Course: ELA IV AP
PLC: Tobie Hart- English
Year: 2016-2017
Bridgeport High School
Conceptual Planning Form
Please write the key concepts your course will be focusing on during the particular six weeks. Also, list major projects (that you know you will be having your students complete) in the space provided.1st Six
Weeks / During this unit students will closely read and critically analyze the literature through annotation, free writing, and keeping a dialectical journal. Demonstrate mastery of careful observation of textual details. Respond in writing to questions regarding elements of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone. Discuss organizational methods and analyze essays written by others and find both weaknesses and strengths of the organization of the essays and learn to emulate the successful pieces. Sample essays from AP study books will be dissected in class as a group. Full discussions and small group discussions will take place to examine the organization and content. Students will focus on critical, rather than general, analysis and response through the writing of expository, analytical, and argumentative essays.
Project: Option 1: Write a creative modernization of Beowulf. Just as Beowulf was serious and Grendel contained much humor, you may choose in which style to write your story.
Option 2: Write an analysis paper in which you explore how the story of Beowulf is reflected in terrorist events today. You must use quotes from the text of Beowulf and correlate them to the ideas in your paper.
TEKS: AP standards and: E4.1A, E4.1B, E4.1C, E4.1D, E4.1E, E4.2A, E4.2C, E4.5A, E4.5B, E4.5C, E4.5D, E4.7A, E4.13A, E4.13B, E4.13C, E4.13D, E4.13E, E4.14A, E4.15C.i, E4.15C.ii, E4.15C.iii, E4.17A, E4.17B, E4.18A, E4.19A, E4.26A, E4.Fig19A, E4.Fig19B
2nd Six Weeks / Understand how historical background influenced the author. Write an essay focusing on the theme of this short story, play. Discuss how the author’s background influenced the theme. Recognize the structure and style of a work and how it creates tone and theme. Identify figurative language, imagery, and symbolism in assorted titles above and their effectiveness in producing meaning. Recognize the social, cultural, and historical values a work embodies and reflects.
Project: Teach Drama to the class with the main focus being on: Character analysis, plot, themes, motifs, and symbolism. Any method of presentation…. Create a valid assessment.
TEKS: AP standards and: E4.1A, E4.1B, E4.1C, E4.1D, E4.2C, E4.3A, E4.7A, E4.13A, E4.13B, E4.13C, E4.13D, E4.14B, E4.15C.i, E4.15C.ii, E4.15C.iii, E4.15C.iv, E4.15C.v, E4.17A, E4.18A, E4.19A, E4.24A, E4.Fig19A, E4.Fig19B
3rd Six Weeks / Students will thoroughly discuss satire in writing and openly argue its effectiveness. Students will keep a dialectical journal to use as evidence in argumentative essays responding to literature. Students will practice using sentence variations with imitation exercises and individual practice to strengthen sentence structure and patterns. Students will study diction, detail, imagery, syntax, and voice and their effectiveness in all literary works. Students will write an argumentative essay where they show extensive understanding of the historical values
Project: Changing my world: Depict one aspect in your community that you can change for the better and persuade your peers that your project will better the community. Present with statistical research and a visual.
TEKS: AP standards and: E4.1A, E4.1B, E4.1C, E4.1D, E4.6A, E4.13B, E4.13C, E4.13D, E4.17A, E4.21B, E4.24A, E4.25A, E4.Fig19A, E4.Fig19B
4th Six Weeks / Students will examine a variety of sentence structures in essays found in the AP Literature Sample Tests book. Group discussions of effectiveness and ratings. Then, students will respond to a poem, a short passage, and a prompt pertaining to A Tale of Two Cities focusing on their own sentence structure. Students will peer evaluate sentence structure before the final grading by the teacher. Students will work with Greek roots. Write a major research paper.
Project: Research Project with a visual.
TEKS: AP Standards: E4.1A, E4.1B, E4.1C, E4.8A, E4.9A, E4.9B, E4.9C, E4.9D, E4.11A, E4.11B, E4.13B, E4.13C, E4.13D, E4.15A.i, E4.15A.ii, E4.15A.iii, E4.15A.iv, E4.15A.v, E4.15A.vi, E4.15A.vii, E4.15B.i, E4.15B.ii, E4.15B.iii, E4.15B.iv, E4.15B.v, E4.20A, E4.21A, E4.21B, E4.Fig19A, E4.Fig19B
5th Six Weeks / Students will examine a variety of sentence structures in essays found in the AP Literature Sample Tests book. Group discussions of effectiveness and ratings. Then, students will respond to a poem, a short passage, and a prompt pertaining to Literary work focusing on their own sentence structure. Students will peer evaluate sentence structure before the final grading by the teacher. Students will work with Greek /Latin roots.
Project: (Research 5 colleges of interest, compare and contrast the colleges, persuade your peers to go to one college). Present with a visual.
TEKS: AP Standards and: E4.1A, E4.13C, E4.15D, E4.20A, E4.20B, E4.21A, E4.21B, E4.21C, E4.22A, E4.22B, E4.22C, E4.23A, E4.23B, E4.23C, E4.23D, E4.23E, E4.25A, E4.Fig19A, E4.Fig19B
6th Six Weeks / Students will write an interpretation connection to Othello based on careful observation of the textual details Shakespeare incorporated focusing heavily on figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone. Students will annotate as they read and annotations will be graded and discussed in class. The annotations will also serve as notes to use for one analytical essay focusing on the author’s tone. Practice AP Exams…
Project: Visual media representation of their argument
TEKS: AP Standards and: E4.1A, E4.10A, E4.10B, E4.12A, E4.12B, E4.12C, E4.12D, E4.13C, E4.16A, E4.16B, E4.16C, E4.16D, E4.16E, E4.16F, E4.16G, E4.21A, E4.21B, E4.22B, E4.23A, E4.23B, E4.23C, E4.24B, E4.25A, E4.Fig19A, E4.Fig19B