Wednesday 15 May: Vote for Flash Unit! Harlem Renaissance wins! DuBois' "Returning Soldiers"
Thursday 16 May: RA prompt (How does DuBois use rhetorical techniques to accomplish his complex purpose?) working due before class; Harlem Renaissance Introduction; "Theme for English B" Friday 17 May: Medieval Day Monday 20 May: Juniors Day Trip to Philadelphia Tuesday 21 May: Work day for poetry project Wednesday 22 May: Workday for poetry project Thursday 23 May: "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" class work Friday 24 May: Non-AP Review Materials available; Poetry project presentations Monday 27 May: No classes; Memorial Day Tuesday 28 May: Prologue to Invisible Man due Wednesday 29 May: Chapter 1 due Thursday 30 May: Chapter 10 due Friday 31 May: In-class writing, Harlem Renaissance and forward Monday 3 June: AP Lit preview Thursday 2 May: Exam review #3 (FRQ3)
Here's a Garden of English video about building evidence for FRQ 3 Friday 3 May: Exam review #4 (MC mini-set and discussion) Monday 6 May: AILD project due; AILD culminating activity Tuesday 7 May: Exam review #5 (synthesis and line of reasoning) Wednesday 8 May: Field Trip! Thursday 9 May: Exam review #6 Friday, May 10: Exam review #7 Afternoon review for AP exam, lunch until the end of the day: big review of many topics; culminating Tea Party Here is a Garden of English video (just teachers talking in this one) about line of reasoning Monday 13 May: (Some out for AP Ital) Exam review the last Tuesday 14 May: AP Language Exam Begin Flash Unit TBA: Othello? Harlem Renaissance? Flannery O'Connor? Here is a pdf of As I Lay Dying
Tuesday 12 March: Rhetorical Terms #3 Test; AILD through p. 10 Wednesday 13 March: AILD, pp. 10-20; go over Rhetorical Terms #4; hot seat opens for short story Thursday 14 March: AILD through p. 34 Friday 15 March: AILD pp. 35–57 Monday 18 March: AILD pp. 58–81 Tuesday 19 March: AILD pp. 82–102 Wednesday 20 March: Faulkner catch-up; more about the last reading Thursday 21 March: AILD pp. 103–127; Rhetorical Terms #4 Friday 22 March: No class; Gala practice Monday 25 March: Class meets; self-contained exam review lesson; Maryland Day Festival Day; hot seat closes for short story Tuesday 26 March: Short story due; recitation due Wednesday 27 March: AILD pp. 128–149 Easter break To prep for exam: Review video for rhetorical analysis; another video Rhetorical analysis assignment sheet Tuesday 9 April: AILD pp. 150–176 Wednesday 10 April: AILD pp. 177–197; Discuss Rhetorical Terms #5 Thursday 11 April: AILD pp. 198–217 Friday 12 April: AILD pp. 218–238 Monday 15 April: AILD: pp. 239–end; AILD assignment available; AILD discussion and culminating activity Tuesday 16 April: Faulkner's Nobel Speech Wednesday 17 April: Passage choice and creative project proposal due; Rhetorical Terms #5 test Thursday 18 April: In-Class Writing: Faulkner's Nobel Speech Rhetorical Analysis Friday 19 April: Jane Austen Day; no class April 20: Practice exam, 9am, Parsonage Monday 22 April: Practice Exam Review Tuesday 23 April: Darl's Cubistic Vision due Wednesday 24 April: Rhetorical terms final (quest-length, ~15 min); AP Exam review #1 (rest of the MC review) Thursday 25 April: AP Exam review #2 (working the prompt: rhetorical analysis of "Darl's Cubistic Vision"; other rhetorical analysis review; bring 5 Steps) Friday 26 April: Grandparents' Day Monday 29 April: Workday for AILD project Tuesday 30 April: Workday for AILD project Wednesday 1 May: Workday for AILD project Tuesday 27 February: "Prufrock" in class; here's that old Modernism handout; "Prufrock" and Gatsby
Wednesday 28 February: Anderson: "The Book of the Grotesque," "Hands"; Here is a pdf of the collection, Winesburg, Ohio, which contains all of the Anderson stories we will read Thursday 29 February: Anderson: "Tandy" Friday 1 March: Anderson: "The Strength of God" Monday 4 March: "The Strength of God," Anderson round-up Tuesday 5 March: Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" due Wednesday 6 March: "Big Two-Hearted River," Part I, due Thursday 7 March: "Big Two-Hearted River," Part II, due; short story assignment made. For Anderson, choose "Paper Pills," "The Teacher," or "Sophistication"; For Hemingway, choose "Battler," "The End of Something," or "The Three-Day Blow"; alternative assignment is to memorize "Prufrock" in full Friday 8 March: Begin As I Lay Dying in class Hot seat for the short story project opens Wednesday 13 March and closes Monday 25 March (no meetings during the school day); Recitation or story due Tuesday 26 March (or Wednesday if we end up losing a day of school for any reason) Rhetorical terms (a very AP form of vocab)
