Welcome AP Lang! Please follow this pace chart carefully. To make things easier for you, I have filled in the due dates for you. Each week’s assignments are due on Sunday night of that week by midnight. Each week that you are in the course you will need to complete at
minimum the lessons listed for that week. AP classes are on a VERY strict time schedule as we are running up against a deadline: The AP EXAM!
It is recommended that students purchase a copy of Fast Track to a 5: Preparing for the
English Language and Composition Examination and/or 5 Steps to a 5 AP English Language,
Second Edition.
Additionally, you will need the following materials during this class. It is your responsibility to secure these materials.
Module 1 (Segment 1)
“The Crucible” by Arthur Miller
Module 4 (Segment 1)
Choose one of the following:
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Module 6 (Segment 2)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Module 7 (Segment 2)
Choose one of the following:
Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
Module 8
Choose one of the following:
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Atomic Farmgirl by Teri Hein
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

There is a collaboration and live lesson requirement to this class. I will email you further instructions on how to complete these assignments.
Week Lesson
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1.01 Introduction (no assignment)
1.02 AP Exam Overview (no assignment)
1.03 Pace
1.04 Grading Policy (no assignment)
1.05 Investigating the AP Exam
1.06 Using Exam Prep Resources (no assignment)
1.07 Plagiarism (no assignment)
1.08 Citation and Documentation
Preview 1.12 and begin reading “The Crucible”
Finish reading “The Crucible”
1.09 Rhetoric and Rhetorical Strategies
1.10 Close Reading
1.11A Meet Your Rubric
1.11B The AP Language Prompt Part I
1.11C Historical Perspective in Writing
1.12 Reading “The Crucible”
1.13 The AP Language Prompt Part II
1.14 Oral Assessment
2.01 An Overview of American History
2.02A Captain John Smith
2.02B Captain John Smith
2.03A Patrick Henry
2.03B Fallacies
2.04A Jonathan Edwards
2.04B Composition
2.05A Names and Faces
2.05B Names and Faces
2.05C AP Exam Discussion
2.06 Benjamin Franklin
2.07 Accent
2.08 Tone Words
2.09 Word of the Day
2.10 Practice AP Language Essay Prompt
3.01 Vocabulary and Multiple-Choice Test
3.02A Trans and Concord
3.02B Self Reliance
3.03A Diction Quiz
Due Date
8/23/15
8/30/15
9/6/15
9/13/15
9/20/15
9/27/15
10/4/15
10/11/15

3.03B Charles Dickens
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3.04A Thoreau Part I
3.05B Thoreau Part II
3.05C Thoreau Part III
3.06 Edgar Allan Poe
3.07A Practice AP Lang Essay
3.07B Essay Experience
3.08 Multiple Choice Practice
3.09 Word of the Day
3.10 Denotation Connotation
3.11 Oral Assessment preview 4.02, make your novel choice and get a copy of the book
4.01 Vocabulary and the Multiple Choice Test
4.02 Reading about Writing
4.03A Paul Laurence Dunbar
Begin reading and annotating your novel
4.03B Emily Dickinson
4.04A Induction, Deduction, and Syllogism
4.04B Editorial
4.05A Gettysburg
4.05B Speech Synthesis Discussion
4.05C Speech Analysis Essay
4.06A Twain Quiz
4.06B Multiple Choice
4.07A Spirituals
4.07B Response to Modern Songs
4.08 Whitman
4.09 Word of the Day
4.10 Truth Paragraph
4.11 Accent
4.12 Killer A Test
4.12 Nonfiction Book Test
4.13 Semester One Exam
Week Lesson
1 5.01 Understanding Satire
5.02 Political Cartoons
5.03 A Modest Proposal
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5.04 Your Proposal
5.05A Chopin-Freeman Quiz
5.05B Women’s Roles in Society
5.06 Analyzing Satire
5.07 Exploring the Satirical Prompt
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5.08 Multiple Choice Practice
5.09 Practice AP Language Essay
11/22/15
12/6/15
12/13/15
10/18/15
10/25/15
11/1/15
11/8/15
11/15/15
Due Date
1/10/16
1/17/16
1/24/16
1/31/16

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5.10 Word of the Day
5.11 AP Exam Practice
5.12 Oral Assessment
preview 6.02 B and spend time reading Their Eyes Were Watching God
6.01 Multiple Choice Practice
6.02A Interview
spend time reading Their Eyes Were Watching God
Finish reading Their Eyes Were Watching God
6.02B Chart
6.03 Their Eyes Test
6.04A Langston
6.04B Countee
6.04C Claude
6.05A Jazz
6.05B Jazz Argument
6.06A Steinbeck
6.06B Editorial
6.07A Politics
6.07B Politics Argument
6.08 Synthesis Essay Practice
6.09 Word of the Day
6.10A Hurston Quiz
6.10B Paragraph
6.11 AP Exam Practice
6.12 Oral Assessment
7.01 Multiple Choice Practice
7.02A The Memoir
Begin reading memoir
Begin 7.02B Dialectical Journal (due by end of Module 7)
Begin 7.02C Let’s Discuss (due by end of Module 7)
7.03 Article
7.04 Kennedy and Obama
7.05A King Comprehension
7.05B Letter Analysis
7.05C King Essay
7.06A Vietnam Discussion
7.06B Photos
7.06C Music or Poetry
7.07 AP Language Synthesis Prompt Review
7.08 Synthesis Prompt Practice
7.09 Word of the Day
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Submit 7.02 A, B, and C (you began working on them in Week 10)
Preview module 8, choose non-fiction book and begin reading
8.00 Title Page
2/7/16
2/14/16
2/21/16
2/28/16
3/6/16
3/13/16
3/20/16
4/3/16
4/10/16

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8.01A Timeline
8.01B Extension Activity
8.02 Headline News
8.03 U.S. & World News
8.04 Editorial
8.05 Living
8.06 Business
8.07 Education
16 8.08 Semester 2 Exam
17-18 Review for AP Lang Exam
4/17/16
4/24/16
5/1/16
EXAM DATE:
May 11, 2016 at 8:00 AM