Week 4: Optional Homework: Week 3 Error Correction (If completed, I will scale your test score). Due Friday, August 21 (beginning of class).
Monday, August 17: Skill #3: Select evidence and organize Tyson's "The Sky is Not the Limit" with a group.
Tuesday, August 18: Skill #3: Select evidence and organize Tyson's "The Sky is Not the Limit" with a group.
Wednesday, August 19: Skill #3: Select evidence and organize Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" with a partner
Thursday, August 20: Skill #3: Select evidence and organize Reagan's "Challenger Address" independently. (40%).
Friday, August 21: Skill #4: Analyze Author's Purpose for the first 1/2 of Kennedy as a class.
Week 3: Homework: Finish Tyson and Sagan annotations.
Monday, August 10: Skill #2: Read and annotate Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" with a partner.
Tuesday, August 11: Skill #2: Read and annotate Reagan's "Challenger Address" independently. (40%).
Wednesday, August 12: Week 3 Test (60%).
Thursday, August 13: Skill #3: Select evidence and organize Kennedy's "We Will Go to the Moon" as a class.
Friday, August 14: Skill #3: Select evidence and organize Kennedy's "We Will Go to the Moon" as a class.
Week 2: Homework: Selfies Argument Outline due Friday, August 7 (beginning of class) (*40%).
Monday, August 3: Skill #1 Assessment (60%).
Tuesday, August 4: Skill #2: Read and annotate Kennedy's "We Will Go to the Moon."
Wednesday, August 5: Skill #2: Read and annotate Kennedy's "We Will Go to the Moon."
Thursday, August 6: Skill #2: Read and annotate Tyson's "The Sky is Not the Limit" with a partner.
Friday, August 7: Skill #2: Read and annotate Tyson's "The Sky is Not the Limit" with a partner.
Week 1: Homework: Adversity Argument Outline due Friday, July 31 (beginning of class) (*40%).
Monday, July 27: Skill #1: Rhetorical Situation Notes for Kennedy's "We Will Go to the Moon."
Tuesday, July 28: Skill #1: Analyze the Rhetorical Situation for Tyson's "The Sky is Not the Limit" with a partner.
Wednesday, July 29: Skill #1: Analyze the Rhetorical Situation for Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" with a partner.
Thursday, July 30: Skill #1: Analyze the Rhetorical Situation for Reagan's "Challenger Address" independently. (40%).
Friday, July 31: Feedback on Reagan Skill #1. Discuss Adversity Argument Homework.
Week 0: Homework: Signed AP Contract due Wednesday, July 29 (beginning of class)
Friday, July 24: Welcome. Complete "Getting to Know You Notes." Introduction to Argument Essays.