AP English Language and Composition – 3rd 9 Weeks (Garcia)
DATE
January 7/8
DUE
IN CLASS LESSON
HOMEWORK
Winter Assignment
Review winter
assignment, six part
oration, go over
rubric, group rating
assignment
SAT List and
Rhetorical Device List
#1
SAT List and Rhetorical
Device List #1
Peer review winter
assignments, Fireside
Poets introductory
PPT
Read the poem
assigned to your
group, re-write
persuasive essay per
peer review
Persuasive essay, make
sure you read your
BR/S: Selection
from diction/syntax assigned poem
SAT List and
Rhetorical Device List
#1 QUIZ, groups
complete a TPCASTT
analysis of their
assigned poems and
then present to the
class
Go over multiple
choice questions,
Review Common
problems with
persuasive essays,
transcendentalist
introductory PPT
(Emerson)
Go over Emerson
pieces, introduce
syllogisms and
enthymemes, discuss
Thoreau
MC Practice #1
Go over Emerson
pieces, introduce
syllogisms and
enthymemes, discuss
Thoreau
Go over Thoreau
pieces, Review
syllogisms and
enthymemes, Discuss
rhetorical modes
Read pages: 376-387,
388-389
Answer: 1-9 on page
390
BR/J: Write about
something you
would like to do
differently this
semester.
January 9/10
BR/CE: “Goldiblox”
article and
response
Week 2
January 13/14
workbook
January 15/16
MC Practice #1
BR/SAT:
SAT question of the
day
January 17
BR/CE: “Turn off
the Phone and the
Tension” (archives)
Questions 1-9 on page
372
Read pages: 360-361,
364-368, 369-370,
and 371
Answer: 1-9 on page
372
Read pages: 376-387,
388-389
Answer: 1-9 on page
390
Week 3
January 20
(HOLIDAY)
January 21
BR/CE: “Turn off
the Phone and the
Tension” (archives)
January 22/23
BR/D: Selection
from
Diction/Syntax
workbook
Questions 1-9 on page
372
Questions 1-8 on page
390
SAT and Rhetorical
Device List #2
AP English Language and Composition – 3rd 9 Weeks (Garcia)
January 24
BR/SAT: Question
of the Day
Week 4
January 27
BR/SAT: Question
of the day
January 28/29
SAT and Rhetorical Device
List #2
Timed Writing #1:
Persuasive
MC Practice #2
SAT and Rhetorical Device
List #2
Timed Writing #1:
Persuasive
MC Practice #2
MC Practice #2
Go over MC Practice
HF: Chapters 1-10
#2, SAT and
(due next week)
Rhetorical Device List
#2 QUIZ, Introduce
Huck Finn and
Realism + Naturalism
+ Regionalism, Pick up
HF novel and
assignment packet
Finish introduction to
Mark Twain, satire,
and HF, time for inclass reading and
working on
annotations
HF: Chapters 1-10
Go over common
problems with
persuasive essays
from last week. Go
over chapters 1-10.
POSSIBLE reading
quiz.
Introduce Emily
Dickinson and review
poetry terms. Read
pages 402-417,
answer questions 1-9
on 420
Go over MC Practice
#3, Timed Writing:
Rhetorical Analysis
(Dickinson poetry)
BR/CE:
January 30/31
BR/S:
Week 5
February 3/4
BR/SAT:
February 5/6
BR/CE:
February 7
BR/D:
Week 6
February 10
BR/D:
SAT and Rhetorical Device
List #3
Questions 1-9 on page
420, MC Practice #3
Questions 1-9 on page
420, MC Practice #3
Go over MC Practice
#3, Timed Writing:
Rhetorical Analysis
(Dickinson poetry)
HF: Chapters 11-26
(due next 2/11 and
2/12), SAT and
Rhetorical Device List
#3
Complete Dickinson
assignment, MC
Practice #3
AP English Language and Composition – 3rd 9 Weeks (Garcia)
February 11/12 HF: Chapters 11-26
BR/CE:
February 13/14
BR/SAT:
SAT and rhetorical
device list #3 QUIZ
and possible reading
quiz (Ch. 11-26),
discuss reading
Introduce Walt
Whitman, Read 424436, answer 1-6 on
page 438
HF: Chapters 27Chapter the Last (due
2/18 or 2/19)
Discuss Whitman
poetry, HF Novel
Exam
SAT and rhetorical
device list #4
Complete Walt
Whitman assignment
Week 7
February 17
(HOLIDAY)
February 18/19 HF: Chapters 27-Chapter
BR/S:
February
20/21
the Last, all pending
assignments for HF,
Whitman: 1-6 on page
438
SAT and rhetorical device
list #4
BR/CE:
Week 8
February 24/25 GG: Chapters 1-4
BR/SAT:
February 26/27
BR/D:
February 28
BR/CE:
Week 9
March 3
BR/CE:
MC Practice #4, GG:
chapters 5-9 and all
corresponding
assignments
MC Practice #4, GG:
chapters 5-8 and all
corresponding
assignments
March 4/5
Introduce Fitzgerald
GG: Chapters 1-4 (due
and The Great Gatsby, 2/24 or 2/25)
return HF and pick up
GG, pick up novel
assignment packet
Discuss chapters 1-4,
possible reading quiz,
SAT and rhetorical
device list #4 QUIZ
Introduction to the
synthesis essay
Go over MC Practice
#4, review the end of
GG, continue work on
the synthesis essay
GG: Chapters 5-9 (due
2/28 or 3/3)
MC Practice #4
Go over MC Practice
#4, review the end of
GG, continue work on
the synthesis essay
GG Movie
BR/SAT:
GG Movie, movie analysis
March 6/7
BR/S:
Week 10
March 17/18
BR/CE:
Movie analysis
Timed Write #3:
Synthesis Essay, Begin
reading “Occurrence at
Owl Creek Bridge,” answer
questions 1-9 on page 490
Finish “Owl Creek
Bridge” assignment
AP English Language and Composition – 3rd 9 Weeks (Garcia)
March 19/20
BR/SAT:
Questions 1-9 on page
490
March 21/
BR/D:
Week 11
March 24
BR/D:
March 25/26
March 27/28
Grammar Review
Discuss “Occurrence
at Owl Creek Bridge,”
AP Grammar Review
(AP handout and
pages 149-161 in
Writing America)
Whatever we did not
finish in class
AP Grammar Review
Whatever we did not
(AP handout and
finish in class
pages 149-161 in
Writing America)
9 Weeks Exam Review
9 Weeks Exam
Nine Weeks Exam Will Include: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great
Gatsby, Fireside Poets, Transcendentalist Literature (Emerson and Thoreau),
syllogisms, enthymemes, rhetorical modes, Dickinson and Whitman poetry,
“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, SAT and Rhetorical Modes Lists 1-4. Test will be
timed and include AP-style multiple choice questions as well as 1 timed essay.