AP English Language 2013-2014
Fall Term – Unit Two
Introduction to Close Reading; Argument
Topics: Economy; Education
Essential Questions: What is the role of the economy in our everyday lives? To what extent do
our schools serve the goals of a true education?
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 1
9/30/2013 (Mon)
Do Now:
Student analysis of Hui-Ling’s poem. Identify the message.
Use as example of style
Homework:
Final draft of rhetorical analysis essay due Tues 10/1
Materials:
Hui-Ling’s extra-credit poem
Elizabeth I’s Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
Video of Elizabeth’s speech
Objectives:
Introduction to style – vocab
Review Rhetorical Analysis
Peer Review Essays
Review:
Pass back vocab quizzes
New Concepts:
Introduce Ch. 2 (p. 39-43)
Analyze Speech to the Troops at Tilbury using Rhetorical Triangle
Key terms: Style, Diction. Syntax, Tone, Mood
Peer review essays
Summary:
Strengths/Challenges of essays
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 2
10/1/2013 (Tues)
Do Now:
NYT Upfront Exercise: Is Bottled Water a Good Idea?
Who makes the better argument?
Homework:
Actively Read TLoC p.43-49
Complete Activity on P. 43 on separate sheet
Materials:
TLoC
NYT Upfront
Objectives:
Introduction to style: Diction and Syntax
Review:
Review last class material/terms [missing students from int’l FLC]
New Concepts:
In-depth analysis of Elizabeth I’s Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
Syntax/Diction
Summary:
Read sample rhetorical analysis essay
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 3
10/3/2013 (Thurs)
Do Now:
Type One Writing: Short Story Exercise [provide opening sentences]
Homework:
Actively read p. 58-68 (Note tips on analytical writing)
Review Ch. 2 Glossary (p. 78)
Materials:
Short Story Opening Lines (handout)
TLoC
Recording of Churchill’s Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat speech
Objectives:
Apply discussion of style and rhetorical analysis
Review:
Identify examples of anaphora, asyndeton, and chiasmus
New Concepts:
Students share responses to Churchill’s tone (p. 43 activity)
Listen to recording
Note how speech builds
How does Churchill move between rhetorical appeals?
Diction terms: Metaphor, Simile, Personification, Hyperbole
Syntax Terms: Parallelism, Juxtaposition, Antithesis
Summary:
Review questions to ask to analyze diction/syntax (p. 47)
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 4
10/4/2013 (Fri)
Do Now:
What is a thesis statement?
Homework:
Actively read Crawford’s “The Case for Working with your Hands”
Materials:
TLoC
Copies of 1998 Rhetorical Analysis Prompt
Objectives:
Practice rhetorical analysis of image-based text
Effects of style
Review:
Questions to analyze diction/syntax [p.47]
New Concepts:
Rhetorical analysis of ads on p. 66/68 [Dodge Durango/Girl Scouts]
Photo composition
1998 Rhetorical Analysis Prompt: what is being asked?
Identify Rhetorical Strategies
Summary:
Recap strategies to approach rhetorical analysis questions. In-class
writing on Monday.
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 5
10/7/2013 (Mon)
Do Now:
PSAT Introduction [Tricia – 5 minutes]
Homework:
Refresh Crawford Essay
Materials:
2012 Rhetorical Analysis Prompt
Objectives:
In-Class Writing
New Concepts:
In-Class Writing: What is this Question asking us to do?
Summary:
How was that experience?
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 6
10/8/2013 (Tues)
Do Now:
Effort Self-Evaluation [in preparation for mid-terms]
Homework:
Actively read Lars Eighner’s “On Dumpster Diving” (421-430)
Materials:
Self-evaluations
AP example essays (2012 JFK prompt)
AP rubric (2012 JFK prompt)
Objectives:
Discuss example essays to further understanding of AP-level essays
What makes an effective rhetorical essay?
Practice grading
Review:
Chapter Two Vocab Review
New Concepts:
Introduce grading rubric
Review sample essays. What grade would you give?
Summary:
What would you have done differently on your essay?
