AP English Lang. and Comp.
Brit. Lit. et al – Spring 2014
AED Williams
Fourth Term
March 31 – April 4: Week Three
Monday – Rhetorical Terms Quiz # 21
Discuss synthesis paper on TTTC
Practice writing bibliographic entries for paper on The Things They Carried
Pass out Synthesis Analysis due 4/5
Tuesday – Case 21 US History
Wednesday – Notes / discussion of TTTC – stories due: “TTTC,” “Love,” “Spin,” and “On the Rainy
River”
Connections and contrasts between these two stories
Jimmy Cross – What does he carry?
What is “spin”?
How does T.O. put his own “spin” on draft dodging?
Thursday – Vocabulary #15
Notes / discussion of TTTC – stories due: “Enemies,” “Friends,” and
“How To Tell a True War Story”
Listen to “Lemon Tree” – discuss tone, allusion in relation to the story
“To the Mercy Killers” by Thomas Hardy – compare the pact to elements of the story
Friday – Practice Multiple Choice #10
Synthesis analysis due (APR grade)
April 7 – 11: Week Four
Monday – Rhetorical Terms Quiz # 22
Notes / discussion of TTTC – stories due: “Dentist,” “Sweetheart of Song Tra
Bong”
Analysis of criticism – “The Things Men Do” by Lorrie Smith
Tuesday – Notes / discussion of TTTC – stories due: “Stockings,” “Church,” “The Man I
Killed”
Wednesday – Notes / discussion of TTTC – stories due: “Ambush,” Style,” “Speaking of Courage”
“All She Wants to Do is Dance” – by Don Henley
Thursday – Vocabulary Test #13-15
Friday – In-Class essay #5 – Synthesis
Turn in vocabulary books
April 14 – 18: Week Five
Monday – Rhetorical Terms Quiz # 23
Notes / discussion of TTTC – stories due: “Notes,” “In the Field,” “Good Form”
Tuesday – Notes / discussion of TTTC – stories due: “Field Trip,” “Ghosts,” “Night Life”
Wednesday – Notes / discussion of TTTC – stories due: “Lives of the Dead”
Thursday – AP Practice Multiple Choice - #11
Friday – Good Friday – no school
April 21 – 25: Week Six
Monday – Rhetorical Terms Quiz # 24
Work on Synthesis Essay
Tuesday – Review for test
Work on Synthesis Essay
Wednesday – Test on The Things They Carried
Thursday – Start short unit on Satire
Friday – In-class Essay - #6 – Rhetorical Analysis
April 28 – May 2: Week Seven
Monday – Rhetorical Terms Quiz # 25
TTTC Synthesis Paper due
“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift
Tuesday – “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift
Wednesday – Mark Twain in The New Yorker - “Privilege of the Grave”
Rhetorical Analysis of “Privilege of the Grave” – questions and highlighters
Thursday – “A War Prayer” by Mark Twain
Watch video version of the Mark Twain piece
AP Practice Multiple Choice on “A War Prayer”
Go over multiple choice
Friday – AP Practice Multiple Choice - #12
May 5 – 9: Week Eight
Monday – SATP English II
AP Chemistry Exam
Rhetorical Terms Quiz # 26
AP Practice Multiple Choice - #13
Tuesday – AP Practice Multiple Choice - #14
Wednesday – SATP Algebra I
AP Practice Multiple Choice - #15
Thursday – SATP US History
AP Practice Multiple Choice - #16
Friday – SATP Biology
AP Language Exam (that means you) – 8 am
AP Statistics Exam – 12 pm
AP Language Exam debriefing / mixer
May 12 – 16: Week Nine
Monday – AP Biology Exam
“The Lady of Shalott” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tuesday – “Poison Tree” by William Blake
Wednesday – AP US History Exam
“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning
“Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning
Thursday – “The Lanyard” by Billy Collins
“Litany” by Billy Collins
“This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams
Friday – Review for Semester Exam
May 19 – 23: Week Ten – Exam Week and Graduation