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=AP English Language and CompositionAnchor Papers for AP prompts" =

**Writing prompt for 4/16: ** In his speech before the United Nations assembly, Bernard Baruch states that when it comes to war, “Victor, vanquished, and neutrals alike are affected physically, economically, and morally.” In a well-organized essay, defend, challenge, or qualify this statement. Use evidence from your reading, observation and/or experience to support your position. Due: Mon. April 20 Using Swift’s piece as a guide, write your own satirical proposal for a situation or issue that you think should be suitably addressed but has not been. You may focus on school issues, teen issues, community issues, national issues or international issues -- whatever floats your boat! (one exception – you may **not** focus on the issue of homework) However, you **must** include the following parts in your piece: 1. Clear, developed statement of the problem 2. Clear proposal of a satirical solution(s) to the problem 3. Anticipated results of this solution (develop appropriately) 4. A list of obvious real-life solutions that have not been attempted (which you should “brush off” using understatement)
 * A MODEST PROPOSAL **

Be sure to include these key components of satire in your writing: - exaggeration

- understatement - irony / sarcasm


 * 15 Points **

=  Current Weekly Syllabus: = = =  **Weekly Syllabus** **4/14/09 –** **4/24/09** Tues. 4/14 - * Review selected past speeches – annotations Thomas More, ALBD/TKAM, Sermon on the Mount, St. Francis, and Jonathan Edwards =HW: Revisit annotations for Anthony, Darrow, and Baruch speeches = Read, annotate, and journal Socrates' Apology <span style="background-color: rgb(243, 202, 252);">4/15 - * Review packets for Anthony, Darrow and Baruch speeches / mc questions <span style="background-color: rgb(206, 237, 243);"> <span style="background-color: rgb(243, 202, 252);"><span style="background-color: rgb(206, 237, 243);">4/16 - * In-class essay
 * <span style="background-color: rgb(206, 237, 243);">Things to look for / things that were missed
 * <span style="background-color: rgb(206, 237, 243);">T-shirt sizes
 * <span style="background-color: rgb(206, 237, 243);">Bring all 3 packets tomorrow for in-class writing topic TO BE ANNOUNCED
 * <span style="background-color: rgb(206, 237, 243);">Brief review – writing argument essays for the AP exam
 * (check wikispace on Thursday if you are absent to get prompt to complete for homework – 40 minute max.)**

4/17 - * Review Independent Reading Synthesis Essays <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; color: rgb(238, 47, 47);">REVISION!!!!! - peer edit Baruch essays / discuss Socrates speech <span style="background-color: rgb(243, 202, 252);">**HW: Read Swift’s //A Modest Proposal// pp. 914-921; review Questions on Rhetoric and Style, then journal specifically Include answers for Q for D - #4, 5, 6, 7**
 * <span style="background-color: rgb(243, 202, 252);">Revisions due no later than May 20.

Mon. 4/20 - * Discuss //A Modest Proposal// – be sure to have completed journal entry with you!
 * Satire / effectiveness / Diction / Detail / Prejudices
 * HW: Create your own Modest Proposal (details to come) – due 4/27

4/21 - * Complete //AMP// discussion**
 * Review argument essay (in-class 4/16)

4/22 - Test preparation discussion – the synthesis essay

<span style="background-color: rgb(243, 202, 252);">HW: Review synthesis materials
HW: Read and journal Plato’s //The Allegory of the Cave// in 50 Essays or **<span style="background-color: rgb(243, 202, 252);">[|**http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/allegory.html**]
 * <span style="background-color: rgb(243, 202, 252);">4/23 - In-class synthesis essay

<span style="background-color: rgb(243, 202, 252);">**4/24 - * Discussion on Plato** HW: Complete Modest Proposal

<span style="background-color: rgb(212, 242, 241);">HW: Tues. 3/24 - Sir Thomas More / ALBD and TKAM Wed. 3/25 - Sermon on the Mount and St. Francis to the birds Thurs. 3/26 - Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" - annotate + multiple choice
 * Monday, March 23 - completion: Great Speeches presentations

