1. Language Unit: February/March 2018
In what ways does language impact identity?

2. Tuesday 2/19/19
Rodriguez annotations due

3. Journal Free-write for 8 ish minutes on the topic of language
Once everyone is done, then chat for a few minutes!
Optional question prompts:
What is language?
Language(s) you use? Where? Why?
What is “dialect”? What is “jargon”? Do you have any experience with these?
How might language be connected with identity?

4. Tues. 2/19 – Rodriguez Q’s
Work together with your table group to talk through these questions. Be awesome!
Last 10 minutes: Pick one of the questions that you talked about and write ½ - 1 page in response
Use textual evidence to support your answer (and cite it!!)
Turn this in to the box before the end of class
Reminder: Orwell annotations due Thurs. 2/22
Synthesis essay due Thurs. 2/22 to

5. Weds. 2/20 Reminders: Synthesis essay due tomorrow
- reflection sheet too!
Orwell annot. due tomorrow “Politics and the English Language”
Survey: date for mock exam
Is your anthology a library copy? Go renew it!!
In-class:
Syntax activity
MC practice / work time

6. Weds. 2/21 Syntax activity Take out your journal
Write at least 6 punctuation marks on the top of your journal page
Use at least 4 in your syntax activity – see next slide

7. Syntax Activity
Directions: Write a series of sentences, using the same subject, starting with “staccato” and progressing through “long.” Skip a line on your notebook paper between each sentence. Make sure your sentences make grammatical sense! Accurately and deliberately use punctuation!
Staccato sentence = one to two words, abrupt. Use the word “language” for this!!!
Telegraphic sentence = shorter than 5 words.
Short sentence = approx words.
Medium sentence = approx words.
Long sentence = 30 or more words.

8. Preview Remainder of SY
Tues. February 27th – Register for senior year classes! (in English class)
Thurs. March 1st – Beyond High School Night 6-8pm
Saturday March 3rd – Mock Exam!! 10am-2pm
Preview Remainder of SY
Now until spring break: 6 weeks
Language unit
After spring break until AP Language exam: 5 ½ weeks
Systematic test prep
After AP Exams until end of year: 4 weeks
Literature circles, college application essays, fun 

9. Updates to Dates Tues. 2/27 – AP Night 6:30pm
Thurs. 3/1 – Beyond HS Night 6pm
Mon. 3/5 – Register for Senior Year
Thurs. 3/8 - $50 (per exam) deposit due
Tues. 3/13 – Running Start Info 6:30pm
Sat. 4/14 – Full Length Mock Exam 10am-2pm

10. Thurs. 2/22 Orwell annot. due In-class questions
Write 3 +/- sentences in response to each question
Use textual evidence to support your answers (and cite it!!)
Due at end of class!
Choose 2 of the 4 to answer!
Orwell states, “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought” (715).

11. Thurs. 2/21 Pencil Reminders: No electronics
In-class: complete MC practice
Pencil
No electronics
Reminders:
Synthesis essay due today by 11:59pm
- reflection sheet – tomorrow
Orwell annot. start of class tomorrow: “Politics and the English Language”
Survey: date for mock exam
Is your anthology a library copy? Go renew it!!
start of class on Monday: Amy Tan “Mother Tongue” annot.

12. Fri. 2/22 Orwell annot. due Write a rhetorical précis
Do a brief yet complete bullet-point pre-write
Hand-write a rough draft
Include all necessary information
Be precise and accurate in your diction
Exactly 4 sentences
Correctly use punctuation to clearly convey ideas

13. Upcoming Dates Weds. 2/27 – Agosin & Krauthammer annot. due
Thurs. 2/28 – Pinker & Whitman annot. due
Tues. 3/5 – Morrison annot. due
Weds. 3/6 – Weisel annot. due
Weds. 3/6 – Beyond HS Night 6-8pm
Thurs. 3/7 – AP exam deposit due ($50 per test)
Fri. 3/8 – no school for students

14. Mon. 2/25/19 Tan annot. due Reading Q’s MC practice Materials:
Tan annotations
Separate sheet of notebook paper
A good writing device

15. Warm-up
Find two poignant words, phrases, or sentences in Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue.”
Write these on a sheet of notebook paper (cite them!).
Explain your response to each. Why did you pick it? What does it mean? What connections do you have to the ideas expressed in it?

16. Tan Reading Questions
Be finished by about 10:20
Use the “Questions for Discussion” and the “Questions on Rhetoric and Style” as a guide.
Choose at least two questions from each category to talk about with your group mates.
Choose one question from each category to individually write in response to. Thoroughly answer the question and provide textual evidence and citation to support your response. Turn this in to the box!

17. MC Practice
Create two AP-style multiple choice questions, each with 5 answer choices, for the Tan text.

18. Tues. 2/26: Text Review Make a précis pre-write for each text
Rodriguez
Orwell
Tan
Ultimately, you will do this for all 9 texts in the unit. Create an organization system that works well for you!

