Advanced Placement English Language-Grade 11
SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
Mr. Carmicle 2006-2007 Web Log: hollywoodhighschool.net
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AP English Language and Composition offers students a **year of intense training in reading and writing that not only prepares them for the AP Language and Composition Examination, but also for successful University study and lifelong learning. This class focuses on the rhetorical analysis of fiction and non-fiction, and includes works of American literature. Students learn to identify an author’s purpose and strategies by examining the ways people think about and use language. Students read and analyze models of good writing and write compositions of various lengths and complexity, participating in peer response and rigorous revision. Students are introduced to analytical tools designed to develop levels of questioning at the factual, inferential, and analytical tiers of knowledge, providing them with skills to master the highest forms of analysis and synthesis, necessary for rigorous class discussions note-taking, and writing effective prose at first year college level. Students are expected to complete outside reading on time and complete notes on class discussions using the Cornell method. In this course, the rhetorical interpretation of text primarily focuses on various models which demand that claims, taken with the writer’s purpose, the intended audience, and speaker’s persona, lead to argument for persuasion using both a thesis and opposite thesis. Students in AP English Language read difficult nonfiction text with speed, annotating and outlining as they recognize shifts of perspective and tone. They quote with authority and precision, discern the writer’s purpose and comprehend the responses elicited from audiences and synthesize how authors manipulate readers to argue and prove theses in various modes of written discourse.*
Textbooks:
Cliffs AP Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Preparation Guide Swovelin 1993
Literature and Integrated Studies Scott Foresman, Publishers 1997
America Now, Sixth Edition Atwan 2005
Vocabulary Workshop Level “F”
The Bedford Reader
Students retain all assignments, cover sheets, revisions and other materials necessary to write a reflective letter at the end of the semester. All student work is periodically placed in students’ portfolios.
*Jewel Kamita, Capistrano Valley High School AP Packet 2005
**Marcy Bowman, Greater Los Angeles Advanced Placement Institute 2005
Literature Assignments August 30-December 22, 2006 (Semester A)
Colonial Period to 1790 PURITANS AND THE AMERICAN BEGINNINGS
From Of Plymouth Plantation (31) William Bradford (1590-1657)
“Offer of Help” (33) Canassatego (died 1750)
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (58) Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
New Republic 1790-1820 SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE AND A NEW NATION
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (162) Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
“The American Crisis” (170) Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
“Speech in the Virginia Convention” (172) Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
“Declaration of Independence” (178) Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
American Romanticism 1820-1865 THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS
“Much Madness is divinest Sense” (354) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"Because I could not stop for Death” (357) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
From “Self-Reliance” (222) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
From “Walden” and “Civil Disobedience” (226) Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
“I Hear America Singing” (361) Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
“What is the Grass” (362) Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
“There Was A Child Went Forth” (364) Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Continental Nation 1865-1900 THE CIVIL WAR
“The Gettysburg Address” (304) Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
“What the Black Man Wants” (328) Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
Novels:
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
The Great Gatsby (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 4 LABOR DAY
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10 VETERANS DAY
THURSDAY-FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23-24
THANKSGIVING DAY HOLIDAYS
ANALYTICAL TOOLS FOSTER CRITICAL THINKING
DICTION, SYNTAX, TONE, IRONY;
BLOOM’S AFFECTIVE, LEVELS OF QUESTIONING,
RHETORICAL READING AND RESEARCH STRATEGIES,
DISCOURSE MODES, THESES FOR ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION
