AP Language Assignments

Bring grammar book to final exam

Bring grammar book to final exam.

College rec preference: 3 anecdotes of how you added to AP Language

Final PPT project w/ reflection submitted to turnitin before class; reflection due; presentations begin

Creative Projects due. (Also submitted to turnitin.com)

Last card tricks: Kite Runner, Our Town Glass Castle (optional). Flash Drive Compatibility Check.

Printed preview of at least 3 slides.

Works Cited for College power points.

Bring all multiple choice work, 50 Essays, and AP Lang book all week.

Bring 50 Essays and completed multiple choice: "On Compassion" and "The Declaration of Independence" Meet in Career Center Lab with student portal ID.

Late Start: Scored: 9, 7, 5, 3 Rhetorical Analysis essays in class.

Synthesis essay on electoral college or great leader; bring Kite Runner.

Revised Modest Proposal essay stapled on top of first draft/rubric. Bring AP Lang book every day.

Annotate and read Synthesis section of AP Lang book: 93-120. Carefully read sample prompt and sources and create possible theses.

Doublespaced typed or ink rhetorical analysis of "A Modest Proposal." (Topic given out on Monday).

Multiple Choice AP questions on "A Modest Proposal"

Read "A Modest Proposal" and complete the half sheet study guide. Annotate as many different strategies as possible (listed on half sheet).

In-class multiple choice AP Lang exam; bring SSR book

Grammar: 130, Odds only; 131-32: All; 109-110: All

Kite Runner response; bring novel to class

Bring Kite Runner and Grammar Book to class.

Group Quiz: "Letter From Birmingham Jail"

Multiple-Choice Take-home quiz on "Letter" due.

"Letter from Birmingham Jail read and annotated for focus, ready to discuss. Dialectical journal commenting on effectiveness of 3 quotations in terms of the focus.

Bring grammar book, AP Language book, SSR book to class

Bring grammar and AP Prep books and SSR book

Bring Grammar book and 50 Essays to class

Final Exam:
22 basic comprehension Native Son
13 questions identifying literary/rhetorical techniques Native Son (see 55 in AP Lang)
8 grammar questions including sentence types and choose the best written sentence
5 questions based on the last section or roots handout that I have not assigned
2 questions re. How Bigger Was Born
9 Questions Notes of a Native Son
new reading passage with 12 AP style questions

By 3/20 read, annotate, and complete the exercises in ch 2 page 69 of AP book; also review ch 5 p.139. Study the last group of roots; they will be on the final exam. Review all roots. Study definitions of selected vocabulary on pp. 55-67.

Read and annotate James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son" from 5O ESSAYS

On a separate paper brainstorm and plan 3 Argument essays on pp. 143, 183, 218 of Preparing for the AP workbook.

Card Tricks: Othello, Black Boy, Native Son

Bring assessed essays.

Bring completed Literary Criticism started in the lab last Friday.

Finish reading "How Bigger was Born" and submit answers to questions.

Bring your San Marino (Crowell) Library card to Career center lab.
DEADLINE TO SIGN UP FOR AP EXAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Complete a rhetorical analysis of your own argument essay. Write an improved thesis if necessary and discuss how you could make your argument more powerful. Highlight powerful diction on "fear' essay. In light of today's instruction reexamine your plan for p. 39 Happiness essay. Bring today's notes, highlighted essay, analysis, and plan for p.39 essay to class.

Read and annotate Chapter 5, "The Argument Essay" and brainstorm essay on p. 39 of AP Book.

Annotate for rhetorical devices Buckley's speech. Consider where his speech gets its power. Is it more powerful than Max's? Why?

Native Son completed.

Completed thru p. 406 to the end of Max' s closing argument; annotate for rhetorical analysis.
Pers 3 and 5 Bring Grammar books

Completed reading Native Son thru 337, taking Bigger to scene of crime..."You black ape!"
Bring AP and grammar books.

Bring AP Language and grammar books and have read thru 337 in Native Son.

Finish grammar 103-104; annotation quiz Book 2 Native Son.

Grammar quiz: sentence types and roots 79-107.

Grammar ex pp.59-60; write the original sentences aboot Native Son.

Quiz through p. 215. "You better clean those ashes out and make a better fire." Clean the fire out! Good God!

Quiz Native Son thru 154 (up to where he meets Private Investigator Britten)

Bring 50 Essays, Black Boy, and Native Son. Read to p.58 in Native Son by Wednesday (Peggy takes Bigger to his room above the garage.) Probable Reading Quiz.

Bring 50 Essays, Fast Track to a 5 on the AP Test, Black Boy. Read to p.58 in Native Son by Wednesday (Peggy takes Bigger to his room above the garage.)

Native Son and Preparing for AP Language Exam (if you ordered it from me, I have it) should be in class this day. Bring your prosecution or defense argument re. the scenario.

Completed notes on research for Native Son in class for a writing and Grammar benchmark test.

Draw or describe two bags, one with your contents, one with Richard Wrssr book, grammar bookight's contents. Writing requires some explanation; drawing does not. Bring 50 Essays,

Grammar: 125,126,161,167: odds only; 153 Ex 1 ALL
Read and annotate (consider the questions following) "How It Feels to be Colored Me"
Bring Black Boy, 50 Essays, and Kite Runner.

BLACK BOY TEST: multiple choice and open book writing.
Complete odds 75-78 except complete all of Ex 2 on p. 76.
Complete any other exercises not completed in class, 63-74; omit 67-68, 70.

Bring Black Boy ON THURSDAY; pers 1 and 2: pretty Othello poems ; periods 3 and 5: illustrative posters (Rubric is uploaded)
Finish 59-62 ALL: sentence types; study roots 79-102 .

Quiz commas, phrases, clauses, roots: 79-96

Clauses: pp. 53-58 (odds only); study roots 79-96.

Complete phrase identification, odds only, for pp. 49-52. Study roots #79-89. Quiz on commas, phrases, and roots.

Bring signed rules/syllabus; Complete phrase identification, odds only, for pp. 43-48. Study roots #79-84. Quiz on commas and roots.