AP Language and Composition 2015-16
MARKING PERIOD 3
February
Monday
1C AP Rhetorical MC
HW-See TuesdayAlso-come in with 2
controversial
issues./ethical
dilemma
For Wednesday-SheaPeter Singer.
Tuesday
2D Menchken & “AA”
due Quiz?
HW-Argumentative
“AA”
8D Argumentative
essay GG due.
Begin Henrietta Lacks
together. Note the
catalyst for the
research.
15 No School
9A
HL-DUE-to page 41
22D Project for
Semester Project is
DUE HL 179-232
23A
Monday
16D Finish Part 1
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
3A
“AA”
Socratic Session
Mencken’s 1925
critique of Gatsbylanguage, organization,
logic.
Peter Singer’s
“Solution to World
Poverty” (Shea)logical fallacies?
Method of arguing.
What would you do?
10B No Class
4B No Class
5C SUB
Students can work on
Gatsby essay or read
The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks to p.
41 (for Tuesday)
11C
Due Finish Part 1.
Semester Project
Assigned
12 No School
17A DUE Henrietta
Lacks to page 133
24B No Class
18B No Class
19C DUE HL Finish
Part 2
26D
25C HL DUE Finish
the book
Marking Period 2
January
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
4D Gatsby is due.
Characters’ motives.
Memorable scenes.
Rhetoric.
Presentations
11A SH Essays ret’d
5A Discussion of SH
QUESTIONS
6B NO CLASS
7C Seton Hall Essay
due
8D GG
12B NO CLASS
HW-Edited&Typed SH
Essay DUE
13C GG
15A GG
18B NO CLASS
19B NO CLASS
20 C GG
14D
MIDYEAR
RHETORICAL
ANALYSIS
21D GG
25 SNOW DAY
26B No Class
27C ½ DAY Rhet.
Essay ret’d. “Monday
Morning q’backing
HW: 1-Mencken &
28A Finish Gatsby
22A SHOOT OUT AT
THE OK CORRAL:
CHAPTER 7
29B NO CLASS
“”Analyzing Arg.” 2/2
2-
November-December
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
9A SL Rhetorical
Essay
HW-Dec of Indep. +
Pledge of Allegiance
10B No Class
11C
Rhetorical Analysis of
Dec. of Indep &
Pledge
*Dist.-The AwakeningHW:Read ch. 1-5
Reactions, Parrot,
social class-how do
you tell that?, ironymme. Lebrun
12D
The Awakening-Tone +
rhetoriccharacter
and theme.
HW-ch. 6-15
Irony.
16B No Class
17C The Awakening
(Log. Fal.:adhominem
attack, false premise,
false assump., false
authority, false cause,
hearsay evidence,
pathetic fallacy, half
truth, false cause,
Sibilance of “voice of
the sea,”clothes=civ.,
civ,
HW-Find the
Awakening, birds, light
24D Show excellent
SL rhetorical essays—
not writing, org,
detail, etc.
Write class rhet.
Analysis of Awakening.
18D The AwakeningAwakenings, birds,
light
Would you want Edna
for a mother?
19A
Presentations of
awakenings.
12/1C Ragtime ch.1-5
Sociology, family,
irony
HW-Finish section 1
8D Ragtime
15A Revise HW.
2.Share rhetorical
ana.--> characterize.,
tone, theme, etc.
2.Monomania in
Ragtime.
22B No Class
23C
Presentations (cont’d)
awakenings scenes.
Return SL papers
30B No Class
7C Ragtime
14D Discussion
Ragtime-denouement,
irony,
HW-Choose a small
chunk-rhetorical
analysis-type—nothing
done in class.
21A Review reqs. for
Seton Hall Essay.
Script using diff. char
from 7 books!
Friday
13A
Act out ch. 1.
Information?
IRONY: Cabaret,
Cold Mountain:”At the
first gesture of
morning, flies came
swarming.” AllusionOdyssey +
filthtravesty of
allusionCivil War.
Ch. 1-15HW-Finish bk.
20B No Class
HW-Awakening scenes
assigned for
presentations.
Character & motif,
language.
25A ½ day
26 THANKSGIVING
27 THANKSGIVING
2D AP Rhetorical
analysis.
3A
HW-Finish Section 2
4B No Class
9A Ragtime
16B No Class
10B No Class
17C

11C Ragtime
18D
What causes
violence?What makes
CHW violent? What
makes MYB violent?
23C Presentation of
Scripts.
24 WINTER BREAK

Finish A. class essay
Write in the style of
Chopin.
Cryptograms
Read-Ragtime-ch.1-5.
