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AP Language Day 1, August 7 th /8 th , 2013

AP Language Day 1, August 7 th /8 th , 2013. Complete Student Info Sheet Hand in to me today Review Syllabus Parent Signature page needs to be signed and turned in next class Review AP requirements handout Back page needs to be signed and turned in next class Remind 101: Text reminders

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AP Language Day 1, August 7 th /8 th , 2013

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  1. AP LanguageDay 1, August 7th/8th, 2013 • Complete Student Info Sheet • Hand in to me today • Review Syllabus • Parent Signature page needs to be signed and turned in next class • Review AP requirements handout • Back page needs to be signed and turned in next class • Remind 101: Text reminders • AP Language PowerPoint: A Walk in the PARC • Summer Reading: The Jungle. • Handout of characters • Handout of assignment • Discuss required quotes assignment from summer reading packet. This is DUE Day 3. • Homework: The Jungle Quotes (in MLA format) are due next class. The timed writing assignment will occur on DAY 3. You will need The Crucible text on that day. 

  2. AP LanguageDay 2, August 9th and 12th, 2013 • Hand in signed syllabus and AP form. • Journal #1: Why are you in AP Language? • Video: Do you believe in me? • Video Journal 2: The importance of believing in yourself: • Write the following questions in your journal. Leave a line or two for your answer space. • Who is Dalton’s audience? • What is Dalton’s purpose • What presentation strategies does Dalton use to engage his audience? • What rhetorical/persuasive strategies does he use to convince his audience to believe? • What do you believe is Dalton’s most convincing implied argument? (Don’t quote him directly. An implied argument is one that is an “understood” message. • The Jungle: What did Upton Sinclair really want to achieve? • You don’t have to take notes, but do “take note” of what is being said. • Read the Omaha, NE Meat Packing article • On the back of the handout, reflect on the following idea: Do you believe that the more things change, the more they stay the same? Prove it. • Homework: The Jungle quotes are due next class. If you have “The Crucible,” bring your copy next class. You will be completing an in-class timed assessment of The Crucible next class.

  3. AP LanguageDay 3, August 13th and 14th • Begin where we left off… • Do you believe the more things change, the more they stay the same? Prove it. (See the back of the Omaha meat packing plant article from last class.) • Jungle Quotes due today: Hand in now, not at end of class… • The Crucible: Characters and Theme • You have the remaining class period to complete this timed assessment. Use an ink pen, print or write neatly, and assess like AP students, please. • Hand in your paper at the end of class. • Homework: Read the Arthur Miller, “Are You Now or Were You Ever. ”One each page, pick ONE paragraph to comment on, and then write your thoughts to the side of it. We will discuss your 3rd summer reading assessment next class.

  4. AP LanguageDay 4, August 15th and 16th, 2013 • 30 minutes-Just you, The Crucible, and your handout today. • Journal 3: Video • Better Dead Than Redhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07buRRJ6s4k • As you watch the video, jot down five clear policies, beliefs, or effectsof McCarthyism. Then, write down a one sentence working definition for McCarthyism. • Video Clip: Michele Backman with Chris Matthewshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bT01mC9xSA • Do you think Michele Backman reflects McCarthyist views? Explain. • I-Socrative Discussion: • Using the article you read last night, post comments or questions you have about the article. • Feel free to post comments on other statements, if you see a need for further discussion. • ALL comments must have your first name attached to the comment. • The Crucible: Video: As you watch the last 30 minutes of the video, ask yourself what you would have done if it had been your good name at stake. • Video Journal Response: The Crucible: Label your journal as Journal 4. • 1. ) As you watch the video, break up John Proctor’s reasoning into ethos (credibility of speaker), pathos (emotional appeal) and logos (logic within argument). • 2. )Give multiple examples from the film as evidence you understand these three elements. • 3. )What makes his argument honorable and, above all, persuasive? • Summer Reading: Part III: Explanation of assignment • Homework: Summer Reading Part III is due August 21st and 22nd. AP Multiple Choice Diagnostic Test next class.

