Opening Information 2010-2011

Syllabus for AP English Language

The fall syllabus for this course is available on teacher pages link on the school website. Please e-mail jcarmicl@lausd.net for questions or concerns.

STUDYPATH* September 13-17, 2010

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Opening day agenda and initial class assignments include an introduction to two texts, Everything's An Argument (Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz, Walters) and Five Steps to Five, AP English Language 2010-2011 (Rankin, Murphy).

Monday
Reading Arguments Part 1 Introduction and Purposes of Argument

Tuesday
Arguments to Convince, Arguments to Explore, Arguments to Make Decisions, and Arguments to Mediate or Pray

Wednesday
Occasions for Arguments, Arguments about the Past (Forensic), Arguments about the Future (Deliberative), and Arguments about the Present (Contemporary)

Thursday
Kinds of Argument: Fact, Definition, Evaluation, and Proposal

Friday
Audience for Arguments: Considering Contexts
Appealing to Audiences: Emotional, Ethical and Logical Appeals
Arguments and their Rhetorical Situations
"The Death of the Moth" Virginia Woolf due Monday, September 20