1 Fall Semester Weekly Syllabus ’10-‘11 AP English Language & Composition Ms. Derdzinske (Dates are subject to change) Week 1/A 9/13-9/17 • Day One: o Discuss syllabus & class requirements o Summer Reading Quiz on Slouching Towards Bethlehem; Always Running; Malcolm X o Costa’s Question Levels Due: Summer AP Essay • Day Two: o Discuss summer reading: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Class Notes) o Cornell Notes o Discuss summer practice AP essay
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Due: 10 Costa Questions on each of the three summer reading texts (30 questions total)
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Discuss Malcolm X (Class Notes) DIDLS SOAPTone
Week 2/B 9/20-9/24 • Day One: o Discuss: Always Running (Class Notes) Due: DIDLS on Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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Due: SOAPTone on Always Running and Malcolm X
Socratic Seminar on Summer Reading (Slouching Toward Bethlehem; Always Running & Malcolm X) (Class Notes) Due: 7 Level 2 and 3 Level 3 questions for Socratic Seminar
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Discuss: Ch.1 Bedford Reader: “Reading Critically” (9-26) (Class Notes) Vocabulary List #1: Rhetorical / Literary terms (“Abstract” through “Diction” in Glossary of Bedford Reader) Test Week 5 Assign dates for group rhetoric presentations Independent Reading Assignment prompt Due: Cornell Notes for Ch.1 Bedford Reader: “Reading Critically” (9-26)
Week 3/A 9/27-10/1 Day One: o Discuss: Ch. 2 Bedford Reader “Writing Effectively” (31-47) (Class Notes) o Begin draft of essay on summer reading (topic TBA) o Review MLA Style guidelines (Ch. 3 Bedford Reader p. 56)
Discuss: Ch. 4 Bedford Reader “Narration: Telling a Story” (Class Notes) Rhetorical analysis/presentation: “Champion of the World” M. Angelou (88-91 BR -rhetoric presentations are generally every Friday.)
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Due: Typed responses to “Questions on Meaning” (91) 1-4 Due: Cornell Notes for Ch. 4 Bedford Reader “Narration: Telling a Story”
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Summer Essay Draft Workshop Full Draft of Summer Essay Due
Independent Reading List due
Week 4/B 10/4-10/8 Narration Day One: o Discuss “Indian Education” S. Alexie (105-110 BR) (Class Notes) • Day Two: o Discuss “The Chase” (99-102 BR); “Fish Cheeks” (94-95 BR) (Class Notes) o Quick Write: Narration (133 BR) • Day Three: o Rhetorical analysis/presentation: “The Lottery” S. Jackson (122-129 BR) (Class Notes) Due: Typed responses to “Questions on Language” (130)
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Class Notes Due Due: HARD COPY OF SUMMER ESSAY FINAL DRAFT
Week 5/A 10/11-10/15 Description Day One: o Discuss Ch. 5 Bedford Reader “Description: Writing with your Senses” (135-143) (Class Notes) o Discuss “Silent Dancing” (162-169 BR); “Fly-Fishing for Doctors” (173-175 BR) (Class Notes) Due: Cornell Notes on Ch. 5 Bedford Reader “Description: Writing with your Senses” (135-143) • Day Two: o Vocabulary Test #1 on rhetorical/literary terms o Continue Discussion: Fly-Fishing for Doctors” o Vocabulary List #2 (“Discovery” to “Introduction”) Test Week 11 • Day Three: o Rhetorical analysis/presentation: “Shooting Dad” S. Vowell (152-158 BR) (Class Notes) Due: Typed responses to “Questions on Writing Strategy” (158-9)
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Week 6/B 10/18- 10/22 Example • Day One: o Discuss Ch. 6 Bedford Reader “Example: Pointing to Instances” (187-193) (Class Notes) o Discuss: “Signs” (219-223 BR) (Class Notes) Due: Cornell Notes on Discuss Ch. 6 Bedford Reader “Example: Pointing to Instances” (187-193)
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Day Two Discuss: “Black Men and Public Space” (205-7 BR) (Class Notes) Quick Write: Example (227 BR) Day Three: o Rhetorical analysis/presentation: “On Compassion” B. Ascher & “Homeless” A. Quindlen (195-202 BR) (Class Notes) Due: Typed responses to “Questions on Writing Strategy” (either essay) (198 & 202-3) Due: Independent Reading 1
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Week 7/A 10/25 - 10/29 Comparison and Contrast • Day One: o Discuss: Ch. 7 Bedford Reader “Comparison and Contrast: Setting Things Side By Side” (229-238) (Class Notes) o Discuss “Neat people vs. Sloppy People” (239-241) (Class Notes)
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Due: Cornell Notes on Ch. 7 Bedford Reader “Comparison and Contrast: Setting Things Side By Side” (229-238)
Discuss: “Battling Clean-up and Striking Out” (245-247) (Class Notes) Quick Write: Comparison/Contrast (283) Begin draft of Essay Two on description, narration, example, comparison/contrast (prompt/rubric to be distributed)
Day Three: NO YOU MAY NOT HELP SET UP FOR THE HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL o Rhetorical analysis/presentation: “Remembering my Childhood on the Continent of Africa” D. Sedaris (250-5 BR) (Class Notes) Due: Typed responses to “Questions on Language” (256)
