AP English 3 Language and Composition. Welcome to AP English.

AP English 3AP English 3Language and CompositionLanguage and Composition

Welcome to AP EnglishWelcome to AP English

Tuesday, August 25th Welcome to AP English

Go over syllabus/ pick up forms

Student information sheet

Pick up summer reading journals from those who have it

Please have composition book tomorrow

Listen to TIB

This I Believe

By Author

What did you notice?

What goes into it?

Homework: This I Believe (Due tomorrow)

Autobiography Choices

Lakota Woman, by Mary Crow Dog

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston

Black Elk Speaks by Black Elk as told through John G. Neihardt

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Black Boy by Richard Wright

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Wednesday, August 26

AP Multiple Choice Diagnostic

Rhetoric Powerpoint: ethos, pathos, logos

Thursday, August 27

• Opener

• Four Corners

• Personal Writings

• Revision Discussion

Choose one

Most of us have been in a situation where we made a promise that for one reason or another we were unable to keep. When were you disappointed because someone made you a promise that wasn’t kept? Or when did you break a promise that you made to someone else?

All of us are works in progress with a long way to go before we reach our full potential. In what skill or area are you still working to make progress?

Life is fair

Words can hurt.

Police are your

friends.

What goes around comes around

How you act in a crisis shows who you really are

Love conquers all

An eye for an eye

People learn from their mistakes

You can’t depend on anyone else; you can only depend on

yourself.

If you smile long enough, you become

happy.

Miracles do happen.

There is one special person for everyone

Money can’t buy happiness

Doing what’s right means obeying the law.

Personal Writings

Personal essayFocused on belief or

insight about life that is significant to the writer

Personal narrative

Focused on a significant event

Personal memoir

Focused on a significant relationship between the

writer and a person, place, or object

For each piece, considerWhat the author is trying to say here; this is the author’s focused purpose

which supporting details in each piece most effectively contribute to the author’s purpose

Divide book into thirds

Each third is due on:

9/2

9/8

9/14

Presentations on 9/17

Quotes

Look over quotes

Find three that you have discovered to be true in your own life experiences

Freewrite for 10 minutes about one meaningful quote (this will be shared)

In groups, read all reflections silently

Using a notecard, ask each writer one probing question about their quote

Friday, August 28

Opener

Potential for Brutality

“Returning to What’s Natural”

Play-Doh revision

Choose One We all tend to judge people by their appearances, even though looks can be deceiving. Have you ever prejudged someone incorrectly based on their appearance or has someone ever prejudged you unfairly based on how you look?

Everyone has problems or challenges to overcome. What obstacles are you proud to have faced and conquered?

Potential for BrutalityIncremental development

Create a flow chart tracing the development of ideas from beginning to end

Discuss how idea develops in complexity, intensity, applicability

This I Believe

Returning to What's Natural

“Returning...”

Highlight abstract and concrete

Highlight abstract and concrete in your own

This I Believe

Create a flow chart for essay you want to revise

What should the parts and progression of ideas be for your revised draft

You may collaborate

Homework: Compose revision

Play-Doh

Build a pencil holder

What do you like about it?

What don’t you like about it?

SQUISH IT!

Build a new one!

Better!

More beautiful!

More effective!

This I Believe

Pick one

Improve the abstract—how can you make it more clear? More interesting? More meaningful? More touching?

Improve to concrete—how can you make it more relatable? Sensory? Precise? Clear? Concise?

Homework

Revise This I Believe

Monday, August 31st Opener

Collect Summer Reading Assignment

This I Believe Celebration

“What is Good Thinking?” Seminar

Possible guest speaker this week on Their Eyes Were Watching God

Opener

What is BRILLIANT about your This I Believe essay?

What effect do you hope it will have on your reader?

Group activity

Groups of 6, from circles

Read TIB essays

Select favorite and return to room

Best of each group will be podcasted

Tuesday, September 1

Quiz on rhetorical strategies

New vocabulary- syllogism and lines of proof

Syllogism and Line of Proof activity

Wednesday, September 2Opener

Possible argument paper diagnostic

Emerson quotes

Read Emerson’s Nature

Discuss

Thursday, September 3

Discuss homework essay with partner

Notes on Transcendentalism

Read “Where I Lived”

Transcendentalism homework

Friday, September 4

Opener

Thoreau

TBA