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April 25-29th, 2016

4/24/2016

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Planning Your Week: April 25-29
Monday: Full Length AP MC test and 3-prompt work: where do you need to focus for test prep? The data from today will answer that question. 
Tuesday: Gallery read of modest proposals in class. 
Wednesday & Thursday: AP test prep stations
Friday: Timed write plus MC


Monday, April 25
AP full-length mc test and three prompts to "work" (we won't be writing full essays, but the 90 minute time limit will be perfect for the MC and the outlines. 
After you find out your results, you will determine where you want to focus your station AP test prep for the next week. .

Tuesday, April 26
  1. Gallery reading of Modest Proposals
    • What satires were most successful and why?
    • Pick two essays to critique in depth. What satirical techniques did they employ? Who is the target audience? What persona did the author assume? What was the author's intention?
  2. Feedback: open-ended argument timed essay

Wednesday, April 27
  • Read “College Admissions Shocker”
 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/opinion/college-admissions-shocker.html?_r=2
  • Intro college essay assignment
  • Stations: Day 1
  • So that students will have a differentiated and individualized AP Test prep/Learning experience, we are breaking up our class into stations. Students will choose their stations based on the data from their full-length AP test on Monday: 
    1. Here are the following stations. Students will rotate from station to station (going to the ones that they need the most) and will view exemplary examples, practice tests and prompts, etc. and will also have time to talk with peers in the same group): 
    • Rhetorical Analysis Essay Prompt:
      • View sample essays. Look at what previous "8-9" scores accomplished. Analyze those papers and discuss with your group
      • Work several RA essay prompts. After  each prompt, discuss your outline with your group. 
    • Synthesis Essay:
      • View sample essays. Look at what previous "8-9" scores accomplished. Analyze those papers and discuss with your group 
      • Work several synthesis essay prompts. After  each prompt, discuss your outline with your group. 
    • Argument Essay: 
      • View sample essays. Look at what previous "8-9" scores accomplished. Analyze those papers and discuss with your group
      • Work several Argument Essay prompts. After each prompt, discuss your outline with your group. 
    • Rhetorical Devices:
      • Play The Match Game with Rhetorical Devices. After students have played, they will discuss their findings with the group.
      • Take a Rhetorical Device Quiz: After students finish, they will discuss their findings. There will be several quizzes from which you can choose (so if you want to take a quiz each day, you may). 
      • Identify Rhetorical Devices in a Passage. Discuss the effect of the devices with your group.
    • Multiple Choice: Complete Two Sections of an AP Test. Trade and Grade. Break up your answers by "type" of question. With your group, discuss the philosophy behind each answer choice. Why are some answers "better" than the others?
    • Close Reading MC Station: students will read together one passage and will answer together ten questions, talking through each question and answer option.  
  • Ticket out the Door: What did you learn today and what do you need to focus on tomorrow? Made a "to-do" list and be ready to come back tomorrow to Station AP Training. What do I need to change about the stations tomorrow to give you a more individualized AP training experience? 

Thursday, April 28
Stations: Day 2

  • So that students will have a differentiated and individualized AP Test prep/Learning experience, we are breaking up our class into stations. Students will choose their stations based on the data from their full-length AP test on Monday: 
    1. Here are the following stations. Students will rotate from station to station (going to the ones that they need the most) and will view exemplary examples, practice tests and prompts, etc. and will also have time to talk with peers in the same group): 
    • Rhetorical Analysis Essay Prompt:
      • View sample essays. Look at what previous "8-9" scores accomplished. Analyze those papers and discuss with your group
      • Work several synthesis essay prompts. After  each prompt, discuss your outline with your group. 
    • Synthesis Essay:
      • View sample essays. Look at what previous "8-9" scores accomplished. Analyze those papers and discuss with your group 
      • Work several synthesis essay prompts. After  each prompt, discuss your outline with your group. 
    • Argument Essay: 
      • View sample essays. Look at what previous "8-9" scores accomplished. Analyze those papers and discuss with your group
      • Work several Argument Essay prompts. After each prompt, discuss your outline with your group. 
    • Rhetorical Devices:
      • Play The Match Game with Rhetorical Devices. After students have played, they will discuss their findings with the group.
      • Take a Rhetorical Device Quiz: After students finish, they will discuss their findings. There will be several quizzes from which you can choose (so if you want to take a quiz each day, you may). 
      • Identify Rhetorical Devices in a Passage. Discuss the effect of the devices with your group.
    • Multiple Choice: Complete Two Sections of an AP Test. Trade and Grade. Break up your answers by "type" of question. With your group, discuss the philosophy behind each answer choice. Why are some answers "better" than the others?
    • Close Reading MC Station: students will read together one passage and will answer together ten questions, talking through each question and answer option.  

Ticket out the Door: What did you learn today and what do you need to focus on tomorrow? Made a "to-do" list and be ready to come back tomorrow to Station AP Training. What do I need to change about the stations tomorrow to give you a more individualized AP training experience? 

