AP English Lang (Period 3) Assignments
- Instructors
- Term
- 2011-2012 School Year
- Department
- English
- Location
- 177
- Description
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Complete AP Language curriculum with American Lit.
Upcoming Assignments
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Past Assignments
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Agenda 4/30
1. Reread the 'Fargo' essay.
2. Read your essay and put a preliminary grade on it.
3. Read the ap models (8,6,4) and then again consider your grade.
4. The #1 question--technology and education. Write the essay by Wednesday.
1. Reread the 'Fargo' essay.
2. Read your essay and put a preliminary grade on it.
3. Read the ap models (8,6,4) and then again consider your grade.
4. The #1 question--technology and education. Write the essay by Wednesday.
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Agenda 4/16/12
1. The tenets of transcendentalism.
2. Read Emerson's "Self-Reliance," p 363 and answer all blue text questions.
3. Read Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," p 369. Set up the Reader's Notebook.
Answer all blue text questions.
1. The tenets of transcendentalism.
2. Read Emerson's "Self-Reliance," p 363 and answer all blue text questions.
3. Read Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," p 369. Set up the Reader's Notebook.
Answer all blue text questions.
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Agenda 3/29
1. Reading over the break:
--"Crime" by L.M. Friedman, p 149
--"The Underclass" by H. Gans, p 159
--"A Modest Proposal" J. Swift p 544
--"Reflections on War" by H.L. Mencken, p 392
--"Who Killed Benny Paret" by N. Cousins, p 369
Answer all Think Questions following each selection.
2. Vocab 120 words
1. Reading over the break:
--"Crime" by L.M. Friedman, p 149
--"The Underclass" by H. Gans, p 159
--"A Modest Proposal" J. Swift p 544
--"Reflections on War" by H.L. Mencken, p 392
--"Who Killed Benny Paret" by N. Cousins, p 369
Answer all Think Questions following each selection.
2. Vocab 120 words
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Agenda 3/21
1. Rhetorical devices and their purposes. (Use MLK as a model).
2. Frederick Douglass, p 562
3. Answer all comp check and think questions on p. 571.
4. Vocab. Fri. 110 words.
1. Rhetorical devices and their purposes. (Use MLK as a model).
2. Frederick Douglass, p 562
3. Answer all comp check and think questions on p. 571.
4. Vocab. Fri. 110 words.
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Agenda 3/8
1. Turn in Red Jacket/Patrick Henry comparison
2. Terms #4
3. Martin Luther King -- a study in rhetorical mastery --P 300. Let's catalogue them.
4. Vocab 90 words --cluster
1. Turn in Red Jacket/Patrick Henry comparison
2. Terms #4
3. Martin Luther King -- a study in rhetorical mastery --P 300. Let's catalogue them.
4. Vocab 90 words --cluster
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Agenda 3/7
1. Terms
2. Refocus, recommit, yourself to the AP writing task.
Red Jacket, Patrick Henry, a 2nd look, rethink, rewrite?
P295.
3. Terms 4... from metaphor to plot, p 1357.
1. Terms
2. Refocus, recommit, yourself to the AP writing task.
Red Jacket, Patrick Henry, a 2nd look, rethink, rewrite?
P295.
3. Terms 4... from metaphor to plot, p 1357.
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Agenda: 3/5
1. Another look at Abigail Adams. P 285
2. TERMS test
3. Questions about de Crevecouer? P 291
4. Red Jacket P 295
Terms Test
1. diction
2. denotation
3. cultural hero
4. elegy
5. denouement
6. epithet
7. farce
8. figurative language
9 essay
10. eyewitness report
1. Another look at Abigail Adams. P 285
2. TERMS test
3. Questions about de Crevecouer? P 291
4. Red Jacket P 295
Terms Test
1. diction
2. denotation
3. cultural hero
4. elegy
5. denouement
6. epithet
7. farce
8. figurative language
9 essay
10. eyewitness report
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Agenda: 3/01/12
1. A farewell to the Dec. of Independence, P 272.
2. Turn in Abigail Adams summaries.
3. Terms Quiz
4. de Crevecouer, "What is an American," p 289.
1. A farewell to the Dec. of Independence, P 272.
2. Turn in Abigail Adams summaries.
3. Terms Quiz
4. de Crevecouer, "What is an American," p 289.
