11 Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Syllabus Mrs. Peterson First Quarter Week One-August how 9-3/ 4

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1 1 11 Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Syllabus Mrs. Peterson First Quarter Week One-August Rhetorical Skill Focus: metaphor, irony, allusion and theme Review syllabus Purchase The Scarlet Letter, 50 Essays, A Portable Anthology, The Elements of Style, The House of the Spirits, and Like Water for Chocolate Read and annotate Mansfield s "The Garden Party" Write a thesis for "The Garden Party" using Tone Theme Purpose (include: direction, claim, universal idea and topic/subject). Thesis due Friday Introductory letter must highlight two important topics: (1) who you are-your interests, hobbies, talents, favorite subjects and why, etc. and (2) provide a narrative about your most significant writing experience. This narrative can take on any tone (e. g. sad, didactic, satiric, humorous, etc), but should focus on a memorable event related to you as a writer (e. g. the time when you won an award for writing, the time you received a paper back with red ink, the time your mom put your story on the refrigerator, etc.). Describe the event and tell the reader how you felt as well as how the experience shaped you. This assignment is due 9-3/ 4 Review One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovych for a final during Week Two Read and annotate "On Writing Well" AP Terms Dittos: "Glammour Grammar", "Transitions", "Elements of Literature", "Course Overview", and "The Writing Process" Grading Scale A 4 points B 3 points C 2 points D 1 point Below 60 F 0 points Materials required for the course include a 3-ring binder (divided as follows: syllabus, vocabulary, notes, dittos and essays), highlighters, pens, pencils, Post-Its, paper, and 3x5 index cards. Please note, if a phone rings or is being used during class, everyone will take a "Phone Quiz". Week Two-August 31-September 4 Rhetorical Skill Focus: tone, irony and metaphor One Day Final Test 9-2/3 Notes on Romanticism Introduction to Hawthorne's life and writings and Puritanism Thesis: Okefenokee Swamp (1999) using TTP (direction, claim, universal idea and topic/subject)-use Elements of Style for mechanics. Final theses due on 9/8-9 PR SAT vocabulary list # 1 Test Week Three Dittos Review Cause and Effect definition-50 Essays page 490 The Norton Reader, Mary Wollstonecraft: From "A Vindication Of The Rights of Women" pp (rhetorical mode-cause and effect) The Stranger final test Week Three Exchange addresses Week Three-September 8-11 Rhetorical Skill Focus: tone, irony, allusion, metaphor and theme The Strange, final test 9-10/11 The Scarlet Letter reading chapters 1-4; annotate for the rhetorical skills SL questions chapters 1-4

2 2 Review ditto packet House of Seven Gables AP theses class work due: 9-10/11 TTP (direction, claim, universal idea and topic/subject) - use Elements of Style for mechanics. PR SAT vocabulary test # 1 9-8/9 Review PR SAT vocabulary list # 2 Review the rhetorical skills Week Four-September Early Release 9/17 Rhetorical Skill Focus: tone, irony, allusion, metaphor, theme and syntax The Scarlet Letter read and annotate chapters 5-8 SL questions 5-8 PR SAT vocabulary test # /16 Review SAT list # 3 Childhood reflection-virginia Wolf (2002) AP theses due: 9-15/16 TTP -use Elements of Style for mechanics. Week Five-September (Progress Reports 9/25) Rhetorical Skill Focus: tone, irony, allusion, metaphor, theme, shifts, ambiguity and irony The Scarlet Letter chapters 9-12 PR SAT test list # /23 Review SAT list # 4 AP Terms List # 1: allegory, alliteration, allusion, ambiguity, and analogy SL visuals SL quiz Review sentences: compound, and complex using Skills in English Moment Sheets group work- identify the rhetorical skills found in SL Week Six-September 29-October 2 Rhetorical Skill Focus: tone, irony, allusion, metaphor, theme, shifts, ambiguity, irony and figurative devices The Scarlet Letter chapters SL questions Testaments Betrayed Kundera (2002) AP theses due: 10-1/2 PR SAT test # 4 9/29-30 Review SAT list # 5 Adverb Clauses and Adjective Clauses-subordination using Skills in English AP terms test # /2 Review AP terms list # 2: antecedent, aphorism, apostrophe, atmosphere, and clause Week Seven- October 5-9 Rhetorical Skill Focus: tone, irony, allusion, metaphor, theme, shifts, ambiguity, irony and figurative devices The Scarlet Letter chapters Practice AP essay-photography-susan Sontag (2001) PR SAT test # /6 AP terns test # /9 Jigsaw with SL questions SAT flashcards AP Workshops: W and TH 2:35-3:35, in room 103-extra credit Week Eight-October PSAT/NMSQT October 14 th ($13.00) Rhetorical Skill Focus: tone, irony, allusion, metaphor, theme, shifts, ambiguity, irony, rhetorical questions and figurative devices 50 Essays "Just Walk on By; Black Men and Public Space pp cause and effect AP practice essay-gary Soto use at least 7 SAT words (Using TTP) The House of the Spirits character list

