AP Final Study Tips

AP Final Study Tips
Know all your roots. Know all your vocab that we have quizzed and tested over (the 50 words).
Rhetorical terms from your bellringers/ rhetorical tool box are fair game. You should know terms like:
tricolon, parallelism, allusion, diction, ethos, pathos, logos, and how to use semicolons or prepositional phrases.

Crucible Unit

Crucible Unit complete - test scores are posted

Nov 25 Act I - plot quiz
Dec 1 - Act II - quote quiz
Dec 2 - Act III - drawing quiz
Dec 4 - Act IV - essay quiz
Dec 8 - Time writing Essay
Dec 9 - Unit Test

Reading List - AP Recommended Novels

Things Fall Apart - Achebe
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Albee
Go Tell It On the Mountain - Baldwin
Songs of Innocence and Experience - Blake
The Pilgrim's Progress, Book 1 - Bunyan
Heroes and Hero Worship - Carlyle
Bleak House - Dickens
Out of Africa - Dinesen
An American Tragedy - Dreiser
Middlemarch - Eliot
Collected Essays - Emerson
Intruder in the Dust - Faulkner
Light in August - Faulkner
A Passage to India - Forster
The Autobiography - Franklin, Ben
Lord of the Flies - Golding
Far From the Madding Crowd - Hardy
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Not Without Laughter - Hughes
The Turn of the Screw - James, Henry
The Member of the Wedding - McCullers
Billy Budd - Melville
Moby-Dick - Melville
Sula - Morrison
Wise Blood - O'Connor
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
King Lear - Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale - Shakespeare
Walden - Thoreau
The Color Purple - Walker, Alice
All the King's Men - Warren
Leaves of Grass - Whitman
Fences - Wilson, August

Nov. 20 - Formatives, Crucible Intro

formative state tests on comps.
intro The Crucible
rd 1252-1255

HW:
Read Act I for Tuesday.

Thesis help

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/thesis_statement.shtml#unassigned

Sample Outlines

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/argutemplate.html

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/sampleoutline.html

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/writing/essays/1779.html

Research Tools

MLA citation formatting:http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm

KnightCite - automatic MLA citation creator: http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/index.php
or knightcite.com

If you use google - use google scholar! It is a great way to find credible articles:http://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en&tab=ws

Instructions for Day w/ Sub

Remember this is a persuasive research paper. Your objective in writing your 5-7 page paper is to persuade your audience to agree with your stance on an issue.

Pull out your rubric and timeline. Remember this is due Nov. 13. It is important that you use each day to work productively. Remember also that you need a thesis which should include your issue, your stance on the issue, and a blue print for the paper. In your argument you will need to support your stance on the issue. You will also need to include a counterargument which you fairly address and can tie back to your thesis. Thus you need research or sources from both sides of the issue you pick. Your topic list is on the back of the rubric. You must pick a topic from that list, however, the topics are rather broad and you could argue a specific issue of your choice. It is important that you develop a stance. I’m not saying this is black and white, but you do need to have a clear cut position on the issue and a possible argument against your stance. If there is no possible argument against your stance it probably won’t be much of a persuasive paper.
Today we will be in the library to begin research. We will have a seating chart to ensure that you may get the most use out of your time. Mrs. Larson is very experienced and can lead you to good sources. When we go into the library she will give you a run down on research. Listen to her – she will give you specific information on good resources for persuasive research papers. I also listed some great tools on the assignment blog. Google scholar is a great tool for research, as well as ebsco host, sirs, or any of the other search engines available on the library site. Do not look past the books in the library. We are using the library, where books are, instead of the computer lab, where books are not, for a direct reason – the books! Please do realize these are very good sources, especially when you are first starting your research. It is easiest to start in a book then use the internet when you know what to search for. When we meet again for class on the 3rd you need to have a topic chosen and 2 pgs of notes (that is 2 pgs double spaced size 12 typed, or a front/back page of written notes). You may do these however you wish – bubble chart, bullet point, note card etc. I don’t want to limit your learning style – use what works for you. Do note where the information comes from though, and perhaps it is best to have an in progress works cited page saved in word so you don’t have to scramble at the end.

These directions are posted on the web blog and may be accessed once you are in the library. Get good work done and I’ll see you Monday! P.S. please do email me w/ questions, I’ll try to take my laptop w/ me and perhaps I can answer while I am there.

