AP English Language & Composition

Weekly Workflow

This semester's essential question:

What is the American Dream?

February 9th - February 13th

What happened last week? Click here to see the weekly workflow archive.

Monday, 2/9: Crafting & Drafting Your Synthesis Paper

Reading Workshop

🎯 Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

Writing Workshop

🎯 Writing Workshop Objectives

🌐Review the criteria for a multi-paragraph Synthesis Paper (our first summative of the semester)

🎨✏️Review your research project work and begin Step #1: Craft a Defendable Thesis with some Mind Mapping

🎒 For homework:

Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.
Finish Step #1: Craft a Defendable Thesis with some Mind Mapping

Tuesday, 2/10: Crafting & Drafting Your Synthesis Paper

Reading Workshop

🎯 Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

Writing Workshop

🎯 Writing Workshop Objectives

🌐Continue work on your Synthesis Paper

📝Begin Step #2: Develop the Argument (handwritten)

🎒 For homework:

Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.
Complete Step #2: Develop the Argument (handwritten).

Wednesday, 2/11: Crafting & Drafting Your Synthesis Paper

Reading Workshop

🎯 Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

Writing Workshop

🎯 Writing Workshop Objectives

🌐Continue work on your Synthesis Paper

💻Complete Step #3: Create a Full Rough Draft (which must be completed in class with the specified Google Classroom assignment).

🎒 For homework: Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

Thursday, 2/12: Crafting & Drafting Your Synthesis Paper

Reading Workshop

🎯 Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

Writing Workshop

🎯 Writing Workshop Objectives

🌐Continue work on your Synthesis Paper

💻Complete Step #4: Edit, Revise, and Submit (which must be completed in class with the specified Google Classroom assignment).

🎒 For homework: Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

Friday, 2/13: Death of a Salesman

Reading Workshop

🎯 Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

📓In the front half of your Reader’s & Writer’s Notebook, complete Entry #1: Reader's Response to your Independent Reading.

🎭Introduction to Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

🎒 For homework: Continue reading and responding to your independent reading book.

So, wait a minute...do I have homework?

Yes- always! First, use this weekly workflow to keep track of deadlines and manage your time outside of class.

Next, thanks to independent reading, you always have reading to do. How much? Your Weekly Goal for Independent Reading (inside class and outside of class) is 40 minutes (minimum).

Lastly, most weeks we're working on vocabulary development. Use this page as a guide for your ongoing vocabulary work.

What'cha Reading? If you’ve switched your independent reading book or moved on to a new one, click here.

📓Reader's & Writer's Notebook

Composition Notebook Entries Prior to This Week

📓FRONT HALF OF YOUR NOTEBOOK: Reader's Responses

📓BACK HALF OF YOUR NOTEBOOK: Writing Prompts

American Dream Research

Entry #1 Response to (poem of your choice posted here) by (poet's name)

Prompt: (Enter prompt related to the poem of your choice posted here.)

Entry #2 Response to (TWO artworks of your choice posted here) by Norman Rockwell

Prompt: (Enter prompt related to each of the the artworks of you chose from the works posted here.)

Entry #3 Response to each of the speeches posted here by President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Prompt: (Enter prompts related to each of the speeches posted here.)