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ENG III AP LANGUAGE and COMPOSITION
Summer Reading for those entering grade 11 AP:
The required summer reading for Grade 11 AP includes three books and several selections from newspapers/ magazines. You are strongly encouraged to read more than the minimum required selections from the lists below.
Read and complete journals (NOT essays) on: Native Son
Death of a Salesman
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1.) The year will begin with assignments/assessments on these selections.
Read and complete five (5) dialectical journals for each book, totaling 15 in all.
Dialectical Journal assignment will be due on return to school. (See below to download more information on how to do dialectic journals, but disregard the number; I don't want a journal for every three pages, only five per book.)
As you read, use a highlighter and/or post-it notes to annotate the text for memorable quotations, symbols, characterization, setting, and thematic development.
2.) Newspaper/magazine editorial/commentary/essay reading assignment. This assignment gives practice in reading and responding to essays and arguments.
Over the summer, read, clip and paste at least 5 (five) editorials or commentaries, or essays (NOT news articles nor informational features)from the following reputable newspapers or issues-based magazines (mix and match, using two different sources)onto sheets of paper, and download the current events forms (two pages numbers 1-6) and fill one out for each article. Staple together and hand in articles and forms colated.
Suggested newspapers/magazines:
The New York Times (newspaper) ` The Washington Post (newspaper)
The New Yorker (magazine) Atlantic Monthly (magazine)
Harper's (magazine) The Economist (magazine)
Mother Jones (magazine) Salon.com (online magazine)
The Nation (magazine)
*****Very Important*****
Click on the following links below (on the light blue words) to download much necessary information for and about AP English Language and Composition.
2.) Dialectical Journal pages A and B (download both)
Week 1-
Student Orientation
Class Expectations and class procedures
Distribute Vocabulary H Saddlier word list
Major Works: Native Son,The Crucible, Scarlet Letter, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Great Gatsby (referred to by initials) as well as other works.
Analysis/ Deconstruction of texts (using the following mnemonic devices as helpful)
SOAPS (Subject/Occasion/Audience/Purpose/Speaker)
DIDLS (Diction/Imagery/Details/Language/Syntax)
DALIPS (Diction/Analogy or Allusion/Language/Repetion/Images/People or Places/Structure or Syntax)
DORTS (Details/Organization/Time frames/Strategies)
Concrete proof/support
Applied Grammar
Sentence variety
AP Exam Practice
Essays with concrete supporting evidence
Text distribution:
Introductory discussion of The Crucible
test
essay
discussion and movie
Study for Native Son test, Vocabulary # 1 quiz and complete folder project -presentations will be Monday morning.
Week 2 -
Native Son> NS
NS Discussions
NS quotes test
NS essay
AP Practice #1
Voc. quiz #1
Discuss Rhetorical terms for quiz
Week 3 -
Give out textbooks, The Language of Composition Read Chapters 1-3 and be prepared to discuss and use the rhetorical concepts in the first three chapters. Become conversant with argumentative,persuasive, and synthesis essays, and analytical terms.
Vocabulary quiz # 1 on Tuesdays
Literary terms quiz # 1 on Thursdays
Continue deconstruction through rhetorical modes using examples from selected essays.
HW every week: find current events/ cartoon - read and find the SOAPS and DIDLS for each article.
Type and bring in on the first weekday of school.
Literary Vocabulary with Vocabulary H - quiz every Tuesday
Literary Terms test every Thursday
Week 4 -
Discuss APE(assertion, proof, explanation) and CPR (claim proof response)
more mnemonics to assist with supporting assertions/claims.
Review student analyses. HW. Chapter 1 in Lang. of Comp.
Voc. quiz # 2
Week 5 -
Evaluate the SOAPS for the editorials. Controversial discussion of the news.
Read articles from the New York Times Magazine.
Break into groups to find the SOAPS and DIDLS of each article.
Lit. Terms #2
Week 6 -
Continue group work analyzing the essays
Vocabulary Quiz # 3
Read and be prepared to discuss
Early release day - "A Modest Proposal"
Practice AP Exam on Friday
Find and read analyse current event -SOAPS
Week 8 DATA WEEK
AP III - Read one chapter from The Language of Composition each week.
October 5- Socratic seminar on The Scarlet Letter, chapters 1-9. Read chapter 6 - Community p. 259-346 concentrating on King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail", discuss Tuesday, and take voc. # 6 quiz and read Thoreau's "Where I Lived and What I Lived For". Review with class on Wednesday, 10/7.
October 8, 2009 Complete Data sheets. Homework lit. terms and grammar exercises typed up. Parallelism.
Weekly assignments: October 12, 2009 Read Chapter 7 "Gender" p. 347-428, Grammar p. 420-426 (1-4 all).
The format should be as follows:
EACH ANALYSIS MUST BE TYPED IN ORDER TO RECEIVE ANY CREDIT.
For each current event--Write a precis for each article.Rhetorical Precis-- Oregon State
For published cartoon, graph, chart, or other visual --
a. Attach the cartoon, graph, chart, or other visual to your analysis
b. Using SOAPS Identify the cultural, technological, or societal trend being commented on in the cartoon
c. Evaluate the effectiveness of the visual
d. Comment on and evaluate the implications of the trend
Note 1: You must identify each source on your analysis in proper MLA format
Note 2: Excellent sources for the op-ed articles include The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The Economist, The Nation, Newsweek,
The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time Magazine. Some of these are available online; some can be accessed through the school's databases at http://infotrac.galegroup.com/browardcpsit. You can also search columnists at http://www.blueagle.com/ and http://polinks.com/.
- Please type the answers to the questions on Rhetoric and Style at the end of the first two essays on gender by Gould and Woolf.
We discussed a project on Propaganda (from 1940-1999 in the U. S.) This will be officially assigned on and due . www.propagandacritic.com- The Great Gatsby exam
Grammar exercises due on Friday.
Read Chapter 9 "Language" beginning on p. 507
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