  5. AP LanguageDay 5, August 19th and 20th • Finish The Crucible video/Discuss Journal results • Q and A: 3rd Summer Reading Evaluation…Any questions? • AP Language Diagnostic Test • Do not leave any spaces blank, so make a guess. • Make a concerted effort. • Homework: Summer Reading #3 Due next class. Make sure you have your script ready to go. Print BEFORE you come here!

  6. AP LanguageDay 6, August 21st and 22nd Agenda Your Notebook Natives and Colonials Revolutionaries Romanticism Transcendentalism Realism, Naturalism Pre-Modern to Contemporary AP Multi-Choice Terms/Vocab AP Argument AP Synthesis AP Analysis • Finish Diagnostic Test (20 minutes) • Diagnostic Assessment of Passage 1 and 2 • Partner up! What did you determine were the top two answers and why? • Vocabulary issues? Terms issues? Keep an on-going list! • SAT vocabulary introduction • Brainstorming for Summer Reading #3 assessment • Examples from PhotoStory, Thug Notes, etc… • Reminders from Rubric---Requirements must be met, but do so at your creative best!  • Homework: Presentations are due August 27th and 28th

  7. AP LanguageDay 7, August 23rd and 26th Odd Day 1st and 3rd Even Day 2nd and 4th Finish the review of the diagnostic test Five Steps to a Five Introduction Homework: Presentation is due next Wednesday. Make sure your technology works! • 1st period: Junior Class Meeting • 3rd Period: Continued review of Diagnostic Test and Introduction to Five Steps to a Five. • Homework: Presentation is due next Tuesday. Make sure your technology works.

  8. AP LanguageDay 8, August 27th and 28th • Multimedia Presentations • Rules and Guidelines: • Attach the rubric to your written script • Give 100% attention to the presenter • Do not interrupt the presenter • Do not ask for your grade at the end of class. I will not have it completed until next class period. • Applaud like young adults…not goofy kids.  • Homework: If you did not present this class, you will present next class.

  9. AP LanguageDay 9, August 29th and 30th • Day 2: Multimedia Presentations • Rules and Guidelines: • Attach the rubric to your written script • Give 100% attention to the presenter • Do not interrupt the presenter • Do not ask for your grade at the end of class. I will not have it completed until next class period. • Applaud like young adults…not goofy kids.  • SOAPStone: Complete the handout using a reputable news sourse. • Homework: Have a wonderful three day weekend.

  10. AP LanguageDay 10, September 3rd and 4th • SOAPStone share (1 minute wrap-up) • Patterns: Pages 547-572 • If it’s in bold, you better know it. • Take notes as you read. • Homework: • 1. Quiz over the Patterns reading next class. • 2. Read pages 6-14 in the American Literature textbook • 3. Read The Iroquois Constitution: Read pages 41-44

  11. AP LanguageDay 11, September 5th and 6th • Quiz: Patterns text on argumentation • In your journal, answer the following questions: • Based on pages 6-14 in the textbook. The three most common themes in early American Literature are wilderness, community and independence. Using evidence from pages 6-14 only, which theme do you believe is the most prevalent? • Native American Literature: Introductory PowerPoint Notes • Iroquois Constitution: • Journal • Videos: React to each video---See handout and follow directions • Native Americans Depictions in film. (see handout) • TBS: Native American Stereotypes Part I • TBS: Native American Stereotypes Part II • The Searchers • Betty Boop • Homework: Locate a modern controversial issue dealing with Native Americans. Print the article PRIOR to coming to our next class.

  12. AP LanguageDay 12, September 9th and 10th • Finish video clips from last class and continue finding stereotypes. • TED Talk video: Aaron Huey • Use your journal to list 15-20 words that impact your understanding of the presentation. • Argue against Aaron Huey. Using three of his primary arguments, write complex sentences that are counter arguments to his beliefs. • Write a brief summary of your article. What makes it controversial? What side are you on? Why? • Using your article, determine the following: • Attempt to write the argument’s major premise, minor premise, and conclusion (syllogism) • Write a refutation to the argument. • Discuss results • The Iroquois Constitution: Pages 41-44 • A. What could current and future political figures learn from reading The Iroquois Constitution? • B. Regarding how leaders should lead, what is the best idea you learned from The Iroquois Constitution? • Read New York Times Article: How Iroquois Constitution was forerunner to the Constitution • Native Americans: Creation Mythology • Groups of three: Each will have an assigned myth to read and assess • Complete the handout with your group • Homework: Read Of Plymouth Plantation (American Literature textbook) Pages 56-65. Make sure you read the intro pages before you read the story.

