AP English 3

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AP English 3

• Language and Composition

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Welcome to AP English
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Tuesday, August 25th

• Welcome to AP English
• Go over syllabus/ pick up forms
• Student information sheet
• Pick up summer reading journals from those who
  have it
• Please have composition book tomorrow
• Listen to TIB

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This I Believe

• By Author
• What did you notice?
• What goes into it?
• Homework This I Believe (Due tomorrow)

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Autobiography Choices

• Lakota Woman, by Mary Crow Dog
• The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood Among
  Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston
• Black Elk Speaks by Black Elk as told through
  John G. Neihardt
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
  American Slave by Frederick Douglass
• Angelas Ashes by Frank McCourt

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Wednesday, August 26

• AP Multiple Choice Diagnostic
• Rhetoric Powerpoint ethos, pathos, logos

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Thursday, August 27

• Opener
• Four Corners
• Personal Writings
• Revision Discussion

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Choose one

• Most of us have been in a situation where we made
  a promise that for one reason or another we were
  unable to keep. When were you disappointed
  because someone made you a promise that wasnt
  kept? Or when did you break a promise that you
  made to someone else?
• All of us are works in progress with a long way
  to go before we reach our full potential. In what
  skill or area are you still working to make
  progress?

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Life is fair
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Words can hurt.
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Police are your friends.
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What goes around comes around
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How you act in a crisis shows who you really are
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Love conquers all
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An eye for an eye
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People learn from their mistakes
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You cant depend on anyone else you can only
depend on yourself.
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If you smile long enough, you become happy.
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Miracles do happen.
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There is one special person for everyone
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Money cant buy happiness
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Doing whats right means obeying the law.
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Personal Writings
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For each piece, consider

• What the author is trying to say here this is
  the authors focused purpose
• which supporting details in each piece most
  effectively contribute to the authors purpose

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Divide book into thirds

• Each third is due on
• 9/2
• 9/8
• 9/14
• Presentations on 9/17

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Quotes

• Look over quotes
• Find three that you have discovered to be true in
  your own life experiences
• Freewrite for 10 minutes about one meaningful
  quote (this will be shared)

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• In groups, read all reflections silently
• Using a notecard, ask each writer one probing
  question about their quote

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Friday, August 28

• Opener
• Potential for Brutality
• Returning to Whats Natural
• Play-Doh revision

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Choose One

• We all tend to judge people by their appearances,
  even though looks can be deceiving. Have you ever
  prejudged someone incorrectly based on their
  appearance or has someone ever prejudged you
  unfairly based on how you look?
• Everyone has problems or challenges to overcome.
  What obstacles are you proud to have faced and
  conquered?

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Potential for Brutality

• Incremental development
• Create a flow chart tracing the development of
  ideas from beginning to end
• Discuss how idea develops in complexity,
  intensity, applicability

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This I Believe

• Returning to What's Natural

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Returning...

• Highlight abstract and concrete
• Highlight abstract and concrete in your own

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This I Believe

• Create a flow chart for essay you want to revise
• What should the parts and progression of ideas be
  for your revised draft
• You may collaborate
• Homework Compose revision

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Play-Doh

• Build a pencil holder
• What do you like about it?
• What dont you like about it?

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SQUISH IT!

• Build a new one!
• Better!
• More beautiful!
• More effective!

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This I Believe

• Pick one
• Improve the abstracthow can you make it more
  clear? More interesting? More meaningful? More
  touching?
• Improve to concretehow can you make it more
  relatable? Sensory? Precise? Clear? Concise?

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Homework

• Revise This I Believe

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Monday, August 31st

• Opener
• Collect Summer Reading Assignment
• This I Believe Celebration
• What is Good Thinking? Seminar
• Possible guest speaker this week on Their Eyes
  Were Watching God

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Opener

• What is BRILLIANT about your This I Believe
  essay?
• What effect do you hope it will have on your
  reader?

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Group activity

• Groups of 6, from circles
• Read TIB essays
• Select favorite and return to room
• Best of each group will be podcasted

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Tuesday, September 1

• Quiz on rhetorical strategies
• New vocabulary- syllogism and lines of proof
• Syllogism and Line of Proof activity

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Wednesday, September 2

• Opener
• Possible argument paper diagnostic
• Emerson quotes
• Read Emersons Nature
• Discuss

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Thursday, September 3

• Discuss homework essay with partner
• Notes on Transcendentalism
• Read Where I Lived
• Transcendentalism homework

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Friday, September 4

• Opener
• Thoreau
• TBA