AP English Language and Composition Calendar
December 2014
Mrs. Kaszonyi
(412) 655-8610 x 6255
E-mail: lkaszonyi@wjhsd.net
ALL LESSON PLANS APPEAR ONLINE AT: HTTP://KASZONYI.WIKISPACES.COM
*Please note: Plans are subject to change at teacher discretion.
State Standards:
Monday
Tuesday
Possible Exam
Day
Wednesday
Possible Exam
Day
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8
Thursday
Friday
OBJECTIVES -12/1
No School Thanksgiving Break
Students will. . .
12/2
Discuss the timed
writing persuasive
essay. Return/review
work
View short biography
clip on Edgar Allan
Poe’s life
Receive notes on Poe’s
life and motifs
12/3
Finish notes, if needed
Receive notes on “The
Fall of the House of
Usher” (review
independently)
12/4
Take reading quiz on
“Hop Frog” and “Fall
of the House of Usher”
Begin Socratic seminar
on Poe’s prose
In-class reading time
provided for “Fall of
the House” (quiz
tomorrow) or watch
first portion of video
version
12/5
Continue Socratic
seminar on Poe’s prose
*Note: Poe represents an
“Anti-Transcendental”
outlook on life (connect
to next unit)
Transition into “value
assessment” to introduce
study of
Transcendentalism
Receive Walden book
Homework: Read “Hop
Frog,” the Paul Gilmore
article, and “Fall of the
House of Usher”
Homework: Read
“Fall of the House of
Usher”
Homework: Read
“Fall of the House of
Usher” and review
notes on motifs
12/8
Receive Henry David
Thoreau and Ralph Waldo
Emerson reading
assignment
12/9
Continue notes on
Transcendentalism and
Henry David Thoreau
12/10
Finish notes on
Transcendentalism
Consider
governmental
perspectives on
Transcendentalism
(apply to John Locke)
Begin notes on
Transcendentalism
Homework: none
12/11
Receive notes on
rhetorical strategies
(some are review and
some are new terms).
All are applicable to
the AP exam in May
Introduce the AP Word
Lists
Determine your stance
on the movement (T or
AT)
Homework: Begin
Thoreau/Emerson
reading assignment
ASAP (due 12/17)
12/12
*Take SAT Unit 4 Quiz
Read and annotate the
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s
“I Have a Dream” speech
(speech represents
Transcendental
perspective). Plan a
response using the
outline form.
Receive SAT Unit 5
vocabulary list
Homework: Continue
Thoreau/Emerson
reading assignment (due
12/17)
Homework: Continue
work on
Thoreau/Emerson
reading assignment
Homework: Continue
work on
Thoreau/Emerson
reading assignment
Homework: Continue
work on
Thoreau/Emerson
reading assignment
Homework: Continue
work on
Thoreau/Emerson
reading assignment
12/15
Timed Writing – Rhetorical
Analysis Essay on MLK’s
speech
12/16
Introduce the Walden
journal, CD project,
and bucket list (due
12/23)
12/17 *Thoreau &
Emerson reading
assignment due
12/18
Report to the computer
lab to continue group
work for debate project
12/19
Report to the computer
lab to continue group
work for debate project
Homework: Walden
journal, CD, bucket
list
Homework: Walden
journal, CD, bucket list
Introduce debate
project. Formulate
teams and begin
brainstorming
Homework: Continue
work on
Thoreau/Emerson
Homework: Continue
work on
Thoreau/Emerson
Assign group roles/
tasks for debate project
Begin work on
writing/ planning for
debate within groups
in the computer lab
Homework: Walden
journal, CD, bucket
list
AP English Language and Composition Calendar
12/22
Debate Day 1: Will present
opening statements,
arguments, and possibly
begin rebuttals
12/23
Debate Day 2: Will
continue with rebuttals
and present closing
arguments
12/24
No School –
Holiday Recess
12/25
No School –
Holiday Recess
12/26
No School –
Holiday Recess
Homework: Read
Huck Finn and
complete midterm
review guide
Homework: Read
Huck Finn and
complete midterm
review guide
Homework: Read Huck
Finn and complete
midterm review guide
*Submit journal, CD,
bucket list.
Please note: There will
be a timed writing
pertaining to the
Transcendentalism
unit after break. There
will also be an AP
multiple choice test.
Keep all material
related to this unit.
Receive midterm
review guide
(complete over break).
Midterm is tentatively
scheduled for Mon.,
January 12th
Receive The
Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
(read over break)
Homework: Walden
journal, CD, bucket list
(due tomorrow)
Homework: Read
Huck Finn and
complete midterm
review guide