June 25-29, 2007

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Monday
1. Vocabulary Workshop books due in class today; book final mastery test answers provided to students in preparation for final exam on Wednesday; books signed in at counter for return to textbook room
2. Research Paper strategies handouts submitted for grade
3. Portfolios placed in file cabinet for off-track storage
4. Junior Defense of Thesis presentations continue in class (final day)

Tuesday
CLASS DOES NOT MEET TODAY

Wednesday
FINAL EXAMINATION; CHECK SIGN ON ROOM 122 DOOR FOR LOCATION

Thursday
CLASS DOES NOT MEET TODAY

Friday
NEW SEMESTER PREVIEW

June 18-22, 2007

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Monday
1. Research Papers scored and returned to students this week
2. Precis for research paper due Wednesday
3. Storyboards due tomorrow, Tuesday
4. Junior Defense of Thesis presentations continue in class this week

Tuesday
1. Vocabulary Workshop books due in class today for assignment
2. Bedford Reader books due in class today for assignment
3. Semester Reflection Letter assignment printed for portfolios

Wednesday
1. Vocabulary Workshop books and Bedford Reader due in class today for assignment
2. Grammar assignment in class
3. Research Paper strategies handouts due at end of week
4. Precis for research paper due today

Thursday
1. Final Examinations assignments announced
2. Bedford Reader and Vocabulary Workshop books due in class today

Friday
1. Junior Defense of Thesis presentations end today
2. Weekend homework assigned
3. Portfolios organized

June 11-15, 2007

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Monday
1. LA Times front page Becerra-Pierson article letter-to-the-editor response due
2. Junior Defense of Thesis presentations; powerpoint presentations sent to MWD

FIELD TRIP CHECKLIST
Lunch ticket for June 14 submitted no later than Tuesday, June 12
Field trip slip signed and submitted no later than Tuesday, June 12
Business attire requested for trip
Bus pass used for round-trip Red Line subway trip; tokens provided for others
California Drivers License or ID or school photo ID required by MWD for admittance

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Junior Defense of Thesis presentations continue
2. Research Paper strategies or grammar handouts provided in class
3. RESEARCH PAPER DUE TODAY; Powerpoint presenters' research paper deadline is Friday

Wednesday
1. Junior Defense of Thesis presentations continue
2. Research Paper strategies or grammar handouts provided in class

Thursday

FIELD TRIP TO METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS FOR JUNIOR DEFENSE OF THESIS

Friday
1. Debriefing of field trip; thank you cards signed and mailed
2. Grammar and Research Papers strategies handouts homework
3. Bedford Reader assignment due Monday, June 18
4. Storyboards for JDT Abstracts due Monday, June 18
5. Final Exam information to be announced

June 4-June 8, 2007

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Monday
1. Mike Smith Las Vegas Sun cartoonist assignment due today
2. Vantage Writing Lab scheduled for Wednesday (semester reflection essay/letter)
3. Appositive grammar corrected in class
4. Junior Defense of Thesis presentations; MWD presenters' powerpoint CD due Friday for preview by teacher
5. Invisible Man books to be returned; sign-in sheet and book number mandatory
6. Grammar assignment completed in class
7. Field Trip slips are due today
8. Field Trip requirements: lunch ticket, school or California picture ID, and bus pass or token (provided)

Tuesday
1. Junior Defense of Thesis presentations
2. Research Paper Strategies handouts in class
3. Storyboards due Monday, June 18th
4. Grammar assignment completed in class

Wednesday
1. Vantage Writing Lab scheduled for today
2. Junior Defense of Thesis presentations
3. Bedford Reader assignments postponed until MWD field trip is completed

Thursday
1. Junior Defense of Thesis presentations
2. Research Paper Strategies handouts in class
3. Los Angeles Times consultative writing Op/Ed assignment; due Monday
4. Grammar assignment completed in class

Friday
1. Junior Defense of Thesis presentations
2. Grammar assignment completed in class
3. Weekend assignments to be announced

May 28-June 1, 2007

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Monday
MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY

Tuesday
1. Collect appositives grammar lesson assigned Friday in library
2. Circulate Junior Defense of Thesis presentation list; confirm dates
3. Circulate tokens/bus pass list
4. Outline of pages 49-72 of Bedford Reader (some pages will be exempt from outline)
5. Bedford Reader due in class; Gloria Naylor's "The Meanings of a Word" done as in-class assignment today; due at end of class
6. Bedford Reader literary terms (next set of ten); test on Friday
7. Skelton Op-Ed due today

