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Mitchell - AP English Language & Composition Assignments

Instructor
Ms. Carrie Mitchell
Term
2019-2020 School Year
Department
Language Arts
Description
 

Class Title:

AP Language and Composition

Code:

HLA400

Text:

50 Essays: A Portable Anthology; Easy Writer: A Pocket Reference; The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, Rhetoric

Rating:

5+

Prerequisite:

Instructor Recommendation

Grade:

10-12

Fees:

Yes, for AP Exam (approx. $90)

Max:

12

Can be repeated? No

 

Description: The curriculum for this course follows the criteria required from the Advanced Placement College Board Program. This course will prepare students to take the AP Language and Composition Exam in May for which there is a fee. College credit can be earned based on test performance. Course content includes the intensive study of non-fiction with an emphasis on the rhetorical analysis of a variety of essays, speeches and full-length non-fiction selections, and argumentation with an emphasis on Toulmin structure, argumentative fallacy and audience appeals. Students will write a variety of expository and argumentative essays and speeches and engage in individual and group presentations.




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Please take your Midterm Essays and type them into separate Docs that you share with me. 
Feel free to polish them as you do this!  
Share them with me asap - by Tuesday a.m. would be great so that I can look them over and then we will have 20 minute individual meetings to score and discuss them in class on Thursday!
Here are the prompts: 
Here is the rubric:
        2020 AP Lang Rubrics

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1. Please read Chapter 4 of Tribe "Calling Home from Mars" and the Postscript. 

2. Take notes for yourself on the main argumentative points the author makes in this                         chapter. 

3. Then, formulate one or two argumentative prompts that stem from some aspect of this                 book.  Use this list (8 Real Argumentative Prompts) and your study book for examples to         help you in structuring your prompts.

4. Here is an example if you are interested: Tribe Sample Argumentative Prompt.

5. Finally, add your best original argumentative prompt here: 2020 Tribe Arg Prompt

 

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Please read Chapter 3 of Tribe "In Bitter Safety I Awake" and complete this: Tribe Reading Guide #3. It asks you to do a lot of reading, thinking and responding, so give yourself plenty of time.

 
Fallacy Quiz #2: Study Fallacies 1-16, but focus on the last 8. Here are the cartoons: AP Lang Fallacy Cartoon Collection!

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Please read Chapter 2 of Tribe "War Makes You an Animal" pages 35-70, and complete this: Tribe Reading Guide #2.

 

And, time yourself for 11 minutes as you do the passage on pages 216 in your practice book (questions 12-23). Just keep track of your answers in the book.

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Timed Writing (half hour - one paragraph - underline thesis): What should the U.S. do regarding the issue of teen vaping?

 

Please read Tribe, Author's Note, Introduction & Chapter 1, and complete and share this: Reading Guide #1.

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Study first 8 fallacies for quiz Thursday, 1/30/20.

 

Please read Chapter 1 in your AP Lang Test Book - Pages 51-73.  Take notes as you go and determine ways you can apply it to your upcoming test.  

 

And, using the answer pages, review your work from M/C Practice Test #1 and fill in this chart: Practice Test #1 M/C Analysis. Share this with me!

 

Work on Modest Ignite Presentation & These Two Docs.

        M.I. Planning Doc

        M.I. Script

        Other stuff as determined by your group

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Please read this essay: "Curbing Nature's Paparazzi" by Bill McKibben It's also in your 50 Essays book if you'd like a hard copy. Think carefully about his use of a Toulmin-type framework and try to identify the claim, warrant, backing, data, rebuttal, etc.

 

Complete the practice multiple choice test on pages 10-20. You can and should write in your book so annotate, annotate, annotate! Please enter your answers into this form: AP Lang TPR Practice #1 2020.

 
Take home 3 "upfront" magazines and scour them for potential argumentative topics. 
Write three should/should not statements from the magazines.

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Read and annotate Jonathan Swift's legendary essay "A Modest Proposal" (here is a copy "A Modest Proposal" and it's also in your 50 Essays) and after you do so, click here and complete this: AMP Activity as directed. There are several steps, so follow the directions and don't put this off until late Wednesday night, January 15. ;)

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Complete and share your Family Romanov Research Paper by 11:59 p.m.!
    Make sure it has: 

  • a strong, sustainable, supportable thesis

  • ample textual evidence incorporated thoughtfully and seamlessly from TFR and quality outside sources  (here is some help with that: Finding Quality Sources

  • an argument that links the topic to TFR

  • an intelligent, thoughtful conclusion

  • correct MLA manuscript format with parenthetical documentation and a works cited page (more info: https://style.mla.org/formatting-papers/)

  • formal academic diction

  • no errors in mechanics, usage, grammar and spelling

 

Please finish Animal Farm and fill in this form: Animal Farm Historical Reference Doc as much as you can. You can even google things as long as you  finish the book and try on your own first.
 
