AP Language and Composition: Student-Managed Reading Assignments

AP Language and Composition: Student-Managed Reading Assignments

(Assignments are DUE on the date listed)

1ST QUARTER / NOVEL/PLAY / LITERATURE NOTEBOOK READINGS
M / 6-Aug
T / 7-Aug / FIRST DAY; Invisible Man
W / 8-Aug
R / 9-Aug
F / 10-Aug
M / 13-Aug
T / 14-Aug / PICTURE DAY
W / 15-Aug
R / 16-Aug / LOL 66-68 “First Encounters” (Notes)
LOL 70 “Historical Narratives” (Notes)
LOL 99 Equiano Bio(Notes),
LOL 93-97 Excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Summary)
* Answer Question 5 on p. 98.
F / 17-Aug / NOTES AND SUMMARIES TO FIRST NOTEBOOK READING DUE
M / 20-Aug
T / 21-Aug / LOL 90 William Bradford’s Bio (Notes)
LOL 81-87 Excerpt from Of Plymouth Plantation (Summary)
*Answer questions 3 and 4 (Think Critically) on page 88.
LOL 91-92 “Women and Children First: The Mayflower Pilgrims” (Summary)
*Answer questions 1-4 (Under Primary and Secondary Sources) and Comparing Texts on pages 91-92
W / 22-Aug
R / 23-Aug / LOL 134-136 “Between Heaven and Hell: The Puritan Tradition” (Notes)
F / 24-Aug
M / 27-Aug
T / 28-Aug / LOL 143 Anne Bradstreet Bio (Notes)
* Define meter, archaic language, and inverted syntax (page 138)
LOL 139 “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (Summary)
* Answer Questions 1-3 on page 139
LOL 140-141 “Upon the Burning of Our House” (Summary)
* Answer Questions 2,3,4,5, and 7 on page 142
W / 29-Aug
R / 30- Aug / *Define transcript, bias, loaded language, and loaded questions (page 144)
LOL 144-147 “The Examination of Sarah Goode” (Summary)
*Answer Questions 1, 3,4,5, and 6 on page 148
LOL 150-151 “History Clashes with Commercialism” (Notes)
* Create a chart listing at least 3 facts and 3 opinions from the article, “History Clashes with Commercialism”
F / 31- Aug
M / 3-Sept / LABOR DAY-NO SCHOOL
T / 4-Sept / The Crucible, Act 1 (LOL 163) / LOL 152-157 “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (Summary)
W / 5-Sept
R / 6-Sept / (OC Doc) Benjamin Franklin “Moral Perfection” (Summary)
(OC Doc) D.H. Lawrence “On Ben Franklin’s Virtues” (Summary)
(OC Doc) Franklin-Lawrence Comparison
F / 7-Sept
M / 10-Sept / The Crucible, Act 2 (LOL 191)
T / 11-Sept / (OC Doc) Thomas Paine Bio (Notes); The American Crisis (Summary)
*Who is Paine’s audience? What does Paine want? What rhetorical devices does Paine use to persuade his audience?
(OC Doc) John Donne’s “No Man is An Island” (Summary)
W / 12-Sept
R / 13-Sept / The Crucible, Act 3 (LOL 207)
F / 14-Sept
M / 17-Sept / The Crucible, Act 4 (LOL 229)
T / 18-Sept / LOL 269 Patrick Henry Bio (Notes)
LOL 262-266 “Speech in the Virginia Convention” (Summary)
* Answer questions 5, 6, 7 on page 267
W / 19-Sept
R / 20-Sept
F / 21-Sept / The Crucible MOMENTS/SCALPT DUE
M / 24-Sept
T / 25-Sept / Excerpts from The Scarlet Letter / LOL 288 Abigail Adams Bio (Notes)
LOL 285-286 “Letter to John Adams” (Summary)
* Answer questions 3, 4 on page 287
W / 26-Sept
R / 27-Sept / LOL 281 Thomas Jefferson Bio (Notes)
LOL 270-276 “Declaration of Independence” (Summary)
*Answer questions 3, 4, 6 on page 279
*Identify Jefferson’s use of parallelism. What is Jefferson’s purpose? Why did he use parallelism? What effect does the device have on Jefferson’s ability to achieve his purpose?
