Welcome to the second quarter!
Please use this URL to upload files for AP Lang: https://www.dropbox.com/request/vkkEoAeiqvHd8zpvnVX6 Here it is as a link. Thursday 7 November: Introduction to the Gatsby paper sequence Friday 8 November: Rhetorical Grammar Chapters 4 re-quest (20 min.); reading from They Say/I Say begun in class: Introduction and Chapter 1, pp. 1–29. Monday 11 November: Stasis Theory and its uses in academic writing; HW: "Kids, Put Down Those Sodas" (the stases in action) Tuesday 12 November: Stases discussion; read Tompkins: "'Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History" for a beginning understanding Wednesday 13 November: First round of discussion; HW: What is Tompkins' solution? Thursday 14 November: Second round of discussion; HW: Consider the Academic Summary (sample) Friday 15 November: Academic Summary; Classroom competition of Poetry Out Loud (or, Where is Gabri or Ostuni when you need her?); hot seat for Academic Summary opens 22 November and closes 26 November; paper due by midnight 26 November; Brainstorming topics for the research sequence; HW: Three-topic memo Monday 18 November: Three-topic memo due Tuesday 19 November: Scholarly and popular sources; credible sources; handout to prepare for the library trip Wednesday 20 November: MLA overview and rationale; hand in most recent three-topic memo Thursday 21 November: Mrs. Walsh on field trip: refine academic summary, continue to do preliminary research using Google Scholar Friday 22 November: Preparation for field trip Monday 25 November: Field trip to University of Maryland library Tuesday 26 November: Field trip de-brief; ways forward; hot seat for Academic Summary closes; Academic Summary due by midnight to Dropbox The Winter Reading book, The Scarlet Letter, is due right after Christmas Break. You are not assigned to read the essay at the front of the book, "The Custom House," but you may read it and give a short presentation on it for extra credit. If you are interested in doing this, please approach me for details about the presentation. Materials: assignment sheet for annotated bibliography checklist for annotated bibliography assignment sheet for stasis grid 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. Monday 2 December: Workday; have paper copies of your sources to read and annotate in class Tuesday 3 December: Rhetorical Devices introduced; Group 1 assigned Wednesday 4 December: They Say/I Say Chapters 2 and 3; teacher notes Thursday 5 December: Two annotations and two grid entries due for mini hot seat in class; bring materials to work forward while you wait for your conference Friday 6 December: Rhetorical Analysis assigned; choosing your text; broad use of the appeals and stases; informal fallacies; the role of evaluation Monday 9 December: Class abbreviated for Feast of the Immaculate Conception All-School Mass; Choice of text for Rhetorical Analysis due; Informal fallacies, day one Tuesday 10 December: Informal fallacies, day two Wednesday 11 December: Rhetorical Devices Group 1 Test; Thursday 12 December: They Say/I Say Chapters 4 and 5 Friday 13 December: Rhetorical Analysis text sentence-gathering exercise Monday 16 December: Annotated bibliography and Stasis Grid due; Rhetorical Analysis workday Tuesday 17 December: They Say/I Say Chapters 6 and 7 Wednesday 18 December: Rhetorical Analysis clean draft due for workshop Thursday 19 December: Lecture on American Romanticism (Scarlet Letter prep, also Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, etc.) Friday 20 December: Rhetorical Analysis due Christmas Break Monday 6 January: Scarlet Letter due; link to discussion of "Custom House" essay (not assigned); HW: Work on mini presentation and gather thoughts for in-class writing; go over notes on rhetorical analysis Tuesday 7 January: Scarlet Letter discussion and workday for mini presentations; Go over any questions on rhetorical terms 1 and 2; HW: Finish mini presentation; gather thoughts for in-class writing Wednesday 8 January: Scarlet Letter mini presentations; HW: Finalize outline for in-class writing Thursday 9 January: In-class writing: The Scarlet Letter; HW: Review Rhetorical Terms 1 and 2 Friday 10 January: Rhetorical Analysis re-write due; Sourced Argument assigned; Classical structure of argument; Causal arguments; HW: Study Rhetorical Terms 1 and 2 Monday 13 January: Rhetorical Terms 1 and 2 Review; Proposal arguments set up in class; HW: Write thesis for the sourced argument (subject to revision) Tuesday 14 January: Rhetorical Terms 1 and 2 Test; Proposal Argument group work completed; Thesis for the Sourced Argument due; Rhetorical Devices Group 3 assigned (due after midterms) They Say/I Say Chapters 6-9 in class Wednesday 15 January: Specific prep for midterm: AP Synthesis Thursday 16 January: Specific prep for midterm: AP Rhetorical Analysis Friday 17 January: Outline for the Sourced Argument due; They Say/I Say Chapters 10 and 11 Midterm: 2 AP Lang essays: Rhetorical Analysis and Synthesis |