AP Lang
Big Concepts this Year
AUGUST. Beginning-of-year stuff: Introductory getting-to-know-you activities, introduction of skills necessary for final exam
SEPTEMBER. Rhetorical analysis: One-paragraph analysis of summer reading -- Grit by Angela Duckworth, Quiet by Susan Cain, or The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.
OCTOBER. Thesis statements: Children's literature and People magazine
NOVEMBER. Argument
DECEMBER. Synthesis
JANUARY. Rhetorical analysis
FEBRUARY. Synthesis
MARCH. Argument
APRIL/MAY. 1984 by George Orwell:
George Orwell
Angela Duckworth
Susan Cain
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff
Daily/Weekly Routines
Daily warm-ups: SOAPSTEM analyses of visual argument, evidence/commentary, and multiple choice.
Class structure: In this order, we will spiral twice through rhetorical analysis, synthesis, and then argument. During quarter four, we will read George Orwell's novel 1984.
