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

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

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

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

Thursday, August 27 Opener Four Corners Personal Writings Revision Discussion

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?

Life is fair

Words can hurt.

Police are your friends.

What goes around comes around

How you act in a crisis shows who you really are

Love conquers all

An eye for an eye

People learn from their mistakes

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

If you smile long enough, you become happy.

Miracles do happen.

There is one special person for everyone

Money can’t buy happiness

Doing what’s right means obeying the law.

Personal Writings Personal essay Focused on belief or insight about life that is significant to the writer Personal narrativeFocused on a significant event Personal memoir Focused on a significant relationship between the writer and a person, place, or object

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

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

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)

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

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

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?

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

This I Believe Returning to What's Natural

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

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

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

SQUISH IT! Build a new one! Better! More beautiful! More effective!

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?

Homework Revise This I Believe

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday, September 4 Opener Thoreau TBA