ENG III AP LANGUAGE and COMPOSITION
Blocks 1 and 2
Week 1-
Student Orientation
Class Expectations and class procedures
Distribute Vocabulary H Saddlier word list
Major Works: Native Son,The Crucible, Scarlet Letter, 1984, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Great Gatsby (referred to by initials) as well as other works.
Analysis/ Deconstruction of texts (using the following mnemonic devices as helpful)
SOAPS (Subject/Occasion/Audience/Purpose/Speaker)
DIDLS (Diction/Imagery/Details/Language/Syntax)
DALIPS (Diction/Analogy or Allusion/Language/Repetion/Images/People or Places/Structure or Syntax)
DORTS (Details/Organization/Time frames/Strategies)
Concrete proof/support
Applied Grammar
Sentence variety
AP Exam Practice
Essays with concrete supporting evidence
Text distribution:
Introductory discussion of The Crucible
test
essay
discussion and movie
Study for Native Son test, Vocabulary # 1 quiz and complete folder project -presentations will be Monday morning.
Week 2 -
Native Son> NS
NS Discussions
NS quotes test
NS essay
AP Practice #1
Voc. quiz #1
Discuss Rhetorical terms for quiz
Week 3 - Labor Day
Give out textbooks, The Language of Composition
Literary terms quiz # 1
Continue deconstruction through rhetorical modes using examples from selected essays.
HW every week: find current events/ cartoon - read and find the SOAPS and DIDLS for each article.
Type and bring in on the first weekday of school.
Literary Vocabulary with Vocabulary H - quiz every Tuesday
Literary Terms test every Thursday
Week 4 -
Discuss APE and CPR
more mnemonics to assist with supporting assertions/claims.
Review student analyses. HW. Chapter 1 in Lang. of Comp.
Voc. quiz # 2
Week 5 -
Evaluate the SOAPS for the editorials. Controversial discussion of the news.
Read articles from the New York Times Magazine.
Break into groups to find the SOAPS and DIDLS of each article.
Lit. Terms #2
Week 6 -
Continue group work analyzing the essays
Vocabulary Quiz # 3
Read and be prepared to discuss
Early release day - "A Modest Proposal"
Practice AP Exam on Friday
Find and read analyse current event -SOAPS
AP III - Read one chapter from The Language of Composition each week
October 28 Read chapter 6 - Community p. 259-346 concentrating on King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and Thoreau's "Where I Lived and What I Lived For."
Weekly assignments: Read Chapter 7 "Gender" p. 347-428, Grammar p. 420-426 (1-4 all)
Beginning November 10th
Mondays - Current events will be due every Monday (or, on weeks when Monday is a holiday, on Tuesday)
The format should be as follows:
EACH ANALYSIS MUST BE TYPED IN ORDER TO RECEIVE ANY CREDIT.
For each current event--Write a precis for each article.Rhetorical Precis-- Oregon State
For published cartoon, graph, chart, or other visual --
a. Attach the cartoon, graph, chart, or other visual to your analysis
b. Using SOAPS Identify the cultural, technological, or societal trend being commented on in the cartoon
c. Evaluate the effectiveness of the visual
d. Comment on and evaluate the implications of the trend
Note 1: You must identify each source on your analysis in proper MLA format
Note 2: Excellent sources for the op-ed articles include The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The Economist, The Nation, Newsweek,
The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time Magazine. Some of these are available online; some can be accessed through the school's databases at http://infotrac.galegroup.com/browardcpsit. You can also search columnists at http://www.blueagle.com/ and http://polinks.com/.
Wednesday 11/12- Please type the answers to the questions on Rhetoric and Style at the end of the first two essays on gender by Gould and Woolf.
We discussed a project on Propaganda (from 1940-1999 in the U. S.) This will be officially assigned on Thursday 11/13 and due Thursday on November 20th. www.propagandacritic.com
11/12- The Great Gatsby exam
11/13 until complete, presentations will continue. Grammar exercises due on Friday.
Read Chapter 9 "Language" beginning on p. 507
AP LANGUAGE and COMPOSITION practice FREE online at www.flvs.net for extra practice.