(OC Doc) “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” (Summary)
* In what ways are the “Declaration of Independence” and “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” similar? In what ways are they different? What does this suggest about the authors’ assessments of their individual rhetorical situations?
F / 28-Sept
M / 1-Oct
T / 2-Oct / LOL 294 Michel-Guillame Jean de Crevecoeur Bio (Notes)
LOL 289-291 “What is an American?” (Summary)
* Answer question 3, 4, 5 on page 293
W / 3-Oct
R / 4-Oct / (OC Doc) Roland Barthe’s “Toys” (Summary)
LOL 573 Frederick Douglass Bio (Notes)
(OC Doc) Frederick Douglass “Learning to Read and Write” (Summary)
* Consider the assertions made in both of these essays and write two paragraphs exploring how these ideas relate to de Crevecoeur’s portrayal of “Americanism.”
F / 5-Oct / Q1 LITERATURE NOTEBOOKS DUE
8-Oct / FALL BREAK-NO SCHOOL
T / 9-Oct / FALL BREAK-NO SCHOOL
W / 10-Oct / FALL BREAK-NO SCHOOL
R / 11-Oct / FALL BREAK-NO SCHOOL
F / 12-Oct / FALL BREAK-NO SCHOOL
2ND QUARTER / NOVEL/PLAY / LITERATURE NOTEBOOK READINGS
M / 15-Oct / SUB FOR MRS. PATTON (OXFORD)
T / 16-Oct / SUB FOR MRS. PATTON (OXFORD) / LOL 338-342 Time Line 1800-1855, Celebrations of the Self (Notes)
LOL 362 Washington Irving Bio (Notes)
LOL 349 “The Devil and Tom Walker” (Summary)
* Answer questions 5, 6, 7 on page 360 (include specific references to the text for each answer)
W / 17-Oct / SUB FOR MRS. PATTON (OXFORD)
R / 18-Oct / SUB FOR MRS. PATTON (OXFORD) / LOL 394-395 Form in Poetry (Notes)
LOL 405 Walt Whitman Bio (Notes)
LOL 397 “I Hear America Singing” (Summary)
LOL 399 “I Sit and Look Out” (Summary)
LOL 400-403 Excerpt from “Song of Myself”(Summary)
* Answer questions 3, 8 on page 404
F / 19-Oct / SUB FOR MRS. PATTON (OXFORD)
M / 22-Oct
T / 23-Oct / To Kill a Mockingbird Ch. 1-5 / LOL 348 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Bio (Notes)
LOL 345-346 “A Psalm of Life” (Summary)
* Answer questions 5, 6 on page 347
W / 24-Oct
R / 25-Oct / (OC Doc) Henry David Thoreau “The Battle of Ants” (Summary)
F / 26-Oct
M / 29-Oct / To Kill a Mockingbird Ch. 6-11 / LOL 368 Ralph Waldo Emerson Bio (Notes)
LOL 363-366 Excerpt from “Self Reliance” (Summary)
* Answer question 5 on page 367
T / 30-Oct / LOL 380 Henry David Thoreau Bio (Notes)
LOL 369-376 Excerpt from “Civil Disobedience” (Summary)
LOL 377 Mohandas Ghandi “On Civil Disobedience” (Summary)
* Answer questions 5, 6, 7, 8 on page 378
LOL 1136-1145 Martin Luther King “Letters from a Birmingham Jail” (Summary)
*In what ways does King’s rhetoric mimic the ideologies of Thoreau and Ghandi?
