AP English III Agenda: 2017 1St Quarter

AP English III Agenda: 2017 1st Quarter

Wednesday, August 16th& Thursday, August 17th

College Board Standards:

S2.2: Student plans for and participates in group discussion
L3.2: Student listens to evaluate. W2.2: Student generates, selects, connects, and organizes information and ideas
L3.1: Student listens to comprehend.

Class Activities Completed Today in Class:

1)Welcome and discuss syllabus

2)Discuss TTTC dialectical journal and test (due 9/1)

3)The Things They Carried writing activity

4)Syllable game, time permitting

Homework Assigned Today:

Have TTTC finished and annotated by next class
Bring annotated book next class; develop three intriguing questions for discussion of TTTC

The activities listed below are the tentative plan. They will be updated daily according to

what the class actually accomplished,

so be sure to check back after class has met

on the day listed to see

accomplished activities/homework assigned.

Friday, August 18th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: S2.2: Student plans for and participates in group discussion; L3.1: Student listens to comprehend; L3.2: Student listens to evaluate.

1) TTTC Socratic discussion

Homework: Work on TTTC double-entry journal

Monday, August 21st (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: S2.2: Student plans for and participates in group discussion; L3.1: Student listens to comprehend; L3.2: Student listens to evaluate.

1)Finish TTTC Socratic discussion

2)Introduction to AP exam introduction PowerPoint

Homework: Work on TTTC double-entry journal

Tuesday, August 22nd (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: L3.1: Student listens to comprehend; L3.2: Student listens to evaluate; R3.1: Student rhetorically analyzes author’s purpose, intended audience, and goals;R3.2: Student interprets, analyzes, and critiques author’s use of literary and rhetorical devices, language, and style.

1)Discuss fiction independent reading assignment (due 10/9)

2)Discuss and apply PATTR and rhetorical terms to a short piece of nonfiction

3)Finish AP exam introduction PowerPoint

Homework: Read and familiarize yourself with the rhetorical terms handouts; read “The Yellow Wallpaper” and identify at least three rhetorical devices used and their effects on the story (half a page each) by 8/24

Wednesday, August 23rd (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: R3.1: Student rhetorically analyzes author’s purpose, intended audience, and goals; R3.2: Student interprets, analyzes, and critiques author’s use of literary and rhetorical devices, language, and style; R2.2: Student uses context to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R2.3: Student uses knowledge of the evolution, diversity, and effects of language to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts;W1.1: Student analyzes components of purpose, goals, audience, and genre.

1)Begin deconstructing AP multiple choice test

2)Current event categories assigned

3)Work on homework (if time permits)

Homework: Finish “The Yellow Wallpaper” responses and reviewing rhetorical terms; begin working on current event presentation

Thursday, August 24th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: R3.1: Student rhetorically analyzes author’s purpose, intended audience, and goals; R3.2: Student interprets, analyzes, and critiques author’s use of literary and rhetorical devices, language, and style; R2.2: Student uses context to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R2.3: Student uses knowledge of the evolution, diversity, and effects of language to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; W1.1: Student analyzes components of purpose, goals, audience, and genre; W4.1: Student evaluates drafted text for development, organization, and focus.

1)Discuss “The Yellow Wallpaper”

2)Choose, refine, and submit “The Yellow Wallpaper” response

3)Continue deconstructing AP multiple choice test

Homework: Work on dialectical journal; finish current event presentation; Dual credit students complete diagnostic essay (due 9/22)

Friday, August 25th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: S3.1: Student analyzes purpose, audience, and context when planning a presentation or performance; S3.2: Student gathers and organizes content to achieve purposes for a presentation or performance; L3.1: Student listens to comprehend; L3.2: Student listens to evaluate; R3.1: Student rhetorically analyzes author’s purpose, intended audience, and goals; R3.2: Student interprets, analyzes, and critiques author’s use of literary and rhetorical devices, language, and style; R2.2: Student uses context to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R2.3: Student uses knowledge of the evolution, diversity, and effects of language to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts.

1)Current event presentation

2)Continue deconstructing AP multiple choice test (if time permits)

Homework: Work on dialectical journal

Monday, August 28th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: R3.1: Student rhetorically analyzes author’s purpose, intended audience, and goal; R3.2: Student interprets, analyzes, and critiques author’s use of literary and rhetorical devices, language, and style; R2.2: Student uses context to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R2.3: Student uses knowledge of the evolution, diversity, and effects of language to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts.

