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Coach Chappell - AP Language and Composition/Creative Writing |
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AP Language and Creative Writing Syllabus - 1st 9 WeeksMonday, August 10
Both classes -
1. Complete contact information forms.
2. Label folders for class.
3. Review Course Expectations. Take a copy home for parents to sign.
Tuesday, August 11:
Both classes -
1. Complete contact information forms.
2. Label folders for class.
3. Review Course Expectations. Take a copy home for parents to sign.
Wednesday, August 12:
Both classes -
1. Review books and supplies needed for class.
2. Take notes on sentence purpose and sentence type.
Thursday, August 13:
Both classes -
1. Review books and supplies needed for class.
2. Take notes on sentence purpose and sentence type.
Friday, August 14:
Both classes -
1. Choose 25 tone/mood words that you DO NOT KNOW from the handout.
2. Define the word.
3. Give an example of a person/situation that could be described by that word.
Example:
poignant - painfully affecting
A funeral could be a poignant occasion because it is emotional and can be painful.
Monday, August 17:
Both classes -
1. Take Diagnostic ACT English test.
2. Choose three tone/mood words from your list and create illustrations that depict the meaning. These must be colorful and neat. Include the word, but DO NOT use words to define it. Use pictures from the Internet, magazines, or your iwn drawings.
Tuesday, August 18:
Both classes -
1. Take Diagnostic ACT English test.
2. Choose three tone/mood words from your list and create illustrations that depict the meaning. These must be colorful and neat. Include the word, but DO NOT use words to define it. Use pictures from the Internet, magazines, or your iwn drawings.
Wednesday, August 19:
Both classes -
1. Present illustrations.
2. Set up binders.
3. Establish groups and jobs.
Thursday, August 20:
Both classes -
1. Present illustrations.
2. Set up binders.
3. Establish groups and jobs.
Friday, August 21:
AP -
1. Bellwork Week 2
2. List literary terms/poetic devices
3. Analyze "Traveling Through The Dark" for use of poetics devices
4. Determine how those devices serve to create mood or theme.
CW -
1. Bellwork Week 2
2. Define concrete images
3. List images as they apply to senses
4. Describe one image per sense and explain why you do or do not like it.
Monday, August 24:
AP -
1. Bellwork Week 2
2. Summer Reading Tests.
CW-
1. Bellwork Week 2
2. Define concrete images
3. List images as they apply to senses
4. Describe one image per sense and explain why you do or do not like it.
Tuesday, August 25:
AP -
1. Summer reading tests
CW -
1. List concrete nouns found in your room.
2. List abstract nouns.
3. Write a 500 word essay that describes your room using concrete images.
Wednesday, August 26:
AP -
1. Bellwork week 3
2. Review ACT Diagnostic Test
3. Write introduction to "Traveling through the Dark."
4. HW- read the first 35 pages of Interview with the Vampire and chapter 1 of How to Read Literature Like a Professor.
CW -
1. List concrete nouns found in your room.
2. List abstract nouns.
3. Write a 500 word essay that describes your room using concrete images.
Thursday, August 27:
AP -
1. Bellwork week 3
2. Review ACT Diagnostic Test
3. Write introduction to "Traveling through the Dark."
4. HW- read the first 94 pages of Interview with the Vampire and chapter 1 of How to Read Literature Like a Professor.
CW -
1. Mark all linking verbs in the room essay.
2. Remove unnecessary descriptions. Use as many senses as possible to describe the ones remaining. You need at least two per description.
3. Add abstract ideas in connection with the concrete images.
4. Re-write the essay using actions verbs (active voice), only the important descriptions, and the abstractions that apply.
Friday, August 28:
AP -
1. Test on Interview and Professor readings.
2. Complete essay on "Traveling."
3. HW - page 94 of Interview and ch. 2 of Professor.
CW -
1. Mark all linking verbs in the room essay.
2. Remove unnecessary descriptions. Use as many senses as possible to describe the ones remaining. You need at least two per description.
3. Add abstract ideas in connection with the concrete images.
4. Re-write the essay using actions verbs (active voice), only the important descriptions, and the abstractions that apply.
Monday, August 31:
AP -
1. Complete, as in FINISH, the essay on "Traveling through the Dark." One essay per group.
2. Test on first 94 pages of Interview and ch 1 of Professor.
CW -
1. Turn in Bellwork for weeks 1 - 3, revised descriptive paragraph, vocab and sentences for ch 1 & 2, and word posters.
Tuesday, September 1:
AP -
1. Complete, as in FINISH, the essay on "Traveling through the Dark." One essay per group.
2. Test on first 94 pages of Interview and ch 1 of Professor.
CW -
1. Turn in Bellwork for weeks 1 - 3, revised descriptive paragraph, vocab and sentences for ch 1 & 2, and word posters.
Wednesday, September 2:
AP -
1. Review Interview test.
2. Complete Traveling essay.
3. HW- finish part I of Interview and ch. 2 & 3 of Professor. Memorize ch. 1 & 2 of Fiske for test Tuesday.
CW-
1. Revise Fiske ch. 1 & 2 sentences.
2. Create descriptive paragraph of a peppermint appealing to all five senses and without using linking verbs.
Thursday. September 3:
AP -
1. Review Interview test.
2. Complete Traveling essay.
3. HW- finish part I of Interview and ch. 2 & 3 of Professor. Memorize ch. 1 & 2 of Fiske for test Tuesday.
CW-
1. Revise Fiske ch. 1 & 2 sentences.
2. Create descriptive paragraph of a peppermint appealing to all five senses and without using linking verbs.
Friday, September 4:
AP -
1. Complete essay.
2. Read Interview through part I.
3. Read ch. 2 and 3 in Professor.
4. Memorize voc. ch. 1 and 2.
CW -
1. Watch Princess Bride.
2. Analyze movie for characterization.
Tuesday, September 8:
AP -
1. Test on vocab ch. 1 & 2, Professor ch. 2 & 3, and Interview Part I.
2. Start group project for collection 1 in lit.book. Presentation due Monday.
CW -
1. Princess Bride
Wednesday, September 9:
AP -
1. Group work ch. 1 lit projest
2. Re-write essay - typed MLA
CW -
1. Princess Bride
Thursday, September 10:
AP -
1. Group work ch. 1 lit projest
2. Re-write essay - typed MLA
CW -
1. Princess Bride
Friday, September 11:
AP -
1. Group work ch. 1 lit projest
2. Re-write essay - typed MLA
CW -
1. Ch. 3 and 4 voc. provide associations.
Monday, September 14:
AP -
1. Collection 1 presentations
CW -
1. Vocab practice ch. 3 & 4
Tuesday, Sept. 15:
AP -
1. Collection 1 presentations
CW -
1. Start persoanl narrative.
Wednesday, September 16:
AP -
1. Finalize essay question and "Traveling" essay.
CW-
1. Start personal narrative
Thursday, September 17:
AP-
1. Edit essay, contruct essay question, review vocab, and update bellwork.
2. Sign up for AP Lit Data Sheet titles.
CW-
1. Read samples from narratives.
2. Read "The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant" to analyze indirect characterization and imagery.
Friday, September 18:
AP-
1. Test on ch 3/4 of voc and part II of Interview.
2. Read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
3. Sign up for AP Lit Data Sheet titles.
CW-
1. Read samples from narratives.
2. Read "The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant" to analyze indirect characterization and imagery.
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