September Mon 3rd
Tue 4
Wed 5
-1/2 day of school
Thur 6
Fri 7
-Summer paper requirements
-On Writing Papers…
--Our M.O.
Write.
Read.
Think.
Discuss.
Grow.
Repeat.
-Areas of Expertise/The
Pressing Issues of the Day
-Tarbox discussion
-Group discussions on summer
-AP Exam discussion- Skills for reading reading
-Novel/paper discussion
and writing
-Thesis discussion
HW: Re examine summer
-Summer Paper- Language
notes based on outside
analysis/creative response
sources/ summer paper
HW: Ch 1 of Disturbing the
requirements- develop thesis
HW: “From Convention toInsurgency
Universe: Power and Repression
:JK Rowling’sCritique ofChildhood Innocencein in Adolescent Literature by
the Harry Potter Series”Tarbox
Roberta Seelinger Trites- search
Google Scholar
-Research topic- Begin Research
Process- 15 sources
-Summer reading assessment
HW: Essays by Wayman, see link on
AP home page
Mon 10
Tue 11
-Trites discussion
-MLA discussion
Wed 12
Thur 13
Fri 14
- Vocab quiz 2
-Paragraph discussion
-Novel/paper discussion
-thesis/outside source
-group discussion of
novel/examination of language,
thesis, , sources
LAB
-Source analysis/ source presentation
drill- Wayman paper/ Paragraph
discussion
-1 page due
-Summer Paper
-one on one discussions
-one on one discussions
-fishbowl-
HW: thesis due on Tuesday, 1
page draft- due on Fri.
-one on one discussions
Mon 17
Tue 18
Wed 19
Thur 20
Fri 21
LAB
-Due- 2 pages
LAB
Due: 3 pages
-fishbowl-
LAB
HW: bring draft to class
tomorrow
-Summer Paper work
-Peer edit/one on one
conversations
-Summer Paper work
-Peer edit/one on one
conversations
-Peer edit/one on one conversations
-Vocab quiz 3
-Peer edit/one on one
conversations
-rhetorical vocab project work
HW: 2 pages due on Tue- Bring
draft
-Open House 6:30-8:00
HW: 3 pages to include Works Cited
due on Thur. – Bring draft on Th.
Mon 24
Tue 25
Wed 26
-Summer Paper Due
-AP Anchor essays
-Early Release
-present creative piece
-“Evaluating Sources of
Information”
-“Using MEL”
-Paragraph analysis- fishbowl
HW: Summer Paper Due on
Monday; Creative Piece
due/present creative piece
Thur 27
-Vocab quiz 4
-AP Holistic scoring: anchor
essays
-Old AP tests
HW: AP Holistic scoring: anchor essays- -Holistic scoring
annotate and score for Thur.
-Reading Friend (RF)
-Research Guidelines
-“General Guidelines: MLA”
HW: Paragraphs- source; AP Holistic
scoring: anchor essays- annotate
and score for Thur.
Fri 28
HW: Read On Being a Cripple
for Mon.; RF, MC qus. due
Mon.
October Mon 1
Tue 2
Wed 3
Thur 4
LAB- sources
-Ascher, On Compassion
LAB- sources
HW: annotate/research
HW: RF; MC qus. due on
Fri - Ericson, The Ways We
Lie
Unit- Ethics:
-Vocab quiz 5
Mair, On Being a Cripple:
Ericson, The Ways We Lie
HW: RF; MC qus. for
Ascher, On Compassion due
on Wed..
Mon 8
Fri 5
Tue 9
HW: annotate/research
Wed 10
Thur 11
LAB
-Mitford, Behind the Formaldehyde -Vocab unit test 1-5
Curtain
-LAB
- Ericson, The Ways We Lie
Fri 12
HW: annotate/research
HW: 15 sources due on Monday
HW: RF; MC qus. due on
Thur- -Mitford, Behind the
Formaldehyde Curtain
Mon 15
Tue 16
Wed 17
Thur 18
Fri 19
-Ethics’ seminar
-Research Paper
Discussion
LAB
-Vocab quiz 6
-Continue research
process-
-Discussion/Conferences
-Source/Paragraph
Construction
-Parent-Teacher Conference
LAB- sources due
LAB
HW: Ethics’ pieces due
tomorrow
-Continue research process
-Discussion/Conferences
HW: source annotations due Mon; outline
due Mon.
October Mon 22
Tue 23
Wed 24
Source annotations dueoutline due
LAB
Oct 24 District-Wide
Professional Development LAB
-Thesis/outline due
- Continue Discussion on
MLA formatting/ “They
Say/I Say”
-Source/Paragraph
Construction
HW: Thesis/general outline
due tomorrow
Discussion/Conferences
-Parent-Teacher Conf
Thur 25
Fri 26
-Vocab quiz 7
-Write/Refine Research!
-One on one discussions
- fishbowl
-Peer editing
LAB
HW: One page due on Monday
-Write/Refine Research!