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Agenda: 2/28/12
1. A farewell look at Patrick Henry: concession to the opposition, reframing the issue, invoking God.
2. Abigail Adams--summary, paraphrase, quote.
3. Thurs. Test on terms, first three pages in Am. lit book.
1. A farewell look at Patrick Henry: concession to the opposition, reframing the issue, invoking God.
2. Abigail Adams--summary, paraphrase, quote.
3. Thurs. Test on terms, first three pages in Am. lit book.
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Agenda: 2/24
1. Turn in P.H. rewrite.
2. Fix one Paragraph from Dec of Ind
3. Vocab 70 words
4. Literary terms, quiz on the first three pages from the back of the Am Lit text.
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Agenda: 2/15
1. Turn in EVIL rewrite./\
2. Focus on Patrick Henry--Allusion and Rhetorical questions.
3. Essay prompt: Write an essay in which you analyze the rhetorical strategies that P. H. uses to convince the delegates to take up arms against the British.
Reminder: Vocab. 60 words on Friday.
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Agenda: 2/1/12
1. Turn in the #2 question.
2. Another look at the ends of Act I and II of The Crucible.
3. Finish the play by Friday.
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Agenda: 1/30/12
1. Another look at Locavore
2. Question #2--the rhetorical question. Due Wed. 2/1
3. Momaday in Prose Models. King Philip's War. Two questions, one paragraph each, due Wed 2/1
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Agenda: 1/25/12
1. Turn in synthesis essay
2. Reread pages 187-189. Focus question: What precipitates the "crying out" of the girls? Cite evidence.
3. Reread pages 198 &199. Focus question: Does Hale believe that Elizabeth is a witch? Cite evidence.
4. In PROSE MODELS, read Momaday's "The Morality of Indian Hating," p 525,and address question 1, and 3-7.
5. In PM read Michael Dorris' "For Indians, No Thanksgiving," p538 and address questions 1-5.
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Agenda: 1/20/12
1. Turn in Crucible analysis.
2. Revisit Edwards and Bradstreet: Tone
3. Read through Act II of the Crucible
4. The synthesis question
5. Vocab 20 words
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Agenda: 1/13/12
1. Turn in Iyer analysis (two paragraphs).
2. Finish Mult. Ch. part of sem. final.
3. Read Anne Bradstreet, p. 139, and compare tones of Bradstreet and Edwards. Two paragraphs. Use quotes. Due Wed.
4. Read background and Act I of The Crucible, p, 163-189.
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Agenda 1/9/12
1. Read Pico Iyer's paen to long sentences
2. Begin analysis of AP sample done for final exam.
Homework:
Write two paragraphs--one summarizing Iyer, another discussing his use of analogy.
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11/29/11
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1. SWBAT combine simple sentences into sentences with compound elements (Quarterback)
2. SWBAT write a decent essay-- Rewrite Explorer essay.. Due 12/1
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Agenda:
1. The art of the opening para.
2.SWBAT use words from their vocabulary collection to create effective sentences.
3. Vocab TEST--Write three sentences with 5 vocabulary words in each, a total of 15 words.
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1. Write 2nd draft comparing Marco Polo and Cabeza da Vaca
2. HW--read and summarize Bradford's "Plymouth Plantation," P.81-87. Due Wed, 23rd.
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11/17/2011
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1. SWBAT revise dangling modifiers, P75.
2. SWBAT compare and contrast the attitudes of early American explorers from original texts, P.78.
3. HOMEWORK: Write a 2nd draft of the essay you wrote in class today.
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11/10/2011
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1. Read "La Relacion" and answer THINK questions 3-6.
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11/08/2011
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1. Turn in 3rd draft and Trickster story.
2. Setting: The importance of place for Momaday and Silko: grp wrk.
3. Thurs: 3rd drafts due; Bk rprts due.
4. Turn in journals.
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11/4/2011
Agenda:
1. Turn in your #2 question essays.
2. Third draft of your essay is due Tues.
3. Write a trickster story, one draft.
4. Read Silko and Momaday and answer the THINK questions following each.
5. Vocab: clutster half, test the rest.
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In Am Lit text, read pages24-46, NATIVE AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY
Write:
1. Reader's Notebook, p24; Think Critically questions 3 and 4, p31.
2. TC question 2 and 4; Extend Interpretations question 6 and 7, p37.
3. Reader's Notebook, p39; TC question 4; EI question 5, p46.
Write:
1. Reader's Notebook, p24; Think Critically questions 3 and 4, p31.
2. TC question 2 and 4; Extend Interpretations question 6 and 7, p37.
3. Reader's Notebook, p39; TC question 4; EI question 5, p46.
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11/01/2011
Agenda:
1. Reducing sentences, p 67
2. HW check (native am. lit). See previous agenda
3. The #2 question--Onion piece
4.Journals due Fri; also vocab; grade your Onion essay.