1)Receive TTTC tone and diction vocabulary (test on 9/6)

2)Continue AP test deconstruction

Homework: Review TTTC vocabulary, review for TTTC test, and work on dialectical journal

Tuesday, August 29th(1st & 5th):

1)Finish AP test deconstruction

Homework: Review for TTTC test and work on dialectical journal

Wednesday, August 30th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: R3.1: Student rhetorically analyzes author’s purpose, intended audience, and goals; R3.2: Student interprets, analyzes, and critiques author’s use of literary and rhetorical devices, language, and style; W5.1: Student edits for conventions of standard written English and usage; W5.2: Student employs proofreading strategies and consults resources to correct errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation;W4.1: Student evaluates drafted text for development, organization, and focus.

1)Discuss and revise anonymous student “The Yellow Wallpaper” responses in groups; share with class

Homework: Work on journal and study for TTTC test

Thursday, August 31st (1st & 5th)

***Picture Day

College Board Standards: R2.2: Student uses context to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; W2.2: Student generates, selects, connects, and organizes information and ideas; W1.1: Student analyzes components of purpose, goals, audience, and genre.

1)Review TTTC

2)Polish journal

Homework: Finish journal and study for TTTC test

Friday, September 1st (1st & 5th):

***TTTC Journal Due

1)TTTC Test

Homework: Read “The Minister’s Black Veil” and annotate with regard to Hawthorne’s style and use/effect of rhetorical devices

Tuesday, September 5th (1st & 5th):

1)Discuss “The Minister’s Black Veil”

2)Take notes on rhetoric (triangle, appeals, Toulmin method, visual rhetoric)

Homework: Study TTTC tone and diction vocabulary

Wednesday, September 6th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: R1.1: Student comprehends the meaning of words and sentences; R3.1: Student rhetorically analyzes author’s purpose, intended audience, and goals; R3.2: Student interprets, analyzes, and critiques author’s use of literary and rhetorical devices, language, and style.

1)TTTC tone and diction vocabulary test

2)Current event categories assigned

3)Look at rhetorical analysis models

Homework: Prepare for current event presentation on 9/8

Thursday, September 7th (1st & 5th):

1)Receive SAT Vocab. Book; SAT Vocab. 1 Diagnostic

2)Rhetorical analysis activity

Homework: Prepare for current event presentation on 9/8

Friday, September 8th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: M2.1: Student understands, interprets, analyzes, and evaluates media communication. Student rhetorically analyzes author’s purpose, intended audience, and goals; R3.2: Student interprets, analyzes, and critiques author’s use of literary and rhetorical devices, language, and style.

1)Current event presentation

2)Finish rhetorical analysis activity

Homework: Review/finish rhetorical analysis activity

Monday, September 11th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: W1.1: Student analyzes components of purpose, goals, audience, and genre.

1)Rhetorical analysis timed writing

Homework: Read and annotate Arthur Miller’s “Why I Wrote The Crucible” by 9/12

Tuesday, September 12th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: R2.1: Student uses prior knowledge to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R2.2: Student uses context to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R2.3: Student uses knowledge of the evolution, diversity, and effects of language to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts;R3.1: Student rhetorically analyzes author’s purpose, intended audience, and goals.

1)Discuss homework

2)Read and discuss “The Devil in Massachusetts” and excerpts from Nine Years Among the Indians

3)Receive The Crucible and begin reading Act I

Homework: 

Wednesday, September 13th(1st & 5th):

1)Continue reading Act I

Homework: study for SAT Vocab. 1 Quiz and write meaningful sentences by 9/14

Thursday, September 14th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: R1.1: Student comprehends the meaning of words and sentences.R2.1: Student uses prior knowledge to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R2.2: Student uses context to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R2.3: Student uses knowledge of the evolution, diversity, and effects of language to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R3.1: Student rhetorically analyzes author’s purpose, intended audience, and goals.

1)SAT Vocab. 1 Quiz

2)Finish Act I

Homework: Finish Act I (if not finished in class)

Friday, September 15th (1st & 5th):

1)AP multiple choice warm-up (on The Crucible)

2)Begin Act II

Homework: Work on Fiction IRP

Monday, September 18th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: R1.1: Student comprehends the meaning of words and sentences;R2.1: Student uses prior knowledge to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R2.2: Student uses context to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R2.3: Student uses knowledge of the evolution, diversity, and effects of language to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R3.1: Student rhetorically analyzes author’s purpose, intended audience, and goals.