W / 31-Oct
R / 1-Nov / LOL 381-391 Excerpts from “Walden” (Summary)
* Answer questions 6, 7 on page 392
F / 2-Nov
M / 5-Nov / To Kill a Mockingbird Ch. 12-21 / LOL 446-448 The Dark Side of Individualism (Notes)
LOL 453 Author Study- Edgar Allan Poe (Notes)
LOL 455-461 “The Masque of the Red Death” (Summary)
* Answer question 7 on page 462
T / 6-Nov / ELECTION DAY- NO SCHOOL
W / 7-Nov / LOL 515 Nathanial Hawthorne Bio (Notes)
LOL 500-513 “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” (Summary)
* Answer questions 2, 4, 6 on page 514
R / 8-Nov / LOL 527 William Faulkner Bio (Notes)
LOL 516-524 “A Rose for Emily” (Summary)
* Answer questions 4, 7 on page 525
F / 9-Nov
M / 12-Nov / To Kill a Mockingbird Ch. 22-29
T / 13-Nov / LOL 541 Flanner O’Connor Bio (Notes)
LOL 528-538 “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” (Summary)
* Answer questions 2, 7 on page 539
W / 14-Nov
R / 15-Nov / LOL 558-560 A House Divided (Notes)
LOL 608 Abraham Lincoln Bio (Notes)
LOL 605-607 “The Gettysburg Address” (Summary)
* Answer questions 4, 5, 6 on page 607
F / 16-Nov / To Kill a Mockingbird MOMENTS/SCALPT DUE
M / 19-Nov / Begin The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Ch. 1-11 / LOL 573 Frederick Douglass Bio (Notes)
LOL 562-570 “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas” (Summary)
* Answer question 2 on page 571
LOL 617 Anne Moody Bio (Notes)
LOL 609-615 From Coming of Age in Mississippi (Summary)
* Answer question 8 on page 616
T / 20-Nov
W / 21-Nov / THANKSGIVING BREAK- NO SCHOOL
R / 22-Nov / THANKSGIVING DAY- NO SCHOOL
F / 23-Nov / THANKSGIVING BREAK- NO SCHOOL
M / 26-Nov / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Ch. 12-23
T / 27-Nov / LOL 679-684 “Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (Summary)
* Answer questions 4, 6 on page 685
(OC Doc) Mark Twain’s “Advice to Youth” (Summary)
W / 28-Nov
R / 29-Nov
F / 30-Nov / Q2 LITERATURE NOTEBOOK DUE
M / 3-Dec / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Ch. 24-35
T / 4-Dec
W / 5-Dec
R / 6-Dec
F / 7-Dec
M / 10-Dec / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Ch. 36-“The Chapter Last”
T / 11-Dec
W / 12-Dec
R / 13-Dec
F / 14-Dec / Huck Finn MOMENTS/SCALPT due
M / 17-Dec
T / 18-Dec
W / 19-Dec / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT- NO SCHOOL
R / 20-Dec / CHRISTMAS BREAK- NO SCHOOL
F / 21-Dec / CHRISTMAS BREAK- NO SCHOOL
M / 24-Dec / CHRISTMAS BREAK- NO SCHOOL
T / 25-Dec / CHRISTMAS BREAK- NO SCHOOL
W / 26-Dec / CHRISTMAS BREAK- NO SCHOOL
R / 27-Dec / CHRISTMAS BREAK- NO SCHOOL
F / 28-Dec / CHRISTMAS BREAK- NO SCHOOL
3rdQUARTER / NOVEL/PLAY / LITERATURE NOTEBOOK READINGS
M / 31-Dec / CHRISTMAS BREAK- NO SCHOOL
T / 1-Jan / CHRISTMAS BREAK- NO SCHOOL
W / 2-Jan / FIRST DAY BACK
Begin The Jungle (pp. vvii-Ch. 7)
R / 3-Jan / LOL 740-744 The Changing Face of America; Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives (Notes)
F / 4-Jan
M / 7-Jan / The Jungle (Ch. 8- Ch.15)
T / 8-Jan / LOL 746-748 Emily Dickinson Bio (Notes)