Wednesday
1. Vocabulary Workshop books due in class; Unit Fifteen done as in-class assignment today; due at end of class; test on Thursday
2. Grammar assignment in-class work; due at end of class
3. Research Paper Strategies handouts in class
4. Outline pages for Bedford Reader due Friday, June 1

Thursday
1. Los Angeles Times Op/Ed response done as in-class assignment
2. Unit Fifteen Vocabulary test today
3. Grammar assignment in class; due at end of class
4. Research Paper Strategies handouts in class

Friday
1. Outline pages due today
2. Bedford Reader literary terms test today
3. Junior Defense of Thesis presentations begin today
4. Grammar assignment in class
5. Research Paper Strategies handouts in class
6. Vantage Writing Lab scheduled for Wednesday, June 6

May 21-25, 2007

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This is California Standards Testing Week--schedules are available from homeroom teachers and certain classes will not meet on selected days.

Monday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Fourteen answers are due today; test Thursday (Period Four does not meet on Tuesday, May 22, or Wednesday, May 23)
2. Bedford Reader Meghan Daum selection is due today for class discussion; "Palm Tuesday" LA Times article discussion accompanies Bedford Reader
3. Patt Morrison Op/Ed response due today: "California's Driest..." (if assignment arrives Tuesday, per original assignment, it will NOT be late)

Tuesday
CLASS DOES NOT MEET TODAY

Wednesday
CLASS DOES NOT MEET TODAY

Thursday
MEET IN LIBRARY FOR RESEARCH
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Fourteen test today
2. Junior Defense of Thesis
3. Literary Terms; next set of ten from Bedford Reader
4. Bedford Reader Research Paper pages to be announced in class

Friday
MEET IN LIBRARY FOR RESEARCH
1. Grammar homework to be assigned
2. Next Bedford Reader selection announced; due Monday
3. Junior Defense of Thesis
4. Bedford Reader Research Paper pages due today (outline)

May 14-18, 2007

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MONDAY
1. Vocabulary Workshop postponed due to AP Exams
2. Study Cornell Notes of Literary Terms presented in class
3. Water Case Cornell Notes for Case Ten due today
4. AP English Language Exam is Wednesday, May 16; be on time; get a good night's sleep; eat breakfast; stamina is important for this three-hour fifteen-minute examination
5. Outline of Pages 515-528 of Bedford Reader is due Tuesday; use sample provided in class for proper formatting
6. Morrison Op/Ed Response provided on Thursday of last week is due today; use handout for proper formatting
7. SAS REQUIRES SIGNED MIDTERM PROGRESS REPORTS TO BE SUBMITTED TO ENGLISH TEACHER FOR CREDIT
8. Synthesis Essay in class today; fifteen minutes of reading sources and forty minutes to compose response
9. Invisible Man Vantage Writing Lab essay deadline was extended until this evening to accommodate request for extension because of AP History Exam

TUESDAY
1. Vantage Writing Lab for APEX AP Language Exam strategies
2. No homework assigned because of test tomorrow, Wednesday

WEDNESDAY
1. AP English Language and Composition Examination administered; return to class when permitted
2. Junior Defense of Thesis Abstract presented tomorrow (Thursday)

THURSDAY
1. Junior Defense of Thesis Abstract
2. Grammar homework
3. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Fourteen due Monday
4. Bedford Reader Meghan Daum next selection due on Monday
5. CST Exams are scheduled soon

FRIDAY
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Fourteen due Monday
2. Bedford Reader Meghan Daum next selection due on Monday
3. Research Paper strategies in class

May 7-11, 2007

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Monday
1. Vocabulary Workshop will not be due until next week
2. Literary Terms for AP Exam multiple-choice questions; add to Cornell Notes
3. Water Cases Cornell Notes are due today; see previous blog for Case Numbers
4. AP English Language Exam Wednesday, May 16; stamina is a very important key to success; we will discuss in class

Tuesday
1. Grammar assigned in class and as homework
2. Multiple-Choice literary terms continued and multiple-choice practice questions
3. Bedford Reader argument pages to be assigned; discussion on Friday

