Syllabus 2012-2013 - Malibu High School

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Malibu High School

310-457-6801, ext. 208 bthoreson@smmusd.org

Bonnie Thoreson, Instructor

11AP Language and Composition: 2012-2013

Assignments: link on MHS Website

Submit papers to: www.turnitin.com

Class ID: 5106125

Password: English

GOALS: Students will be exposed to many genres of writing, with a focus on American literature, and will be able to analyze the purpose and rhetorical strategies of a wide range of non-fiction and fictional texts. Students will learn to read, write, analyze, and synthesize information at a college level. Students will be prepared to take the Advanced Placement Exam in Language and Composition in May.

FOCUS: A primary focus of this course is on the use of language; extensive work is planned in learning how to analyze an author’s rhetorical choices. Persuasive writing and the synthesis of information from a variety of sources will also be emphasized .

OBJECTIVES: Students will demonstrate achievement of the California Language Arts Standards,

Grade 11, and will acquire the necessary skills to be prepared for the College Board’s AP Language and

Composition examination.

ACADEMIC HONESTY: School policy on the serious matter of academic honesty will be followed.

Plagiarism from a published source, copying from a student, or allowing someone to copy your work are all considered cheating. If academic dishonesty occurs, students will receive no credit for the assignment.

Students should also be aware that teachers are asked to comment on academic and personal integrity in writing letters of recommendation to college.

ASSIGNMENT DUE DATES: Students must turn in work on the assigned due date at the start of the class period. If students are absent on the day of a major assignment, assignments must be emailed or faxed to the school on the required date or the paper will be considered late. The grade will be lowered one letter grade for each day a major assignment is late.

BOOK LIST:

Main Text: (Provided by the school.)

Baym, Nina, et. al, eds., The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Sixth Edition,

2003

Additional Class Texts: (Available at school, but recommended that students purchase their own copy to annotate.)

Hawthorne , The Scarlet Letter

Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Miller, The Crucible

Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Hughes, A Raisin in the Sun

FIRST SEMESTER

Note: all page numbers refer to The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Edition 6

VISIONS AND VOICES OF THE NEW WORLD

Montaigne, “Of Cannibals” (handout)

Aug./Sept.

Donne, “Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed” (handout)

Marvell, “Bermuda” (handout)

Smith, General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles , pp. 42-53

Lispector, “The Smallest Woman in the World” (handout)

Exodus, chap. 3, 13-14, 16-17, 19-20, 32-33; Numbers, chap. 13-15 (www.biblegateway.com)

Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, pp. 75-83

Lesson Focus: Close reading/diction; AP terminology; author’s purpose; rhetorical modes; points of view; writing style elements; grammar-sentence structure; allegory and religious allusions; works cited page.

Writing Focus: Style analysis paper; Synthesis paper: development of theme using class readings and outside sources, 5-7 pages

Sept./Oct.

CREATING A NEW AMERICAN IDENTITY

Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” pp. 212-219

Franklin, “The Way to Wealth,” pp. 221-226

Irving, “Rip Van Winkle,” pp. 448-460

Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” pp. 714-727

Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Lesson Focus: Jeremiad; aphorisms; diction; style analysis; tone/attitude

Writing Focus: The Scarlet Letter essay; AP style analysis essay

POLITICAL RHETORIC IN THE AGE OF REASON

Paine, “The Crisis,” pp. 328-334

Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence,” pp. 336-342

Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address,” pp. 759-760

Lesson Focus: Persuasive techniques; parallel structure.

Writing Focus: Analysis of political rhetoric; AP style analysis essay

Oct.

SOCIAL CRITICS: TRANSCENDENTALISTS, ABOLITIONISTS,

FEMINISTS, AND OTHERS

Melville, “Bartleby, The Scrivener,” pp. 1086-1111

Oct./Nov.

Emerson, “Nature” pp. 486-493

Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods, pp.895-905

Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (excerpt, handout)

Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, pp. 939-973

Stowe,

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

, pp. 774-783

Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” pp. 1658-1671

Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Lesson Focus: Dialect; archetypes; continued focus on style analysis

Writing Focus: Personal connection to Transcendentalism; Synthesis: Statement of Personal

Beliefs; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn essay

DEVELOPING AN AMERICAN LITERARY VOICE:

REALISM/REGIONALISM

Henry James, “Daisy Miller,” pp. 1501-1539

Chopin, “The Storm,” pp. 1603-1607

Dec.

Review for final

Lesson Focus: Development of a uniquely American literary style and voice; AP Multiple

Choice Testing.

Writing Focus: Daisy Miller essay; final examination: AP style analysis essay

SECOND SEMESTER

NATURALISM, SPITITUALITY, POLITICAL CRITIQUE

Crane, “The Open Boat,” pp. 1721-1738

London, “To Build a Fire,” pp. 1762-1773

Black Elk and Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks (excerpt), pp. 1824-1836

Miller, The Crucible

Lesson Focus: Naturalism; Characterization; McCarthyism

Jan.

Writing Focus: The Crucible essay

ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION

Swift, “A Modest Proposal” (handout)

King, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (handout)

Readings on advertising (handouts); analysis of visual texts

Readings on issues in education (handouts)

Feb.

Lesson Focus: analysis of persuasive techniques; logical fallacies; deduction versus induction

Writing Focus: analysis of advertising; essay on controversial issue in education.

FITZGERALD AND THE AMERICAN DREAM

Fitzgerald, “Winter Dreams,” pp. 2174-2143

Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Lesson Focus: Style analysis; re-examining the American Dream.

Writing Focus: The Great Gatsby essay

March

LANGSTON HUGHES; REVIEW FOR AP EXAM

Hughes, A Raisin in the Sun

Synthesis Essay—various readings from College Board

April/May

Lesson Focus: Timed writing practice; how to approach the synthesis essay, multiple choice testing; review AP terminology.

Writing Focus: Synthesis essay.

THE COLLEGE ESSAY May/June

Writing the personal essay for college will constitute the final examination.

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