AP English Language and Composition: My Plan By Angela Satterfield

Weekly Plan Monday: AP Formative Practice for feedback only Tuesday: “American Lit” Discussions, Quizzes, Tests Block Day: AP Summative Practice: MC, Prompt Responses Friday: Student Presentations and Small Group Discussions

First Semester: ANALYSIS Speeches, Letters, and Essays: practice Lincoln (2002); WRITE Green (2003) practice Chesterfield (2004); WRITE Downe (2003 B) practice Carson (2004 B); WRITE Fridman (2008 B) Descriptive Comparison and Abstract / Philosophical Passages: practice Birds (2003); WRITE Okefenokee (1999) practice Pink Flamingo (2006); WRITE Santa Ana Winds (1994) Irony and Satire: practice Environmentalism (2009); WRITE Magnasoles (2005) practice Cat Bill (1982); WRITE Company Man (1995)

Second Semester: ARGUMENT Synthesis: practice Daylight Savings (2010); WRITE National Texts (2008 B) practice Locavore (2011); WRITE Technology in Schools (2010) Concrete and Specific: practice Role of Adversity (2009); WRITE Incentives for Charity (2007) practice Role of Humorists (2010); WRITE Entertainment (2003) Abstract and Open: practice Kundera and Privacy (2002); WRITE Paine’s America (2011) practice Certainty and Doubt (2012); WRITE Plagiarism Issues (2003 B) Bonus: WRITE ONE of last year’s prompts to replace lowest grade

Multiple Choice Practice 15-minute “warm up” before writing prompt responses: One passage and accompanying questions Review immediately Additional practice as time allows: group work, discussion TWO one-hour sets each semester: record only best grade

American Literature Tuesdays First semester: Of Mice and Men and The Glass Castle (summer reading) The Scarlet Letter Into the Wild Second Semester: The Great Gatsby The Things They Carried The Catcher in the Rye

Fun Fridays First Semester: two or three presentations each Friday students sign up for ONE Friday read aloud a short non-fiction passage of their choice analyze three rhetorical strategies for the class Second Semester: small group discussion each Friday students follow ONE columnist for five weeks annotate and analyze each column repeat process with another columnist