Week 8/B 11/1 - 11/5 • Day One: o Discuss “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts” (258-261) (Class Notes) • Day Two: o Rhetorical analysis/presentation: “”Size 6: The Western Women’s Harem” F. Mernissi (265-270 BR) (Class Notes) Due: Typed responses to “Questions on Meaning” (270) • Day Three: o Draft Workshop Due: Copies of Essay 2 Week 9/A 11/8-11/12 Midterm Exam Day One: o Practice AP Essay (Midterm Exam) • Day Two: o Practice Multiple Choice Test (Midterm Exam) • Day Three: o Discuss sample responses for AP Essay Due: FINAL DRAFT OF ESSAY TWO
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Begin Reading The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Class Notes Due Week 10/B 11/14 - 11/19 Process Analysis • Day One: o Discuss Ch. 8 Bedford Reader “Process Analysis: Explaining Step by Step” (285-292 BR) o Discuss “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain” (305-312) (Class Notes) Due: Cornell Notes on Ch.8 “Process Analysis: Explaining Step by Step” (285292) • Day Two: o Discuss Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (history, background) (Class Notes) •
Day Three: o Rhetorical analysis/presentation: “How to Poison the Earth” L. Saukko (294-296 BR) (Class Notes) Due: Typed responses to “Questions on Writing Strategy” (296) Independent Reading #2 Due
Furloughs & Thanksgiving 11/22 - 11/26 Complete reading The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Participate in on-line discussion via Turnitin.com Read other slave narratives
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Week 11/A 11/29-12/3 • Day One: o Vocabulary Test #2 (“Discovery” to “Introduction”) o Discuss: “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” (316-321) (Class Notes) o Quick Write: Process Analysis (332-3) • Day Two: o Discuss Narrative of Frederick Douglass (Class Notes) o Discuss selections from other slave narratives (handouts) • Day Three: o Rhetorical analysis/presentation: “Orientation” D. Orozco (324-329) (Class Notes) Due: Typed responses to “Questions on Language” (330) Week 12/B 12/6-12/10 Division or Analysis • Day One: o Reading Quiz Narrative of Frederick Douglass o Socratic Seminar: Narrative of Frederick Douglass Due: 7 Level 2 and 3 Level 3 questions for Socratic Seminar • Day Two: o In-Class essay on Narrative of Frederick Douglass
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Day Three: o Discuss Ch. 9 Bedford Reader “Division or Analysis: Slicing into Parts” (335-343) (Class Notes) o Discuss “I Want a Wife” (344-6) (Class Notes) Due: Cornell Notes on Ch. 9 Bedford Reader “Division or Analysis: Slicing into Parts” (335-343) Class Notes due
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Week 13/A 12/13 - 12/16 • Day One: o Discuss “Not All Men are Sly Foxes”(348-50) (Class Notes) o Quick Write: Division or Analysis • Day Two: o Rhetorical analysis/presentation: “Our Barbies, Ourselves” E. Prager (353-55 BR) (Class Notes) Due: Typed responses to “Questions on Language” (356) • Day Three: o Rhetorical analysis/presentation: “The Capricious Camera” L. Ayad (359-365 BR) (Class Notes) Typed responses to “Questions on Writing Strategy” (366) Due: Independent Reading #3 Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Winter Break • Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • Participate in on-line discussion via Turnitin.com Week 14/B 1/10-1/14 • Day One: o Background on Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Class Notes) o Bedford Reader Exam Information • Day Two: o Discuss: Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Class Notes) • Day Three: o Socratic Seminar: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Due: 7 Level 2 questions and 3 Level 3 questions Week 15/A 1/17 - 1/21 Argument and Persuasion (MLK Day 1/17) Day One: o Discuss Ch. 13 Bedford Reader “Argument and Persuasion: Stating Opinions and Proposals” (515-531) (Class Notes)
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Due: Cornell Notes on Ch. 13 Bedford Reader “Argument and Persuasion: Stating Opinions and Proposals” (515-531)
Day Two: o Discuss “Too Much Pressure” (532-537 BR) (Class Notes) o Essay Three Prompt Day Three: o Rhetorical analysis/presentation: “”The FBI is Reading over your Shoulder” Z. Gelsey (579582 BR); “How the USA Patriot Act Defends Democracy” V. Dinh (585-89 BR) (Class Notes) Due: Typed responses to “Questions on Meaning” (either essay)
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Week 16/B 1/24 - 1/28 • Day One: Discuss “Why Don’t We Complain?” W. Buckley (538-545) (Class Notes) • Two Day: TBD • Day Three: o Rhetorical analysis/presentation: “Close Encounters with US Immigration” A. Khan (570-2 BR); “Everything isn’t Racial Profiling” L. Chavez (575-77 BR) (Class Notes) Due: Typed responses to “Questions on Writing Strategy” (either essay) Class Notes Due Week 17/A 1/31 - 2/4 Day One: o Draft workshop Due: 4 copies of Essay Three • Day Two: o Final Exam: Practice In-Class AP Essay • Day Three: o Final Exam: Practice In-Class AP Multiple Choice
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Week 18/B 2/7 – 2/11 Final Exam (Subject to Final Exam Schedule) o Final Exam: Bedford Reader Identification Exam Due: FINAL DRAFT ESSAY 3
