Mitchell - AP English Language & Composition

Instructor: Ms. Carrie Mitchell
Department: Language Arts
Terms: 2019-2020 School Year

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Course 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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Homework Due Th/Fri, Oct 10/11, 2019

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.

Agendas for Th, Fri, Oct. 3, 4, 2019

MIDTERM October 17-18, 2019

Essays, Rhetorical Analysis, Appeals, Sentence Analysis, Thesis Statements & Text Support

Friday, October 4, 2019

I. Daily UGH #12 -PP and S-V Practice

II. MLK "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" Quiz - Check Results

II. "On Running After One's Hat" by G.K. Chesterton

1. Identify and describe the components of the rhetorical situation

A. exigence - why it was written

B. audience - beliefs, values, needs, backgrounds

C. writer - experience (ethos)

D. purpose

E. context - time, place & occasion

F. message

2. Identify the writer's claim and evidence/reasoning

A. What is the writer's claim?

B. How does he defend it?

a. facts, anecdotes, stats, analogies, expert opinions, personal observations,

etc.

Thursday, October 3, 2019

I. Daily UGH #11 - MLK

II. Share/Discuss MLK Juicy Sentences (Here is a sample)

III. MLK Timed Writing (paragraph)

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 evidence from the text, your own experience and/or reading to support your position.

IV. Little Homework: MLK "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" Quiz

Homework Due Thursday, October 3, 2019

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...

Class Agendas for Thur/Fri, Sept. 26/27, 2019

Friday, September 27, 2019

I. Daily UGH #10 - MLK (training wheels off for this one!)

II. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" Pars. 6-29: What did you find?!? What does it mean?

Pick a paragraph to discuss: rhetoricial devices, appeals, claims and reasons.

III Practice on AP Website: try this: myap.collegeboard.org. Or whatever magic trick you

have to log into your College Board account.

Thursday, September 26, 2019

I. Daily UGH #9: MLK

II. "Inside Kennedy's Inauguration, 50 Years On" on pages 74 - 77

your questions & answers (maybe on THIS DOC).

III. Let's look at/discuss the words in the Glossary of Style Elements on pages 78-80.

IV. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.

1. Context

2. Let's read this too

3. First Five Paragraphs - Analysis

V. LITTLE HOMEWORK - for tomorrow, please read paragraphs 6-29 of King's "Letter from

a Birmingham Jail." It's very long, but would be a good idea to print it out so you can

annotate it. Or, you can sticky note the version in either 50 Essays or your text book.

As you read, consult the Glossary of S

Homework Due Thursday, January 26, 2019

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.

Class Agendas for 9/19 and 9/20, 2019

Friday, September 20, 2019

I. Daily UGH #8 (feat. Infinitives!)

II. JFK's Inaugural Address

Let's really chew this up, paragraph by paragraph.

How did those questions go (pp. 72 and 73)? Turn in/Share...

Thursday, September 19, 2019

I. Daily UGH #7 (feat. Participles!)

II. Douglass: Ethos, Logos & Pathos Archeology

Find three examples of your assigned appeal & report out

III. The 1969 Moon Landing - Different Perspectives & Purposes

Discuss and turn in THIS FORM for the task on page 30.

IV. LITTLE HOMEWORK: Please read on pages 69-72 of your textbook, or print out to read/annotate the link above. Then, look at the thirteen questions that follow. Answer as many of these as you can, as completely as you can. For those you can't answer, please explain why. Like - maybe the question has vocabulary in it that we haven't gone over...yet. Maybe it doesn't make sense...yet, etc. Do this either on this doc, or on your own paper.

Homework Due Thurs., Sept. 19, 2019

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.

Agendas for Thursday/Friday, Sept. 12/13, 2019

Friday, September 13!, 2019

I. Daily UGH #6: Hughes

II. Intro to Rhetoric Short Video

III. "Salvation" by Langston Hughes.

Check/DiscussRhetorical Situation Guide

Close Reading Practice: Beginnings and Endings

Evan & Jeremy

Bre & Skyler

Thursday, September 12, 2019

I. Daily UGH #5 from Orwell again

II. "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell

Questions & Answers (make sure to share these with me!)