Persuasive Research Paper Schedule

10/30 - intro at library, pick topic by end of hour, 2 pg of notes by next class
11/3 - 5 total pg of notes
11/4 - organize, opening paragraph, thesis
11/6 pg 1-3
11/10 pg 4-5 (or up to 7)
11/11 works cited page, proofing
11/13 - due at beginning of hour, then formative assesments for state testing

Oct 28 - Gatsby Test

Gatsby Test

hand out rubric/timeline for persuasive research paper

Oct 28 - Gatsby Test

Gatsby Test

hand out persuasive research paper rubric/timeline

Oct 27 - Day of the Missing Students...

Seems like everybody went somewhere today... so we simplified the game plan.

Turn in APNR and Log w/ grammar sheet
take practice AP MC test - Bill Bryson Mother Tongue
HB timed writing - Dr. Will See You

discuss test tomorrow - bring a pen (or a few, vary size) and lined paper.

Please read directions carefully on test.

Oct 21 - Gatsby closing

Quiz ch 7-9
check quizzes and review
check logs
grammar lesson - apply to logs finding one of each example and marking
student lead discussion - this is your test review

HW: APNR (self created spark notes) due Monday
Study for Gatsby Test on Monday

Oct 20 - Gatsby 4-6

Quiz over 4-6
hand out APNR
Discuss book to this point

HW: rd 7-9, finish book
3 log entries, 3 discussion questions

logs will be checked tomorrow.

Substitute - note to class

I will be going to my grandpa's funeral and missing class tomorrow. Instead of giving complicated work to a substitute, class will largely be a work day for reading. So, if you were super stressed about when you could get this done, you will be given the chance in class. Also, you will be able to read part of ch 4-6 in class and eliminate your homework for the day. The quiz over ch 1-3 will still be given, but I will have the sub give you time in class. So... read some, but you will have time to lighten your load in class due to my absence.

Mrs. Darcy Leech

p.s. If you could, keep my grandmother in your thoughts before you drift off to sleep. She has lost my real grandpa and Dale, the man she married after and who passed away this morning, to cancer caused by smoking. This will be hard on her. She is a strong woman, but good thoughts help.

Oct 15th - Gatsby Intro

Link to online text: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/

Bellringer - Gatsby 2 Corner Debate - ethical dilemmas
PowerPoint focusing on symbolism in Gatsby
hand out reading log rubric

HW: rd ch 1-3, 5 entries in reading log (not 5 per chapter, sorry!), and 3 discussion ?s for class

Oct 9 - Analysis essay over irony in argumentation

Planning guide for essays - paraphrasing prompt and writing thesis

write essay in class

HW: bring Gatsby copy for Wed.

Oct 7 - argumentation debate

review tw over Sinners in the Hands of
Slavery reparations debate


HW: none - get a Gatsby book!

Oct 6 - Argumentation Timed essay

discuss vocab tests

argumentation timed writing

HW: acquire own copy of The Great Gatsby - we will use it in class next Wednesday.

Oct 2 - Argumentation

Culm Vocab Test
discuss Audacity of Hope
read debate casebook on slavery reparations


HW: write letter to any level of USD 305 discussing ways to raise graduation rates (about 1 pg)

obtain Great Gatsby text - half.com has plenty of copies for around a buck. You need a text you can mark in and refer to. If you want to pay me and I'll buy from half.com let me know.

Sept 30 - Argumentation Practice

Quiz over "I Have a Dream"
Declaration of Independence pg 557
Letter from Birmingham Jail pg 570
intro letter to school board, principal, counsellor, or teacher arguing ways to improve graduation rates

HW:
read Audacity of Hope excerpt - explicate argument
brainstorm five ideas to raise grad rates

Sept 29 - intro argumentation

announce cumulative vocab test Thursday
bellringer - prisoner's dilemma
logical arguments go in tool box
what is argumentation? 529-544

HW: find "I Have a Dream" speech online and read - expect quiz
study vocab

Sept 25 - Tipping Point

vocab quiz
bellringer quiz
new bellringer - tetracolon and tricolon

discuss Tipping Point in Patterns
hand out Tipping Point chapter 1 packet
explicate argument in packet

HW: find an article, annotate, and explicate three main points and conclusion of argument in article.

