AP English Language and Composition Calendar
January 2015
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 --
Students will. . .
1/5
Welcome Back!
*Submit Walden collage
and CD or journal
1/6
Socratic seminar on
Thoreau, Emerson, and
Whitman
1/7
Socratic seminar on
Thoreau, Emerson, and
Whitman
1/8
Timed Writing:
Persuasive Essay on
Thoreau quote
Receive handout on
reminders for
persuasive writing
(goals and
expectations) and
study guide for
Transcendentalism test
*Take SAT Unit 5 Vocab.
Quiz
Prepare for Socratic
seminar discussion on
Transcendental readings
1/9
Test on
Transcendentalism
(multiple choice,
true/false, matching)
*AP Words (list #1) will
appear in the AP
multiple choice section
of the test. Be sure to
review this terminology
Homework: Review for
midterm exam. Continue
reading Huck Finn
Homework: Review
for midterm exam.
Continue reading
Huck Finn
Homework: Review
for midterm exam.
Continue reading
Huck Finn
Homework: Review
for tomorrow’s test
Homework: Review
for midterm exam.
Continue reading
Huck Finn
1/12
Midterm Exam Day
1/13
Receive 2014
Synthesis Essay
sources. Read and
annotate individually
or with a partner
1/14
Watch CNN
documentary on
synthesis essay topic,
Ivory Tower
1/15
Watch CNN
documentary on
synthesis essay topic,
Ivory Tower
1/16
No School Act 80 Day
Homework: Read chapter
5 of The Language of
Composition and Huck
Finn
Homework: Read
chapter 5 of The
Language of
Composition and
Huck Finn
Homework: Read
chapter 5 of The
Language of
Composition and
Huck Finn
Homework: Read
chapter 5 of The
Language of
Composition and Huck
Finn
Homework: Read
chapter 5 of The
Language of
Composition and Huck
Finn
1/19
No School –
MLK Day (first snow
make-up day)
1/20 (last day of
semester 1)
1/21
Continue Socratic
seminar discussion
1/22
Review goals of the
synthesis essay. Receive
handout that
compares/contrasts the
synthesis essay and
DBQ
1/23
Timed Writing: 2014
Synthesis Essay Prompt
Homework: Read
Huck Finn
Homework: Read
Huck Finn
Homework: Read
Huck Finn
*Submit chapter 5
reading assignment
Socratic seminar on
the rising cost of
education and its
value. Consider
synthesis sources,
documentary film, and
chapter 5 reading
Homework: Chapter 5
assignment due tomorrow
Homework: Read
Huck Finn
Grad Project
Presentations. Report to
high school by 12:45
p.m. Dress
professionally
AP English Language and Composition Calendar
1/26
View 60 Minutes clip on
use of “n” word in Huck
Finn. Discuss personal
reactions to use
1/27
Receive background
notes on Mark Twain
and The Adventures of
Huck Finn
1/28
Continue background
notes on Twain and
Huck Finn
1/29
Reading test on Huck
Finn
1/30
Receive excerpt from
Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass: An
American Slave (read
for homework)
Take NYT dialect quiz and
discuss results. Relate to
Twain’s use of dialect in
Huck Finn
Receive The Great
Gatsby (you have two
and a half weeks to read
the book)
Homework: Prepare for
reading test on Huck
Finn
Homework: Prepare
for reading test on
Huck Finn
Homework: Prepare
for reading test on
Huck Finn
Homework: Begin
reading The Great
Gatsby
Homework: Begin
reading The Great
Gatsby and read
excerpt from Douglass
narrative