Date
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Oct. 30
AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION
QUARTER 2 LEARNING SCHEDULE: Revised 10 February 2016
Text/Content
Grammar: Adverb, Adjective, Noun Clauses (145-151); Antithesis (105-106)
Grammar: Adverb, Adjective, Noun Clauses; Reasoning: Inductive/Deductive (152-153)
In-class Essay: Banneker [Thesis + 2 body paragraphs (SYNTAX)]
Introduce Personal Essay, Review Sample Personal Essays (446-452); Personal Essay topic brainstorming; outlining
Romanticism Introduction: Begin reading and note-making
Points
50
25
25
Nov. 1
Nov. 2
Finish Romanticism Introduction; personal essay topic and outlines due
Personal Essay: Writing Workshop
Informational Reading: Strategies for Comprehension (“The Black Death” 237); footnotes and citation; Introduce
Questions for Reading Narrative Prose (235); homework – read “Masque of the Red Death” (242-246)
Introduce Narrative Mode: point of view, organization, allegory; Review “Masque” (p.249-250); Active and Passive
Voice
Personal Essay: Peer Review due
Introduce Diction (253-254) – Review “The Rattler” (diction and point of view); homework – Read “The Raven” (260262); In Cold Blood (3-74) due
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Jigsaw “The Philosophy of Composition”
Whole –class Practice: Rhetorical Analysis “Paret” (959)
10
Nov. 5
Nov. 6
Nov. 7
Nov. 8
Oct. 31
25
50
Nov. 9
100
Nov. 13
Nov. 14
Nov. 15
Nov. 16
Personal Essay: Final draft due (must be typed MLA format); In-class Essay: “Cripple” (535) [thesis + 2 body paragraphs
(DICTION)]
Verbal Phrases; Problems with Phrases and Parallelism; [homework: read Transcendentalism introduction 297-300]; The
Crucible extra credit reflection due
“Nature” (301-302); homework: read Walden (303-309)
Walden; Compare/contrast Emerson and Thoreau (310)
Informational/Argument Text Reading Strategies: Silent Spring (317-323); In Cold Blood (77-155) due
Nov. 19
Nov. 20
Nov. 21
Nov. 22
Nov. 23
In-class Essay (325)
The Cosmic Calendar (341-344); [homework: read Self-Reliance (348-351)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Nov. 26
Nov. 27
Nov. 28
Nov. 29
Nov. 30
Self-Reliance (348-351)
Introduce Argument Question: Write an argument thesis
Issue Question (357/367)
Quotation Question (356)
Passage-based Question (359); In Cold Blood (159-248) due
Nov. 12
Dec. 3
Dec. 4
Dec. 5
Dec. 6
Dec. 7
Dec. 10
Dec. 11
Dec. 12
Dec. 13
Dec. 14
Dec. 17
Dec. 18
Dec. 19
Dec. 20
Dec. 21
10
50
10
Argument: Concession/refutation, topic sentences; write the concession/refutation paragraph from previous thesis
Argument: Body paragraph writing
Argument: Pair essay (368); write the essay from previous argument thesis
Practice in-class essay
In-class Essay
25
Feedback/more practice
In-class Argument Essay (390)
In Cold Blood (251-343) due; In Cold Blood Test
25
50
10
50
50
In Cold Blood Presentation Preparation
In Cold Blood Presentation Preparation
In Cold Blood Presentations – EB Exam
50
EXAMS
EXAMS
EXAMS
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