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AP English Language and Composition Calendar
December 2014Mrs. Kaszonyi (412) 655-8610 x 6255E-mail: [email protected] LESSON PLANS APPEAR ONLINE AT: HTTP://KASZONYI.WIKISPACES.COM*Please note: Plans are subject to change at teacher discretion.
State Standards: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8Monday
Possible ExamDay
Tuesday WednesdayPossible Exam
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Thursday Friday
OBJECTIVES --Students will. . .
12/1No School -Thanksgiving Break
Homework: Read “Hop Frog,” the Paul Gilmore article, and “Fall of the House of Usher”
12/2Discuss the timed writing persuasive essay. Return/review work
View short biography clip on Edgar Allan Poe’s life
Receive notes on Poe’s life and motifs
Homework: Read “Fall of the House of Usher”
12/3Finish notes, if needed
Receive notes on “The Fall of the House of Usher” (review independently)
In-class reading time provided for “Fall of the House” (quiz tomorrow) or watch first portion of video version
Homework: Read “Fall of the House of Usher” and review notes on motifs
12/4Take reading quiz on “Hop Frog” and “Fall of the House of Usher”
Begin Socratic seminar on Poe’s prose
Homework: none
12/5Continue Socratic seminar on Poe’s prose
*Note: Poe represents an “Anti-Transcendental” outlook on life (connect to next unit)
Transition into “value assessment” to introduce study of Transcendentalism
Receive Walden book
Homework: Begin Thoreau/Emerson reading assignment ASAP (due 12/17)
12/8Receive Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson reading assignment
Begin notes on Transcendentalism
Homework: Continue Thoreau/Emerson reading assignment (due 12/17)
12/9Continue notes on Transcendentalism and Henry David Thoreau
Homework: Continue work on Thoreau/Emerson reading assignment
12/10Finish notes on Transcendentalism
Consider governmental perspectives on Transcendentalism (apply to John Locke)
Determine your stance on the movement (T or AT)
Homework: Continue work on Thoreau/Emerson reading assignment
12/11Receive notes on rhetorical strategies (some are review and some are new terms). All are applicable to the AP exam in May
Introduce the AP Word Lists
Homework: Continue work on Thoreau/Emerson reading assignment
12/12*Take SAT Unit 4 Quiz
Read and annotate the Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech(speech represents Transcendental perspective). Plan a response using the outline form.
Receive SAT Unit 5 vocabulary list
Homework: Continue work on Thoreau/Emerson reading assignment
12/15Timed Writing – Rhetorical Analysis Essay on MLK’s speech
Homework: Continue work on
12/16Introduce the Walden journal, CD project, and bucket list (due 12/23)
Introduce debate project. Formulate teams and begin brainstorming
Homework: Continue work on
12/17 *Thoreau & Emerson reading assignment due
Assign group roles/ tasks for debate project
Begin work on writing/ planning for debate within groups in the computer labHomework: Walden journal, CD, bucket
12/18Report to the computer lab to continue group work for debate project
Homework: Walden journal, CD, bucket
12/19Report to the computer lab to continue group work for debate project
Homework: Walden journal, CD, bucket list
AP English Language and Composition Calendar
Thoreau/Emerson Thoreau/Emerson list list12/22Debate Day 1: Will present opening statements, arguments, and possibly begin rebuttals
Homework: Walden journal, CD, bucket list (due tomorrow)
12/23Debate Day 2: Will continue with rebuttals and present closing arguments
*Submit journal, CD, bucket list.
Please note: There will be a timed writing pertaining to the Transcendentalism unit after break. There will also be an AP multiple choice test. Keep all material related to this unit.
Receive midterm review guide (complete over break). Midterm is tentatively scheduled for Mon., January 12th
Receive The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (read over break)
Homework: Read Huck Finn and complete midterm review guide
12/24No School –Holiday Recess
Homework: Read Huck Finn and complete midterm review guide
12/25No School –Holiday Recess
Homework: Read Huck Finn and complete midterm review guide
12/26No School –Holiday Recess
Homework: Read Huck Finn and complete midterm review guide