AP LANG & COMP COURSE PLAN

CAIRNS 2017-2018

SEMESTER ONE (16 Weeks)

Introductory Activities
Summer Reading: Outliers & On Writing Well
(Week 1-2) August 21- September 1

Introduce:
Entrance/Exit Ticket protocol
Scholars Commonplace Book
Writing conferences/expectations (How we talk about grades & the test)
Bird Groups
News of the Week Protocol
Skills Focus
How to become a reader
Intro to rhetoric- triangles
CLOZE Test
Genre Activity
Review major elements of On Writing Well
Major Writings & Assessment
Outliers Revision Assignment
Group best sentences and create solid prcis
Rhetorical Precis and Essay Outliers (Summer Work)
On Writing Well test
Outliers Socratic Seminar

How do we become & build a nation?

(Weeks 3-9) September 4- October 20

Rhetorical Strategies and Skills Focus

Ethos, Pathos, Logos, Audience/Purpose, Persona in Autobiography
Literary Pieces
Weeks 3-4 Natives & America
-How the World Was Made & The Earth on Turtles Back
-Ben Franklin Notes Concerning the Savages
-Jackson Removal of Natives
-Chief Joseph Surrenders
-Excerpt from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson
-Louise Eldrich Captivity
Weeks 5 The Puritans
-Anne Bradstreet Poems
-Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
-Excerpt from A History of Plymouth Plantation
- The Speech of Polly Baker
Weeks 6-7 Building A Nation
-Speech to Virginia Convention Henry
-Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence
-Star Spangled Banner
-Mario Cuomo Keynote to the Democratic Convention
-On Being Brought from Africa to America
Weeks 7-10
-The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson
-The Yellow Wallpaper
-Scarlet Letter (Novel)
Visual Component
The New England Primer (Image analysis)
Easy A Clip & The Help Clip - compare to Hesters situation
Discussions/Group Work
Socratic Seminars
CLOZE tests
Persona Switches
Major Writings
Argument
Rhetorical Analysis
AP Examination Preparation
Preview the Big Three
Multiple Choice Close Reading practice
Discuss M.C. Questions

How do we Educate a Nation?

(Week 11-16) October 23- December 8
Rhetorical Strategies and Skills Focus
Diction, Tone, Description/Power of Words, Argument/Persuasion, Process
Analysis
Literary Pieces
Weeks 11-13
-American Scholar
-On Education Emerson
-Mary Antin American Education
-DuBois vs. Washington
-Sherman Alexi Indian Education
-Me Talk Pretty One Day Sedaris
Weeks 14-16 (Thanksgiving, Week 14)
-Hard Times
Visual Component
The Spirit of Education Norman Rockwell
What I Learned Roz Chast
Schooling the World
Discussions/Group Work
Socratic Seminar
In-Class Discussions
Major Writings
Timed writing argument
Rhetorical Analysis
AP Examination Preparation
Close Readings for M.C.
Understanding AP Prompts
Demystify the test
Timed writing

Dead Week/ Week 17 (Dec. 11-Dec. 15)

Final Exam: Week 18 (Dec. 18-21)
Rhetorical Analysis & Position Paper Exam

SEMESTER TWO (17 Weeks)

Columnist Reading/Reflection Project due at end of semester

How does America live up to its ideal?
Is America truly created equal for all?
(Weeks 1-10) January 9- March 16

Rhetorical Strategies and Skills Focus
Process Analysis, Argument/Persuasion, Syntax
Literary Pieces
-Gettysburg Address
-Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act
-Barack Obamas Speech on Race
-next to of course god america I (poem)
-Clare Boothe Luce
-What Has Happened to the American Dream? Eleanor Roosevelt
-What Makes an American? Raoul de Roussy
Visual Component
Suffragette Madonna and Uncle Sam, Suffragee
When Anthony Met Stanton (Image Analysis)
Discussions/Group Work
Socratic Seminar
Major Writings
Synthesis: Has America lived up to its ideal?
AP Examination Preparation
Timed writing
M.C. Stem writing
Prompt Speed Dating

How do we Inform a Nation? (Week 11-18) March 19-May 11

Definition, Narration, Description, Compare/Contrast

Rhetorical Strategies and Skills Focus
Literary Pieces
Weeks 11-14 Satire
Jonathan Swift: Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do
generally discover everybodys face but their own, which is
the chief reason so few are offended by it.
- Modest Proposal
- Malcolm Gladwell Satire Paradox Revisionist History Podcast
- Group Analysis: SNL Weekend Update, Daily Show, The Onion, Borowitz Report,
McGuffins The Untrue News
Weeks 15-18 Contemporary American Lit.- Group Choices
-Roosevelt, State of the Union
-Sedaris
-Vonnegut
-Updike
-Tan: Mother Tongue
-Plath
-Morrison
-Angelou
-Cisneros: Eleven
-Wallace: The Devil is a Busy Man
-Walker of
Weeks 15-18 The Information Age
-Lit. Circles Non-Fiction Project
-How Starbucks Saved My Life
-Nickled and Dimed
-Fast Food Nation
-In Cold Blood
-New Jim Crow
-Any text of student choice with parent approval

Visual Component
Political Cartoons
SNL Weekend Update
John Stewart The Daily Show/ The Colbert Report
Discussions/Group Work
Satire Analysis
Literature Circle Work with novel
Group Essay Analysis of contemporary works
Major Writings
Original Satire
Synthesis Prompt created by groups
AP Examination Preparation
Timed Essays
Speed Dating (Unpack the prompt)
M.C. Stem creation

(EXAM May 16th)

Reading in Seminar (Weeks 19-21) May 14- June 1

Rhetorical Strategies and Skills Focus
Reading in Seminar- How we discuss novels using upper-level thinking?
Connect text to life
Persona (Gatsby & America), Authors Purpose
Literary Pieces
Great Gatsby
Visual Component
Background to the 1920s and Lost Generation
Discussions/Group Work
Whole class discussion
Socratic Seminars
Bird Group Connections
Major Writings
Argument Essay

Dead Week/ Final Exam: Week 21 (May 28-June 1)
-Follow a Columnist Project Due