Tuesday

Today we are going to finish Shmoop review (at least course #1) and tomorrow more on to a practice essay - passage analysis.

Homework: Chapter 9 and 10 in 5 Steps to a 5 (these are the last chapters in the workbook).

Go to quizlet.com  and begin to practice AP Vocabulary.

Thursday

We are going to continue looking at the SHMOOP "review" course, but more on the the analytical essay.

First we need to discuss what you read last night.

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Chapter 6 in 5 STEPS TO A 5

Wednesday

Today we will continue with Shmoop AP review - MULTIPLE CHOICE.

First, let's review 5 Steps to A 5.

HOMEWORK - chapter 5 in 5 Steps to A 5.

AP Multiple Choice and Review

Okay - before we move on to the research essay - let's return to multiple choice questions.

Go to SHMOOP HERE

Read through chapters 1 and 2 of the AP Language "REVIEW TOPICS".

Also for homework read through "5 Steps to A 5" chapter 3.


BUT FIRST - do this review quiz

Last look at your essays

Today - all your essays, except the Persuasion essay is due.  We will go over your persuasive essay so that you can revise it tonight and turn it in tomorrow.  In the next few weeks we are going to start reviewing for the AP test and looking at analyzing non-fiction prose texts.


Quarter Four: The Research Paper and Preparing for the AP test.

“The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
“On Ben Franklin’s Virtues” by D. H. Lawrence
“Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris
“A Woman’s Beauty: Put-­‐Down or Power Source?” by Susan Susan Sontag
“Nonverbal/Verbal” by Leonard Shlain
“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan
“Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie
Selections from the MLA Handbook


Assignments:

AP multiple choice questions/exercises
Precis on selected readings
Writer’s Workshop – grammar and style exercises
Group discussions of topics and theses; determining viability of research
topic

Saturday morning PRACTICE AP LANGUAGE TEST

Blogs:
During this quarter blogs will be the place students begin to list their sources and notes for their research essay. I expect to see three entries per week.
Writing:

Research Paper: Three drafts of a researched argumentative or expository paper synthesizing diverse sources and cited in MLA format.

3 AP In-­‐class Writing Prompts.

The research essay will be graded on a rubric developed by the instructor. The AP In-­‐class writing prompts will be graded on the AP rubric.

During this quarter students will also be encouraged to read and review 5 Steps To A 5 by Barbara L. Murphy and Estelle M. Rankin. The school has copies of the 2012-­‐ 2013 book that can be borrowed.

Persuasion and Argument

Today we will go over persuasion and the argument essay.  We will read two essays from the book.

Homework - write a precis on one of the essays and come up with an idea from an argument essay.

Note - draft was suppose to be due tomorrow, so...you need to finish it and rewrite the other essays next week.