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While I stamp your locator, please fill out an index card.

Top: Your Name (first and last). * Your email + contact number. * How you get to/from school. *1 strength/1 weakness in English *3 important priorities in your life (sports, friends, etc.) *Future aspirations. While I stamp your locator, please fill out an index card. Lined Side.

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  1. Top: Your Name (first and last) * Your email + contact number * How you get to/from school *1 strength/1 weakness in English *3 important priorities in your life (sports, friends, etc.) *Future aspirations While I stamp your locator, please fillout an index card. Lined Side Blank Side- MIDDLE: Period # // Decorate + 1 sentence (10 words or less) that describes you

  2. My Summer  // Your Year 

  3. But it’s okay… work now, play later 

  4. My Summer (Minus prepping AP)

  5. My Summer

  6. My Loves

  7. My Loves

  8. AP Language and Composition 2013-2014

  9. AP Language and Composition • Language: • Definition • What comes to mind? • Composition: • Definition • What comes to mind? • What do you know/think APLAC is about?

  10. APLAC • This course will refine your ability to: • Write an effective argument • Analyze a writer’s purpose and rhetorical strategies • Synthesize different sources and use them to create your own argument • Discuss and understand important current and historical events

  11. APLAC Summer Reading • The summer reading focused on non-fiction for a number of reasons: 1. Almost ALL of the material you will be reading in this class revolves around non-fiction material. 2. The books introduced you to important current events that you may not have been aware of previously. 3. You will now have a basis in which to begin analyzing the main style elements that APLAC requires.

  12. AP Language and Composition • Syllabus • What to Expect • Exam- Tomorrow • Course Goals- Tomorrow

  13. APLAC- Syllabus • Read over the syllabus and annotate what you feel is important. • Questions? • Have your signature + your parent signature on the students contract turned in by Friday.

  14. APLAC- What to Expect • Daily writing • A weekly “Article of the Week” assignment • 3-4 full AP practice exams • Less novels, more non-fiction (articles, essays, speeches)

  15. Ticket Out the Door  • 1 Question you have about APLAC • 1 Concern you have about APLAC • 1 Suggestion you have for APLAC

  16. Homework: • Bring Columbine & optional book work tomorrow • Bring back your syllabus signed by both you and your parents

  17. Personality Test (If time permits) • Imagine you are going to cross a vast, sandy desert. You have the option of bringing animals with you. You can bring all, some, or none. The animals are a bird, snake, and monkey. • Which animals would you bring and how do you picture them crossing the desert with you?

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