1. AP English Language and Composition
Monday, October 10th, 2016

2. Agenda Malala Yousafzai annotations - discuss Review Friday
Pass back Kincaid re-writes
Pass back Malcolm X précis
Work on Yousafzai précis (due Thursday!)

3. Yousafzai Annotations
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI (range of reading and level of text complexity)
Read and comprehend literary nonfiction independently and proficiently
Discuss the reading!
What did you notice? What was interesting? What was confusing?
Discuss again through the lens of rhetorical analysis
thesis, rhetorical method, purpose, audience
“Malala Yousafzai says education is… and I say education is…”

4. Review Friday’s Class On Friday, in AP English, we… I liked…
I disliked…
In the future, as a class we should…

5. Pass Back Papers & Discuss
Kincaid TW Re-Write
Class example
Summative assessment. Options?
Malcolm X précis
I understand what/how to…
I don’t understand what/how to…
*Consider LA ch. 1 & 2
Question: what are the parts, and how do they fit together?

6. AP English Language and Composition
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016

7. Rhetorical Précis
Put these questions and your answers into your journal
What goes into a précis?
What are the three steps?
Where do you feel strongest, and where do you feel weakest?

8. Rhetorical Précis Cont.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI (range of reading and level of text complexity)
Read and comprehend literary nonfiction independently and proficiently
Malcolm X précis
Identify a strength – idea, not style
Identify a weakness – idea, not style
Look at your bullet-point pre-write and your final draft. What do you notice?
Malala Yousafzai précis
3 parts due Monday 10/17/16
To turn in: complete Malcolm X précis packet AND complete Malala Yousafzai précis packet

9. Emerson: From Education
Background knowledge
Follow the recommendations from LA chapter 1
ALSO: “chunk” read – summarize each paragraph as you go, then put all the summaries all together at the end
To analyze, you must accurately summarize

10. AP English Language and Composition
Wednesday, October 12th, 2016

11. Journal
“The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. Emerson: From Education
How did it go??
Background knowledge
Follow the recommendations from LA chapter 1
ALSO: “chunk” read – summarize each paragraph as you go, then put all the summaries all together at the end
To analyze, you must accurately summarize
Tomorrow in class: Rhetoric & Style work

13. Unit 1: Education Essay
Introduce and assign
Specifics
Questions?

14. AP English Language and Composition
Seats: Make a group of 3 people with all the same number (ex. all 2’s)
AP English Language and Composition
Thursday, October 13th, 2016

15. Rhetoric and Style
Your small group is responsible for three paragraphs. Choose from the questions below. In each paragraph, clearly answer the question and provide evidence from Emerson’s text to support your answer.
In what ways is the relationship between “Genius and Drill” paradoxical?
What exactly is the “natural method” to which Emerson refers?
Identify examples of the following rhetorical strategies in paragraph 13, and explain their effect: rhetorical questions; sentence variety and pacing; analogy; allusion; imperative sentences.
Explain why you do or do not interpret the opening line of paragraph 14 as ironic: “I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching.”
What is Emerson’s purpose in shifting among the pronouns I, we, and you?
Describe Emerson’s tone in this passage. Be thorough in your description.

16. Education Unit: Review & Preview
Introduced Unit
What is it “to be educated”?
Read a variety of texts
Emerson is the 6th text. What have we read!?
Introduced summative essay
Open argument modeled after the national exam and connected to our current unit of study
Preview
Due Monday 10/17: Malala précis
Monday-Wednesday 10/17 – 10/19: Unit 1 Text Review
Thursday 10/20: Education Essay RD due for peer-edit
Monday 10/24: Education Essay Final due in class – writer’s circles
Tuesday 10/25: Review AP Exam & move in to Unit 2: Landmark American Rhetoric