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 7
Bertozzi
10/10/2013 (Thurs)
Do Now:
Respond to the following prompt: When was the last time you
saw a homeless person? Describe the situation and what you
remember about the situation. What other experiences have
you or someone you know had with the homeless or
homelessness? How does the local community perceive
homelessness? Do you think that these ideas are accurate?
Homework:
Re-read “On Dumpster Diving”
Type a copy of JFK Rhetorical Analysis so that it is worthy of a 5
Materials:
TLoC
Objectives:
Introduce economy unit essential questions
Review:
Chapter Two Vocab Review
New Concepts:
Students respond to Do Now prompt (10-15 min of in-class writing)
Student led discussion
Economy Essential Questions
Summary:
What is your dream job? What will you need to do to get there?
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 8
10/11/2013 (Fri)
Do Now:
Written response to two of the Economy essential questions discussed
yesterday.
Homework:
Type a copy of JFK Rhetorical Analysis so that it is worthy of a 5
Materials:
Eighner’s “On Dumpster Diving”
The Great GAPsby [cartoon]
Objectives:
Discuss Eighner’s essay [Qs in Teacher Edition of TLoC]
Rhetorical analysis of cartoon
Review:
What is important work?
New Concepts:
“On Dumpster Diving”
What is the effect of Eighner’s attention to detail in the first five
paragraphs
What is the effect of such scientific language and information in
paras. 1-37
Analyze Eighner’s diction in discussion of students
Distinction between “true scavenger” and “ can scrounger”
How successfully does Eighner debunk the stereotype of
homeless people as indolent and uneducated?
In pairs, rhetorical analysis of Great GAPsby
Try summarizing the point, or message, of the cartoon.
The title of this cartoon alludes to The Great Gatsby. Why is the
allusion appropriate?
What does the audience have to know in order to get the full
impact of the cartoon?
Summary:
Relate cartoon to economy essential questions
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 9
10/14/2013 (Mon)
Do Now:
Introduce Rushdie FRQ
Homework:
PSAT sentence correction exercise
Materials:
FRQ: Salman Rushdie’s Letter to Rajiv Gandhi
Objectives:
Practice Rhetorical Analysis –style writing
Review:
What active reading strategies will help you approach an unfamiliar
text?
New Concepts:
In-Class Writing
Summary:
How was that experience? What was difficult?
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 10
10/15/2013 (Tues)
Do Now:
Review PSAT sentence corrections
Homework:
Enjoy Family Weekend!
Materials:
Machiavelli prompt
Objectives:
Introduction to argument
Review:
Test taking tips for PSAT. Remember materials
New Concepts:
Machiavelli’s leadership prompt: divide class in two. Using
appropriate evidence, agree with, disagree with, or qualify
Machiavelli’s claim
What does an argument look like in your family?
Essential Question: What is argument? Provide definition
Rogerian Argument
Summary:
Introduce informed citizens [David Mindich passage] prompt
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 11
10/18/2013 (Fri)
Family Weekend
Do Now:
Differences between AP Lit and AP Lang/Comp
What is rhetoric?
PETA ad campaign: What is the purpose? Is it effective? Why or why
not? [Families respond on notecard]
Activity:
Pass out example AP exam
Mary Ewald’s Letter to Saddam Hussein – what rhetorical strategies
does Ewald use?
Bertozzi
Do Now:
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 12
Education Cartoon: 1969 and today
What claim is being made?
What is the “problem?”
10/22/2013 (Tues)
Homework:
Read 81-92 (through “claims of policy”)
Actively read and take notes on definitions
Review:
Chapter 2 Glossary Review [quiz on Saturday]
Materials:
TLoC
Star Wars, 1977 Roger Ebert Review
Domini, Why Investing in Fast-Food may be a Good Thing
Objectives:
Define three types of claims: Fact, Value, Policy
Apply Understanding
New Concepts:
Define Claim
Claim vs. Topic [examples – see pg. 86]
Claim of Fact – students provide statement of fact and claim of fact
Ex. “there are six people in this room” vs. “women are more
talkative than men”
Claim of Value – example movie review
Claim of Policy
Domini’s essay: identify different types of claims [claims of fact: para.
