AP Language Skills organized on left by month with resources on right

April - AP Exam Focus Areas: Satire / Review Q2- rhetorical analysis / Q1- synthesis essay / Q3-open argument essay / Environment unit

• Satire Unit: "Girl Moved to Tears," "Fight Flight," "A Modest Proposal" / Satirical rhetorical analysis practice

• Rhetorical Analysis Thesis Statements and Body Paragraphs

March Focus Areas: Economy-Money unit / Q2- rhetorical analysis / Q1- synthesis essay / Q3-open argument essay / Editorials /

• Editorials:

• Texts for Money-Economy:

  • "What the Bagel Man Saw"

  • "Singer's Solution to World Poverty" (brief connection to Q3)

  • "The Case for Working With Your Hands"

  • "Kid Kustomers"

  • "Luxury Shopping from the Other Side of the Register"

  • "Better Schools Won't Fix America"

January - February Focus Areas: Rhetorical Analysis / Research Paper / Digging into Q1-The Synthesis Essay

• Rhetorical analysis of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's letter to Napoleon (1st semester exam)

• Intro to Synthesis Essay (learn about Q1. Use 2019 Q1 as model -- go as far as making an outline) as intro to the Research Paper.

• Start to finish with writing a Research Paper

November - December Focus areas: working with pre-20 century texts and style elements / Digging into Q2-The Rhetorical Analysis

• PSAT vocabulary

• Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens--studied not only for plot, character, theme, but also for cultural context, audience, purpose, working with pre-20th century writing style, AP-style multiple choice Q/A practice

• Satire (briefly) with A Tale of Two Cities

• Abigail Adams's letter to John Quincy Adams as model for rhetorical analysis (reading the text, WECAMP, introductions, thesis statements, evidence and analysis, strong body paragraphs, conclusions)

October Focus areas: WECAMP, claims and evidence, patterns of development, working with pre-20 century texts and style elements

• PSAT vocabulary

• Style glossary--Use it in analysis / Analyze for SST (structure, style, tone)

• Working with rhetorical modes (patterns of development) / the classical model

  • 1st hour Patterns of Development Slideshow

• “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” Reading #2: Analyzing SST (Structure Style Tone)

• King Reading #2 SST discussion slideshow

• "On Compassion" Q/As and identifying claims, evidence and patterns of development

• Intro to AP Language exam rhetorical analysis free response question (Q2)

• "Health and Happiness" by Robert Putnam reading, analysis, multiple choice, discussion

• "Death of an Innocent" by John Krakauer

• "Letter to My Nephew" by James Baldwin

• Analyzing visual texts: Images for rhetorical analysis #1

• Rhetorical Analysis of Visual Texts #2

• AP exam and Tale of Two Cities rhetorical analysis multiple choice work with a focus on pre-20th century texts

• Lesson on periodic and cumulative sentence structures

• Writing your own "Claims and Evidence" essay based on our Community-Justice unit

August/September Focus areas: WECAMP, claims and evidence, rhetorical appeals, MEAT-y paragraphs

• PSAT vocabulary

• Assembling the rhetorical tool belt: WECAMP, SST, claims and evidence, appeals to credibility, reason, and emotion

• Analyzing Speeches: Lou Gehrig: Appreciation Day, King George VI Declaration of War, Kennedy's Inaugural address

• Studying the Rhetorical and Style glossaries (attached below.)

• Banneker's Letter to Jefferson identifying claims and evidence

• "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" identifying claims and evidence

• extract from Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" identifying claims and evidence

• intertextuality between Thoreau and King

• Ta-Nehisi Coates's statement on HR 40 identifying claims and evidence

• RBGinsburg Supreme Court nomination statement

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More resources to work into our course...

• "Debtors' Prison" rhetorical analysis (18th century essay)

• "Last Child in the Woods"

• Write a synthesis essay on the importance of community.

• Partner/small group work on 2018 Q3 on "the unknown"

• small group work on 2017 Q3 on "artifice"

• small group work on 2012 Q2 rhetorical analysis of Kennedy on the steel industry

• individual/partner work on 2014 Q1 on "if college is worth the cost"

• 2015 AP Lang practice exam multiple choice Q/As (end of April-early May, all 4 passages, then project scores using template)

• final work on breaking down the process of rhetorical analysis using 2017 Q2 rhetorical analysis of Clare Booth Luce's introduction to her speech

• "mock exam" session using 2016 multiple choice, Q1, Q2 practice exam and 2010 actual exam Q3