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AP English 3

AP English 3. Language and Composition. Welcome to AP English. Tuesday, August 25th . Welcome to AP English Go over syllabus/ pick up forms Student information sheet Pick up summer reading journals from those who have it Please have composition book tomorrow Listen to TIB .

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AP English 3

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  1. AP English 3 • Language and Composition

  2. Welcome to AP English

  3. Tuesday, August 25th • Welcome to AP English • Go over syllabus/ pick up forms • Student information sheet • Pick up summer reading journals from those who have it • Please have composition book tomorrow • Listen to TIB

  4. This I Believe • By Author • What did you notice? • What goes into it? • Homework: This I Believe (Due tomorrow)

  5. Autobiography Choices • Lakota Woman, by Mary Crow Dog • The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston • Black Elk Speaks by Black Elk as told through John G. Neihardt • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou • Black Boy by Richard Wright • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass • Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

  6. Wednesday, August 26 • AP Multiple Choice Diagnostic • Rhetoric Powerpoint: ethos, pathos, logos

  7. Thursday, August 27 • Opener • Four Corners • Personal Writings • Revision Discussion

  8. Choose one • Most of us have been in a situation where we made a promise that for one reason or another we were unable to keep. When were you disappointed because someone made you a promise that wasn’t kept? Or when did you break a promise that you made to someone else? • All of us are works in progress with a long way to go before we reach our full potential. In what skill or area are you still working to make progress?

  9. Life is fair

  10. Words can hurt.

  11. Police are your friends.

  12. What goes around comes around

  13. How you act in a crisis shows who you really are

  14. Love conquers all

  15. An eye for an eye

  16. People learn from their mistakes

  17. You can’t depend on anyone else; you can only depend on yourself.

  18. If you smile long enough, you become happy.

  19. Miracles do happen.

  20. There is one special person for everyone

  21. Money can’t buy happiness

  22. Doing what’s right means obeying the law.

  23. Personal Writings

  24. For each piece, consider • What the author is trying to say here; this is the author’s focused purpose • which supporting details in each piece most effectively contribute to the author’s purpose

  25. Divide book into thirds • Each third is due on: • 9/2 • 9/8 • 9/14 • Presentations on 9/17

  26. Quotes • Look over quotes • Find three that you have discovered to be true in your own life experiences • Freewrite for 10 minutes about one meaningful quote (this will be shared)

  27. In groups, read all reflections silently • Using a notecard, ask each writer one probing question about their quote

  28. Friday, August 28 • Opener • Potential for Brutality • “Returning to What’s Natural” • Play-Doh revision

  29. Choose One • We all tend to judge people by their appearances, even though looks can be deceiving. Have you ever prejudged someone incorrectly based on their appearance or has someone ever prejudged you unfairly based on how you look? • Everyone has problems or challenges to overcome. What obstacles are you proud to have faced and conquered?

  30. Potential for Brutality • Incremental development • Create a flow chart tracing the development of ideas from beginning to end • Discuss how idea develops in complexity, intensity, applicability

  31. This I Believe • Returning to What's Natural

  32. “Returning...” • Highlight abstract and concrete • Highlight abstract and concrete in your own

  33. This I Believe • Create a flow chart for essay you want to revise • What should the parts and progression of ideas be for your revised draft • You may collaborate • Homework: Compose revision

  34. Play-Doh • Build a pencil holder • What do you like about it? • What don’t you like about it?

  35. SQUISH IT! • Build a new one! • Better! • More beautiful! • More effective!

  36. This I Believe • Pick one • Improve the abstract—how can you make it more clear? More interesting? More meaningful? More touching? • Improve to concrete—how can you make it more relatable? Sensory? Precise? Clear? Concise?

  37. Homework • Revise This I Believe

  38. Monday, August 31st • Opener • Collect Summer Reading Assignment • This I Believe Celebration • “What is Good Thinking?” Seminar • Possible guest speaker this week on Their Eyes Were Watching God

  39. Opener • What is BRILLIANT about your This I Believe essay? • What effect do you hope it will have on your reader?

  40. Group activity • Groups of 6, from circles • Read TIB essays • Select favorite and return to room • Best of each group will be podcasted

  41. Tuesday, September 1 • Quiz on rhetorical strategies • New vocabulary- syllogism and lines of proof • Syllogism and Line of Proof activity

  42. Wednesday, September 2 • Opener • Possible argument paper diagnostic • Emerson quotes • Read Emerson’s Nature • Discuss

  43. Thursday, September 3 • Discuss homework essay with partner • Notes on Transcendentalism • Read “Where I Lived” • Transcendentalism homework

  44. Friday, September 4 • Opener • Thoreau • TBA

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