  13. AP LanguageDay 13, September 11th and 12th • Journal: The Iroquois Constitution: Pages 41-44 • A. What could current and future political figures learn from reading The Iroquois Constitution? • B. Regarding how leaders should lead, what is the best idea you learned from The Iroquois Constitution? • New York Times Article: How Iroquois Constitution was forerunner to the Constitution- Write a 2 sentence reaction to the article. • Native Americans: Creation Mythology • Groups of three: Each will have an assigned myth to read and assess • Complete the handout with your group • Of Plymouth Plantation: In your journal answers questions 1-5 (page 65), the essential question (page 65). Brief discussion to follow. • All class practice: Workbook page 21-22 • Homework: Workbook page 21-22, Summative Test on Tuesday/Wednesday over Puritans and Native Americans. (30 questions) Bring your Patterns text next class.

  14. AP LanguageDay 14, September 13th and 16th • Of Plymouth Plantation: In your journal answers questions 1-5 (page 65), the essential question (page 65). Brief discussion to follow. • All class practice: Workbook page 21-22 • Anne Bradstreet: To My Dear and Loving Husband (76) • Purpose, tone, terminology and poetic format • Edward Taylor: Huswifery • Purpose, tone, terminology and poetic format • Handouts from workbook: formative assessment 27, 28, 29, 32 • Patterns Text: Letter From A Birmingham Jail (588-Patterns) • Homework: Read Letter From A Birmingham Jail, Review sheet for Unit test, continue to review terms from the Patterns Persuasive Unit

  15. AP LanguageDay 15, September 17th and 18th • Formative Assessment: Complete the check sheet with correct answers. (You have 3 minutes.) • Review Bradstreet and Taylor poems • Handout: Paraphrase the language for clarity • Review Sheet: Know the terms • Content: Creation Mythology, Puritan Poetry, Of Plymouth Plantation, P.Point Notes • GHSGWT: PowerPoint of expectations • Sample papers • ELMO evaluations • Brainstorming practice • Tiered Assessment: Letter From Birmingham Jail: • Level 1: Choose 4 questions at end of text: Paragraph format. High Score: 90. • Level 2: Complete Level 1 and complete two pages of Annotations on LFBJ handout. High Score: 95. • Level 3: Complete 6 or more questions at end of text in paragraph, complete 4 pages of annotations. High Score: 100. • All students must complete the form providing rationale for your tiered choice. • Homework: Letter from Birmingham Jail questions/annotations due next class. Puritan test next class. GHSGWT mini-mock writing next class. Mock exam on 23rd and 24th. (I will be gone on the 23rd---Odd Day.)

  16. AP LanguageSeptember 19th and 20th • Puritan/Native American Test • Letter from Birmingham Jail paragraphs- Turn in • GHSGWT: Mini-Mock Practice • Brainstorming • Timed intro and body paragraph writing • Homework: Rhetorical Strategies in I Have A Dream Speech: Complete the reading and annotations handout. This is not an assignment you can complete in a short amount of time.

  17. AP LanguageSeptember 23rd and 24th, 2013 • Quiz: I Have a Dream Speech (AP format multiple choice) • Turn in your annotations and your quiz when you have finished taking the quiz. • Timed Writing Practice: • Students have 30 minutes. • You may use the writing prompt and the lined paper for your practice paper. • I do not need/want your practice writing handout. • American Literature textbook: Begin reading Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. (pages 84-91) • As we read, keep an ongoing journal of all the phrases, images, and threats that you feel like set the tone for the passage. • Homework: None (for EVEN day only. We will finish our work in class on Thursday. ODD day must finish the reading and the handout for Friday. • Good luck on the writing test!