After you finish the book, look through this: Animal Farm Post-Reading Activities and select a couple of items that interest you. This isn't due until JANUARY 16, 2020, but I want to hear what you are thinking of doing. :)

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1.  Continue to work on your research paper. If you get a draft done or make a good start on         it, and want me to look it over, please send it to me and I will do some editing and
     commenting for you. :)
 
2. Read Animal Farm, chapters 1-5 and work on filling in this as you go:

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1.
         What is a claim the author of the book makes about Rasputin? How does she support
                her claim? Write the claim and two to three supporting statements for it from the                        book set up and cited correctly on this google doc that you share with me:
                Rasputin Claim and Evidence Doc.
 
2.  Please read Part 4 of The Family Romanov called "Final Days" taking notes for each                   chapter like this:
        What is the Central Claim?    
        How does the author support her claim?
      
Continue to work on your research paper. If you get a draft done or make a good start on it, and want me to look it over, please send it to me!

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Please read Part 3 of The Family Romanov called "The Storm Breaks" taking notes for each chapter like this:
        Who is Involved?    
        What is happening?
        What is the author's main argument?
        What evidence does she use to make her argument?
 
And firm up your topic for your expository/analytical paper by first, writing a research question and then writing a detailed answer to that question on this doc.

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Please read Part 2 of The Family Romanov called "Dark Clouds Gathering" taking notes in these three categories:
         1. The Royal Family: the Good, the Bad, the Confusing

         2.  Russia's Problems (i.e. What leads to the revolution?)

     3.  Different Lenses at Work (i.e. Besides the political story lines, what other story lines                  are present?

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No homework - congratulations on a great quarter!

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COMPLETE THESE AND PRINT OUT TO USE ON THE MIDTERM!

Daily UGH Practice #1

Daily UGH Practice #2

 

Create a list of authors and essays from this quarter using this doc, or one of your own devising: Essays/Quarter 1 2019

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I. Please read this humorous essay by Dave Barry: "Turkeys in Kitchen" (aka "Lost in the             Kitchen") (Here it is if you want a digital version).

     As you go, annotate to gather evidence to support a response to this prompt:  How does             Barry's use of humor enhance his argument?  Consider such things as  irony, sarcasm,             stereotypes, understatement, etc.

 

II. Please study (or continue to study) your words in the Glossary of Style Elements on pages

 78-80. These will be on the midterm exam, October 17, 2019.

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I.  Finish MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (paragraphs 30 on) and pick the                         "juiciest" sentence in those paragraphs.  Do a UGH-style analysis of it on a google 
     slide that you share with me.   Identify the type, kind and number of prepositional 
     phrases and do the kind of marking and labeling we do in class.  Also, label and 
     PIGs (participles, infinitives, gerunds) and rhetorical devices (see Glossary of Style
     Elements on pages 78-80). Here is a sample.  This will take some time and designing
     to both analyze and create!
 
II.  "Birmingham Jail" Writing Prompt:  Select a quotation from King's letter and explain
        1. why you find it compelling or 2. on what grounds you would challenge it. Cite evi-
        dence from the text, your own experience and/or reading to support your position.  
 
        1.  Pick a quotation
        2.  Select a position (It's compelling! or I disagree!)
        3.  Collect evidence to support your position
        4.  That's it. Don't write anything formally - just lay the groundwork...

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I.  Please read "Inside Kennedy's Inauguration, 50 Years On" on pages 74 - 77 in the text book.  Annotate as you go, marking passages that interest you, confuse you, and/or stand out. Then, generate at least 5 questions about this text in the style of those at the end of the Inaugural Address.  Answer your own questions. Feel free to use THIS DOC to do so.
 
II.  Study the words in the Glossary of Style Elements on pages 78-80.  Create flash cards on paper or on a place like quizlet.com.  There won't be a quiz or anything...yet...but these are words that will keep coming up as we look at more and more complex texts, so begin to acquaint yourself with them now. 

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1.  Please read Frederick Douglass's "Learning to Read and Write" in 50 Essays. Here is a pdf. Be sure to read the introductory elements, and this brief bio of this important American author:  Frederick Douglass - PBS
 
2.  In your textbook, read pages 23 to 29 on determining effective and ineffective Rhetoric and do the activities - in your head or on scratch paper.  Then, complete Culminating Activity on pages 30 - 35 using THIS FORM for the task on page 30.

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       A.  Read this essay and annotate as you go using a method of your choosing.
       B.  Answer these questions.
2.  Select one of the three essays we have read so far: "Once More to the Lake" by E.B. White, "Death of a Moth" by Virginia Woolf, or "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell, and complete a SOAPS analysis of it to determine its rhetorical situation.  Information on this is on pages 5-7 in the textbook.  It may be useful to create a chart like that on page 6.

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1. Supplies you might want for this class include highlighters, colored pens or pencils, notecards, sticky notes, and a dedicated notebook. But, you can also do most things on the computer as well, so you have some flexibility.

 

2. Please read pages 1-20 in Lang & Comp and take notes to understand the concepts presented that are unfamiliar to you. Pay special attention to (i.e. become an expert on) the section assigned to you. There are many Activities in the reading, but please only do those that relate to the section you are assigned below:
  •     Bre: SOAPS (5-7)
  •     Lincoln: Rhetorical Situation (2-5)
  •     Jeremy: Ethos (7-10)
  •     Evan: Pathos (13-18)
  •     Skyler: Logos (11-13)