AP Language and Composition 2011 – 2012 Planner. Note: the planner is subject to additions and amendments.
Qtr Texts
“No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch”
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1
Rhetorical analysis & skills
Writing skills
Assessments
Modes of rhetoric: description
Modes of rhetoric: narrative
Modes of rhetoric: example
Modes of rhetoric: classification
Modes of rhetoric: process
Open prompt deconstruction
Rhetorical appeals: ethos, pathos,
and logos
SOAPStone
DIDLS for nonfiction text in a
rhetorical context
Parts of a syllogism
Fallacious arguments
Argument in image and video
The writing process
Reading like writers (DIDLS and
other observations)
How to mark text
Journal writing and the doubleentry journal
Essay introductions and body
paragraphs
Naming definite actions (US,
beginning with the heading on
page 111)
Maintaining related grammatical
subjects (US, 125)
Paragraph breaks
Transitions and topic sentences
Answers to summer reading
questions re: In Cold Blood
Descriptive essay
Writing process essay
Current events analysis task cards
SOAPStone exercise
DIDLS exercise
Paragraph implementing
another’s writer’s stylistic
device
Rhetorical analysis comments on
passage posted to lite.coment.com.
Timed rhetorical analysis essay
Timed persuasive essay (a.k.a.,
open prompt essay)
Test on rhetorical appeals,
methods of argument,
syllogisms, & fallacious
arguments
2
The synthesis essay
Analyze student responses to past
AP essay prompts
Modes of rhetoric: comparison
and contrast
Modes of rhetoric: definition
Modes of rhetoric: cause and
effect
Reading 18th and 19th century
texts
Modes of Rhetoric: Argument
(exemplify, counter-argue,
Patterns of old and new
information (US, 129)
Transitional devices (US, 132)
Coordinate structures (US, 135)
Subordinate structures (US, 138)
Emphasis and stress (US, 141,
144, 150)
Rhythm (US, 161)
Synthesis essay
Debate on current events
Open prompt (persuasive essay
for college application)
Timed open prompt
Answers to summer reading
questions re: Narrative of the
Life of Frederick Douglass
Process analysis group project (on
Frederick Douglass narrative)
Essay parts in blog posts,
comments
by Ann Hodgman (NS)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
“Holy the Firm” by Annie Dillard
(NS)
“How I Wrote the Moth Essay –
and Why” by Annie Dillard (NS)
From Walden by H.D. Thoreau:
paragraph 16 of “Where I Lived,
and What I Lived for”
Current events from topical
magazines and newspapers
"Here, Bullet" by Brian Turner
“All Seven Deadly Sins Committed
at the Church Bake Sale” from
The Onion
“The Six Stages of Email” by Nora
Ephron
“So, You Want To Be a Writer?
Here’s How” by Allegra
Goodman
The Gettysburg Address by
Abraham Lincoln and four other
sources
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Current events from topical
magazines and newspapers
“Gender in the Classroom” by
Deborah Tannen
“Se Habla Espanol” by Tanya
Barrientos
“The Growing Cowardice of Online
Binder page 4
Anonymity” by Richard
Bernstein
3
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Current events from topical
magazines and newspapers
“On Dumpster Diving” by Lars
Eighner
Current events from topical
magazines and newspapers
4
“In Time of ‘The Breaking of
Nations,’” a poem by Thomas
Hardy
“A Matter of Chance,” a short story
by Vladimir Nabokov
“Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” by
Virginia Woolf
“Once More to the Lake” by E. B.
White
John Ruskin essay
Current events from topical
magazines and newspapers
acknowledge, intensify, digress,
conclude)
Toulmin method of argument
Rogerian method of argument
Deductive, inductive, and dialectic
reasoning
Multiple-choice test strategies
Schemes and tropes
Research argument
Irony and satiric method Satiric
method (litotes, satire,
euphemism, hyperbole,
understatement, metonymy,
antiphrasis, sarcasm, Horatian
satire, Juvenalisn satire, irony)
More multiple-choice test
strategies
Analyze more student responses
to past AP essay prompts
Vocabulary: prefixes and word
roots
Rhetorical argument in fiction and
poetry
Socratic seminar
Timed persuasive essay (using
satire or other form of irony)
Student-designed multiple-choice
questions
Cumulative and periodic
sentences
Varying sentence lengths
Other sentence styles
Key to abbreviations:
NS = Norton Sampler, Seventh Edition; US = Understanding Style, Second Edition
Binder page 5
Timed essays
Research paper
Multiple choice practice on a
passage from Blink
Schemes and tropes booklist
Literature circles for Blink
Timed essays
e-portfolio using Mahara on
LoudounVision (after exam)