Wednesday 24 January: Midterms; Go over Rhetorical terms #1; Begin "Bartleby"; hot seat opens for sourced argument paper (choose a lunch meeting, Zoom, markup, or screencast option) Thursday 25 January: "Bartleby" Reading 1 (pp. 1–top of 12) due Friday 26 January: "Bartleby" Reading 2 (pp. 12–top of 22) Monday 29 January: "Bartleby" Reading 3 (22–end) due; Reading 3 SQs Tuesday 30 January: Prep for in-class writing Wednesday 31 January: "Bartleby" in-class writing Thursday 1 February: TS/IS Chapter 6 (Nora, Amanda, Katie, Madison, Bella, Stephanie, Anna) or 7 (Daniela, Lily, Sophia, Aislin, Pia, Sofi, Claudia) due, as assigned Friday 2 February: Mrs. Walsh's Famous Emily Dickinson lecture; Dickinson presentation assigned; Dickinson poems chosen; "There Came a Day at Summer's Full" copy text is HW ********************************** Here are the templates again: causal handout 1, handout 2; here is the handout for classical structure; proposal arguments Here are some sample sourced argument papers ********************************* Monday 5 February: "There Came a Day" copy text discussion; work on own copy text Tuesday 6 February: Workday for Emily Dickinson presentation (copy text); for more manuscripts of your poem, see Emily Dickinson Archive Wednesday 7 February: Rhetorical Terms #1 Quiz; go over Rhetorical Terms #2 Thursday 8 February: Workday for Emily Dickinson presentation (close reading) Friday 9 February: Workday for Emily Dickinson presentation (poem in local context) Monday 12 February: No school; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 13 February: Workday for Emily Dickinson presentation (poem in fascicle; conclusion about fascicle) Wednesday 14 February: Presentations begin in class Thursday 15 February: Paper workday; Mrs. Walsh on field trip Friday 16 February: Presentations Monday 19 February: No school; Presidents Day Tuesday 20 February: Presentations; Hot seat closes for sourced argument paper Wednesday 21 February: Sourced Argument paper due; begin finalizing presentation as paper in sections Thursday 22 February: In-Class Writing: The purpose of the fascicles (AP Lang FRQ3, Argument) Friday 23 February: Rhetorical Terms #2 Quiz; Go over Rhetorical Terms #3; Introduce next unit Final Emily Dickinson paper due Tuesday, Feb. 27 Thursday 4 January: Scarlet Letter annotations due; Custom House presentations
Friday 5 January: discussion of approaches to Hawthorne's argument; winter reading guide Monday 8 January: More work with Scarlet Letter winter reading guide Tuesday 9 January: Synthesis essay practice in class; Here are the rubric, samples, and scoring for cursive handwriting (2021). Thesis and Informal outline due for Sourced Argument due; here is Transcendentalism packet Wednesday 10 January: Scarlet Letter in context: Emerson, Thoreau, "Thanatopsis" due for discussion; American nature writing; specific prep for the in-class writing Thursday 11 January: In-class writing on The Scarlet Letter Friday 12 January: Review for Midterm: Synthesis essay practice; here is rubric for wind power synth (2019); here are student samples; here is scoring; and here's the prompt Midterms: AP Lang midterm will consist of one course-related synthesis prompt with some cold materials and one rhetorical analysis from a text we have read previously. Here are more synthesis materials. How to study For the synthesis essay, you should: • be familiar with the texts in the Transcendentalism packet • remember the major ideas of American Romanticism (of which Transcendentalism is a subset) • look at what the synthesis prompts tend to ask--sometimes it's a pro or con, but other times it is some different approach • practice another synthesis prompt to get good at incorporating a wide array of sources with coherence For the rhetorical analysis, you should: • know that I am likely to pull a text from the packet (and not include it as a synthesis source), use an excerpt of The Scarlet Letter or of The Great Gatsby • review that Modernism handout so that you are up on the kind of stylistic devices Fitzgerald is likely to use and the ends to which he is likely to use them • be glad that you reviewed the American Romanticism handout in preparation for the synthesis essay, so that if I give you an excerpt from The Scarlet Letter, you have a good