LOL 750-759 Each of the 8 poems and 1 letter (Summaries)
* Define: figurative language, simile, metaphor, personification
W / 9-Jan
R / 10-Jan / Willa Cather Bio at (Notes)
Summary of My Antonia at (Summary)
F / 11-Jan
M / 14-Jan
T / 15-Jan / The Jungle (Ch. 16- Ch.23) / LOL 787 Kate Chopin Bio (Notes)
LOL 783-785 “The Story of An Hour” (Summary)
* Define: plot, conflict, irony
* Answer Question 2 on page 787
W / 16-Jan
R / 17-Jan / LOL 781 Charlotte Perkins Gillman Bio (Notes)
LOL 765-778 “The Yellow Wallpaper” (Summary)
“Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper” at (Summary)
* Answer Questions 4-7 on page 779
F / 18-Jan
M / 21-Jan / MLK DAY- NO SCHOOL
T / 22-Jan / The Jungle (Ch. 24- Ch.31) / Virginia Woolf Bio at
(OC Doc) “The Death of the Moth” by Virginia Woolf (Summary)
* Answer Questions 2, 3 at the end of the reading
W / 23-Jan
R / 24-Jan / LOL 820-822 The American Dream: Illusion or Reality? (Notes)
LOL 839 Paul Laurence Dunbar Bio (Notes)
LOL 836 “We Wear the Mask”(Summary)
LOL 837 “Sympathy” (Summary)
* Answer Questions 6, 7 on page 838
F / 25-Jan
M / 28-Jan / Finish The Jungle
T / 29- Jan / LOL 916-918 A New Cultural Identity: The Harlem Renaissance (Notes)
LOL 920-923 Langston Hughes Author Study (Notes)
LOL 924-925 “I, Too” (Summary)
LOL 926 “Harlem” (Summary)
(OC Doc) “Salvation” ( Summary)
(1) What thematic connections exist between the three Langston Hughes texts?
(2) What do each of these texts reveal about the African American experience?
W / 30- Jan
R / 31- Jan / LOL 958 Zora Neale Hurston Bio (Notes)
LOL 950-954 “How it Feels to Be Colored Me” (Summary)
* Answer Questions 4, 6 on page 957
F / 1-Feb / The Jungle MOMENTS/SCALPT due
M / 4-Feb
T / 5-Feb / LOL 966 James Baldwin Bio (Notes)
LOL 959-963 “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew” (Summary)
* Answer Questions 2, 5 on page 964
W / 6-Feb
R / 7-Feb / Begin The Great Gatsby (Ch. 1-Ch. 3) / (OC Doc) “Black Men and Public Space” (Summary)
(OC Doc) “On Compassion” (Summary)
(1) What thematic connections exist between “Black Men and Public Space” and “On Compassion”?
(2) What is the social commentary implicit in each of these essays?
F / 8-Feb
M / 11-Feb / The Great Gatsby (Ch. 4-Ch. 5)
T / 12-Feb / Disintegration of the Individual
LOL 992-994 Alienation of the Individual: Modernism (Notes)
LOL 1016-1017 Modernism (Notes)
W / 13-Feb
R / 14-Feb / LOL 996-999 Author Study: Robert Frost (Notes)
LOL 1001 “Acquainted with the Night” (Summary)
LOL 1002-1003 “Mending Wall” (Summary)
* Answer Questions 3,4 on page 1003 3, 4
LOL 1004 “Out, Out—“ (Summary)
* Answer Questions 4, 5 on page 1005
15-Feb
M / 18-Feb / The Great Gatsby (Ch. 6-Ch. 7)
T / 19-Feb / LOL 1032 T.S. Eliot Bio (Notes)
LOL 1025-1029 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Summary)
* Answer Questions 1, , 4, 5, 6, 9 on page 1030
(1) How do the modernist ideas/beliefs about life inferred from the poem relate to Romantic ideals of the 1800s?
