1/31

Warm-up: Reread the sample essay A on pg 118-119 and list in your notebook what makes the essay effective?

Classwork: Write in class essay on humorists

Homework: due Tuesday: 10-15 facts about Puritans in America
due Wednesday: 2nd draft of argumentative essay
due Friday: Final draft of argumentative essay for 100 pt assessment grade

1/28

Warmup: Turn one of the Alvord questions into an AP style multiple choice question. Provide at least 3 choices.

Classwork: Discuss Alvord and Danicat

Homework: Take notes about the beliefs and behaviors (traditions) of Puritans (provide 10-15 facts)

1/25

Warm-up: Copy these tips for argumentative essays, and circle the tips which you think you really need to focus on
1. Your support should be rational and logical, not just emotional.
2. Classical arrangement = present the issue, state the your position, support your claim, acknowledge and respond to opposing views, conclusion
3. Conclusions should not just restate previous points. Use them to appeal to ethics, express a universal truth that you supported, etc.
4. Make sure that you explain how any example that you use helps to prove that your position is correct.
5. Avoid using evidence/examples that are not extremely well connected, are too vague, or that contain logical fallacies.


Classwork: Look at Etzioni outlines, write an in class essay about language passage

Homework: Read "Walking the Path between Worlds" and "New York Day Women" LOC pg 300-311 and answer questions 1-8 on pg 306 and 1-8 on pg 311-312

1/21

Warm-up: Think of Quindlen's advice to give up being perfect as an argument. List at least 3 reasons that she provides in attempt to get graduates to agree.

Classwork: Outline Etzioni's argument using my Quindlen outline as a model.

Homework: Finish Etzioni outline for homework.

1/20

Warm-up: SOAPSTone 4th passage on the AP test (changes in language).


Classwork: bloodthirsty AP test


Homework: sign up for collegeboard and work on PSAT results indicators

1/19

Warm-up: SOAPSTone passage 2 (literature) or passage 3 (jazz nickname) of the AP test.

Classwork: bloodthirsty AP test

Homework: Read Etzioni on LOC 289-295 and answer 1-11; Read Quindlen on pg 296-299 and answer 1-7

1/14

Warm-up: SOAPSTone the "I am a Woman" passage of the test.

Classwork: Bloodthirsty AP exam

Homework: Check SchoolMax, sign up for a collegeboard.com account

For Wednesday: Read Etzioni on LOC pg 289-295 and answer 1-11 on 295
Read Quindlen on LOC pg 296-299 and answer 1-7 on pg 299-300

1/13

Warm-up: Review Study Guide before test. Make a list of any words that you don't know.

Classwork: AP practice test (midterm)

Homework: Check your grade on SchoolMaxx and email me any problems

1/12

Warm-up: pd 2&3 - answer questions 1-12 on pg 26 after reading the Pope passage on pg 25 of 5 Steps.

Pd 4 - Write an example of each: periodic sentence, cumulative sentence, imperative sentence, hortatory sentence

Classwork: AP styled practice questions

Homework: Study guide

AP Applications and Midterm Info

I have updated the classroom documents site (link on right side of blog). Please use it to access the AP application, course description book, and midterm study guide.

1/11

Warm-up: Use this independent clause to create both a cumulative and a periodic sentence: The student looked tired.

Write both an imperative sentence and one with a hortatory tone.

Classwork: Sample AP multiple choice questions on Thoreau and from 5 Steps

Homework: Study Guide

1/10

Warm-up: 2nd pd - What have you liked/disliked about AP Lang so far.
3rd and 4th pd - Write examples for 3 rhetorical strategies, and make a list for those that you don't understand.

Classwork: Sample MLK essays

Homework: Study Rhetorical terms

1/7

Warm:up -  Choose one of the following quotes, and outline an argumentative essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies the statement. (You might want to use some of our examples from yesterday’s warm-up as examples)
 Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. ~Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert Einstein
 No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. ~Hermann Keyserling
 I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. ~Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849


Classwork - Civil Disobedience Action Plan, discussion of warm-up, returned work

Homework: Study Rhetorical Terms (midterm next week)

1/6

Warm-up: Is there a law (or rule) that you oppose strongly enough to defy despite the consequences? Explain why or why not.

Classwork: Discuss "Civil Disobedience", Thoreau quiz

Homework: Finish ?s 1-12 on pg 956

1/5

Warm-up: What idea in the first 15 paragraphs of "Civil Disobedience" did you find most important? Why?

Classwork: finish print advertisement presentations, discuss main ideas of first 15 paragraphs, read more of "Civil Disobedience"

Homework: Finish reading "Civil Disobedience"

12/4

Warm-up: Choose one quote that you like from Thoreau's essay and explain why you like its content or its style.

Classwork:Finish discussing Thoreau. Make a movie poster, book cover, or print ad for "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"

Homework: Read the first 15 paragraphs of "Civil Disobedience" LOC pg 939-945. For each paragraph, write a 1-2 sentence explanation of the main idea of the paragraph.

1/3

Warm-up: Which of Jane Howard's characteristics of a good family do you find most interesting? Why?

Classwork: Discussion of Thoreau's "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"

Homework: answer question 2,3 or 4 in suggestions for writing on LOC pg 282