Sept 23 - Franklin Autobiography

vocab check
bellringer - what is the good life?
hand out junior lit books
Rd The Autobiography by Franklin pg 141 Lit
Self Reinvention assignment
Personal Goals

HW: vocab
rd Tipping Point excerpt pg 351 Patterns

Sept 22 - Syntax

vocab list
bellringer - prep phrases
Syntax essay - Group Scattergories

HW: define vocab
write one sentence thesis to Syntax essay

Sept 18 - Syntax

vocab quiz
bellringer - coordination and subordination
Syntax and Meaning w/ Poe

HW: underline subject once and verb twice in all main clauses of paragraph 3 in packet

Sept 16 - Comparison and Contrast

vocab
bellringer - parallelism
"Grant and Lee" - focus on transitions
"Walt and Ray" - focus on adjectives

HW: pg 425 vocab #2
Scholarship essay due Thursday!

Typed, DS, size 12, Ariel, no name on papers

((sorry for the late update - volleyball match, got home at 10:30 and that's past my bed time!))

Sept 15 - Scholarship Essay

vocab
bellringer - quote movie
scholarship essay

HW: typed DS size 12 Arial 300-500 word response to scholarship essay

no name anywhere but the title page

Sept 11 - Peer Edit and Verbal Rhetoric

vocab quiz
peer edit descriptive essays x2
bellringer - comercials
visual rhetoric - pg 151 discussion

HW: revise descriptive essay

Sept 9 - Descriptive Essays

vocab check
bellringer - imagery and figurative language
rd 135-140
Group work diction activity

HW: 2 pg ds MLA Descriptive Essay for Thursday peer editing

you may write in any form, but some good prompts are on pg 189, #3,4,8,9

Sept 8 - Timed Writing

turn in diction activity
vocab list
Timed Writing over Thomas Jefferson

HW: look up vocab

Sept 4 - Grammar and Careful Reading

Bellringer- grammar - semicolon, comma

Careful reading - The Crisis by Thomas Paine
multi choice questions about text

HW: diction activity over "My Mother Never Worked" pg 96

Sept 4 - Grammar and Careful Reading

Bellringer- grammar - semicolon, comma

Careful reading - The Crisis by Thomas Paine
multi choice questions about text

HW: diction activity over "My Mother Never Worked" pg 96

Sept 2 - AP Practice test

Toolbox lesson - Ethos, Pathos, Logos

AP Practice test

HW: none! Brain fried enough from the practice test right?

Long Term Assignment - Novel Analysis

Students in AP Language and Composition will read two novels over the course of the year from the AP novel list handed out in class. Students must give one oral report and one written analysis.

The first novel response is due:

December 8th.

Presentations will be given that day, and signups for time slots will be posted the week before.

Don't wait until December to start reading!

Aug 28 - AP practice essay - Analysis

vocab quiz
tool box bellringer - point of view
AP Practice Timed essay

HW: AP Analysis Prompt over Frederick Douglas - 1-2 pg typed DS response due Tuesday.

Aug 26 - Narrative 2

vocab review
diction bellringer
rd 77-81
return essays
peer edit 2x papers
hand back tests and papers


HW: polished final draft due Thursday study vocab

Aug 25 - Narrative 1

bellringer - tool box packet
vocab words
Discuss 38 Who Saw Murder
rd Finishing School
rd 72-75 and 30-35

HW: define vocab, 2 pg typed narrative essay due Tuesday

Aug 21 - Intro to Rhetoric

vocab quiz
intro to rhetoric powerpoint
creating tool box
SOAPSTone
My Only Daughter on overhead
Dual Credit guest speaker

HW: Rd 38 Who Saw Murder pg 101 and write 1 pg rhetorical analysis
(typed double spaced or hand written)

Aug 19 - Summer Reading Tests

quiz over handout
review vocab

summer reading tests

HW: none
vocab quiz Thursday!

Aug 19 - Summer Reading Tests

quiz over handout
review vocab

summer reading tests

HW: none
vocab quiz Thursday!

Aug 18

Diagnostic test
Intro to vocabulary
discussion over "Gatekeepers"

HW:
look up vocab
read Mother Tongue handout - quiz Tue.


Summer reading tests next class!

Aug 14th - Summer Reading Review

collected letters home - bring these in if you have not.

Socratic circles over summer reads - Into the Wild and Fast Food Nation

no homework - MAKE SURE YOUR SUMMER READING IS DONE. Test is wednesday.

Aug 13 - First Day Intro

First Day of School

13 minute class to introduce you to this year in English!