Wednesday
1. Vantage Writing Lab: Apex Diagnostic and Invisible Man essay today and tomorrow

Thursday
1. Vantage Writing Lab: Apex Strategies and Invisible Man essay due end of period

Friday
1. In-class discussion for Bedford Reader argument pages (515-531; textbook is mandatory)
2. Water Cases to be assigned

CHECK SUNDAY EVENING FOR UPDATED BLOG

April 30-May 4, 2007

Monday
1. Unit Thirteen answers due in class; test Tuesday
2. Literary Terms for AP Exam multiple-choice questions
3. Water Cases Cornell Notes to be announced
4. Invisible Man quotations quiz due today

Tuesday
1. Unit Thirteen vocabulary test
2. Multiple-Choice literary terms continued and multiple-choice practice questions

Wednesday
1. Chapters 21-25 Invisible Man (five talking points per chapter); class discussion
2. Bedford Reader next selection discussion and questions due tomorrow (see syllabus)

Thursday
1. Bedford Reader next selection class discussion
2. Grammar homework

Friday
1. Grammar homework
2. All other assignments to be announced; AP Exam for Language is May 16

April 23-27, 2007

Monday
1. Water Cases Six and Seven assigned; add to Cornell Notes
2. Hazlitt essay in class Friday; Bedford Terms test precedes essay (bring Bedford Reader textbook Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday)
3. Grammar homework assigned
4. Bedford Reader next selection due Thursday; Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" answers discussed in class
5. Research Paper Thesis Statements shared aloud
6. Vocabulary Level "F" Unit Twelve due today; test Tuesday

Tuesday
1. Invisible Man Chapters Sixteen-Twenty due tomorrow (Wednesday); twenty-five talking points (five per chapter); class discussion Wednesday (all period)
2. Bedford Reader next selection due Thursday (see syllabus for title)
3. Grammar homework assigned
4. Water Cases Six and Seven Cornell Notes due on Thursday
5. Vocabulary Level "F"Unit Twelve test today

Wednesday
1. Invisible Man class discussion and comprehension quiz; Chapters Sixteen-Twenty
2. Grammar assigned as homework
3. Bedford Terms 41-50 (postponed from last week) test Friday before timed essay
4. Unit Thirteen Vocabulary due Monday; test next Tuesday


Thursday
1. Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" Bedford Reader in-class discussion (all period)
2. Grammar assigned as homework
3. Water Cases Six and Seven Cornell Notes due today

Friday
1. Hazlitt in-class essay
2. Bedford Reader terms 41-50 test precedes essay
3. Grammar homework assigned
4. Unit Thirteen Vocabulary due Monday

CHECK BLOG SUNDAY EVENING FOR UPDATES

April 16-20, 2007

Monday
1. Water Cases Four and Five assigned; add to Cornell Notes
2. Book Fair-Library (meet at Library first twenty minutes of period)
3. Grammar homework assigned
4. Bedford Reader next selection due Thursday; "Orientation" answers discussed in class; Bedford Reader next terms reviewed today; test on Thursday

Tuesday
1. Invisible Man Chapters Eleven-Fifteen due tomorrow (Wednesday); twenty-five talking points (five per chapter)
2. Bedford Reader next selection due Thursday (see syllabus for title)
3. Multiple-Choice all period on Friday to prepare for AP Exam
4. APEX homework assignment to be announced in class

Wednesday
1. Invisible Man class discussion and comprehension quiz; Chapters Eleven-Fifteen
2. Grammar assigned as homework
3. Bedford Terms 41-50 (postponed from last week) test tomorrow (Thursday)

Thursday
1. Bedford Reader discussion all period
2. Grammar assigned as homework
3. Multiple-Choice one hour practice test tomorrow (Friday)
4. Unit Twelve Vocabulary Workshop due Monday
5. Water Conservation/U.S. Natural Disaster Cornell Notes (updated) due tomorrow, including thesis statement for research paper
5. Bedford Terms 41-50 test today (terms will be reviewed today, Thursday in class and test has been postponed until next Tuesday)

Friday
1. Water Conservation/U.S. Natural Disaster Cornell Notes due today
2. In-class Multiple-Choice practice test all period
3. Grammar homework assigned
4. APEX homework due today (still being reviewed with APEX personnel; homework assignment has been delayed for now)

