Harrison High School: Lesson Plans Week-At-A-Glance
AP Language August 15-19
WEEK:One GOAL: To help students acclimate to AP Lang and to introduce
students to the concept of rhetoric and rhetorical analysis.
Monday
Essential Question:
Tuesday
Essential Question:
EQ: How is the AP
EQ: How is the AP Language Language class formatted,
class formatted, what are the what are the expectations,
expectations, and how can I
and how can I be
be successful in this class?
successful in this class?
How can we learn about
How can we learn about
ourselves and our lives
ourselves and our lives
through the literature we
through the literature we
read? CBAPELC C6—The
read? CBAPELC C6—The
course teaches students to
course teaches students to
analyze how graphics and
analyze how graphics and
visual images both relate to
visual images both relate to
written texts and serve as
written texts and serve as
alternative forms of text
alternative forms of text
themselves
themselves
Activities:
EQ: How is the AP Language
class formatted, what are the
expectations, and how can I
be successful in this class?
How can we learn about
ourselves and our lives
through the literature we
Activities:
EQ: How is the AP
Language class formatted,
what are the expectations,
and how can I be
successful in this class?
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The student identifies
Wednesday
EQ: How is the AP
Language class formatted,
what are the expectations,
and how can I be
successful in this class?
How can we learn about
ourselves and our lives
through the literature we
read? CBAPELC C6—The
course teaches students to
analyze how graphics and
visual images both relate to
written texts and serve as
alternative forms of text
themselves
EQ: How can we look
beyond the words that we
read on a page? What is
the definition of Rhetoric?
What is the rhetorical
triangle?
Activities:
Wednesday, August 17
CBAPELC C4—The
course requires expository,
analytical, and
argumentative writing
assignments that are based
on readings representing a
Thursday
Essential Question:
EQ: How is the AP
Language class formatted,
what are the expectations,
and how can I be
successful in this class?
How can we learn about
ourselves and our lives
through the literature we
read? CBAPELC C6—The
course teaches students to
analyze how graphics and
visual images both relate to
written texts and serve as
alternative forms of text
themselves
Friday
Essential Question:
EQ: How is the AP Language
class formatted, what are the
expectations, and how can I be
successful in this class? How can
we learn about ourselves and our
lives through the literature we
read? CBAPELC C6—The
course teaches students to
analyze how graphics and visual
images both relate to written
texts and serve as alternative
forms of text themselves
Activities:
Thursday, August 18
EQ: How is the AP
Language class formatted,
what are the expectations,
and how can I be
successful in this class?
CBAPELC C4—The
Activities:
Friday, August 19
EQ: How can we look beyond
the words that we read on a
page? What is the definition of
Rhetoric? What is the rhetorical
triangle?
CBAPELC C4—The course
read? CBAPELC C6—The
course teaches students to
analyze how graphics and
visual images both relate to
written texts and serve as
alternative forms of text
themselves
1. Intro to class
2. Syllabus
3. Welcome Sheet
4. Class expectations
5. Intro to the format of
class (rhetoric across
genres): Handout with
Unit Outline and
Semester Projects
6. Mini-Lesson:
Diction, Syntax,
Organization
7. Begin Rhetorical
Triangle
evidence of examples of
diction, syntax, imagery,
point of view, figurative
language, rhetorical
devices, etc. in a work of
prose.
1. Bring in signed
class policy
2. Baseline: Practice
AP Multiple
Choice Diagnostic:
2001 (I am a
woman)
3. Discuss basic
thought processes
and strategies for
AP Multiple
Choice.
4. Digital Citizenship
Introduction
*Homework: Bring one
advertisement from a
school-appropriate
magazine of your choice
to class Tomorrow. Be
ready to do a rhetorical
analysis on the ad.
wide variety of prose styles course requires expository,
and genres.
analytical, and
argumentative writing
assignments that are based
1. Tone Activity Part on readings representing a
1: Introduce Tone
wide variety of prose styles
Words (Two words and genres.
from each category:
1. Rhetorical Triangle
positive, negative,
Warm-Up: “name
sorrow, humor,
that purpose.”
neutral)
2. Discuss the
2. Discuss Summer
Summer Reading
Reading Essay
Project
Expectations. Go
3. Organize Sticky
over rubric.
notes into
3. Rhetorical Triangle
categories
Lesson: Speaker,
4. Write Topic
Subject, Audience,
sentences for
Context, Intent.
paragraphs.
4. Using your ads
5. Outline Essay
from yesterday,
6. Discuss
analyze the
Expectations for
speaker, subject,
Summer Reading
and audience.
Assessment.
5. Identifying
Rhetorical
*Homework: Ad analysis
Elements in
due Monday.
Visuals: Rhetorical * Summer Reading
Triangle and Ads
Assessment Tomorrow.
Handout
6. Class
Presentations:
Discuss ads with
the class.
*Homework: Finish Ad
Rhetorical Analysis for
Monday (Typed, one page
single-spaced).
* Summer Reading
Assessment FRIDAY
* Tone Words Quiz next
requires expository, analytical,
and argumentative writing
assignments that are based on
readings representing a wide
variety of prose styles and
genres.
1. Summer Reading
Assessment
Homework:
 Ad analysis due Monday
 Read “Shooting an
Elephant” by George
Orwell
 Read, “The Allegory of
the Cave” for Monday
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