  18. AP LanguageSeptember 25th and 26th, 2013 • ODD Day students (no class for GHSGWT) • Even Day: Finish reading Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. • Complete the “Sinners” AP multiple choice question handout. • Extra Credit Opportunity: Create a symbolic depiction of Jonathan Edward’s vision of your life gone wrong. Use images mixed with exact text from the sermon to enhance your final product. 10 SUMMATIVE Bonus points or 20 FORMATIVE bonus points. Due next class. Cannot be larger than a normal size sheet of computer paper, but feel free to get creative! • Homework: None

  19. AP LanguageSeptember 27th and 30th, 2013 • Odd Day Only: • Grade MLK quiz • Review Sinners handout • GHP Info---Link is on my blog and on Mrs. Beyke’s blog. (If we have time at the end of class, we will watch the video. • Journal Part 1: Is inspiration more powerful than leadership? • Cut to the chase and avoid writing “Inspiration is more powerful than leadership because… Start your sentence with what you were going to say after the “because.” • Video clip: Ted Talks (Take copious amounts of notes in your journal) • http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/dave_meslin_the_antidote_to_apathy.html (8 minutes) • http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html (18 minutes) • End Journal: Support your earlier journal statement with the facts you culled from the video segments. • Homework: Patterns Text: Read Martin Gansberg’s Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call Police” –Patterns text page 120, and Norman Cousins “Who Killed Benny Paret?” –Patterns text page 340. Complete the chart for next class.

  20. AP LanguageOctober 1st and 2nd, 2013 • SAT vocabulary • Journal: Choose one of the stories and answer two questions from the end of either text. Use at least one complex sentence and two SAT words in your response. • Martin Gansberg’s Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call Police” –Patterns text page 120, and Norman Cousins “Who Killed Benny Paret?” –Patterns text page 340. • Two-minute shared learning • ELMO: Discuss results of your handout • SOAPStone: Clearer guidelines- • Magazine reading-find your article and begin writing today. • Homework: None

  21. AP LanguageOctober 9th and 10th • No journal today • SOAPStone: Using the guidelines from last class period, complete your SOAPStone handout today. You may not take the magazine with you, so work quietly and diligently. You have one hour. • Read pages 96,97,and 98 in the American Literature textbook • Speech in a Virginia Convention • On your own, read the passage and annotate/label evidence of any clear examples of rhetorical devices. • AP questions 16-24 • AP Questions 16-24: Choose your best answer and then choose your second answer. Write all definitions to the side of words you do not know. Locate/highlight the answer in the text. • Homework: Finish all questions for Speech in the Virginia Convention, Read pages 104-107 Ben Franklin’s Speech in the Convention---No questions. Just read it.

  22. AP LanguageOctober 11th and 14th, 2013 • AP Terms/Revolutionary handout. First quiz is next class. • Even Day: Second set of terms---both of your quizzes will be Friday. UGGH!!!!!! • AP questions: Review AP questions 16-24 • Ben Franklin’s Speech in the Convention • Review questions at end of text • Rally Cries: Video Clips: What are five things that all the videos have in common regarding persuasive techniques? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoLywiaM6PA • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr_OpFxCx-A • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wRkzCW5qI • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx_2n2VpCAc • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRh_30C8l6Y&list=TLdMRo2-HTx3uzmbbIotzbpZ6RaIyjyyDz • Homework: Read pages 112-115 (Declaration of Independence) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Declaration of Sentiments (Patterns Text pages 581-585 - ____), Terms quiz---Timed • EVEN DAY: DUE TO THE PSAT TESTING SCHEDULE, YOU WILL HAVE BOTH QUIZZES ON FRIDAY!!! STUDY!!!

  23. AP Language: October 15th---No class for even day on October16th, 2014 • Quiz: AP terms/Declaration (15 minutes) • Assign Set 2 of terms • Thomas Paine: Crisis #1: pages 117-119 • Assess picture (visual text evaluation) • As you read: Consider key quotes from Paine that epitomize his purpose. • If time, begin The Patriot • Homework: Next quiz is Thursday (odd) Study! • Reminder to Odd Day: I have a substitute on Thursday. Be good. I will be coming back with tons of new AP knowledge. Be afraid!

