Pust - AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION: August 2007

Independent Reading:
Independent Reading September 2007: Nonfiction Issues
Summer Free Choice Book assignment
Summer Free Choice Book assignment sample: Pust
Summer Free Choice Book assignment sample: Kennedy
First group assignment: Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Second group assignment: Brainstorm discussion questions & reflection

The Grapes of Wrath Unit:
Intercalary Chapter Rhetorical Analysis Essay Assignment
The Grapes of Wrath Vocabulary
OPTIC analysis handout
Dorothea Lange photo: "Migrant Mother"
Dorothea Lange photo: "Lean-to"
Dorothea Lange photo: "I Am an American"
Dorothea Lange photo: "Men in Fields"
Dorothea Lange photo: "Men standing, arms crossed"
Dorothea Lange photo: "Jobless"
"The World House" by Dr. Martin Luther King (Part I, from the McGraw-Hill Reader, p. 338)
Intercalary Chapter Essay assignment: Rhetorical Analysis paper
Sample intercalary chapter essay: Pust
Sample intercalary chapter essay: Kennedy
GW Vocabulary Warm-up

Fast Food Nation and Chew on This Unit:
Response to clip from Super Size Me, "Fast Food Advertising"
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos PowerPoint and Guided Notes

Vocabulary Lists and Review:
VOCABULARY: FAST FOOD NATION
Warm-up: FFN
VOCABULARY: THE GRAPES OF WRATH
GW Vocabulary Warm-up
VOCABULARY: THE CRUCIBLE

Grammar Practice and Instruction:
Subject/Verb Agreement Warm-up #1
Subject/Verb Agreement Warm-up #2
Verbs, Verbs, Verbs! Warm-up #3
Verbs, Verbs, Verbs! Warm-up #4
Verbs, Verbs, Verbs! Warm-up #5
Review: Problems with Verbs

Writing Practice and Instruction:
"In the Fire" by Roger Angell
Sample ineffective and effective rhetorical analysis
body paragraphs related to the 2005 Form B Stewart passage
Rhetorical Terms Project Instructions
Sample rhetorical terms entries, score of 3 and 5, from "In the Fire" baseball passage

General Course Information:
OFFICIAL AP COURSE AUDIT SYLLABUS
AP COURSE SYLLABUS (ABRIDGED)
FIRST DAY STUDENT INFORMATION FORM
CLASSROOM RULES AND PROCEDURES

List of Education Unit Texts

If you're making a foldable, or just want to make sure your notes are organized, here's the list of all of the texts from the unit:

Susan Jacoby's essay, “When Bright Girls Decide that Math is a Waste of Time”

William J. Bennett's essay, “What Really Ails America”

Neil Postman's essay, “Order in the Classroom”

Leon Botstein's editorial, “Let Teen-Agers Try Adulthood”

Horace Mann's speech, “Report to the Massachusetts Board of Education”

Austin Channell's TEDx Talk, “Why Taking Choir Kept Me from Being Valedictorian”

Sir Ken Robinson's RSA Animate talk,“Changing Education Paradigms”

Benjamin Barber's essay, “America Skips School”

Malcolm X's essay, "Learning to Read," an excerpt from his autobiography

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s essay, "Delusions of Grandeur" (with an updated introduction!)

Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt, memoirs, The Pact

Recommended Websites for RH Paper

Recommended websites for Rhetorical Historical papers:

The New York Times Topics Page

Samohi Library page to access SIRS/Proquest Databases: You'll need the username and password!

Cagle.com: Daryl Cagle's index of editorial/political cartoons

American Rhetoric - index of historical speeches, complete with audio/video!

Pew Research Center - a nonpartisan fact tank with statistics and information about all sorts of wonderfully random things

For help with MLA Format and your working bibliography, consult these resources from Purdue's Online Writing Lab:

General Works Cited Format

In-Text Parenthetical Citations

Citing Electronic Sources

Citing Other Common Sources

Or these resources from Diana Hacker and Bedford/St. Martin's:

General Works Cited Format - there's a pull-down menu for citation types and examples

In-Text Parenthetical Citations

General Manuscript Format

And don't forget, there are some basic MLA reminders and samples beginning on page 35 of your binder reminder!

RESOURCES FOR THIS I BELIEVE ESSAYS

The essay guidelines offered by NPR, which provides specific tips for writing a good essay
The original producers' invitation, which describes the purpose and focus of the project
And of course, you can scan the This I Believe website, http://thisibelieve.org/, for tons of sample essays that you may read or listen to--perhaps the best way to acquaint yourself with the project (and see what has already been written).

My "This I Believe" essay that I submitted last year, which is now part of the "This I Believe" database

REVIEW FOR THE AP TEST