"We are all apprentices in a craft where
no one ever becomes a master."
Ernest Hemingway
CLASS REQUIREMENTS:
REMIND signup (required ASAP!)
Summer work assignments: due on Thursday, August 15!
+A Rulebook for Arguments
+Into the Wild
+Serial, season 1
AP SAT Vocab words
AP Language Vocab words
Quarter 4:
Calendar! March 16-May!
Independent book project
From Boys Life: "Wasps at Easter" - from the 3rd paragraph to end of chapter; video
Sample MLA-formatted research paper - pay close attention to MLA citations and work cited!
Purdue OWL MLA format guide
Week of April 20-25:
Video update
Guided Practice - MAKE A COPY and then complete!
FRQ 2 (Queen Elizabeth) prompt
*Outline and essay due by Wed. night - time yourself at 40 min. for the essay
Google Meet: Thursday, 10:30 am (Set ALL the alarms!)
Week of April 13-17:
Video update!
AP Website: Updates for Students
SPACE CAT outline (MAKE A COPY and then type into it!)
FRQ 2 (Kennedy) prompt
-Outline and essay due by Wed. night! Take around 20-30 minutes for the SPACE CAT and up to 40 min to write the essay.
Google Meet recording from 4/16
Quarter 3:
Calendar
Rubrics for AP Lang exam essays 1-3
"Dear Basketball" poem + film
African American hair:
Malcolm X: Conk scene
Hair Love + Oscar acceptance speech (2019-2020)
The politics of black hair (2020)
Student Suspended Over Dreadlocks Is Invited to the Oscars (2020)
6-year-old boy with dreadlocks banned from private school in Orange County (2018)
When Black Hair Violates The Dress Code (2017)
Wrestler Andrew Johnson forced to cut dreadlocks to avoid losing NJ high school match (2018)
Discrimination Based on Hair and Hairstyles: Protected or Knot? (2019)
Endia Beal: “Can I Touch It?” (2013)
CROWN Act: What is it
Texas Lawmakers Are Drafting a Hair Discrimination Bill (2020)
India Arie: "I Am Not My Hair" (2006)
Superbowl:
Slides/ads
Rhetorical analysis
Student Internships:
Q1 assignment
NYT article referenced by Halperin
5 Obstacles
Micro-internships
High Impact Educational Practices
Highly Paid Interns
The Impact of Undergraduate Internships on Post-Graduate Outcomes for the Liberal Arts (report)
Research paper:
Annotated bibliography overview, example, and rubric (Revised PDF)
Topic development and page count guideline
Purdue OWL MLA formatting PP
Class topic/RQ document
Research Paper Formatting Doc
Quarter 2:
Calendar! Projects!
Visual Rhetoric:
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
"Picture This" by Molly Bang
Inside Out: abstract thought
Knuffle Bunny
Hitler Youth speech theses
vocab quiz 3
Quarter 1!
Q1 calendar: Live it. Love it. *Subject to change.
Vocab charts! Print and use for ALL VOCAB.
Original divided article (class activity, 8/16/2019)
Voice Lessons! Every Tues/Thurs. Q1=diction
Voice Lessons used in class
Slides: Intro to Rhetorical Analysis (SPACE CAT!)
Dear Jack letter
Five Words
College essay peer editing
Vocab quiz 1 review(ish)
Their Eyes Were Watching God:
"Yet Do I Marvel"
Q1 essay (due 10/14!)
Bessie Smith's music
Harriet Power's Bible quilt
Lupita Nyong'o on Colorism
Essay revisions
Serial Links:
Jay's interview with The Intercept (three parts)
Rabia's blog/response to Serial
Into the Wild Links:
2013 article on the cause of Chris's death and the 2015 update
2013 article: "The Chris McCandless Obsession Problem"
Fun Resources (we may have different interpretations of the word 'fun'):
THIS SITE IS AWESOME: Writing Commons. An open-source 'textbook' about writing at the college level.
Flackcheck.org - political literacy and argument-based fallacies
Analysis and Argument from UR's Writing Center
ALL HAIL THE GREAT OWL (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
Rhetological Fallacies in an impressive visual; here is the the same info in a different format
TED Talks: authors and words
NYT: Writers on Writing
NYT: Presidential Inaugural Speeches 1789-present
Common Errors in English Usage
American Rhetoric: speeches, definitions, examples, etc.
