AP Language
Weekly Overview
8/24/15 – 8/28/15
WEEKS 3 & 4
MON 8/24
1. Journal #6
2. Evaluate sample essays & review
initial timed writing scores
a. Create goals for
improvement
HW:
 Read The Declaration and
identify the simple subject and
simple predicate of the first
sentence (no cheating).
TUES 8/25
1. Journal #7
2. Syntax Basics
a. Form and structure
3. Begin Declaration analysis
HW:
 Complete the questions on
rhetoric and style for The
Declaration.
 Introductory assignment due
Friday.
Journal:
Journal:
“Hope is the best possession. None are “There is nothing the matter with
Americans except their ideals. The
completely wretched but those who
real American is all right; it is the
are without hope. Few are reduced so
ideal American who is all wrong.”
low as that.”
-G. K. Chesterton
-William Hazlitt
WED 8/26
THURS 8/27
FRI 8/28
1. Journal #8
2. Syntax cont’d
a. Schemes
3. Syntactic device analysis chart
for The Declaration
4.
HW:
 Finish syntax analysis chart.
 Introductory assignment due
Friday.
1. Journal #9
1. Journal #10
2. Analysis essay requirements
2. Quiz on rhetorical terms list
3. Begin composing first draft of
(Power Point)
the analysis essay
3. Discuss analysis essay prompt for
The Declaration
Journal:
“It's not wise to violate rules until
you know how to observe them.”
-T.S. Eliot
Journal:
Journal:
“If we do not maintain Justice, Justice Free-write Friday! What’s on your
will not maintain us.”
mind?
-Francis Bacon
HW:
 Create an outline for the analysis
paper.
 Introductory assignment due
next class.
HW:
 Analysis essay first draft due
Friday, September 5.