ap english 3 language and composition. welcome to ap english
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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