I won’t teach you anything. Teaching and learning begins and ends with you.

*AP Language and Composition 2012-13

[email protected] hours: Mornings 8-8:30

and 6th hour

I won’t teach you anything.

Teaching and learning begins and ends with you.

* This is my drawing of this course:

AP Language and Composition

• The language of rhetoric• Authorial choice• Writing well, finding a voice• Close reading• Rhetorical arrangement• Rhetorical strategies• Rhetorical fallacies• Visual rhetoric• Rhetorical grammar• Documentation and use of sources• Satire and humor• Cultural literacy – context• Vocabulary• Taking tests – ACT, AP and otherwise

Four Goals

1. To understand and analyze what you read, see and hear

2. To express your ideas clearly in writing and when speaking

3. To organize your thoughts and your things

4. To enjoy reading, writing, learning and thinking

Seven Expectations

1. Ask questions, ask questions, ask questions.

2. Try your best to do things that may seem difficult or strange.

3. Try your best when doing things that seem easy for you.

4. Express your opinion.

5. Respect the opinions of others.

6. Treat everyone kindly.

7. Follow all school rules.

Eight Rules

1. No food or drink is allowed in the classroom. Water is ok, and you should drink lots of it – it is quite good for you.

2. Do not raise your hand until I have finished calling on people. Expect to be called on at

least twice each day.

3. My classroom is my office. Ask before you use my stuff. Do not steal my pens. It makes me crazy.

4. Assignment due dates will be posted on the class’s board in my room and on the website

calendar at least one week in advance. If you do not know what is due, when – come by anytime to check the board or the website. Be sure you are informed. No late homework will receive credit. If you have an excused absence, daily work is due the day following your return. Longer or larger assignments as determined by conditions. Late papers lose a grade a day and the privilege of rewriting them.

5. If you miss class, getting your make up work is your responsibility. Come before

school, after school or e-mail me, but do not use our class time. The best approach is not to miss class.

6. Bring all materials every day. All homework is due in the first five minutes of class. No

hall passes are available for the first and last ten minutes of class. Come prepared. 7. Put your name and the date you turn it in on all assignments. Type everything that can

be typed. I can print anything. E-mail papers on time and send them saved with your name and the assignment title, etc.

8. Sit in your assigned seat unless told otherwise.

AP Language Materials:• Three-inch binder for handouts, returned work, and regular

class stuff• One of those bags that hold your pens all together in your

binder• Four different color highlighters• Dry erase marker(s) and clean sock• Colored pencils• Three hundred index cards• Text flags or tiny post-it notes for annotating texts without

writing in them• Composition book – writing journal• Spiral notebook or another composition book for taking

notesDue Monday, August 13th – 50 points

Grades:

Writing, Projects, Tests, Quizzes70%

Homework and Classwork 30%

AP English Saturday Study Sessions:

• Saturday, November 3rd at Shelby County High School – 9am-3pm

• Saturday, February ? – Mock exam at WHHS, 9am – 1pm• Saturday, April ? – Mock exam deconstruction, 9am – 3pm

Prizes, Extra Credit, Knowledge

AP Language Exam – Friday, May 10th

• Quality point• English 101/104 credit• $100 and half the exam fee• Actual reading and writing skills• So what?

Class website

http://franklin.kyschools.us/whhs/english/lhill/default.aspx