3-4]
Summary:
Identify two controversial issues that interest you
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 13
10/24/2013 (Thurs)
Do Now:
Mini-Quiz: One a blank piece of paper, explain the following terms:
claim of fact, claim of value, and claim of fact; Identify two
controversial issues that interest you
Homework:
Actively read 97-107 (through ‘expert opinion’). Take notes on
fallacies.
Study for vocab quiz.
Review prompt for tomorrow’s in-class writing
Review:
Chapter One and Chapter Two Vocab Review
Materials:
2012 AP Argument Prompt: Certainty and Doubt
Gettysburg Address [copy in TLoC]
Objectives:
Introduce Logical Fallacies
Read and discuss The Gettysburg Address
New Concepts:
Define Logical Fallacy
Examples: Hasty Generalization, Ad hominem, Red Herring, Hasty
Generalization, Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Read Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address [historical context] – 272 words,
10 sentences (see teacher’s ed of TLoC for info)
Use Gettysburg Address to review SOAPS
What is his purpose? Does he make any claims? Use of rhetorical
appeals? Does he make any allusions?
Summary:
If time, students try to memorize opening lines.
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 14
10/25/2013 (Fri)
Do Now:
2012 AP Argument Prompts Rubric: What am I being assessed on?
Materials:
2012 AP Argument Prompt: Relationship Btwn Certainty and Doubt
Objectives:
In-Class Writing
New Concepts:
In-Class Writing
Homework:
Study for Vocab Quiz [Ch 1 + 2 Glossary]
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 15
10/26/2013 (Sat)
Do Now:
Vocab & Argument Quiz
Materials:
Quiz
Example 2012 AP Argument Essays [scored]
Objectives:
Take vocab quiz and write argument using claims and rhetorical
appeals
New Concepts:
Quiz
Students read through example essays and use AP rubric to assign
score [write 1-2 sentences defending score]
Homework:
Catch up on reading
Spend 30 minutes reading about current events
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 16
10/28/2013 (Mon)
Do Now:
Read sample 2012 AP argument essays [TT and Kristen]. Score using
the AP rubric. Discuss as class
Homework:
Actively read TLoC 111 (“shaping an argument”) - 119
Materials:
Logical fallacies handout [OWL]
Review:
Quiz students on definition of fallacy
Objectives:
Continue discussion of fallacies
Introduce Classical Oration
New Concepts:
Fallacies of relevance vs. Fallacies of ambiguity
Shaping an Argument: The Classical Oration [Introduction, Narration,
Confirmation, Refutation, Conclusion] – Use of rhetorical appeals
Summary:
Move from “5 paragraph essay” to Classical Oration
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 17
10/29/2013 (Tues)
Do Now:
Visual Arguments: 9/11 Heroes Stamp
List of questions related to visual arguments
Written response and discussion
Homework:
Read David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” (232-238)
Materials:
TLoC: Sandra Day O’Connor speech on civics education
Review:
Worth arguments: Statements of fact vs Claims of fact [ex. Boys would
do better in school if there were more men teaching in elementary
and secondary schools]
Objectives:
Review and apply understanding of Classical Oration
New Concepts:
Discuss content and structure of Sandra Day O’Connor’s Not by Math
Alone  Example of classical oration; what appeals is she using
Summary:
Read aloud first page of “This is Water”
Bertozzi
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 18
10/31/2013 (Thurs)
Do Now:
Create an argument using the classical oration structure. Prompt:
Students should be required to learn a foreign language. Agree or
disagree.
Homework:
Read James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers” (197-203)
Materials:
Video: “This is Water”
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaVrn1Sz0H8]
Review:
SOAPS analysis of “This is Water”
Objectives:
Analyze and discuss “This is Water”
New Concepts:
Watch video. Reactions?
What lines/images jumped out at you?
Food for thought: students reflect on certain passages
Summary:
Does the impact of this speech (or its message) change knowing that
DFW committed suicide two years later?
