AP Language and Composition September 20 August 1 September 1 WELCOME!! Please ask if you have questions! Advocate for yourself! 7 Week 2 Be sure to get your progress report Week signed by 21 your guardian during the month for extra credit! Week 4 Labor Day ELA Benchmark Assessment Day 1 15 Hockey Passage Timed Multiple Choice DUE: Topics! 22 Vocab Stew #1 2 Teacher s First Day- ELA Benchmark Assessment Day 2 : Plato s Allegory of the Cave and Book 1 from Nichomachean Ethics 2 Angelou s My First Lifeline HW: Select own Lifeline DUE: Final Draft Values First Day of School Hawk Way All Day Collect Summer Reading Notes Need for Thursday: Spiral Notebook for Vocabulary & Comp. book for Grammar 10 Weekly Vocab expectations What is Close Reading? Rhetorical Analysis? Virginia Woolf Timed Write 17 ACT Day DUE: Vocab #1 24 Lifeline Prewrite HW: Lifeline rough draft DUE: Vocab #2 Open House 6-pm 4 Syllabus, Class Policies and Expectations - Organize folders - Why AP? Why does it matter? - Get to know you activity 11 Virginia Woolf Analysis & Discussion 1 - Rough Draft Values 25 Writing Conferences - Read additional autobiographical piece 5 Introduce Factoid Friday and Term Cards DUE: Summer reading notes 12 Analysis: Faulkner s Hockey Passage Due: Syllabus signed by parent Library: Resources for s 26 6 Check your grade on Skyward & email Ms. Downs for extra credit each month! 20 27 Last day to turn in missing work for Flex/Core Deadline: Wednesday, September 17th
AP Language and Composition October 20 Sept. 2 Week 5 5 Week 6 12 Week 7 Week 26 Week 2 Mansfield piece Vocab Stew #2 HW: Finish Piece and give title 6 Vocab Stew # Definition as Rhetorical Strategy DUE: Final Draft Anecdote Vocab Stew #4 First Timed Free Response Essay: Review and Discuss Scoring Template 20 Read The Crucible Vocab Stew #5 Tone: Satire and Exposition - Twain s letter to G & E Co. HW: Collect letters 27 Conferences Compare/Contrast: Read & Annotate London s and Twain s earthquake accounts Vocab Stew #6 0 Discuss Mansfield & compare to own narrative Compose final draft of Lifeline 7 Definition as Rhetorical Strategy Activities HW: Write own prose definition Timed Essay: 40 minutes 21 Read The Crucible Dickinson s Letter on the death of her mother Group Write October 1 ACT Day What is Anecdotal Writing? - Franklin s The Whistle DUE: Vocab # & Final Draft Lifeline 2 copies Share examples of definition as prose DUE: Vocab #4 & Prose Definitions 15 ACT Day Discuss Essay & Read Scored Samples Discuss Student Essays DUE: Vocab #5 22 Read The Crucible Discuss Satire and Exposition Review Irony and Satire DUE: Vocab #6 2 Conferences 2 Conferences DUE: Vocab #7 2 Writing: Autobiographical anecdote Rough Draft and Peer Review HW: Final Draft Anecdote (on a Thursday ) Infomercial #1 2 Read The Crucible Read British Art Snots are Working in the Dark 10 Professional Day 17 Infomercial #1 Library: Check out The Crucible HW: Read Intro NEED Sticky Notes 24 0 Conferences 1 Conferences End of the Quarter 4 11 1 25 Nov. 1
Sophomore Honors November 20 November 2 Week 10 Vocab Stew #7 Read The Crucible Rhetorical Analysis using Tone, Diction, Syntax General George Armstrong Custer & My Average Uncle 10 Vocab Stew # Read and Annotate Why I Wrote The Crucible by Arthur Miller 4 Read The Crucible Dear Students sentences 5 Read The Crucible Dear Students DUE: Vocab # 11 12 Timed Write: The Crucible 6 Read The Crucible 7 : Pre-test Grammar Discussion HW: Finish The Crucible 15 Week 11 17 Vocab Stew # 1 DUE: Vocab # 20 Infomercial #2 21 Infomercial #2 22 Week 12 2 The Declaration of Independence Letter from Birmingham Jail Of Studies DUE: Vocab #10 24 25 26 27 2 2 Week
Sophomore Honors September 20 August 1 September 1 2 4 5 6 Labor Day Teacher s First Day- First Day of School Hawk Way All Day Collect Summer Reading Notes 7 10 11 12 15 17 1 20
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