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Work with the text: "Mark a Text" and Rhetorical Triangle
Engagement Strategies: Questions on Rhetoric and Style
127 Question 31
Argument: Page 127 Question 13
Multiple-choice Questions
Go over sample argument essays and have students grade them.

Argument: Page 127 Question 1
Multiple-choice Questions
Go over sample argument essays and have students grade them.
Week 13 (December 6 - December 10)
Gender
Argument: Page 39 Question 2 (Verbal Response: Four-corners)
Multiple-choice Questions
AP Sample Argument Essay
Week 14 (December 13 - December 17)
-"About Men" by Gretle Ehrlich
RhetoricalSmall Group Rhetorical Triangle
Week 15 (January 3 - January 7)
-"Being a Man" by Paul Theroux
The Language of Composition
Argument: Page 382. Question 6 (Online)
AP Sample Argument Essay
Week 16 (January 10 - January 14)
- "There is No Unmarked Woman" by Deborah Tannen
Weeks 17-18 (January 17 - January 21)
Final Exam
50 Essays
Analysis: Page 14 Question 1 (incorporate ideas from Suggested Approaches paragraph 3)
Argument: Page 14 Question 2 (incorporate question 4 in student guide into question 2 in teacher guide)
Weeks 18 (January 23 - January 28)
Final Exam
Multiple Choice
Group Presentation: Image analysis presentation
The Language of Composition

AP Language and Composition
Term 1
and Argument Analysis
Writing Tasks
Rhetorical Triangle
AP journal
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Week 8 (October 25 -29)
- "On Being a Cripple" by Nancy Mairs
-Transition week
Week 12 (November 29 - December 3)
- "What are Homosexuals for?" by Daniel Sullivan
Week 9 (November 1-5) November 4: Final Grades Quarter50 Essays Teacher Guide
Prewrite: Suggested Approaches pg. 126 (Respond to quote in the first paragraph)
Work with the text: "Mark a Text" and Rhetorical Triangle
Engagement Strategies: Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Analysis: Page 127 Question 3
Argument: Page 127 Question 1
-Transition week
Multiple-choice Questions
Week 10 (November 8-12)13 (December 6 - December 10)
Gender
-"Womens' Brains" by Steven Gould
50 Essays Teacher Guide
Prewrite: Suggested Approaches pg. 39
Work with the text: "Mark a Text" and Rhetorical Triangle
Engagement Strategies: Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Analysis: Page 39 Question 1
Argument: Page 39 Question 2 (Verbal Response: Four-corners)
Multiple-choice Questions
Week 14 (December 13 - December 17)
-"About Men" by Gretle Ehrlich
Week 11 (November 15-19)Rhetorical Triangle
Week 15 (January 3 - January 7)
-"Being a Man" by Paul Theroux
Group Presentation: Image analysis presentation
The Language of Composition
Argument: Page 382. Question 6 (Online)
Week 16 (January 10 - January 14)
- "There is No Unmarked Woman" by Deborah Tannen
-"Being a Man" by Paul Theroux
Thanksgiving Break (November 22-26)Group Presentation: Image analysis presentation
The Language of Composition
Argument: Page 393. Question 8 (Online)
Week 12 (November 2917 (January 17 - December 3)
*-"Sweat" by Zora Hurston
*-"BarbieJanuary 21)
Week 18 (January 24 - January 28)
- "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy
- (D/ F Monitoring Window opens Nov. 29)
Week 7 (October 18-22)
- "How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Hurston
-"Myth of the Latin Woman" by Cofer
The Synthesis Essay and Multiple Choice Test
The Written ArgumentThe Written Argument
The Synthesis EssayWriting Tasks:
Cause and Multiple Choice TestThe Synthesis Essay and Multiple Choice Testeffect
Argument: Perspective (social, political, economic)
Explanatory (issues to be considered)
Rhetorical Triangle
Introduction to the exam
Analyze Student Sample Essays
Formal and Informal Writing Tasks
Current Issue Project
AP journal
Rhetorical Triangle
Warm-ups
Current Issue Project
AP journal
- "On Being a Cripple" by Nancy Mairs
- "What are Homosexuals for?" by Daniel Sullivan
Week 13 (December 6-10) Progress Report Quarter 2
-"Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood" by Richard Rodriguez
Week 2 (September 13-17)
- "From Letter from Birmingham Jail" by MLK (pg. 1109)
Week 9 (November 1-5) November 4: Final Grades Quarter 1
-Transition week
Week 14 (December 13-17)
-"Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell
-"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan
Week 4 (September 27-October 1) Progress Report Quarter 1
-"from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
-"Womens' Brains" by Steven Gould
-"About Men" by Gretle Ehrlich
Winter Break (December 20 - January 3)
Week 5 (October 4-8)
- "from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"
- "There is No Unmarked Woman" by Deborah Tannen
-"Being a Man" by Paul Theroux
Week 15 (January 3-7)
- "Bilingualism in the America: English Should Be the Official Language" by S.I. Hayakawa
Week 6 (October 11-15)
- "The Atlanta Compromise" by Booker T. Washington
- (D/ F Monitoring Window opens Oct. 15)
Thanksgiving Break (November 22-26)
Week 16 (January 10-14)
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- (D/ F Monitoring Window opens Jan. 13)
Week 7 (October 18-22)
- "How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Hurston
*-"Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy
- (D/ F Monitoring Window opens Nov. 29)
Week 17 (January 17-21)
- Final: Text with Rhetorical Analysis and Argument. MC (Gender and Language)
Week 18 (January 24-28) January 27: Final Grades Quarter 2

