhetoric (page147-48)
  • Analyze p.143 poem
/ Discussion rubric, Questions,
T /
  • I can Analyze and interpret samples of good writing, identifying and explaining an author’s use of rhetorical strategies and techniques
  • I can Critique and evaluate how an author crafts a persona to achieve an intended effect on an audience.
/
  • Word of the day
  • Camel Check Grammar
  • “Entering the Conversation” Role playing, questioning in preparation for synthesis
/ Summative Questioning strategies , discussion strategies and roles / Review pages 150-163
Choose prompt page 163-164 Work on Entering the Conversation “The American High School”
W /
  • I Can Analyze and interpret samples of good writing, identifying and explaining an author’s use of rhetorical strategies and techniques
  • I can Create and sustain arguments based on readings, research, and/or personal experience
/
  • Word of the Day
  • Camel Check Grammar
  • Discuss responses to writing prompt.
/ Formative AP writing rubric
TH /
  • I can Create and sustain arguments based on readings, research, and/or personal experience
/
  • Word of the day
  • Camel check Grammar
  • Education project assignment
/ Projects
F / See Thurs. /
  • See Thursday

Differentiation Strategies/Modifications Marzano’s Best Practices

x / Anchor Activities / Extended Time / x / Identifying Similarities & Differences
Chunking / Modified Assignments / Summarizing & Note taking
Flexible Grouping / Rephrase Directions / x / Reinforcing Effort & Providing Recognition
x / Jig-Saw / Prompting/Cueing / Homework & Practice
Learning Centers/Stations / Reading/Scribing / x / Nonlinguistic Representation
Tiered Activities / Learning Contracts / x / Cooperative Learning
Interest Groups / Independent Study / Setting Objectives & Providing Feedback
Literature Circles / x / AP/Honors / Generating & Testing Hypothesis
Multiple Intelligence Options / Mentorships / Cues, Questions & Advance Organizers