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AP English Language and Composition Calendar

December 2014Mrs. Kaszonyi (412) 655-8610 x 6255E-mail: [email protected] LESSON PLANS APPEAR ONLINE AT: HTTP://KASZONYI.WIKISPACES.COM*Please note: Plans are subject to change at teacher discretion.

State Standards: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8Monday

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OBJECTIVES --Students will. . .

12/1No School -Thanksgiving Break

Homework: Read “Hop Frog,” the Paul Gilmore article, and “Fall of the House of Usher”

12/2Discuss the timed writing persuasive essay. Return/review work

View short biography clip on Edgar Allan Poe’s life

Receive notes on Poe’s life and motifs

Homework: Read “Fall of the House of Usher”

12/3Finish notes, if needed

Receive notes on “The Fall of the House of Usher” (review independently)

In-class reading time provided for “Fall of the House” (quiz tomorrow) or watch first portion of video version

Homework: Read “Fall of the House of Usher” and review notes on motifs

12/4Take reading quiz on “Hop Frog” and “Fall of the House of Usher”

Begin Socratic seminar on Poe’s prose

Homework: none

12/5Continue Socratic seminar on Poe’s prose

*Note: Poe represents an “Anti-Transcendental” outlook on life (connect to next unit)

Transition into “value assessment” to introduce study of Transcendentalism

Receive Walden book

Homework: Begin Thoreau/Emerson reading assignment ASAP (due 12/17)

12/8Receive Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson reading assignment

Begin notes on Transcendentalism

Homework: Continue Thoreau/Emerson reading assignment (due 12/17)

12/9Continue notes on Transcendentalism and Henry David Thoreau

Homework: Continue work on Thoreau/Emerson reading assignment

12/10Finish notes on Transcendentalism

Consider governmental perspectives on Transcendentalism (apply to John Locke)

Determine your stance on the movement (T or AT)


12/11Receive notes on rhetorical strategies (some are review and some are new terms). All are applicable to the AP exam in May

Introduce the AP Word Lists


12/12*Take SAT Unit 4 Quiz

Read and annotate the Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech(speech represents Transcendental perspective). Plan a response using the outline form.

Receive SAT Unit 5 vocabulary list


12/15Timed Writing – Rhetorical Analysis Essay on MLK’s speech

Homework: Continue work on

12/16Introduce the Walden journal, CD project, and bucket list (due 12/23)

Introduce debate project. Formulate teams and begin brainstorming

Homework: Continue work on

12/17 *Thoreau & Emerson reading assignment due

Assign group roles/ tasks for debate project

Begin work on writing/ planning for debate within groups in the computer labHomework: Walden journal, CD, bucket

12/18Report to the computer lab to continue group work for debate project

Homework: Walden journal, CD, bucket

12/19Report to the computer lab to continue group work for debate project

Homework: Walden journal, CD, bucket list

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AP English Language and Composition Calendar

Thoreau/Emerson Thoreau/Emerson list list12/22Debate Day 1: Will present opening statements, arguments, and possibly begin rebuttals

Homework: Walden journal, CD, bucket list (due tomorrow)

12/23Debate Day 2: Will continue with rebuttals and present closing arguments

*Submit journal, CD, bucket list.

Please note: There will be a timed writing pertaining to the Transcendentalism unit after break. There will also be an AP multiple choice test. Keep all material related to this unit.

Receive midterm review guide (complete over break). Midterm is tentatively scheduled for Mon., January 12th

Receive The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (read over break)

Homework: Read Huck Finn and complete midterm review guide

12/24No School –Holiday Recess






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AP English Language and Composition Calendar€¦ · Web view · 2014-11-26All are applicable to the AP exam in May. Introduce the AP Word Lists. Homework: ... Receive midterm