sense of the likely sensibility of the text • review the old rhetorical analysis assignment sheet with the 11 ways in to rhetorical analysis, with special attention to the stases and appeals, but also more literary elements, since I am pulling from a literary text • look at my comments on your various rhetorical analyses Coming Up: Monday 22 January; hot seat opens for Sourced Argument Paper Friday 9 February: hot seat closes for Sourced Argument Paper Tuesday 13 February: Sourced Argument Paper due Thursday 30 November: Piece absolutely chosen for RA, Hot seat assigned for RA, Receive sample Hamer RA (not your assignment, but insightful), AP-type RA discussed in class
Friday 1 December: AP Practice: In-class cold RA Monday 4 December: Discussion of cold RA and student samples Tuesday 5 December: Sourced Argument assignment sheet distributed; Causal arguments: causal chain activity; Wednesday 6 December: Brainstorm causal arguments for your topic; handout 1, handout 2; here is the handout for classical structure; Discuss possible causal arguments; Thursday 7 December: Proposal arguments; group proposal argument activity Friday 8 December: Finish group proposal arguments Monday 11 December: Workday for Rhetorical Analysis Tuesday 12 December: No class; Poetry OutLoud assembly; hot seat closes for Rhetorical Analysis Wednesday 13 December: Field trip to Shakespeare Theatre; Rhetorical analysis due via Google Doc link to Jupiter by 10pm; don't forget work cited page Thursday 14 December: TS/IS Chapter 3 due Friday 15 December: TS/IS Chapter 4 due; in-class activity Monday 18 December: TS/IS Chapter 5 due Tuesday 19 December: Intro to American Romanticism/Transcendentalism, The Scarlet Letter Wednesday 20 December: More Scarlet Letter in class; winter reading guide Monday 23 October: Intro to the Research Paper Sequence; The Academic Summary; Tompkins essay assigned; Brainstorming topics Tuesday 24 October: Three-Topic Memo due; have read Tompkins essay for discussion; HW: What is Tompkins' solution to the apparent problem? Answer should be one paragraph uploaded to Jupiter before class Wednesday 25 October: Tompkins solutions Thursday 26 October: One-Topic Memo due, refined and beautiful, with details, via Google Doc link pasted in Jupiter slot; workday for revisions or for academic summary Friday 27 October: No school; Archdiocesan Professional Day; RA Revision due, along with one revised SQ, by 10pm via Google Doc link in Jupiter slot Monday 30 October: Poetry OutLoud introduced; Scholarly and popular sources; credible sources; hot seat opens for Academic Summary Tuesday 31 October: Research methods; here is worksheet from class Wednesday 1 November: No class; All Saints Festival Thursday 2 November: Prep for library trip; use of JSTOR and Google Scholar Friday 3 November: Purpose of in-text citations and how works cited pages actually make a lot of sense Monday 6 November: How to save stuff you get at the library so that you don't make a ridiculous mistake; other library prep Tuesday 7 November: UMD Library Trip Wednesday 8 November: Workday Thursday 9 November: Hot seat closes for Academic Summary; brush up your sources; begin reading Handing in material for the academic summary: Make me an editor and upload your link to the Google Doc to the slot in Jupiter. In the comment field, note the times you have visited the hot seat and the outcomes. Friday 10 November: Academic Summary due Monday 13 November: Workday for annotated bib, stasis grid HW: Read one article or write one entry + grid Tuesday 14 November: Workday for annotated bib, stasis grid; HW: Read one article or write one entry + grid Wednesday 15 November: Workshop of two annotations, stasis grid entries Thursday 16 November: Begin RA in class, using an AP sample; RA assignment sheet distributed; HW: find your source Friday 17 November: Student samples of 3-page RA; Informal Fallacies; HW: Work on Annotated Bib + Stasis Grid Here is Sample 1; here is the more voice-driven Sample 2 Monday 20 November: Informal Fallacies Tuesday 21 November: Informal Fallacies The Scarlet Letter will be winter reading for AP Lang. You will receive this book at Thanksgiving Break, and it will be due right after Christmas Break. Thanksgiving Break! Monday 27 November: Fannie Lou Hamer; Here is the text of the speech; Here is the video from class; HW: Work on Annotated Bib + Stasis Grid Tuesday 28 November: POL in-class competition; Fannie Lou Hamer; here is the rhetorical analysis