3 3 Introduction to Magical Realism SAT flashcards SL Oral presentations October Week Nine-October Rhetorical Skill Focus: tone, irony, allusion, metaphor, theme, shifts, ambiguity, irony, rhetorical questions and figurative devices Clause packet SL final SL Moment Sheets group work SL Orals-the 4 grades will be based on the IB Descriptors Week Ten-October Rhetorical Skill Focus: time shifts (flashback/foreshadowing), tone, theme and purpose The House of the Spirits pp House character list AP practice-richard Rodriguez use at least 7 SAT words Definition of narration 50 Essays page 493 Read and annotate for tone, theme and purpose "Shooting an Elephant" 50 Essays pp (narration) Second Quarter Week One-November 2-6 Rhetorical Skill Focus: parallelism House pp The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (2005) practice essay-narration use a minimum of 7 SAT words (TTP) - use Elements of Style Parallelism-Writer's Choice pp , "Glammour Grammar" pg. 37 and The Little Brown Handbook pp AP terms list # 3: colloquial, conceit, connotation, denotation, and diction Week Two-November 9-13 Rhetorical Skill Focus: persuasive techniques House pp The Medusa and the Snail (2005) AP practice essay-narration use at least 7 words from the SAT list-use Elements of Style Review SAT test # 6 50 Essays Lincoln's "The Gettysburg Address" pp look for persuasive rhetoric; MC practice test AP terms test # /13 Week Three-November Early Release 11/19 Rhetorical Skill Focus: time shifts, tone, theme, persuasive techniques House pp Group work for House- cite examples of rhetorical skills PR SAT test # /17 Review PR SAT list # 7 AP terms # 4: didactic, euphemism, extended metaphor, figurative language, and figure of speech Week Four-November Rhetorical Skill Focus: tone House pp Letter written by Lord Chesterfield AP practice essay (organization, sentence variety and topic sentences)-use Elements of Style for mechanics AP terms test # /24

4 4 Week Five-November 30-Decmber 4th Rhetorical Skill Focus: Persuasion and Purpose House pp Elements of Style rules: 1, 2 and 3 50 Essays-Dillard's "The Stunt Pilot" (description) pp AP Practice multiple choice test AP practice essay Kennan's "Training for Statesmanship" use Elements of Style for mechanics SAT flash cards PR SAT list # 7 test 11-30/12-1 Week Six-December 7-11 Rhetorical Skill Focus: Themes Group work: House themes, characters, universal ideas, magical realism, metaphors Moment Sheets are due House final test 12-10/11 Elements of Style test-rules 1, 2 and /8 WL Workshop 12/8 (Tuesday) Week Seven-December Rhetorical Skill Focus: time shifts, tone, metaphor AP practice essay George Bernard Shaw's, Saint Joan (2006) Like Water for Chocolate pp Introduction to WL Paper Sample WL papers Discuss possible topics for WL paper WL Theses 12-15/16 Midterm Essay Review AP terms list # 5: genre, homily, hyperbole, imagery, and inference Week Eight-January 4-8 Rhetorical Skill Focus: themes Revise theses paragraphs Check Moment Sheets Chocolate final KL soliloquies memorize for extra credit AP terms test # 5 1-5/6 Students, the WL introductory paragraphs and the outlines are due 1-5/6. Additionally, read, annotate, and paraphrase Act I of King Lear by 1-7/8 Week Nine-January Rhetorical Focus: themes KL Group Work ACT I Presentations of KL Soliloquies for extra credit Week Ten-January WL final draft due third quarter AP Practice essay-king Lear Return students' WL theses and outlines Analysis of soliloquies Mid Term Exams CBC: Literature 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 & 13; Composition: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; Language/ Word Study: 1, 2, 4, 6; Listening/Speaking/Viewing: 2, 3, 5; Informational Reading/ Information literacy/ Study and Test-Taking: 1, 2, & 3

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