1)SAT Vocab. 2 Diagnostic

2)Read Act II

Homework: study for SAT Vocab. 2 Quiz and write meaningful sentences by 9/20

Tuesday, September 19th (1st & 5th):

1)Begin argument essay activity

2)Finish Act II

Homework: Finish Act II (in not finished in class)

Wednesday, September 20th (1st & 5th):

1)SAT Vocab. 2 Quiz

2)Read Act III

Homework: Work on Fiction IRP

Thursday, September 21st (1st & 5th):

1)Finish Act III

2)Look at argument essay models

Homework: Finish Act III (if not finished in class)

Friday, September 22nd (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: R2.1: Student uses prior knowledge to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R2.2: Student uses context to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R2.3: Student uses knowledge of the evolution, diversity, and effects of language to comprehend and elaborate the meaning of texts; R3.1: Student rhetorically analyzes author’s purpose, intended audience, and goals;R3.2: Student interprets, analyzes, and critiques author’s use of literary and rhetorical devices, language, and style.

1)AP multiple choice warm-up (on The Crucible)

2)Read Act IV

Homework: Finish argument essay activity (if not finished in class Tuesday)

Monday, September 25th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: W2.2: Student generates, selects, connects, and organizes information and ideas.

1)Argument timed writing

Homework: Work on Fiction IRP

Tuesday, September 26th (1st & 5th):

1)Finish reading Act IV

Homework: Finish Act IV (if not finished in class); read and annotate “Yes, She’s a Christ Figure” from How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Wednesday, September 27th (1st & 5th):

1)SAT Vocab. 3 Diagnostic

2)Discuss homework and the play as a whole

Homework: Study for SAT Vocab. 3 Quiz and write meaningful sentences by 9/29

Thursday, September 28th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: W1.1: Student analyzes components of purpose, goals, audience, and genre;L3.1: Student listens to comprehend;L3.2: Student listens to evaluate.

1)Class rhetorical analysis essay (teacher types and puts on projector; students work in pairs—each pair responsible for a certain part of the essay)

Homework: Work on Fiction IRP

Friday, September 29th (1st & 5th):

DYER ABSENT

College Board Standards: R1.1: Student comprehends the meaning of words and sentences; W2.2: Student generates, selects, connects, and organizes information and ideas.

1)SAT Vocab. 3 Quiz

2)Work on IRP (bring laptop, book, etc.)

Homework: Review class essay (posted on website) and rhetorical analysis activity packet as well as The Crucible

Monday, October 2nd (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: W1.1: Student analyzes components of purpose, goals, audience, and genre.

1)The Crucible rhetorical analysis essay

Homework: work on Fiction IRP

Tuesday, October 3rd (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: R3.1: Student rhetorically analyzes author’s purpose, intended audience, and goals; W5.1: Student edits for conventions of standard written English and usage.

1)Peer review (following checklist) of The Crucible rhetorical analysis essay

Homework: work on Fiction IRP

Wednesday, October 4th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards:W5.1: Student edits for conventions of standard written English and usage;W1.1: Student analyzes components of purpose, goals, audience, and genre.

1)Rewrite of The Crucible rhetorical analysis essay

Homework: work on Fiction IRP

Thursday, October 5th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: R1.1: Student comprehends the meaning of words and sentences; W5.2: Student employs proofreading strategies and consults resources to correct errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

1)SAT Vocab. 4 Diagnostic

2)Grammar exercises (based on mistakes made in timed writings)

Homework: Study for Vocab. 4 Quiz and write meaningful sentences by 10/9

Friday, October 6th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: R4.4: Student uses strategies to organize, restructure, and synthesize text content.

1)Read and discuss They Say, I Say handout (think, pair, share)

Homework: Finish Fiction IRP

Monday, October 9th (1st & 5th):

***Fiction Independent Reading Project due

1)SAT Vocab. 4 Quiz

2)Grammar exercises (based on mistakes made in timed writings

Homework: 

Tuesday, October 10th (1st & 5th):

College Board Standards: R1.3: Student comprehends organizational patterns, textual features, graphical representations, and ideas in informational and literary texts.

1)Discuss and review synthesis essay models

Homework: Study for the PSAT

Wednesday, October 11th (1st & 5th):

***PSAT

Thursday, October 12th (1st & 5th):

1)Early release

Homework: 