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Classroom Resources:

AP College Board Course Description American Rhetoric AP Classroom 

Unit 1: “Analysis 101” 

Reading Assignments & Assessments: 

• Explicit and Implicit Analysis-Lecture, Modeling, Practice, Independence

• AP Practice Prompt-FRQ #2 

  • Choice of prompts which lend themselves to the particular selected texts. Students receive feedback based on the holistic rubric, evaluate student samples on AP Central website, and revise per the feedback and rubric.

Unit 2: “Mixing the Modes”

Texts:  50 Essays, “Death of a Moth” by Virginia Woolf, “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, “Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden, “Nowhere Man” by Pico Iyer, “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson,  Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown, The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, Rhetoric by Renee Shea et. all. “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White

Reading Assignments & Assessments: 

• Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown-Assigned, Independent Reading

• Socratic Seminar using close-reading questions with expectations that students extend the conversation with text evidence, passages from annotations, and critical-thinking skills 

  1. Discussion ability assessment

  2. Analytical writing assessment-weaving in quotes as text evidence support

• Modes of Discourse-assigned reading: narrative, process analysis, description, definition, classification

• Analysis & Group Presentation-Rhetorical Strategies & Characteristics Corresponding to the Mode of Discourse

• Mentor Text-Reading and Outlining-E.B. White’s “Once More to the Lake” -Mixing the Modes

Writing Assignments and Assessments

• Analysis of Rhetorical Strategies 

  • FRQ #2-Choice of prompts which lend themselves to the particular selected texts. Students receive feedback based on the holistic rubric, evaluate student samples on AP Central website, and revise per the feedback and rubric.

• Dialectical Journal-Explicit and Implicit Analysis Charts and Analysis Body Paragraphs 

• Modes of Discourse Essays-Definition, Process Analysis, Classification

• Mixing the Modes-Mentor Text-Mimic Writing Prompt-”Once More to ______” 

  • Each student uses a choice of rhetorical strategies in their organizational style and prose in order to weave in anecdotes and reflection. 

  • Strategies: anaphora, definition by contrast, metaphor, cumulative and periodic sentences, hyphen to define, syntax for emphasis, repetition, flashback, sensory imagery, asyndeton, polysyndeton