- "How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Hurston
-"Myth of the Latin Woman" by Cofer
- Prompt available in the 50 Essays Teacher Guide on page 52 Question 2: Simulated AP Questions
- Prompt available in the 50 Essays Teacher Guide on page 21 Question 1: Simulated AP Questions
The Written Argument
Writing Tasks

- "from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"
- "from the Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano"
- Genre Study (modes)
- Prompt available in the Pearson text Volume 1 on page 154: The Writing Lesson.
- Prompt: How does Olaudah Equiano appeal to pathos through his descriptions of the heinous details of the slave trade? Use examples from the text.
Week 6 (October 11-15)
- "The Atlanta Compromise" by Booker T. Washington
"Gettysburg Address"
- (D/ F Monitoring Window opens Oct. 15)
- Argument Analysis
Prompt: Write a brief paper in which you analyze Author X's argument. Account for the author's claims and state the purpose of the text. Then, in a few paragraphs, discuss the evidence Author X uses to advance his position.
Week 7 (October 18-22)
- "How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Hurston

- Rhetorical Triangle: Relationship between Speaker, Audience, Context.
- Prompt available in the Pearson text Volume 1 on page 93: The Writing Lesson.
- Prompt: How does Jefferson use Aristotelian appeals to persuade his audience?
- Use the Ethos, Logos, and Pathos graphic organizer (See pg. 120 in Pearson)
Week 5 (October 4-8)
- "from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"

Term 1
Introduction to Rhetoric and Argument
The Written Argument
The Synthesis Essay and Multiple Choice TestWriting Tasks
Rhetorical Triangle
Introduction to the exam
Analyze Student Sample Essays
Formal and Informal Writing Tasks
Current Issue Project
AP journal
Rhetorical Triangle
Warm-ups
Current Issue Project
AP journal
- Introduction to the Rhetorical Triangle
- "Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space" by Brent Staples
Week 8 (October 25 -29)
- "On Being a Cripple" by Nancy Mairs
- "What are Homosexuals for?" by Daniel Sullivan
Week 13 (December 6-10) Progress Report Quarter 2
-"Aria: Memoir- Identify parts of a Bilingual Childhood" by Richard Rodriguezthe Rhetorical Triangle in both readings (Speaker, Audience, Subject)
Week 2 (September 13-17)
- "From Letter from Birmingham Jail" by MLK (pg. 1109)
- Five Canons of Rhetoric
- Multiple Choice Diagnostic
Prompt: What rhetorical techniques does MLK demonstrate in "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?
Week 3 (September 20-24)
-"Modern Approaches to Argument"
- Tracking a current issue (pairs)
- (D/ F Monitoring Window Opens Sept. 24)
Week 9 (November 1-5) November 4: Final Grades Quarter 1
-Transition week
Week 14 (December 13-17)
-"Politics and- Respond to the English Language" by George Orwell
-"Mother Tongue" by Amy TanAP Sample Exam Question: Benjamin Banneker
Week 4 (September 27-October 1) Progress Report Quarter 1
-"from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
- "from the Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Jefferson
Week 10 (November 8-12)
Gender
-"Womens' Brains" by Steven Gould
-"About Men" by Gretle Ehrlich
Winter Break (December 20 - January 3)- Rhetorical Triangle: Relationship between Speaker, Audience, Context.
- Prompt available in the Pearson text Volume 1 on page 93: The Writing Lesson.
Week 5 (October 4-8)
- "from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"
- "from the Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano"
Week 11 (November 15-19)
- "There is No Unmarked Woman" by Deborah Tannen
-"Being a Man" by Paul Theroux
Week 15 (January 3-7)
- "Bilingualism in the America: English Should Be the Official Language" by S.I. Hayakawa
Week 6 (October 11-15)
- "The Atlanta Compromise" by Booker T. Washington
"Gettysburg Address"
- (D/ F Monitoring Window opens Oct. 15)
Thanksgiving Break (November 22-26)
Week 16 (January 10-14)
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- (D/ F Monitoring Window opens Jan. 13)
Week 7 (October 18-22)
- "How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Hurston
-"Myth of the Latin Woman" by Cofer
The Written Argument
Writing Tasks
Rhetorical Triangle
Warm-ups
Current Issue Project
AP journal
*
Week 8 (October 25 -29)
- "On Being a Cripple" by Nancy Mairs
- "What are Homosexuals for?" by Daniel Sullivan
Week 9 (November 1-5) November 4: Final Grades Quarter 1
-Transition week
Week 10 (November 8-12)
Gender
-"Womens' Brains" by Steven Gould
-"About Men" by Gretle Ehrlich
Week 11 (November 15-19)
- "There is No Unmarked Woman" by Deborah Tannen
-"Being a Man" by Paul Theroux
Thanksgiving Break (November 22-26)
Week 12 (November 29 - December 3)
*-"Sweat" by Zora Hurston
*-"Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy
- (D/ F Monitoring Window opens Nov. 29)
Week 17 (January 17-21)7 (October 18-22)
- Final: Text with Rhetorical Analysis"How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Hurston
-"Myth of the Latin Woman" by Cofer
The Synthesis Essay and Argument. MC (Gender and Language)
Week 18 (January 24-28) January 27: Final Grades Quarter 2
The Written ArgumentMultiple Choice Test
The Written ArgumentThe Written Argument
The Synthesis Essay and Multiple Choice TestThe Synthesis Essay and Multiple Choice Test