HW: One page due on Monday
Mon 29
Tue 30
Wed 31
November Thur 1
Fri 2
-One Page Due
LAB
LAB
-Two pages due
-Vocab quiz 8
- fishbowl
-One on one discussions
-One on one discussions
-One on one discussions
LAB
-One on one discussions
-Peer editing
-Peer editing
-Peer editing
HW: Three pages due on Monday
-Peer editing
HW: Two pages due on Thur.
Mon 5
Tue 6
LAB
Unit: Conflict
-Three Pages Due
- fishbowl
-One on one discussions
Wed 7
Thur 8
- The Things They Carried
- The Things They Carried
-Vocab quiz 9
-War poetry: The Catch (In the Palm of
Your Hand p. 98-99); Facing It…
LAB
HW: five pages due on
Monday
-Peer editing
Fri 9
HW: five pages due on Monday
HW: - The Things They Carried HW: The Things They Carried for
for Wednesday; Five pages due Wednesday; Five pages due on
on Monday
Monday
Mon 12
Tue 13
Wed 14
-Borges- The End of the Duel
-A Clean Well Lighted Place; A
New Kind of War
-Five pages Due
LAB
-fishbowl
-One on one discussions
HW: Hemingway, A Clean Well Lighted
Place, A New Kind of War for
Wednesday.
Thur 15
Fri 16
LAB
-Vocab quiz 10
LAB
HW: Seven pages due
tomorrow
-Seven pages due
HW: Nine pages due on Tuesday
-Peer editing
HW: Seven pages due on Friday;
Borges- The End of the Duel for
Tuesday
Mon
19
Tue 20
Wed 21
Thur 22
Fri 23
LAB
LAB
-No School
-No School
-No School
-One on one discussions
-Nine pages due
-Peer editing
HW: Ten pages due on Monday
Mon
26
Tue 27
Wed 28
Thur 29
-Hamlet expectations- Hamlet
groups… 1) Analysis of Language
(3) with explication of Act; 2)
Group Essay- 3 pages- specific to
Ian Johnsoton essay and your
assigned act; 3) Written creative
piece; 4) Visual Creative re
representation of Act
Hamlet
Hamlet
Fri 30
-Vocab unit test 6-10
-Ten pages due- including Works Cited
- One on ones…
-Research Paper Due
-Hamlet essay,
annotations due
Hamlet
Thur 6
Fri 7
Creative Seminar- Conflict
HW: Hamlet essay, annotations
due on Thur.
December Mon 3
Tue 4
Wed 5
-Vocab quiz 11
Begin Reading Hamlet
-Act I: sc. 1-2
-Act II: sc. 1-2
-Act III: sc. 1-2
Thur 13
Fri 14
-Act I: sc. 3-5
Mon
10
Tue 11
Wed 12
-Vocab quiz 12
Act IV: sc. 5-7
-Act III: sc. 3-4
-Act V: sc. 1-2
-Act IV: sc. 1-4
LAB
-
Mon 17
Tue 18
Wed 19
Thur 20
LAB
Presentations:
Acts I; II
Creative Seminar- Education
Presentations:
Acts III;IV
Presentations:
Act V
Fri 21
-Last day of school: X-mas
break!
-Vocab quiz 13
Hamlet: Johnston essay; movie;
notes/quotes;
HW: Rose, I Just Wanna Be
Average, RF; MC qus. due
Monday Jan. 7
January Mon 7
Tue 8
Wed 9
School Resumes
-Alexie, The Joy of Reading and - Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
Writing: Superman and Me
Thur 10
Fri 11
-Vocab quiz 14
- Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild
Tongue
-Class Discussion on Education
-Unit: Education
HW: Creative piece due on Monday
- Rose, I Just Wanna Be
Average”
HW: Qus. 1-4 at the end
of the essay for Alexie,
The Joy of Reading and
Writing: Superman and
Me due Tues.
Mon 14
Creative Seminar:
Education
Mon 21
HW: RF Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty HW: RF; MC qus. due on Thur. One Day due Wed.
Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild
Tongue
HW: Class discussion
Tue 15
Wed 16
Thur 17
Fri 18
-Exams
-Exams
-Exams
-No School
Tue 22
Wed 23
Thur 24
Fri 25
-Rich (positive) Ambiguity
-Fishbowl/small group
-Disturbing Angles: ReOrientation
(See it differently)
-Vocab quiz
-“Facing It”
-Snapshots
-Poetry Analysis: The layers of
“it”: What, exactly, does the
narrator face in “Facing It”?
-“How I Knew Harold,”
Two in class essays over the AP
readings… argumentative essay,
rhetorical analysis essay
-Race Project/Race Video
-ReVision: “Muscular Cigars”
Unit: Poetry
-“I Like My Own Poems”
-Language: Showing not
telling. Details, details,
details
-Five 5’s
-Writing Exercises
(p.16/33)
- “My Wicked Wicked Ways”
HW: “Flames,” “Shoveling Snow
with Buddha,” “My Mother’s
Drunken Boyfriend Loved Me”
-In class writing-poetry: Facing
It…
-“Flames”
-“Shoveling Snow with Buddha”
-“My Mother’s Drunken Boyfriend
Loved Me”
HW: Poem 19/20- bring draft for
Monday
Killing Cliché: “to be in hot water”
-In class writing-poetry: Poem 14
(p.84)
HW: 18 complete
sentences
HW: bring draft for tomorrow
Mon 28
Tue 29
Wed 30
LAB
LAB
Seminar- Poetry Presentations
Thur 31
February Fri 1
-Rhetorical Vocab
-Plato
Unit: Politics
-Plato
February Mon 4
Tue 5
Wed 6
Thur 7
Fri 8
-Class Discussion: Plato vs.