  24. AP LanguageOctober 17th and 18th, 2013 • Even Day: (Friday) • Two quizzes • Thomas Paine: Crisis #1 • Assess picture (visual text evaluation) • As you read: Consider key quotes from Paine that epitomize his purpose. • If time, watch the clip from The Patriot. • Homework: Quiz next class of any remaining terms. • Odd Day: (Thursday) • Substitute Today • Quiz #2-AP TERMS • Video: The Patriot • Homework: Quiz next class of any remaining terms.

  25. AP LanguageOctober 21st and 22nd • Terms Quiz #3 • Group Work: 9 different centers: You must choose to complete 7 of them. • Follow the guidelines at each center. • You only have 15 minutes in each center. • You must stay with your pre-determined group. • You must physically move to each center • Homework: If you have missed any of the reading passages so far, you need to go back and read them. No excuses! • Speech in the Virginia Convention • Speech in the Convention • Declaration of Independence • Crisis #1 • Any introductory material prior to each passage needs your attention, also.

  26. AP LanguageOctober 23rd and 24th • Continue centers today. • You must complete 7 of the nine sections. • Band students: Please make sure you have all appropriate handouts before you leave on your trip. • Hand in your stations at the end of class today. • Homework: Summative AP Essay is coming up in one week.

  27. AP LanguageOcTober 25th and 28th • Finish remaining centers: 20-30 minutes max • You may meet with your group if necessary. If not, you can have this time to work on your own, gather any worksheets you may not have received, or improve the handouts that you “completed” last class. • Finish “The Patriot” • Homework: The test has been moved to October 31st/November 1st. AP Summative Writing: Synthesis Essay will be November 6th and 7th.

  28. AP LanguageOctober 29th and 30th • Lab: Health Survey (30 minutes) • Ben Franklins Aphorisms: from Poor Richard’s Almanac • Phillis Wheatley: To His Excellency, George Washington • Heroic couplets, end rhyme, iambic pentameter, and archetypes from classical mythology • Discuss packets/handouts Vocabulary, Venn Diagram, SAT rally cry, etc… • Homework: Revolutionary test is next class. Handouts from centers will be turned in on the day of the test. No exceptions!

  29. AP LanguageOctober 31st-Nov. 1st • Turn in your centers handouts. • Check sheet needs to go on the front page. • Handouts need to go in the order that they were completed. • SAT handout: Since only one person completed the final sheet, please make note on your check sheet regarding who has turned in the final copy in your group. • Revolutionary Test • When you finish the exam, read the following: • Five Steps to a Five: The Synthesis Essay • Synthesis Essay: Free Response question from May 2013 • Read the prompt and determine what the essay should prove • Preview the documents and determine/argue which documents are better suited to the argument. Why? • Homework: If you did not complete the reading and analysis of the synthesis essay documents, this is now homework.

  30. AP LanguageNovember 4th and 5th • Hand back scantrons. Anything below a 74 should be reassessed. (Final day for reassessments is Nov. 22nd.) • Synthesis PowerPoint and Notes: • Synthesis Essay: • Refresh your memory and re-read the prompt from last class • To establish anchor papers, read sample essay DD and sample II • Discuss: What makes the paper a 9? What makes a paper a 1. Use the prompt and the scale to help guide your answer. • Read the sample/anchor essays and label the essay on a 1-9 scale. • Read paper EEE, A, HH, KK, NN • Rank these papers from a 1-9 Scale • Use the anchor papers and the sample scale from the Five Steps to a Five handout as your guides. • We will discuss results next class.  • Homework: Formative synthesis essay is next class. (This will become your summative research paper grade, so write your paper knowing it will become a final draft.

  31. AP LanguageNovember 6th and 7th • Discuss results of synthesis anchor essays • Finish PowerPoint slides (review notes on basics…) • Synthesis Essay • You have 15 minutes for part I: • Read through the prompt and determine what needed to be proven. • Determine your best resources and why. • You have 40 minutes to write the essay. • Homework: Quiz over synthesis essay basics and the scoring rubric.

  32. AP LanguageNovember 8th and 11th • Five minute review before the quiz • AP synthesis quiz • Finish The Patriot video • Homework: Introduction to Romanticism: Read pages 210-221. • 1st block on Monday….Veteran’s Assesmbly.

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