Friday, April 29
  • Putting it to the test: AP MC choice PLUS a timed write
  • Reflection: Now that we have spent all week working on test prep, what do you still need? We will discuss our progress. 
  • Plan next week: I will see who is taking other AP tests on certain days, and we will discuss our week. I would like to complete our college essay project. 
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April 18-22, 2016

4/15/2016

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​Planning Your Week
T 4/19: Your Modest Proposal pitch session
Th 4/21: YMP peer edit
F 4/22: Timed write (Open Argument)
M: 4/25 YMP final draft due
 
Monday, April 18
1.Consider satirical process essays.  Revisit A Modest Proposal p. 745, How to Escape from a Bad Date p. 291, Get it Right: Privatize Executions p. 299, The Embalming of Mr. Jones p. 304, Rules by which a Great Empire may be Reduced to a Small One by Franklin. 
a.Delineate the steps of the process in each essay.
b.What else do these texts have in common? 
c.How does the author make a process essay work as a satire? 
2.Your Modest Proposal Assignment--write your pitch/outline
 
Tuesday, April 19
  1. Get your satire hats on!  Read Advice to Youth by Mark Twain.  Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the handout. Use your best writing skills to respond. 
  2. Pitch Sessions: Groups of 3 will come together for pitch sessions. Each person will evaluate the other two proposals. Make sure you answer all the questions on the Pitch Session handout.  
  3. Revisions: Revisit your pitch and make changes based on the feedback from your peers.
  4. Modest Proposal Outline: Create a draft of your proposal outline. Consider how you will use humor to make your argument.   Add at least 3 uses of rhetorical devices to your proposal.
 
Wednesday, April 20
  1. AP Test Pre-administration session
  2. LAB 9234: Students will write the rough draft of Your Modest Proposal based on your pitch, outline, and draft from class.
 
Thursday, April 21
1.Your Modest Proposal peer edit.
2.Review Satire MC
  • For each item you got correct, write an explanation for why it is the right answer
  • Explain your reasoning to your peers who missed the question
3. 
Read “College Admissions Shocker” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/opinion/college-admissions-shocker.html?_r=2
4.Intro college essay assignment
 
Friday, April 22
1. Timed write
2. Peer editing checkilist

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​April 11-15, 2016

4/10/2016

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AP Language              
 
PLANNING YOUR WEEK
M 4/11: Bring Patterns to class
T 4/12: Bring Patterns to class
Th 4/14: Bring two school appropriate articles from TheOnion.com (or another satirical source)
F 4/15 Modest Proposal Pitch session
 
Learning Goals:
Analyze how authors use satire to make an argument. CBAPELC--C1: The course teaches and requires students to write in several forms (e.g., narrative, expository, analytical, and argumentative essays) about a variety of subjects (e.g., public policies, popular culture, personal experiences). 
Analyze visual text.  CBAPELC C6--The course teaches students to analyze how graphics and visual images both relate to written texts and serve as alternative forms of text themselves.
                
Monday, April 11
1.      Introduction to Satire. 
a.           Read the definition of Satire Definition of Satire.doc
b.           Mini-Lesson on Satire  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOEamZJmvgc
c.           PowerPoint  Introduction to the Satire.ppt
  1. Study of Classical Satire:
    1. Read Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" pp. 745-52.  Complete p.752-Comprehension #4; Purpose and Audience 1-5; Style and Structure #1-9.
HW: Bring two articles from www.TheOnion.com for Thursday.
 
Tuesday, April 12
  1. Study of Classical Satire:
    1. Discuss Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" pp. 745-52.  Share responses to p.752-Comprehension #4; Purpose and Audience 1-5; Style and Structure #1-9.
 Wednesday, April 13
1.       Watch/read the satirical texts today with the lens of writing a synthesis in mind:  How do the artists we studied today use music and satire to make an argument about society?
2.       Study of the Modern Satire: 
a.      Stephen Colbert  http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/04/10/five-parts-of-stephen-colberts-fictional-persona-he-should-bring-to-the-late-show/  
b.      Trailer for Every Oscar Winning Movie Ever
c.      Satirical Obama Cartoon Controversy
d.      BP Spills Coffee
e.       satire in music.docx   Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends.doc
3.       Synthesis: Answer the following question: How do the artists we studied today use music and satire to make an argument about society?
a.      Provide at least three quotes from the videos and songs that answer the question above.
b.      Write a paragraph with a clear topic sentence that answers the question in the prompt.
c.      Share with your group. Critique topic sentences (should read like a thesis).
 
Thursday, April 14
1.       Analyze your Satirical Articles from The Onion:  Determine the rhetorical triangle (speaker, subject, audience, context, intent) for each of the two Onion articles you brought to class today.
2.       Next, take your articles to a group based on similar articles and do the following:
a.      Read your article aloud.
b.      As a group, identify the target audience (who is being made to feel ridiculous?) and the method (how does the author achieve his intended effect?)
c.      Can you identify articles that are humorous, but do not fit the definition of satire?
d.      Choose the best SATIRE--not necessarily the most outrageous or funny.  Which article makes its point most clearly?  Write a brief analysis of the strategies the author uses to create the satire.
e.      Share with whole class.  Explain your evaluation and analysis of the article your group chose as the best.
 
Friday, April 15
  1. AP Multiple Choice for "A Modest Proposal"
  2. Modest Proposal Assignment--write your pitch Your Modest Proposal Assignment.docx
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