1. AP Language and Composition Block G 9/4/14 Finish syllabus –Website –Turnitin.com Quiz Looking ahead: AP Boot Camp! Summer Reading Book clubs –Book pitch –Accessing the BPL Homework –Read chapter 1 of Everyday Use and complete assignment for Monday, 9/8 –Book pitch due Monday –Turnitin, Remind, BPL e- card and syllabus due Monday, 9/8 –Summer reading in-class essay: Tuesday, 9/9 –First vocab quiz: Friday, 9/12

2. AP English Language and Composition Block G 9/8/14 DOL Review and discuss Everyday Use reading and assignment Book pitches Homework: –Read “Letter from Birmingham Jail” for Wednesday and identify 5 parts of the rhetorical triangle –Summer reading in-class essay: tomorrow –First vocab quiz: Friday, 9/12 –Choose books and group and have your book by Friday, 9/12

3. AP English Language and Composition Block G 9/9/14 No DOL Summer reading in- class essay Read “Letter” and/or reviews when finished. Homework: –Read “Letter from Birmingham Jail” for Wednesday and identify 5 parts of the rhetorical triangle –First vocab quiz: Friday, 9/12 –Choose books and group and have your book by Friday, 9/12 –Read reviews of In Cold Blood and your other summer reading book for Monday, 9/15

4. AP English Language and Composition Block G9/10/14 Objective: To practice identifying counter-arguments and analyze how they are used effectively, and to introduce SOAPSTone as a method of rhetorical analysis. DOL “Letter from Birmingham Jail” discussion –Apply rhetorical triangle –Discuss the O in SOAPSTone –Counter-arguments Homework: –First vocab quiz: Friday, 9/12 –Choose books and group and have your book by Friday, 9/12 –Read reviews of In Cold Blood and your other summer reading book for Monday, 9/15

5. AP English Language and Composition Block G9/10/14 In partners, imagine what the letter might have said that Martin Luther King, Jr. responds to in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Make a list of at least seven bullet points with arguments this letter might have made. Then, reference specific places in King’s letter where he refutes these arguments For each of King’s counter-arguments, identify the rhetorical strategies King uses to refute these arguments.

6. AP English Language and Composition Block G9/12/14 DOL Vocab Quiz Meet with book club Finish “Letter from Birmingham Jail” analysis Homework: –Read reviews of In Cold Blood and your other summer reading book for Monday, 9/15

7. Book Club Dates: –Monday, 9/22 –Wednesday, 10/1 –Friday, 10/10 –Thursday, 10/30

8. AP English Language and Composition Block G9/15/14 DOL Finish “Letter from Birmingham Jail” discussion How to write a precis Practice writing a precis with In Cold Blood review Homework: –Write a precis of the other review you read –Share your portfolio with me (aplackowski@hudson.k12.ma.us) and unshare with last year’s teacheraplackowski@hudson.k12.ma.us –First book club and vocab quiz #2: Monday

9. AP English Language and Composition Block G9/17/14 (short block) DOL Pair up with someone who read the same summer reading book and compare precis. –How did your partner include all the necessary information in the first sentence? (title, author, publication, date, and thesis) –Did you and your partner identify the same main points? –Did you and your partner agree in your evaluation of the article? Homework: –Read excerpt from Of Cannibals for tomorrow –Share portfolio with me (aplackowski@student.hudso n.k12.ma.us) and unshare your portfolio with last year’s teacheraplackowski@student.hudso n.k12.ma.us –First book club meeting: Monday –Read “Self-Reliance” and complete power quotes worksheet for Wednesday, 9/23

10. AP English Language and Composition Block G9/18/14 DOL Reminders and clarifications about independent field trips What/how analysis of Of Cannibals Homework: –Share portfolio with me (aplackowski@student.hud son.k12.ma.us) and unshare your portfolio with last year’s teacheraplackowski@student.hud son.k12.ma.us –First book club meeting: Monday –Read “Self-Reliance” and complete power quotes worksheet for Wednesday, 9/23

11. Reminders and clarifications about independent field trips Due dates –Write-ups must be completed within a week of the field trip. –Turn in write-up (preferably with artifact) to turnitin.com –Hard deadline: October 31 (end of term 1). If you do your field trip on October 30 th, the write-up still needs to be in by October 31 st.

12. Reminders and clarifications about independent field trips What the independent field trip is NOT: –A service project –A college visit –A school activity –The easiest thing you can do and still have it “count” –Just another requirement you have to fill for a class –Something you would do anyway –Something that has to require traveling a long distance or spending hours and hours completing –Something inordinately expensive

13. Reminders and clarifications about independent field trips The independent field trip IS a chance for you to –Challenge yourself intellectually –Cross something off your bucket list –Apply the methods of analysis we’ve been talking about in class to an out-of-school experience –Sample the artistic and cultural experiences available in your own backyard –Uncover new interests, or discover that things you thought you might dislike actually have some merit to them. –Broaden your schema of the world, enabling you to absorb new information and experiences more easily

14. Jump-starting a says/does analysis for Of Cannibals (paragraph-by-paragraph)

15. AP English Language and Composition Block G9/22/14 DOL Vocab quiz Book club in G101 Homework: –Share portfolios! –“Self-Reliance” for Wednesday As of Friday afternoon, I haven’t seen your portfolios: –Giuseppe C. –Kayley C. –EmilyD. –Olivia H. –Chris L. –Cam L. –Tom M. –Tommy M. –Marc M. –Emily O. –Matt R. –Jeff T-S –Allyson W.

16. AP English Language and Composition Block G 9/23/14 DOL Hand in your best precis Book club debrief: the good, the bad, and the ugly Complete says/does analysis for Of Cannibals Says / does analysis samples Bloom’s taxonomy Homework: –Share portfolios! –“Self-Reliance” and worksheet for Wednesday