W / 20-Feb
R / 21-Feb / LOL 1088 “Why Soldiers Won’t Talk” (Summary)
F / 22-Feb
M / 25-Feb / FinishThe Great Gatsby
T / 26- Feb / LOL 1110 Tim O’Brien Bio (Notes)
LOL 1105-1108 “Ambush” (Summary)
* Answer Questions 7, 8 on page 1109
W / 27- Feb
R / 28- Feb / LOL 1179 Anne Tyler Bio (Notes)
LOL 1168-1177 “Teenage Wasteland” (Summary)
* Answer Questions 6, 7 on page 1178
F / 1-Mar / The Great Gatsby MOMENTS/SCALPT DUE
M / 4-Mar
T / 5-Mar / LOL 1214 Joyce Carol Oates Bio (Notes)
LOL 1200-1209 “Hostage” (Summary)
* Answer Questions 7, 8 on page 1212
W / 6-Mar
R / 7-Mar / Disintegration of Family
LOL1193 John Updike Bio (Notes)
LOL 1180-1190 “Separating” (Summary)
* Answer Question 6 on page 1191
F / 8-Mar
4th QUARTER / NOVEL/PLAY / LITERATURE NOTEBOOK READINGS
M / 11-Mar
T / 12-Mar / Disintegration of Society
(OC Doc) “Harrison Bergenon” (Summary)
* Answer the questions for “Harrison Bergeron” posted as a separate OD
W / 13-Mar
R / 14-Mar
F / 15-Mar / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT- NO SCHOOL
M / 18-Mar
T / 19-Mar / (OC Doc) “Me Talk Pretty One Day” (Summary)
* Answer the questions at the end of the reading
W / 20-Mar
R / 21-Mar / (OC Doc) “On Being a Cripple” (Summary)
* Answer the questions at the end of the reading
F / 22-Mar
M / 25-Mar / Begin contemporary “Novel of Choice” / “Novel of Choice” Essay assignment
(1) What do the ideas/themes in your contemporary novel reveal about society today?
(2) Based on your inferences, does society still reside within a postmodernist paradigm or has society moved on to something new? Fully explain your answer citing examples and evidence from your reading and current events.
T / 26-Mar
W / 27-Mar
R / 28-Mar
F / 29-Mar
M / 1-Apr / SPRING BREAK- NO SCHOOL
T / 2-Apr / SPRING BREAK- NO SCHOOL
W / 3-Apr / SPRING BREAK- NO SCHOOL
R / 4-Apr / SPRING BREAK- NO SCHOOL
F / 5-Apr / SPRING BREAK- NO SCHOOL
4th QUARTER / NOVEL/PLAY / LITERATURE NOTEBOOK READINGS
M / 8-Apr
T / 9- Apr
W / 10- Apr
R / 11- Apr
F / 12- Apr
M / 15- Apr
T / 16- Apr
W / 17- Apr
R / 18- Apr
F / 19- Apr
M / 22- Apr
T / 23- Apr
W / 24- Apr
R / 25- Apr
F / 26- Apr / “Novel of Choice” Essay due
M / 29- Apr
T / 30- Apr
W / 1-May
R / 2-May
F / 3-May
M / 6-May
T / 7-May
W / 8-May
R / 9-May
F / 10-May / 8:00 AM: AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE EXAM
M / 13-May
T / 14-May
W / 15-May
R / 16-May
F / 17-May / TENTATIVE LAST DAY
M / 20-May / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
T / 21-May / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
W / 22-May / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
R / 23-May / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
F / 24-May / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
4th QUARTER / NOVEL/PLAY / LITERATURE NOTEBOOK READINGS
M / 27-May / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
T / 28-May / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
W / 29-May / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
R / 30-May / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
F / 31-May / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
M / 3-Jun / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
T / 4-Jun / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
W / 5-Jun / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
R / 6-Jun / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
F / 7-Jun / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
M / 10-Jun / POTENTIAL MAKEUP DAY
T / 11-Jun
W / 12-Jun
R / 13-Jun
F / 14-Jun