Freshmen (Keep Scrolling for AP Lang and AP Lit)
Week of October 5
Monday
I can answer text-dependent questions about an informational text.
Students will read an informational text about Jason Thomas and answer 7 text dependent questions
which hit varying levels of questioning.
Formative assessment: TDQs
Tuesday and Wednesday
I can use a dictionary to look up pre-reading vocabulary for The Odyssey, giving a synonym and an
antonym for each word and completing related textbook vocabulary worksheets
Frayer models for formidable, profusion, sage, adversary, rancor, abominably, ardor, tumult, adversities,
disdainful, adorn, revelry, restitution, glowered, lavished, aloof, pliant, tremulous, surpass, titanic,
teeming, plundered, stronghold, contending, hale, tallying, appalled, pondered, entreat, ordained,
breach, moor, contentious, purling, suffice, maudlin, smote, brazen, contemptible, entrails, tithe, throes,
pliant, tremulous, brine, abyss
46 words
Assessment: Frayer models for all 46 words
Vocabulary Test on Friday
Thursday and Friday
I can take an open book test over Epic Poems
I can take a vocabulary test over The Odyssey words
AP English Language and Composition
Monday
I can participate in a discussion about a rhetorical analysis of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Students will have their responses to a close reading of “Sinners” graded briefly for completion, and
then the teacher will lead the students in a whole group discussion of the analysis.
Tuesday
I can identify the tropes and schemes that create an appeal to ethos, pathos, and logos
Students will place rhetorical devices Jonathan Edwards uses in “Sinners” in an ethos, pathos, logos
chart in order to graphically organize and understand how each strategy matches an appeal.
Wednesday-Friday
I can write a rhetorical analysis of “Sinners” in essay form
Students will work on and complete an essay for grading
Students WILL NOT have a vocabulary test or rhetorical devices test this week.
Students can begin the silent outside reading of The Awakening
AP Literature and Composition
Monday
I can participate in a discussion about a literary analysis of “Sonny’s Blues”
Students will have their responses to a close reading of “Sonny’s” graded briefly for completion, and
then the teacher will lead the students in a whole group discussion of the analysis.
Tuesday
I can compare and contrast motifs and literary devices used in two short stories in order to graphically
outline a literary analysis essay
Wednesday-Friday
I can write a comparative literary analysis of “Sonny’s Blues” and “The Cathedral”
Students will work on and complete an essay for grading
Students WILL have a vocabulary and literary devices test this week (Thursday).
Students will begin the silent reading of Fahrenheit 451