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AP Language and Composition 2014 – 2015 Planner. Note: the planner is subject to additions and amendments.Qtr.TextsRhetorical analysis & skillsWriting skillsAssessments1“Holy the Firm” by Annie Dillard “How I Wrote the Moth Essay – and Why” by Annie Dillard Current events from topical magazines and newspapersNew York Magazine cover“Miss Dennis School of Writing” by Alice Steinbach“None of This Is Fair” by Richard Rodriguez“Losing Private Dwyer” by Lawrence Downes“Champion of the World” by Maya Angelou“How to Poison the Earth” by Linnea Saukko“Like Mexicans” by Gary Soto“Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate” by Sally Satel“Climbing Golden Arches” by Marissa NunezRhetorical appeals: ethos, pathos, and logosSOAPStoneDIDLS for nonfiction text in a rhetorical contextVisual literacyModes of rhetoric: descriptionModes of rhetoric: narrativeModes of rhetoric: exampleModes of rhetoric: classificationModes of rhetoric: processModes of rhetoric: comparison and contrastModes of rhetoric: definitionModes of rhetoric: cause/effectRhetorical essay deconstructionTropes & SchemesMultiple choice - analysisAnalysis of student responses to past AP rhetorical essay promptsReading like writers (DIDLS and other observations)How to mark textJournal writing Essay introductions and body paragraphsMaintaining related grammatical subjects Paragraph breaksTransitions and topic sentencesSentence typesCumulative sentencePeriodic sentenceParticipial phrasesAbsolute phrasesVocabularyActive/passive voiceSummer assignment – current eventsCurrent events quizSummer assign. – annotationModes imitationsDescriptive essayWriting process essayCollege essaySOAPStone exerciseDIDLS exerciseParagraph implementing another’s writer’s stylistic deviceTimed rhetorical analysis essaysAP multiple choice practice testsReflection essay2Current events from topical magazines and newspapers“Letter from Birmingham Jail” – MLK“Antigone” by SophoclesThey Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Gerald Graff and Cathy BirkensteinParts of a syllogismFallacious argumentsArgument in image and video The synthesis essayAnalysis of student responses to past AP open essay promptsModes of Rhetoric: Argument (exemplify, counter-argue, acknowledge, intensify, digress, conclude)Toulmin method of argumentRogerian method of argumentDeductive, inductive, and dialectic reasoningResearch argument/ debateMultiple-choice test strategiesVocabularyArgument prompt deconstructionResearch skills – MLA citationsResearch current eventsResearch timeline info.Variety of sentence lengthsOther sentence stylesTimelineDebate on current eventsTimed argument essaysTimed rhetorical analysis essaysGlossary projectAP multiple choice practice test3The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln, and four other related primary and secondary sourcesBlink by Malcolm GladwellCurrent events from topical magazines and newspapers“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swiftarticles from the OnionReading 18th and 19th century textsSchemes and tropesMore multiple-choice test strategiesAnalyze more student responses to past AP synthesis essay promptsVocabulary: prefixes and word rootsIrony and satiric method Satiric method (litotes, satire, euphemism, hyperbole, understatement, metonymy, antiphrasis, sarcasm, Horatian satire, Juvenalisn satire, irony)Patterns of old and new informationTransitional devicesCoordinate structuresSubordinate structuresEmphasis and stressRhythmVarying sentence lengthsOther sentence stylesSynthesis project – expansion of ideas in BlinkSynthesis essaysSocratic seminarTimes essay (using satire or other forms of irony)Student-designed multiple-choice questionsBlink questionsBlink synthesis projectSchemes and tropes booklistSatire video project4“In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations,’” a poem by Thomas Hardy“A Matter of Chance,” a short story by Vladimir Nabokov “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” by Virginia Woolf“Once More to the Lake” by E. B. WhiteJohn Ruskin essayCurrent events from topical magazines and newspapersRhetorical argument in fiction and poetryTimed rhetorical analysis essayTimed argument essayTimed synthesis essayMultiple choice questionsTimed rhetorical analysis essayTimed argument essayTimed synthesis essayMultiple choice questionsTimed multiple choice questionsShort story project (after exam) ................
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