CHECK BLOG SUNDAY EVENING FOR UPDATES

April 9-13, 2007

Monday
1. Unit Eleven Vocabulary due today; test Tuesday
2. Book Fair-Library (meet at Library first twenty minutes of period)
3. Op/Ed piece assigned; due Thursday
4. Water Case III assigned; add to Cornell Notes on Water Conservation/U.S. Natural Disaster
School for Advanced Students Four-Week Progress Reports Signed by Parents and Returned

Tuesday
1. Unit Eleven Vocabulary Test today
2. Bedford Reader next selection assigned (see syllabus and/or blog); due Thursday
3. Invisible Man Chapters Six-Ten due Wednesday (five talking points per chapter); comprehension quiz before class discussion
4. APEX homework assignment

Wednesday
1. Invisible Man class discussion and comprehension quiz
2. Grammar assigned as homework
3. Bedford Terms 41-50 assigned in class; test Friday

Thursday
1. Bedford Reader next selection class discussion; answer usual questions at end of selection
2. Grammar assigned as homework
3. In-class AP essay on Friday
4. Unit Twelve Vocabulary Workshop due Monday
5. Water Conservation/U.S. Natural Disaster Cornell Notes (updated) due tomorrow, including thesis statement for research paper
6. Op/Ed piece due today

Friday
1. Water Conservation/U.S. Natural Disaster Cornell Notes due today
2. In-class AP essay all period
3. Bedford Terms 41-50 test precedes AP essay
4. Grammar homework assigned
5. APEX homework due Monday

CHECK BLOG SUNDAY EVENING FOR UPDATES

April 2-6, 2007

Monday
1. "Save the Last Word For Me" activity filmed for Staff PD Tuesday
2. Unit Ten Vocabulary Workshop due today; test Tuesday
3. One hour multiple-choice practice all period on Friday
4. LA Times "Letter to the Editor" response due today
5. Invisible Man discussion (Chapters One-Five) and essay assigned on Wednesday
6. Bedford Reader next selection Thursday with questions on meaning, language due

Tuesday
1. Shortened Day
2. Unit Ten Vocabulary Workshop test
3. Grammar assigned as homework
4. Apex assigned as homework

Wednesday
1. Invisible Man discussion and essay (text mandatory)
2. Grammar assigned as homework
3. Bedford Reader answers due Thursday

Thursday
1. Bedford Reader "Everyday Use" Alice Walker due today; textbooks mandatory
2. Multiple-choice practice all period on Friday
3. Grammar assigned as homework
4. Unit Eleven Vocabulary Workshop due Monday
5. REVISED Bedford Terms 41-50 assigned; test on Monday

Friday
1. Grammar assigned as homework
2. Bedford Reader next selection assigned with due date
3. Multiple-choice practice all period today
4. Invisible Man Chapters Six-Ten assigned with due date next week
NOTE: Check back Tuesday evening for updates to this TENTATIVE blog

March 26-31, 2007

Monday
1. AP Long Forms scored and returned
2. Unit Nine Vocabulary Workshop answers due today; test on Tuesday
3. Op/Ed Response to Martinez Resignation due today
4. Linking Verb-Grammar due today; Grammar continues this week in class with in-class correcting of daily grammar homework
5. Invisible Man Structure-Prologue and Epilogue due today
6. Invisible Man-Chapters One-Five reading completed by Wednesday with minimum of five talking points per chapter; Reading Comprehension Test on Wednesday
Note: E-mail suggestions and/or corrections to jcarmicl@lausd.k12.ca.us

Tuesday
1. "Homeless" Anna Quindlen questions/answers from Bedford Reader due today
2. Multiple-Choice Practice from AP Examination Preparation Book today in class
3. Water Conservation/Natural Disaster Cornell Notes continue in class today
4. In-class Essay (AP Prompt) on Friday for most of Period Four
5. Bedford Reader Terms 31-40 discussed and test scheduled

Wednesday
1. Next selection from Bedford Reader due date set today (see syllabus)
2. "Homeless" Anna Quindlen discussion continues in class today; books are mandatory
3. Invisible Man discussion in class today; comprehension test administered; books are mandatory