AP Resources:
Student homepage
Language homepage
Language FRQs 2007-2015
Search AP credit policies for colleges and universities
REMIND signup (required ASAP!)
Summer work assignments: due on Thursday, August 15!
+A Rulebook for Arguments
+Into the Wild
+Serial, season 1
AP SAT Vocab words
AP Language Vocab words
Quarter 4:
Calendar! March 16-May!
Independent book project
From Boys Life: "Wasps at Easter" - from the 3rd paragraph to end of chapter; video
Sample MLA-formatted research paper - pay close attention to MLA citations and work cited!
Purdue OWL MLA format guide
Week of April 20-25:
Video update
Guided Practice - MAKE A COPY and then complete!
FRQ 2 (Queen Elizabeth) prompt
*Outline and essay due by Wed. night - time yourself at 40 min. for the essay
Google Meet: Thursday, 10:30 am (Set ALL the alarms!)
Week of April 13-17:
Video update!
AP Website: Updates for Students
SPACE CAT outline (MAKE A COPY and then type into it!)
FRQ 2 (Kennedy) prompt
-Outline and essay due by Wed. night! Take around 20-30 minutes for the SPACE CAT and up to 40 min to write the essay.
Google Meet recording from 4/16
Quarter 3:
Calendar
Rubrics for AP Lang exam essays 1-3
"Dear Basketball" poem + film
African American hair:
Malcolm X: Conk scene
Hair Love + Oscar acceptance speech (2019-2020)
The politics of black hair (2020)
Student Suspended Over Dreadlocks Is Invited to the Oscars (2020)
6-year-old boy with dreadlocks banned from private school in Orange County (2018)
When Black Hair Violates The Dress Code (2017)
Wrestler Andrew Johnson forced to cut dreadlocks to avoid losing NJ high school match (2018)
Discrimination Based on Hair and Hairstyles: Protected or Knot? (2019)
Endia Beal: “Can I Touch It?” (2013)
CROWN Act: What is it
Texas Lawmakers Are Drafting a Hair Discrimination Bill (2020)
India Arie: "I Am Not My Hair" (2006)
Superbowl:
Slides/ads
Rhetorical analysis
Student Internships:
Q1 assignment
NYT article referenced by Halperin
5 Obstacles
Micro-internships
High Impact Educational Practices
Highly Paid Interns
The Impact of Undergraduate Internships on Post-Graduate Outcomes for the Liberal Arts (report)
Research paper:
Annotated bibliography overview, example, and rubric (Revised PDF)
Topic development and page count guideline
Purdue OWL MLA formatting PP
Class topic/RQ document
Research Paper Formatting Doc
Quarter 2:
Calendar! Projects!
Visual Rhetoric:
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
"Picture This" by Molly Bang
Inside Out: abstract thought
Knuffle Bunny
Hitler Youth speech theses
vocab quiz 3
Quarter 1!
Q1 calendar: Live it. Love it. *Subject to change.
Vocab charts! Print and use for ALL VOCAB.
Original divided article (class activity, 8/16/2019)
Voice Lessons! Every Tues/Thurs. Q1=diction
Voice Lessons used in class
Slides: Intro to Rhetorical Analysis (SPACE CAT!)
Dear Jack letter
Five Words
College essay peer editing
Vocab quiz 1 review(ish)
Their Eyes Were Watching God:
"Yet Do I Marvel"
Q1 essay (due 10/14!)
Bessie Smith's music
Harriet Power's Bible quilt
Lupita Nyong'o on Colorism
Essay revisions
Serial Links:
Jay's interview with The Intercept (three parts)
Rabia's blog/response to Serial
Into the Wild Links:
2013 article on the cause of Chris's death and the 2015 update
2013 article: "The Chris McCandless Obsession Problem"
Fun Resources (we may have different interpretations of the word 'fun'):
THIS SITE IS AWESOME: Writing Commons. An open-source 'textbook' about writing at the college level.
Flackcheck.org - political literacy and argument-based fallacies
Analysis and Argument from UR's Writing Center
ALL HAIL THE GREAT OWL (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
Rhetological Fallacies in an impressive visual; here is the the same info in a different format
TED Talks: authors and words
NYT: Writers on Writing
NYT: Presidential Inaugural Speeches 1789-present
Common Errors in English Usage
American Rhetoric: speeches, definitions, examples, etc.
AP Resources:
Student homepage
Language homepage
Language FRQs 2007-2015
Search AP credit policies for colleges and universities