AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION
4TH QUARTER SCHEDULE—SPRING 2015
LAWRYNOVICZ
Is justice moral righteousness, equity of treatment, or reciprocity of action?
Is justice an evolution of an idea or an incontrovertible fact?
Note: This is a tentative schedule, and is subject to change as needed. Unannounced reading check quizzes may be given at any time.
Tutorials and make ups are Tues & Wed during B block of lunch and after school.
23
Skeleton Draft Workshop
HW: Type up rough draft
but put your ID# instead
of your name on it
24
Anonymous Rough
Draft Workshop
25/26
Rough Draft Workshop 2
HW: Revise and
submit rough draft to
turnitin.com and bring
a hardcopy to class
30
31
1
English EOC 2
Periods 1,2,4,6
AP Prep and Introduction
to Narrative of Frederick
Douglass
HW: Revise and submit
final draft to turnitin.com
& bring a folder with all
hardcopy documents
Revising FAQs and Tips
HW: Keep revising your essay
English EOC 1
Periods 1, 5, 7 meet
MEDIA BIAS PAPER DUE
Introduction to the
Argument Essay
HW: Read chapters 1-2 in
Narrative
6
AP Multiple
Choice practice;
Intro/Discussion
of Narrative
chapters 1-2
HW: Read
chapters 3-6
27
HW: Keep revising your essay
2
No Late Arrival
Periods 2,3,4,5,6,7
Discussion of
Narrative chapters
3-6
3
GOOD FRIDAY
No school
HW: Read chapters
7-9 for Tuesday
7
8/9
IPR 10
Vocab Quiz Unit 9
Argument Essay Practice
Discussion of Narrative
chapters 7-9
AP Multiple Choice Group Quiz
Discussion of Narrative chapter 10
Argument Essay Samples
HW: Read chapter 10 for
Friday
13
14
AP Multiple Choice Quiz
Intro to AP Comparison
Essay
Discussion of Narrative
chapter 11 and the
appendix
HW: Read chapter 11 and the
appendix for Tuesday
15/16
Justice Dilemmas
AP MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST
HW: Read & annotate Darrow’s
closing argument for Tuesday
HW: Read chapter 11 and
the appendix
20
17
21
22/23
24
Vocab Quiz Unit 10
AP Comparison Essay
Practice
HW: Read & annotate
Darrow’s closing argument
27
Discussion of Thoreau’s
“On the Duty of Civil
Disobedience”
HW: Read & annotate
Bush’s speech
Discussion of Darrow’s
closing argument in
defense of Leopold &
Loeb
BACK TO BACK TW
Multiple Choice Test Postmortem
HW: Read & annotate Thoreau’s “On
the Duty of Civil Disobedience”
HW: Review Vocab
28
Discussion of Bush’s
2001“Address to a Joint
Session of Congress”
HW: Read & annotate
King’s Letter from
Birmingham Jail
29/30
Discussion of MLK’s Letter from
Birmingham Jail
IPR 1
Vocab Quiz Unit 11
Discussion of Malcolm X’s “The
Ballot or the Bullet”
HW: Read & annotate Malcolm X’s “The
Ballot or the Bullet”; review vocab
4
STAAR Math/Biology
5
STAAR Math
AP Chem & Environ
AP Calculus AB and
Science AM/Psych PM
BC AM/ Chinese PM
--------------------------------- ----------------------------In class reading and
discussion of Orwell’s
“A Hanging”
AP Speed Dating
AP Prep
11
12
Discussion of FDR’s
“First Inaugural
Address”
18
“The Hero We Create:
9/11 & The Reinvention
of Batman”—Feblowitz
HW: prep for discussion
AP German & APUSH AM/
European History PM
-----------------------------------------AP Prep
13
14
Comparative
Government & World
History AM/ Italian
Statistics PM
& Macroeconomics
------------------------PM
--------------------------Discussion of
Discussion of
Speeches by Chief
Speeches by Chief
Ten Bears & Chief
Ten Bears & Chief
Seattle
Seattle
OUR
EXAM AM/
19
Human Geography &
Microeconomics AM/ Latin PM
--------------------------------Discussion of The Melian
Dialogue— Thucydides
HW: Read & annotate the batman
article
20/21
22
You Call THAT Poetry?:
Misconceptions Confronted
(See, I told you poetry could be
awesome!)
UNIT VII TEST
Graded Discussion
15
HW: Study for Test!
25
Memorial Day
(no school)
26
Sound, Form, Rhythm,
and poems that might
get you sent to the
principal’s office
1
Review
AP Prep
8
HW: Read & annotate Scalia’s
“God’s Justice and Ours”
AP Biology &
AP Government AM;
Music Theory AM/
French Language &
Physics PM
Spanish Literature PM
--------------------------------- --------------------------------Discussion of “God’s
Justice and Ours”—
Antonin Scalia
67
7
AP English
AP Computer
Literature AM/
Science A &
Japanese Language
Spanish Lang AM/
&
Art History &
Physics 1PM
Physics 2PM
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27/28
29
Poetry Quiz
Wait, this poem is about WHAT?: How not
to fail your college poetry class
“A is for Apple” and Poetry Beyond
the Page
2
3-5
Review
Finals
4th Quarter Grades
Summatives: 75%
1. Media Bias Paper
2. Back to Back Timed Writing
3. AP Multiple Choice Test
4. Justice Unit Test
Formatives: 25%
Announced Formatives:
1. Skeleton Draft/Rough Draft/Workshop grades (daily grade)
2. AP Multiple Choice Group Quiz
3. AP Multiple Choice Individual Quiz
4. Vocab Quiz 9
5. Vocab Quiz 10
6. Vocab Quiz 11
7. Justice Unit Graded Discussion (Quiz grade)
8. Poetry Quiz
Unannounced Formatives: (These will be given/collected/checked at my discretion—not all will be entered as grades.)
9. Reading Check and Warm-up Quizzes (Quiz grades)
10. In-class activities/homework/annotation checks (Daily and/or quiz grades if entered)