Thursday
1. Unit Ten Vocabulary Workshop due on Monday, April 2; test on Tuesday, April 3
2. "Everyday Use" Alice Walker questions due on Tuesday, April 3 for class discussion; book is mandatory
3. Multiple-Choice practice in class with full Multiple-Choice practice exam scheduled for next week

Friday
1. In-Class AP Prompt (forty minute timed essay)
2. Bedford Terms 31-40 test in class today; write terms and definitions from memory
3. Check blog on Sunday for next week's assignments

March 19-23, 2007

Monday
1. Review "Letters to An American Farmer" high scoring essay in AP Prep book
2. Schedule reading for new 2007 AP Exam Synthesis essay; essay in class on Tuesday
3. Judith Ortiz Cofer's "Silent Dancing" questions due Tuesday
4. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Eight due today, Monday
5. Nouns/Pronouns grammar practice and enrichment scheduled for homework; due date set

Tuesday
1. 2007 AP Synthesis essay in class (forty minutes)
2. Bedford Reader due in class; Terms (page 701) assigned; test on Thursday
3. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Eight test today

Wednesday
1. Invisible Man Introduction Talking Points discussion
2. Unit Nine Vocabulary Workshop due Monday
3. Invisible Man Prologue and Epilogue writing assignment
4. Pronoun Review and Grammar Practice and Enrichment activities continue
5. Bedford Reader Terms 31-40 discussed in class and assigned; test next week

Thursday
1. Los Angeles Times newspapers editorial page letter-to-the-editor response
2. Grammar Practice and Enrichment activities continue
3. Cofer's "Silent Dancing" questions on meaning and language discussed in class; Bedford Reader books are mandatory for textual reference
4. "Homeless" Anna Quindlen (200) due on Tuesday, March 27

Friday
1. Invisible Man Chapters One-Five due next Wednesday, March 28; test in class and talking points discussion after test
2. Unit Nine Vocabulary Workshop answers due on Monday
3. Check blog on Sunday evening for update

March 12-16, 2007

Monday
1. Unit Seven Vocabulary Workshop
2. Set One-AP Multiple Choice Practice
3. Grammar--Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives
4. Bedford Reader "The Lottery" Shirley Jackson
5. Bedford Reader Terms assigned
6. Op/Ed Response due Thursday

Tuesday
1. Unit Seven Vocabulary Workshop Test
2. Unit Eight Vocabulary Workshop due Monday, March 19
3. Ms. Campbell--AP Exam Information
4. Set One-AP Multiple Choice Practice
5. Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Prologue
6. Shirley Jackson "The Lottery" Bedford Reader Quickwrite
Note: Ms. Campbell's comments about AP Exam Preparation and other pertinent AP matters were so very much appreciated by students and the teacher. Thank you Ms. Campbell for your time and effort to address Period Four AP English Language today.


Wednesday
1. In-Class Essay TBA (from AP Prep Textbook)
2. Bedford Reader due in class
3. Set Two-AP Multiple Choice Practice
4. Vocabulary Workshop Level "F" Test postponed to today
5. Reminder: Op/Ed due Thursday; see earlier posts on blogs for specific instructions about how responses should be answered (including AP Language such as ethos, pathos, and logos appeals)
5. Write paragraph that addresses speaker, occasion, audience, and purpose for Ellison's prologue
6. Write ten talking points after reading Ellison's introduction; save for class discussion

Thursday
1. Nouns-Pronouns Grammar Practice and Grammar Enrichment
2. Unit Eight Vocabulary Workshop Due Monday, March 19
3. Op/Ed Response due today
4. Invisible Man Class Discussion-SOAP paragraphs and book introduction talking points
5. Set One-AP Multiple-Choice Test Prep book
6. Bedford Reader assignment due on Monday, March 19 (TBA)
7. Bedford Reader Literary Terms Test (TBA)
Note: Nice work today students as we discussed the introduction and prologue for Ellison, interpreted important text from the newspaper opinion piece and scheduled a letter to the editor assignment, and reviewed and analyzed the Jackson piece for deeper understanding

Friday
1. Full hour-AP Multiple-Choice Practice Test from AP Prep Test Book
2. See Thursday for assignments due Monday, March 19
3. CHECK BLOG ON WEEKEND FOR UPDATE OF ALL ASSIGNMENTS DUE!

March 5-9, 2007

Welcome to AP English Language and Composition.

