English III AP Year at a Glance
1st Nine Weeks (40 days) / 2nd Nine Weeks (40 days)Unit 1: Understanding Rhetoric
Lessons:
- The significance of rhetorical analysis by: defining rhetoric and the rhetorical situation: exigence, audience an constraints
- The analysis of persona and tone
- The rhetorical matrix: the elements of an effective text
- Close reading and annotation
- How to discern the difference in approaches in certain text targeted to specific audiences
- The significance of audience in development of a text
- Formal academic writing
- How to transcend the 5-paragraph “theme” essay
Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Cather: O, Pioneers!
Faulkner: As I Lay Dying
Egan: The Worst Hard Time
Class Readings:
Baldwin: “Notes of a Native Son”
Bitzer: “The Rhetorical Situation”
Heinrichs: Thank You for Arguing
Lehrer: “The Truth About Grit”
Lopate: “Writing Personal Essays…”
Mairs: “On Being a Cripple”
McMurtry: “Kill’Em! Crush ‘Em! Eat ‘Em Raw”
Rauch: “In Defense of Prejudice”
Roach: “How to Know If You’re Dead”
Woolf: “In Search of a Room of One’s Own”
Assessments:
Summer Reading Assessment
Summer Reading Essay
Analytical Essay
Response to Literature Essay
In-Class Timed Essay
Personal Narrative
Application Essay / Unit 2: Analyzing Rhetoric
Lessons:
- The 5 traditional Canons of rhetoric
- The rhetorical transaction
- Aristotelian Appeals
- Effective argument
- Enthymemes & warrants
- Style schemes and tropes
- How form can relate to function
- Means of communication
- Speech genre
- Effective pronoun usage
- The authorial voice
Lawrence & Lee: Inherit the Wind
Lincoln: “Second Inaugural Address”
Lincoln: “Gettysburg Address”
Obama: “Inaugural Address”
Orwell: “Political and the English Language”
Postman: “Graduation Speech”
Assessments:
Speech Analysis Essay
Culture Synthesis Essay
Columnist Project
AP Analysis Prompt
Unit 3: Rhetoric & Effective Writing
Lessons:
- The writing process
- Writing as rhetorical process
- How to incorporate external sources
- The distinction between argument and persuasion
- The concept of the conversation
- How to synthesize diverse sources
- Logical fallacies
- How to analyze visual sources
- Revision process and strategies
- How to determine their own learning style
Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
August: “Real Men Don’t”
Cross: “Propaganda”
Didion: “At the Dam”
Fussel: “Thank God for the Atomic Bomb”
Levin: “The Case for Torture”
Shulman: “Love is a Fallacy”
Sommer: “The Gender Wardens”
Assessments:
AP Multiple Choice Practice
AP Synthesis Prompts
Argumentative Essay
Rhetorical Synthesis Essay
3rd Nine Weeks (48 days) / 4th Nine Weeks (58 days)
Unit 4: Reading, Research & Rhetoric
Lessons:
Functionality of sentence structures and syntax
Satire – authorial appeals through humor
Context clues as a means to interpret archaic prose
Analyzing reader response
Constraints surrounding audience
Multiple choice strategies
Research and citation strategies
Discovering credible sources
Readings:
Chopin: The Awakening
Barry: “Art is more than the Eye of the Beholder”
Postman: “Future Schlock”
Swift: “A Modest Proposal”
Twain: Jim on “Lizbeth” from Huckleberry Finn
Assessments:
AP Prompts
Research Steps & Organization
Research Paper
Unit 5: Making Connections – Readers & Writers
Lessons:
Semiotics & effective communication
The power of punctuation
Shared experience as a tool for reasoning
Meanings behind images: visual rhetoric
Test expectations
Archaic prose
Readings:
Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Dillard: “Sight into Insight”
Ephron: “The Boston Photographs
Langer: “Language and Thought”
Plato: “The Allegory of the Cave”
Assessments:
Research Paper
Photograph Synthesis Essay
Complete Practice Exam
AP Prompts
Student-choice Essay / Unit 6: Rhetoric & NarrativeAssessment Dates:
Lessons:
Rhetorical strategies in film
Effectiveness of narrative styles
Universal truth in narrative – the power of themes
The expectations of AP English Literature & Composition
Readings:
TBD
Assessments:
TBD
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