Machiavelli
In class essay:
Politics
-Rhetorical Vocab Test
- Machiavelli
Tue 12
Wed 13
Thur 14
Fri 15
-Machiavelli
Mon 11
-Vocab quiz 17
Unit
-Culture and Race-:
Expectations/ Thesis Creation
Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”
- Rose, I Just Wanna Be
Average”
- Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild
Tongue
Mon 18
Tue 17th
Wed 18th
-Rize
- Rize
Thur 19th
No School
Fri 20th
- Vocab quiz 18
- Hurston, How It Feels to be Colored
Me
February Mon 25
Tue 26
Wed 27
-Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son”
-Professional Development
Thur 28
March Fri 1
-No School
-History…
- Vocab quiz 19
Steele, “On Being Black and Middle
Class”
- Black Conservatives…
March Mon 4
Tue 5
Wed 6
MME
-Presentation prep!
Thur 7
Fri 8
- Vocab quiz 20
-Kingston, “No Name Woman”
Only MME students…
Mon 11
Tue 12
Wed 13
Thur 14
Fri 15
Presentations
Presentations
Presentations
-Parent/Teacher Conferences
Mon 18
-Parent/Teacher Conferences
Tue 19
Wed 20
Thur 21
TGOW: Lecture
- TGOW Chs. 1-3
- TGOW Chs. 4-5
March Mon 25
Tue 26
Wed 27
Thur 28
Fri 29
-TGOW ch 6
- TGOW Chs. 7-8
- TGOW Chs. 9-10
TGOW Chs. 11-13
No School
TGOW: Lecture
Fri 22
-No Students
Spring Break
April Mon 8
Tue 9
School Resumes
Wed 10
Thur 11
Fri 12
- TGOW Ch. 16
- TGOW Chs. 17-18
- TGOW Chs. 19-20
Wed 17
Thur 18
Fri 19
- TGOW Chs. 27-28
-TGOW chs. 29-30
Fri 19
- TGOW Chs. 14-15
LAB
-TGOW Creative Piece
Mon 15
Tue 16
- TGOW Chs. 21-22
- TGOW Chs. 23-25
-TGOW ch. 26
Mon 22
Tue 23
Wed 17
Thur 18
-TGOW creative seminar
-Wikileaks Video
Assignment
LAB
-Final Discussion of novel
LAB
-Essay due on Friday
-peer edit creative pieces
Mon 22
-Essay due on Friday
Tue 23
Wed 24
Thur 25
- In Class 2009 Synthesis Essay
-Professional Development -Read, annotate, discuss 2009
free-response qu. 2
Fri 26
-Discussion over Wikileaks Video
-Perspective: Three views of the same
object
HW: 2006 Free Response Qu. 3
HW: 2006 Free Response Qu. 1
-Annotate and score synthesis
anchor essays- Finish by Thur.
HW: 2009 Free Response Qu. 3
-Multiple Choice Test- Timed in class.
Take home and annotate. Examine
your answers in depth. Be prepared to
discuss and justify your answers by
Friday
Mon 29
Tue 30
-Discuss synthesis anchor essays
-Discuss multiple choice test
May Wed 1
Thur 2
Fri 3
-Discuss 2003 Free Response qu. 1
-Discuss anchor essays
-Review and score 2007 synthesis
anchor essays for Wed.
HW: 2003 Free Response
qu. 2 for Thur.
Wed 8
Thur 9
Fri 10
LAB
LAB
AP English Language Exam
-Essay of your choice
- Test exploration
Tue 14
Wed 15
Thur 16
Fri 17
Tue 21
Wed 22
Thur 23
Fri 24
-2007 Synthesis Essay
-HW/In Class work: 2009 Free
Response Qu. 2
Mon 6
-2001 Multiple Choice Test- Finish and
annotate by Monday
Tue 7
-2004 Free Response Question 1 -Discuss/Peer Review 2004 Free
Response Question 3
-HW: 2004 Free Response Qu. 3
for Friday (Form B)
-2005 Free response Qu. 3 (Form B)
HW: 2003 Free Response qu. 1
(Form B) for Tues.
HW: 2005 Free Response Qu. 2 (Form
B)
Mon 13
-Film study
May Mon 20
May Mon 27
Tue 28
Wed 29
Thur 30
Fri 31
June Mon 3
Tue 4
Wed 5
Thur 6
Fri 7
Mon 10
Tue 11
Wed 12
Thur 13
Fri 14
-Exams
-Exams
-Exams
Thur
Fri
No School
-Last Day!
Mon
Tue
Wed