Here are this week's assignments:

Monday
1. Coursework Survey
2. Hints for Writing Successful Essays; General AP English Language Essay Rubric

Tuesday
1. AP Language Free-Response Question Essay

Wednesday
1. AP Language Syllabus
2. Junior Defense of Thesis Orientation

Thursday
1. Introduction to 2007 Synthesis Essay Question
2. Bedford Reader first reading and writing assignment due Monday

Friday
1. Weekend homework to be assigned including grammar, vocabulary (Unit Seven from Vocabulary Workshop must be submitted by Monday, March 12)and composition
2. AP Exam Multiple Choice Practice (entire period)

Off-Track Assignments-AP Long Forms

The Glass Menagerie and The Great Gatsby Long Forms are due by the end of the first week of instruction. Remember also to submit four Op/Ed responses. Please submit these assignments on time.

AP English Language and Composition Syllabus

Advanced Placement English Language-Grade 11
SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES MR. CARMICLE 2006-2007
Work Smarter, Not Harder
E-mail: jcarmicl@lausd.k12.ca.us Web Log: hollywoodhighschool.net 323-461-3891 Ext. 419

AP English Language and Composition (SAS) offers students a year of intense training in reading and writing that prepares them for the AP Language and Composition Examination, successful University study and lifelong learning. This class focuses on rhetorical analysis of fiction and non-fiction, and works of American literature. Students learn to identify an author’s purpose and strategies and examine 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, which ultimately provide them with mastery of the highest forms of analysis and synthesis, necessary for participation in class discussions and note taking. They are able to write effective prose at first year college level. Students are expected to complete outside reading on time and, independently, produce class discussion notes using the Cornell method. In this course, the rhetorical interpretation of text primarily focuses on the Classical, Rogerian, and Toulmin models which demand that claims, taken with the writer’s purpose, the intended audience, and speaker’s persona, will lead to argument for persuasion using both a thesis and opposite thesis, necessary skills for successful academic writing. Students in AP English Language and Composition 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 interpret responses elicited from audiences, synthesizing how authors manipulate readers to prove theses in various modes of written discourse. *

Textbooks and Novels:

Invisible Man Ellison(1947)
Cliffs AP English Language and Composition (2nd Edition) Swovelin ©2001
The Bedford Reader, Ninth Ed. Kennedy, Kennedy, Aaron 2006
Vocabulary Workshop Level “F” Shostak (Sadlier-Oxford Publishing 2005)


Year Long Rigor Tools∗

Bloom’s Taxonomy and Bloom’s Affective Taxonomy
Language Registers and Consultative Language: Frozen, Formal, Consultative, Casual, Intimate
Levels of Questioning: Level One-Factual; Level Two-Interpretative; Level Three-Evaluative
The Rhetorical Square-Audience, Purpose, Persona, Argument
Cornell Note-Taking, Outlining, and Journaling
Sentence Mimicking and Pivoting Text (Practicing Consultative Language)
Grammar of Irony and Grammar of Paradox
Classical, Rogerian, and Toulmin Argumentation Models
Rhetorical Modes of Discourse
Student-Teacher Conferencing: Rubrics, Revisions, and Rewrites
*GLAAPSI, July 2005 Marcy Bowman AP Packet

Junior Defense, designed to prepare Advanced Placement students for post-secondary writing and oratory, is mandatory in this course and includes a rhetorical précis to develop a call for action document that requires a fully researched argument and an oral defense of students’ theses. This project becomes part of students’ portfolios.

Literature Assignments and Methods for Achieving Your Purpose in Writing*

Narration (75)
To tell a story about your subject, possibly to enlighten readers or to try to explain something to them

“The Lottery”

First appeared in
The New Yorker
In 1948 Shirley Jackson
(1919-1965) 122
Theme:
Manners and Morals

Description (135)
To help readers understand your subject through the evidence of their senses—sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste

“Silent Dancing"

First appeared in
The Georgia Review Judith Ortiz Cofer
(1952-) 162
Theme:
Cultural Diversity

Example (187)
To explain your subject with instances that show readers its nature or character

“Homeless”

From her collection
Living Out Loud Anna Quindlen
(1952-) 200
Theme:
Homelessness

Comparison and Contrast: Setting Things Side by Side (229)
To explain or evaluate your subject by helping readers see the similarities between it and another subject

