AP Language and Composition 2013 – 2014 Planner. Note: the planner is subject to additions and other amendments. Texts Rhetorical analysis & skills Writing skills Assessments 1 “The Death of the Moth” by Virginia Woolf (NS) “Holy the Firm” by Dillard (NS) “How I Wrote the Moth Essay – and Why” by Annie Dillard (NS) Current events from topical magazines and newspapers New 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 (BR) “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan (NS) “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan (BR) “Like Mexicans” by Gary Soto “Climbing Golden Arches” by Marissa Nunez Rhetorical appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos SOAPStone for nonfiction text in a rhetorical context Visual literacy Modes of rhetoric: description Modes of rhetoric: narrative Modes of rhetoric: example of rhetoric: classification Modes of rhetoric: process Modes of rhetoric: comparison and contrast Modes of rhetoric: definition Modes of rhetoric: cause/effect Rhetorical deconstruction Tropes & Schemes Multiple choice - analysis Analysis of student responses to past AP rhetorical essay prompts Reading like writers (DIDLS and other observations) How to mark text Journal writing Essay introductions and body paragraphs Maintaining related grammatical subjects (US, 125) Paragraph breaks Transitions and topic sentences Sentence types Cumulative sentences Periodic sentences Participial phrases Absolute phrases Vocabulary Active/passive voice Summer assignment – current events Current events quiz Summer assign. – annotation Modes imitations Descriptive essay Writing process College essay SOAPStone exercise DIDLS exercise Paragraph implementing another’s writer’s stylistic device Timed rhetorical analysis essays AP multiple choice practice tests Reflection essay 2 Current events from topical magazines and newspapers “Letter from Birmingham Jail” – MLK “Antigone” by Sophocles Parts of a syllogism Fallacious arguments Argument in image and video The synthesis essay Analysis of student responses to past AP open essay prompts Modes of Rhetoric: Argument (exemplify, counter-argue, acknowledge, intensify, digress, conclude) Toulmin method of argument Rogerian method of argument Argument prompt deconstruction Research skills – MLA citations Research current events Research timeline info. Variety of sentence lengths Other sentence styles Timeline Debate on current events Timed argument essays Timed rhetorical analysis essays Glossary project AP multiple choice practice
Deductive, inductive, and dialectic reasoning Research argument/ debate Multiple-choice test strategies Vocabulary 3 The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln, and four related primary and secondary sources Blink by Malcolm Gladwell Current events from topical magazines and newspapers “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift Articles from the Onion Reading 18th and 19th century texts Schemes and tropes More multiple-choice test strategies Analyze more student responses to past AP synthesis essay prompts Vocabulary: prefixes and word roots Irony and satiric method Satiric method (litotes, satire, euphemism, hyperbole, understatement, metonymy, antiphrasis, sarcasm, Horatian satire, Juvenalisn satire, irony) Patterns of old and new information Transitional devices Coordinate structures Subordinate structures Emphasis and stress Rhythm Varying sentence lengths Other sentence styles Synthesis project – expansion of ideas in Blink Synthesis essays Socratic seminar Times essay (using satire or other forms of irony) Student-designed multiple-choice questions Blink questions Blink synthesis project Schemes and tropes booklist Satire video project 4 “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. White John Ruskin Current events from topical magazines and newspapers Rhetorical argument in fiction and poetry Timed rhetorical analysis essay Timed argument essay synthesis essay Multiple choice questions Timed rhetorical analysis essay Timed argument essay Timed synthesis essay Multiple choice questions Timed multiple-choice questions story project (after exam) Key to abbreviations: NS = Norton Sampler, Seventh Edition; US = Understanding Style, Second Edition; BR = The Bedford Reader