Lesson Plan – AP English
LP: 19
Bertozzi
11/1/2013 (Fri)
Do Now:
Visual Analysis of Norma Rockwell’s “The Spirit of Eduction”
Guiding questions
Homework:
Read and annotate David Sedaris’s “Me Talk Pretty One Day” (218
-222)
Materials:
TLoC
Review:
Identify and explain five elements of classical oration
Finish foreign language arguments
Objectives:
Analyze Baldwin’s “Talk to Teachers”
New Concepts:
Baldwin: Bio and historical context [see teacher’s ed of TLoC]
Questions to consider:: See slide
Summary:
How would you describe Baldwin’s overall tone? [Go back to tone
sheet]
Lesson Plan – AP English
Bertozzi
LP: 20
11/4//2013 (Mon)
Homework:
Re-Read [finish] “Me Talk Pretty One Day”
Vocab: Chapter 3 Quiz on Friday
Materials:
2010 and 2012 AP Argument Prompts: Ownership/Self (2013); Buy
Nothing Day (2010)
Review:
Classical Oration Format [helpful, but not required]: Intro, Narration,
Confirmation, Counterargument, Conclusion
Objectives:
In-Class Writing
Activity:
In-Class Writing
Lesson Plan – AP English
Bertozzi
LP: 21
11/5//2013 (Tues)
Do Now:
Current events and topics: NYT Upfront. Note at least five surprising
pieces of information.
Homework:
Actively read TLoC 131-136: “Analyzing Visual Texts as Arguments”
Study for vocab quiz
Materials:
V for Vendetta speech and transcript
Review:
Star vocab words for Friday’s quiz.
List and explain three types of claims.
Identify and explain two logical fallacies
Objectives:
Introduce Inductive vs Deductive reasoning
Practice rhetorical analysis
New Concepts:
Inductive vs. Deductive reasoning. Define and provide examples.
Students create examples of induction and deduction
Rhetorical analysis of V for Vendetta speech [with video]
Summary:
Read “The Fifth of November” – English Folk Verse
Lesson Plan – AP English
Bertozzi
LP: 22
11/7//2013 (Thurs)
Do Now:
Controversial Yearbook Photo Case Study #1: “Student sues to Pose
with Gun in Yearbook”
Homework:
Study for Chapter Three vocab quiz
Materials:
“Student sues to pose with gun in yearbook” [article]
“Aspiring model, 18, objects to fellow students’ decision to reject the
photo she submitted for yearbook” [article]
Sydney Spies Today Show segment [Interview]
Review:
Deduction vs. Induction: Students provide examples
Objectives:
Analyze visual texts as arguments
Classroom debate/discussion
New Concepts:
Read and discuss case studies
In partners, students create arguments
Initial reactions? Identify each side’s argument?
Does the interview validate or change your opinion?
Summary:
How might you structure a classical oration argument around either
of these case studies?
Lesson Plan – AP English
Bertozzi
LP: 23
11/8//2013 (Fri)
Do Now:
Vocab and Argument Quiz [Chapter Three]
Materials:
Quiz
Objectives:
Take quiz and write argument using structure of classical oration
New Concepts:
Quiz
Homework:
Using notes, create a Chapter One Study Guide [Typed]
Lesson Plan – AP English
Bertozzi
Do Now:
LP: 24
11/11/2013 (Mon)
Review Week
Review Spies Yearbook Argument and/or “What I Learned: A
Sentimental Education”
Materials:
TLoC
Review:
Pass back work; review missing assignments
Objectives:
Introduce Rogerian vs. Toulmin Arguments
Begin Review
New Concepts:
Rogerian Arguments
Toulmin Arguments: Claim, Grounds, Warrant
Review: Students divide into three groups to create study guides
Chapter One/Community
Chapter Two/Economy
Chapter Three/Education
Summary:
Leave 5 minutes for questions
Lesson Plan – AP English
Bertozzi
Do Now:
LP: 25
Review Week
Course Evaluation
Homework:
Use review packet to study for final
Complete course evaluation
Objectives:
Review
New Concepts:
Review
Summary:
Leave 5 min for questions
11/12/2013 (Tues)