19. Homework Due Weds. 2/27/19 Due Thurs. 2/28/19
Agosín “Always Living in Spanish” (735-38)
Krauthammer “In Plain English: Let’s Make It Official” (742-45)
Due Thurs. 2/28/19
Pinker “”Words Don’t Mean What They Mean” (745-49)
Whitman “Slang in America” (720-24)

20. Weds. 2/27 Check in with unit calendar
Pass back full-length MC practice & review
Agosin and Krauthammer due
Table group conversations about both texts
Text review work time?

21. Agosin and Krauthammer notes
Agosin’s thesis: use these two lines to infer a central argument
“I believe that many exiles share the unresolvable torment of not being able to live in the language of their childhood” (last sentence of paragraph 7)
“To write in Spanish is for me a gesture of survival. And because of translation, my memory has now become a part of the memory of many others” (last two sentences of paragraph 8)
Purpose: what does Agosin want people to think or do after reading her thesis?
Krauthammer’s thesis: English should be the official language of America
Purpose: use this line to infer purpose: “…brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial, and multiethnic as America” (middle of paragraph 8)

22. Thurs. 2/28
Pinker “Words Don’t Mean What They Mean” and Whitman “Slang in America” due
5 minutes with your group to discuss both texts

23. What do you think about this?

24. Fri. 3/1: Text Review Make a précis pre-write for each text
Rodriguez
Orwell
Tan
Agosín
Krauthammer
Pinker
Whitman
Ultimately, you will do this for all 9 texts in the unit. Create an organization system that works well for you! Also, keep track of which texts you have completed a précis pre-write for. Use this opportunity to practice the real-life skill of organization!
Morrison “When Language Dies” due Tues. 3/5
Wiesel “The Perils of Indifference” due Weds. 3/6

25. Fri. 3/2 Agosin MC practice Time for text review work
Part one (précis pre-write) for all texts through Whitman due at start of class on Monday 3/5
Morrison annot. due Tues. 3/6
Wiesel annot. due Weds. 3/7

26. Mon. 3/4 – rhetorical précis work
Upcoming Dates
Morrison annot. due Tues. 3/5
Wiesel annot. due Weds. 3/6
Beyond High School Night Weds. 3/6 6-8pm
AP Exam deposit $$ due by Thurs. 3/7
Dream sheets due by Thurs. 3/7

27. Mon. 3/4 – rhetorical précis work
Question: What is the difference between “device” and “method”?

28. Tues. 3/6 Morrison annot. due Reminders: Write your significant quote
Read intro blurb
Critical Thinking Q’s # 1, 4, 7
Language in Action
Reminders:
Elie Wiesel “The Perils of Indifference” due tomorrow!
Exam deposit due by Thursday ($50 per test)

29. “When Language Dies” Take an index card and write the following on it:
Your name and class period
Author’s name and title Toni Morrison “When Language Dies”
The most thought-provoking quote from this text – your choice!
“…………….” (Morrison #).
These are going on a bulletin board in the hallway!

30. “The Perils of Indifference”
Take an index card and write the following on it:
Your name and class period
Author’s name and title Elie Wiesel “The Perils of Indifference”
The most thought-provoking quote from this text – your choice! “…………….” (Wiesel #).
These are going on a bulletin board in the hallway!

31. Weds. 3/7 Wiesel annot. due Discuss language Thesis and purpose
Tonight: Beyond High School Night 6-8pm
Tomorrow:
$50 deposit per AP exam DUE (to Ms. Agnew – bookkeeper)
Dream sheets DUE (to Ms. Bochenek – English teacher)

32. “The Perils of Indifference”
(From the very beginning of this school year)
“Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another”
– Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson
(Today)
“Indifference can be tempting – more than that, seductive. It is so much easier to look away from victims. It is so much easier to avoid such rude interruptions to our work, our dreams, our hopes. It is, after all, awkward, troublesome, to be involved in another person’s pain and despair.”
– Elie Wiesel, “The Perils of Indifference”

33. Full length mock exam: Saturday, 3/16, 9 am – 2 pm
Thurs. 3/8
Exam deposit $$
Dream Sheets!!!
Text review check-in
Complete text review due at start of class on Tuesday 3/12 (summative scores)
SAT prep!
Full length mock exam: Saturday, 3/16, 9 am – 2 pm

35. Text Review Part 2 Annotate your text review Margin notes
Due Tuesday 3/12
Summative scores:
RI.11.2
W.11.4
21CSS.8.A.3
Annotate your text review
Margin notes
Lines, arrows, circles
Identify relationships between:
Ideas
Rhetorical devices
Audiences
TAGD

36. Full length mock exam: Saturday, 3/16, 9 am – 2 pm
AP Lang: Mon. 3/11 – Fri. 3/15
Mon. 3/11 – register for senior year
Tues. 3/12 – text review DUE / précis quiz
Weds. 3/13 – prep for synthesis TW
Thurs. 3/14 – timed write Thursday
Fri. 3/15 – review synthesis / exam Q & A
Full length mock exam: Saturday, 3/16, 9 am – 2 pm