“Everyday Use”

Published in 1973
and
appeared in Harper’s
magazine Alice Walker
(1944-) 272
Theme:
Community

Process Analysis: Explaining Step by Step (285)
To inform readers how to do something or how something works—how a sequence of actions leads to a particular result

“Orientation”

First published in
Seattle Review
in 1994 and appeared in The Best American Short Stories 1995 Daniel Orozco
(1957-) 324
Theme:
Humor and Satire

Division or Analysis: Slicing Into Parts (335)
To explain a conclusion about your subject by showing readers the subject’s parts of elements

“Girl”

From the collection
At the Bottom of the River Jamaica Kincaid
(1949-) 368
Theme:
Other Peoples,
Other Cultures

Classification: Sorting Into Kinds (375)
To help readers see order in your subject by understanding the kinds or groups it can be sorted into

“The Crisis of National Identity”

Opening pages from Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s Identity (2004) Samuel P. Huntington
(1927-) 400
Theme:
Community

Cause and Effect: Asking Why (429)
To tell readers the reasons for or consequences of your subject, explaining why or what if

“Safe-Sex Lies”

Essay published in The New York Times Magazine January 1996 Meghan Daum
(1970-) 459
Theme:
Sexuality

Definition: Tracing a Boundary (477)
To show readers the meaning of your subject—its boundaries and its distinctions from other subjects

“The Meanings of a Word”

Essay published in The New York Times 1986 Gloria Naylor
(1950-) 486
Theme:
Communication

Argument and Persuasion: Stating Opinions and Proposals (515)
To have readers consider your opinion about your subject or your proposal for it

“Too Much Pressure”

Published in the 1998 edition of
Fresh Ink Colleen Wenke
(1979-) 532
Theme:
Manners and Morals


Useful Terms (701)
Abstract/Concrete-Warrant
Bedford Reader 701

*The Bedford Reader Ninth Edition 2006

Juniors are encouraged to contact College Counselor Ms. Campbell regarding college entrance examination procedures, college financial assistance forms, and college application and admission information.


The Advanced Placement Examinations (May 7-18), California High School Exit Examinations (March 20-21) and the California Achievement Test Examinations (May 21-June 4) are scheduled this semester.


Students retain all completed assignments, cover sheets, revisions and any other material necessary to write a reflective letter at the end of the school year.

Representative Objectives for AP English Language and Composition*

o Comprehend differences between oral and written discourse, formal and informal language and historical changes in speech and writing
o Use a wide range of vocabulary appropriately and effectively
o Read complex texts with understanding
o Evaluate reading as to intended effect on audience
o Evaluate the credibility of evidence and support in prose selections
o Respond to complex literary works that require high-level critical-thinking skills
o Write prose of sufficient richness and complexity
o Write in a variety of forms—narrative, descriptive, expository, and argumentative—and on a variety of subjects from personal experiences to public policies
o Use a variety of sentence structures, including appropriate use of subordination and coordination
o Construct a plan for writing, limiting the topic, identifying a controlling purpose, establishing an audience, selecting a voice and tone, and attempting various means of support
o Use grammatical conventions both appropriately and with sophistication
o Demonstrate logical organization, enhanced by specific techniques to increase coherence, such as repetition, transitions, and emphasis



Representative Performance Skills for AP English Language and Composition
o Compare and contrast interpretations of the same text
o Analyze how diction shapes tone
o Critique arguments presented in oral and written language
o Write in informally and formally contexts with ease and authority
o Imitate an author’s use of stylistic devices
o Maintain a journal to gain understanding of the connections between interpretive skill in reading and writing
o Compose a report that analyzes several historical records of the same event
o Write reflective compositions that use rhetorical strategies
o Edit pieces of writing in various domains of written discourse

*Guidelines for Instruction: Secondary School Curriculum (1999); Los Angeles Unified School District Publication No. SC-863.8


Grade/Percent for Assignments and Marks
A+ =>100 A =>97.5 A- =>92.5
B+ =>88.5 B =>86 B- =>82.5
C+ =>78.5 C =>76 C- =>72.5
D+ =>68.5 D =>66 D- =>62.5
F =>30

Notes:

AP Syllabus

A syllabus for AP English Language and Composition will be posted soon. Check back for details.