API 2011- 2012
Turnitin.com info: Class id #4049621 ; password, Rhetoric
Week of 21 May 2012
Monday: Senior final exams.
Homework: Review terms.
Tuesday: Senior final exams.
Homework: Review terms.
Wednesday: Review AP terms.
Homework: Review terms.
Thursday: Final exams for period 1.
Homework: Review terms.
Friday: Final exams for period 4.
Homework: None.
Week of 14 May 2012
Monday: Students will work with multiple-choice test
Homework: Prepare for exam.
Tuesday: Students will work with multiple-choice test
Homework: Prepare for exam.
Wednesday: AP EXAM. BEST OF LUCK! SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW!
Homework: None.
Thursday: Watch Food, Inc. and analyze for elements of argument.
Homework: Reflect on film.
Friday: Watch Food, Inc. and analyze for elements of argument.
Homework: Review terms for AP exam.
Week of 7 May 2012
Monday: Students write rhetorical analysis prompt.
Homework: Write your own rhetorical analysis prompt and essay-- due Wednesday.
Tuesday: Students review and revise synthesis prompt.
Homework: Revise prompt and submit to turnitin.com.
Wednesday: Students write synthesis prompt.
Homework: Write your own synthesis prompt BUT DO NOT WRITE THE ESSAY FOR THE PROMPT.
Thursday: Write essay for your own or a peer's synthesis prompt THAT WILL NOT BE REVISED.
Homework: Prepare for AP Exam.
Friday: Students will work with multiple-choice practice test.
Homework: Prepare for AP Exam.
Week of 30 April 2012
Monday: Students complete argumentative writing prompt.
Homework: Prepare for AP Exam.
Tuesday: Workshop argumentative prompt, analyze for fallacies, etc.
Homework: Revise prompt; submit to turnitin.com.
Wednesday: Students write argumentative prompt that they WILL NOT REVISE.
Homework: Prepare for AP Exam.
Thursday: Students write rhetorical analysis prompt.
Homework: Prepare for AP Exam.
Friday: EARLY DISMISSAL: Workshop rhetorical analysis prompt.
Homework: Revise prompt for Monday; submit to turnitin.com.
Week of 23 April 2012
Monday: Make a poster in class of one type of fallacy.
Homework: Review
EaA.
Tuesday: Analyze one of your own argumentative compositions for fallacies.
Homework: Review
EaA.
Wednesday: Students complete questions 1 and 2 on 399.
Homework: Review
EaA.
Thursday: Students apply fallacies on article.
Homework: Review
EaA.
Friday: Students review argumentative prompt and revise.
Homework: Revise prompt for Monday. Submit to turnitin.com!
Summer Assignments: Read Utopia by Thomas More, Utilitarianism by John Stewart Mill, and The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History 1775- 1865. Take careful and diligent notes as you read, and be sure to investigate and/ or analyze the texts in light of: historical context, author's purpose, author's background, audience, language and rhetorical strategies, and argument. Be aware that you are responsible for having read these texts by the first day of school.
Suggestions: You may want to purchase a Modern Language Association stylebook for your personal reference.
❐ Use MLA heading: Your name / my name / AP English I / Day Month Year
❐ Double space entire paper without extra spaces
❐ Paginate all pages of paper including bibliography with your last name and pg. #
❐ Use MLA citation: “Quote” (author’s last name pg.#).
“Quote?” (Author’s last name pg.#).
“Quote!” (Author’s last name pg.#).
April Shula
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