from class HW: Work on Annotated Bib + Stasis Grid Wednesday 29 November: Annotated Bib and Stasis Grid due; RA Activities; hot seat opens for RA Rhetorical Analysis is due by 10pm on Wednesday, December 13. Here is the assignment sheet for the annotated bibliography. Here is the checklist for that assignment. Here is a sample student annotated bibliography. Here is a grid you can use for the stasis grid in Word; as a pdf (This grid has spots for 10 articles; you only need to do 5 articles.) link to Popplet student example stasis grids: Popplet 1, Grid 1, Grid 2, and here is another Popplet that sees the stases in a slightly different way and uses popular sources, but you can get the idea. I like the use of the leftmost box for an author credential--it makes the credential easy to remember and forces you to be concise. Thursday 7 September: Welcome; policies; poem due if possible (poem is due tomorrow in class and definitely before the assembly on Friday); rhetoric (Rhetoric is "the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion."--Aristotle); differences between AP Lang and other English classes; Elizabeth Bishop
Friday 8 September: (Class may be shortened because of All-School Mass during 2nd period; poem is still due before the assembly) Poem due in class; here are Gatsby SQs (good resource for thinking about the novel) Monday 11 September: Rhetorical lens: "One Art"; What are some ways in?; SPACECAT Tuesday 12 September: In-class exercises SPACECAT Wednesday 13 September: In-class writing: "One Art" and SPACECAT Thursday 14 September: Gatsby was your assigned summer reading; today is your reading quiz (10 min., objective); opening discussion; this is a good way to do this, because now as we go (pretty fast) it's all your second read-through Friday 15 September: Gatsby Chapter 1 Monday 18 September: Gatsby Chapter 2; HW: finish the drawing or answer 2.5 and 2.7 (the two together), 2.8, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, or 3.9 in a good paragraph--upload the link to the Doc on Jupiter or hand in on paper Tuesday 19 September: Gatsby Chapter 3 Wednesday 20 September: Gatsby Chapter 4; list of names on the timetable Here is the prep page for the Rhetorical Analysis you'll do on Monday Thursday 21 September: No class; Upper School Summer Reading Session #2 instead Friday 22 September: No class; TAC college visit Monday 25 September: Gatsby 1-4 in-class writing Tuesday 26 September: Chapters 4 (after names list); Wednesday 27 September: Chapter 5; main ideas: time words; clock scene; rain, clouds, fog; shirts scene Thursday 28 September: Catch-up: memorization assigned; modernism handout redux; Chapter 6 Friday 29 September: Chapter 7 exercise in class; prep for graded discussion by taking notes on Chapter 7 SQs and thinking about what it all means in light of the end of the novel Monday 2 October: Chapter 7 graded discussion (people called upon) in class; HW: Brush up Chapter 8 Tuesday 3 October: School closed for the funeral of Regina Marigold Bronzi Wednesday 4 October: More Chapter 7; HW: Chapter 8 study question Thursday 5 October: Chapter 8 SQ due Friday 6 October: No class; Full-day festival day for Our Lady of the Rosary Monday 9 October: No school; Columbus Day Tuesday 10 October: Chapter 9 due; culminating activities; Night scene by El Greco activity; HW: Last line activity Wednessday 11 October: No class; PSAT Thursday 12 October: Overall review of The Great Gatsby Friday 13 October: Test: The Great Gatsby; Read They Say/I Say Chapter 1 Monday 16 October: TS/IS Chapter 1 due Tuesday 17 October: Workday; Rhetorical Analysis and SQ revision is also in the hopper, due October 27, but the feedback is fresh now and it would be good to begin working incrementally Wednesday 18 October: Recitation due Thursday 19 October: TS/IS Chapter 2 due; consider Columbus and Franklin for in-class writing Friday 20 October: In-class writing Columbus and Franklin Welcome to AP Lang!
Please read and annotate your copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. I'm excited to talk about the stylistic features of the novel, including its rhetoric, as well as its other elements and its place in American literary history. Think about what intrigues you as you read--is it an aspect of characterization? style? theme? We'll begin by discussing the novel pretty closely, and we'll also use it as a jumping-off point for arguments you will make about issues and ideas the novel raises. Can't wait! |