Close Reading Practice - The Final Paragraph

One Good Sentence: What is Orwell's claim, as stated in his final paragraph and what evidence does he provide to support/justify it?

Short AP-Style M/C Quiz. Click Here. Twelve minutes to complete!

III. Turn In/Share your SOAPS analysis on one of the three essays.

IV. LITTLE HOMEWORK: For tomorrow, please read "Salvation" by Langston Hughes and complete this Rhetorical Situation Guide.

Homework Due Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019

Due Thursday, September 12, 2019

1. "Shooting and Elephant".

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.

Agendas for Thursday/Friday, September 5/6, 2019

Friday, September 6, 2019

I. Daily UGH #4 from Orwell

II. Discuss Woolf using notes for help.

Remember, the focus is on DICTION (word choice), SYNTAX (word order), and COMPARISONS and how these contribute to the TONE & STYLE of the essay. And then, of course, the ultimate question is SO WHAT? What is Woolf trying to tell us?

III. Claims and Support Activity (Pairs)

What is Woolf trying to tell us? The answer to that question is a CLAIM.

To fully answer, however, one needs EVIDENCE from the text.

IV. Intro to Orwell's "Shooting and Elephant"

Thursday, September 5, 2019

*Is Everyone Signed Up For AP Classroom?!?*

I. Daily UGH #3 from Woolf

II. Pages 1-20 in Lang & Comp - Quick Presentation

Bre: SOAPS (5-7)
Lincoln: Rhetorical Situation (2-5)
Jeremy: Ethos (7-10)
Evan: Pathos (13-18)
Skyler: Logos (11-13

Essentially, you just need to report on what you learned and found interesting in your assigned pages!

III. Finally - Essay #2: The Death of the Moth" by Virginia Woolf

A. Reading Journal Practice as a class

Little Homework: For tomorrow, please re-read The Death of the Moth" by Virginia Woolf.

After you finish, please think about Woolf's DICTION (word choice) and SYNTAX (word order) and her use of COMPARISONS contribute to the TONE & STYLE of the essay. Make some notes on this doc (or just do this on a piece of paper if you prefer) for a discussion tomorrow.

Homework Due Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019

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)

Agenda for Thursday/Friday, Aug. 29/30, 2019

Friday, August 30, 2019

I. Administrativia: How to Join an AP Class (Join Code For AP Lang: MEKJW9)

II. Daily UGH #2 and some notes.

III. "Once More to the Lake"

A. Discussion & Annotation Check

B. Writing Prompt: Some readers feel that the ending paragraph of this essay "ruins"

it. Write an essay in which you argue for or against the suitability of White's

conclusion.

C. Thesis Statement Practice

(A bit of help: E.B. White's classic essay's ending, including the words "____" is

an appropriate/inappropriate conclusion to the piece, simply because _____.)

IV. Essay #2: The Death of the Moth" by Virginia Woolf

A. Reading Journal Advice

B. Practice

Thursday, August 29, 2019

I. The Magic AP Lang Bus and...YOU!

II. What is Rhetorical Analysis?

A. Daily UGH*: Let's start with a unpacking a single sentence

III. Annotation Practice:

Advice

"Once More to the Lake" Excerpt

IV. Book Check Outs

A. 50 Essays

V. Little Homework: For tomorrow, please read E.B. White's "Once More to the Lake" in 50 Essays. It is important that you ACTIVELY READ via annotation, so you can do so via sticky notes in the book, or you can print this version and annotate it right on the page. I recommend this method as its easier and you'll probably be more detailed. Even if you don't fully feel like you know what you are doing at this point, make some marks/comments/ notes/etc. ;)

And, make sure to consult this Advice document before you start reading.

Welcome!

It's exciting to start a new academic year in an amazing new building!

I will post class agendas and homework assignments here each week.

The same information can be found here: Carrie Mitchell's APEX Website

Looking forward to a great year!

Carrie Mitchell