AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION
4TH QUARTER SCHEDULE—SPRING 2014
LAWRYNOVICZ
Is justice moral righteousness, equity of treatment, or reciprocity of action?
Is justice an evolution of an idea or an incontrovertible fact?
24
Skeleton Draft Workshop
31
Periods:1357
MEDIA BIAS PAPER DUE
Intro to The Scarlet
Letter
+AP Prep for long classes
HW: Read “The Custom
House” for block day
7
MAP day [Shattered
Dreams]
Argument Essay Practice
25
Anonymous Rough
Draft Workshop
Rough Draft Workshop 2
8
Shattered Dreams (3rd)
Discussion of TSL
through “The Leech”
21
22
AP Multiple Choice Quiz
Discussion of TSL through
“The Procession”
End of TSL discussion
HW: Finish The Scarlet
Letter
HW: For Tuesday, read up to the end
of “The Leech”
11
Vocab Quiz Unit 9
AP Multiple Choice Group Quiz
Discussion of TSL through the end of
“Another View of Hester”
Argument Essay Samples
HW: Read up through the end of
Chapt. 18, “A Flood of Sunshine”
16/17
18
No School
BACK TO BACK TW
23/24
AP MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST
29
Discussion of Bush’s
2001“Address to a
Joint Session of
Congress”
HW: Read and annotate
Bush’s speech
5
6
STAAR Math/Biology
STAAR Math
AP Chem & Environ
Science AM/Psych PM
AP Spanish Lang AM
--------------------------------- ------------------------------Discussion of Darrow’s
closing argument in defense
AP Prep
of Leopold & Loeb
25
Vocab Quiz Unit 10
Justice Dilemmas
HW: Read & annotate Thoreau’s essay
HW: Study for Vocab Unit 10 Quiz
Discussion of Thoreau’s
“On the Duty of Civil
Disobedience”
Discussion of TSL through the end of
“Hester at her Needle”
HW: Read up through the end of “The
Procession” by Monday
HW: Read up through the
end of “The Procession”
by Monday
28
4
9/10
15
AP Comparison Essay
Practice
28
Revising FAQs and Tips
1
2/3
Periods: 1246
Intro to The Scarlet
ARGUMENT ESSAY Intro &
Letter
Discussion of “The Custom House”
+AP Prep for long
classes
HW: Read up through the end of
HW: Read “The Custom Chapter 5, “Hester at her Needle”
House” for block day
HW: Read up to the end of HW: For Friday, read up
“The Leech”
to the end of Chapt. 13
“Another View of
Hester”
14
AP Multiple Choice Quiz
Discussion of TSL through
“A Flood of Sunshine”
26/27
30/1
Multiple Choice Test Postmortem
and AP Speed Dating
HW: Read and annotate Scalia’s essay
7
8
STAAR Science & STAAR SS
US history
AP Calculus AM
AP English Lit AM
--------------------------------------------------AP Prep
AP Prep
2
Vocab Quiz Unit 11
Discussion of “God’s Justice and
Ours”—Antonin Scalia
HW: Read and annotate Darrow’s
speech
9
OUR ENGLISH
AP EXAM!
12
AP Biology & Music
Theory AM; Physics PM
-----------------------------Discussion of Orwell’s
“A Hanging”
13
AP Government AM;
French Language PM
---------------------------Discussion of FDR’s
“First Inaugural
Address”
14
AP US History &
German AM; Euro
PM
15
AP Macroeconomics
& World History AM;
Micro PM
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The Melian Dialogue— Thucydides
Discussion of Speeches by Chief Ten
Bears & Chief Seattle
HW: Read and annotate Feblowitz’s
essay
HW: Read and annotate The Melian
Dialogue
19
“The Hero We Create:
9/11 & The Reinvention
of Batman”—Feblowitz
16
AP Spanish Literature AM
20
21/22
UNIT VII TEST
Graded Discussion
23
You Call THAT Poetry?:
Misconceptions Confronted
(See, I told you poetry could be
awesome!)
HW: Study for Test!
HW: prep for discussion
26
Memorial Day
(no school)
27
Sound, Form, Rhythm,
and poems that might
get you sent to the
principal’s office
3
Review
28/29
30
Poetry Quiz
Wait, this poem is about WHAT?: How
not to fail your college poetry class
“A is for Apple” and Poetry Beyond
the Page
3
4-6
Review
Finals
4th Quarter Grades
Summatives: 75%
1. Media Bias Paper
2. Back to Back Timed Writing
3. AP Multiple Choice Test
4. Justice Unit Test
Formatives: 25%
Announced Formatives:
1. Skeleton Draft/Rough Draft/Workshop grades (daily grade)
2. AP Multiple Choice Group Quiz
3. AP Multiple Choice Individual Quiz
4. Vocab Quiz 9
5. Vocab Quiz 10
6. Vocab Quiz 11
7. Justice Unit Graded Discussion (Quiz grade)
8. Poetry Quiz
Unannounced Formatives: (These will be given/collected/checked at my discretion—not all will be entered as
grades.)
9. Reading Check and Warm-up Quizzes (Quiz grades)
10. In-class activities/homework/annotation checks (Daily and/or quiz grades if entered)