Action,
languagecharacterization, motifs.
MONDAY
5C
Discuss Exercises in
Shea pamphlet
HW-Apply to BB
groups
12 TEACHERS’
WORKSHOP
19D Grammar
HW: Annotate rdgs
from 10/7. Read +
blurbs
forEmerson:”Snow,”
Nature, “Rhodora,”
10/20.
TUESDAY
6D Groups
Dist. Shea text, SL
HW- Read Shea Book
p. 13-25
Long Range-Read first
10 chapters of Scarlet
Letter by 10/23. Note
story,
characterization,
ideas re: Puritans &
Transcendentalists.
13D BB Discussionappeals, allusions,
monomania
20A
Grammar Review
Puritan vs. Trans. Art.
Emerson.
OCTOBER
WEDNESDAY
7A
AP Mult. Choice Quiz
HW-In American lit.
packet-Read
Wheatley,
Bradstreetx2,
Edwards. Type a blurb
for each. Submit to
tii.com by 10/9.
14A Koch, etc. arts.:
discuss-appeals,
arguments.
21B No Class
THURSDAY
8B
No Class
FRIDAY
9C
Review AP MC
Three short pieces +
blurbs
HW-See whiteboardreadings in
Transcendentalism
15B No Class
16C Timed Essay
22C Ginsberg
Dickinson
SL-ch. 1-Tone?
23D First 10
chapters of SL=due.
1.Reactions?
2.What does
Hawthorne think?
Evidence?
Puritanism &
Transcendentalism?
SL-Tone: Rhetorical
analysis of chapter 1.
HW-10/22 Ginsberg,
Dickinson-blurbs for
all.
HW: Read chapters
10-15 for Monday
26A SL & Return
Essays
SL Tableaux.
HW-SL ch. 16-20 for
10/28
27B No Class
28C SL-finish
29D
30A
SEPTEMBER
Monday
7 LABOR DAY
14 ROSH
HASHONA
21B NO CLASS
28B NO CLASS
Tuesday
8C
*Return MC Quiz
*SHORT Academic
Honesty Quiz
*Discussion re: King
and writing
Insights into
copyediting.?
How does King
structure his
“argument”?
HW: chart due 9/9
15 ROSH
HASHONA
22C BB 15 chapters+
quotations explained-set context,
rhetoric, explain the
connection between
the rhetoric & char,
theme, motif, tone,
29C Finish BB No
Wednesday
Thursday
2 ALL CLASS DAY
1.Attendance
2.MC on Summer
Rdg.
3.Web site & course
4.Distribute Billy
Budd.
HW1.Complete Inf &
Inf sheet,
2.print out others &
read.
3.Billy Budd-Read up
to and including
chapter 15 for 9/17.
Choose one
quotation for each
chapter (MLA
format) and
comment about
language and
character, motif,
theme: 9/17 paper
to class and
turnitin.com
9D King
Writing and
Grammar
ICB Chart=due 7 am
on turnitin.com, etc.
HW-Print out chart
for ICB so that you
can contribute to
class discussion
3A
16C
Class Collaborative
Essay for ICB &
King
17D BB 1-15 (+
chart)
Discussion.
HW-Complete the
book by 9/25.
Chapter quotation
for the rest of the
book due then.,
24D
“A Hanging”?
23 YOM KIPPUR
30D Return
Friday
4B NO CLASS
SGO Essay:
Goal:
Students will
provide a writing
sample and receive
comments.
HW-Prepare notes
comments re:
Stephen King +
Type one short
quotation and tell
why it’s important
or it appealed to
you. Bring in paper
copy and submit to
Tii.
10A Return
Essays?
In Cold Blood
1.News story vs.
docunovel
2.The people
3.The setting
4.The writing
5.So what?
10/1A
11B NO CLASS
Points of Composition covered:
ethos, logos, pathos,
doppelganger, alter ego, foil,
irony, rhetorical trianglespeaker, audience,
topic,SOAPSTONE,connotation,
denotation, point of view,
metaphor, simile, pyrrhic
victory, epithet, 9 types of
essays, rhetoric, muscular
verbs, avoid adverbs.
18A
*Rhetoric-1st & last paragraphs
ICB
*Returned charts ICB
25A
Orwell’s “A Hanging”
Rhetorical Essay
10/2B NO CLASS
chart, Take notes to
participate in class,.
Expect a quiz. Quiz.
Rhetorical Essays
Orwell
Dist. Shea chapter
+ pamphlet re:
American Texts
HW-Read Shea.
Do exercises on p.
6, 12, 17 for
Monday