Advanced Placement English Language and Composition 2
Spring Semester, 2015-2016
Tentative Schedule for Course
CLASS WEEK
LANGUAGE
COMPOSITION
Week 1:
January 6-8, 2016
Lapham on Essay Writing; Everything’s
an Argument, 38-94, 131-207Analysis of
Rhetoric in Editorials
Everything’s an Argument, 208-248
50 Essays: focus on Education
Everything’s an Argument, 901-969
Multiple Choice and Essay Test
Rhetoric: Aristotle, Rogers, Toulmin
Everything’s an Argument, 373-414
Dubrava’s Essay; Manifestoes
This I Believe essay: mimic Thoreau for
clarity in communicating a belief system
Essay on Education
Syntax Exercise
Education Narrative; Rose and Sedaris essays
SAT Vocabulary groups
Planning Essays: Strategies and Devices
Claims and Prompts; Swift’s “Proposal”
Educational Reform Proposal
Narrative essay on American song lyrics
Essay using Logical Fallacies
Intellectual Property draft and revision
Mimic Ericsson’s “The Ways We Lie”
Week 2:
January 11-15
Week 3:
January 19-22
Week 4:
January 25-29
Week 5:
February 1-5
Week 6:
February 8-12
Week 7:
February 16-19
Weeks 8-9:
February 22-March
4
Week 10:
March 7-11
Week 11:
March 14-18
50 Essays: focus on History and Politics
Everything’s an Argument, 970-1039
Rhetoric: Logical Fallacies
Everything’s an Argument, 515-548
Multiple Choice and Essay Test
Review of Essay Development
Techniques
Everything’s an Argument, 441-465,
599-650
Rhetoric: Visual Arguments
Everything’s an Argument, 719-848
Rhetoric: Word Choice and Tone
Native Son by Richard Wright, Book
One “Fear”; or Intruder in the Dust by
William Faulkner, chapters 1-4
American Identity in History
Week 12:
March 21-25
Everything’s an Argument, 849-900
Multiple Choice and Essay Test
Week 13:
April 4-8
Native Son, Book Two “Flight”; or
Intruder, chapters 5-8
50 Essays: focus on Work and Class
Native Son, Book Three “Fate”; or
Intruder, chapters 9-11
AP Post-test
Rhetoric: Author’s Voice
50 Essays: focus on Argument
Rhetoric: Words Used to Describe
Language
Everything’s an Argument, 777-848
Wilson’s Biophilia; Steinbeck’s Sea of
Cortez, Jackson, McKibben, Gould
Science and Art Integration
Week 14:
April 12-15
Week 15:
April 18-22
Weeks 16-17: April
25-May 6
Weeks 18-20: May
9-27
Week 21: May 31June 3
Movie Review using narrative and definition;
Paul Ford essay
Essay on American Citizen Responsibilities –
essays by Vowell, Eighner, Ehrenreich,
Sanders, Mairs
American Citizen Responsibilities - Style
Revision
Peer Review of American Citizen
Responsibilities Essay
Creative narrative on Immigration: What Is
The What? excerpt
Timed Synthesis Argument Essays
Research ideas and prompts on Language,
Racism, and Existentialism in novels
Essay Planning on Race and Class
Hurston and King essays
Rough thesis for research paper
Three articles of research due
Research Paper Draft due
Literary Terms Review
Workshop Research Paper
Postscript to Literacy Autobiography
AP Exam
Research Paper Final due
Class Debriefing
Essay on Environment
Community and Climate Change: 350.org
Final
The scope and sequence of some of the included topics may be expanded, reduced or shifted to
accommodate class needs.