<span style="display: block; background-color: rgb(212, 242, 241); text-align: center;"> ** 1/20/09 – 3/6/09 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; background-color: rgb(212, 242, 241);"> Tues. 1/20 - * Get back columnist projects – check to see if there are opportunities for further completion to enhance grade (all revisions due by Thursday.) 1/21 - *Rotating groups – discuss analysis of speech – strategies, etc.
 * Watch Inaugural ** HW: Get a copy of the text of the speech, annotate and come ready for discussion
 * Pick out possible “sound bites” that either will or will not last through time.
 * Share as a class

1/22 - *New York Times handout of famous speechwriter’s analysis of Obama’s speech
 * Read, note discrepancies, discuss in groups, review as a class

1/23 - *Review multiple choice answers from midterm. vocabulary, strategies, etc. **// ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How does our work (or lack of work) shape or influence our dignity, // // our lives, and the way we interact with the community and the larger world? //** Mon. 1/26 - *In-class reading / journaling of Lars Eighner’s “Dumpster Diving” – //50 Essays//
 * Note what types of questions were more successful / more challenging
 * Begin more comprehensive review of the passages used for comprehension,

1/27 - *Return journals from MP2 / Distribute new journal process information - DISCUSS
 * Grades for MP2 and midterm grades

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; background-color: rgb(212, 242, 241);">*Equation to compute AP exam score for predictor <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; background-color: rgb(212, 242, 241);">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; background-color: rgb(212, 242, 241);">General discussion of midterm essays
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; background-color: rgb(212, 242, 241);">Brief discussion of “Dumpster Diving” – finished?

HW: Read and journal Barbara Ehrenreich’s //from Serving in Florida// TLC 179-190 for Thursday. Select 4 of the “Questions on Rhetoric and Style” and incorporate the answers in your journal entry. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - REVISED / ADDITIONAL   1/28 - SNOW DAY 1/29 - Course Scheduling

1/30 - *Complete MC review
 * Review midterm essay #1 with anchor papers/ College Board assessment

HW: Begin to consider possible topics of interest from your independent reading book (//Mountains Beyond Mountains// or //Three Cups of Tea)// for research. Mon. 2/2 - *Review midterm essay #2

2/3-5 - Library – Research for Independent Reading Synthesis topic

2/6 - PSSA Writing Review

Mon. 2/9 – 12 - Writing PSSA ** HW: Work on research materials 2/13 - Review PSSA Review examples of journal entries for Dumpster Diving; discuss how to optimize journals ** HW: Review //Dumpster Diving// and from //Serving in Florida// for discussion Mon. 2/16 - Substitute – Create a chart that compares and contrasts Lars Eighner and Barbara Ehrenreich and her co-workers in terms of their attitudes, approach toward work / experiences, etc.

2/17 - *MC questions on //Dumpster Diving// – review and discuss. Note vocabulary. ** HW: Read and journal Booker T. Washington’s //The Atlanta Exposition Address// pp.191-194. 2/18 - *Discussion of Booker T. ** HW: ESSAY – Suggestions for Writing #3 p. 196 – DUE MONDAY For 2/19 – Read Selzer’s The Surgeon as Priest TLC 197-204 and in addition to journaling, answer questions #2,7, and 8 specifically 2/19 - *Selzer discussion ** HW: Read O’Keefe //Traveling Bra Salesman// AND Carlyle from //Labour// Consider questions in book as you journal. 2/20 - *Discuss reading ** HW: Read Dillard //The Writing Life (The Stunt Pilot//) 212-221; write response on separate paper to be added to your journal. Mon. 2/23 - *Collect //Booker T. and W.E.B.// paper <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; background-color: rgb(212, 242, 241);">*Discuss Dillard <span style="color: rgb(247, 64, 64); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; background-color: rgb(212, 242, 241);">(Discussion took place 2/24) *How does the Stunt Pilot’s work differ from those we have been reading about? How does that affect tone and purpose? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; background-color: rgb(212, 242, 241);"> ** ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What can we learn about our evolving understanding of history, the present, and the future by studying how humans communicate important ideas and memorialize important occasions through the speeches they make? ** HW: Read the speech carefully and write a response re: what you notice, considering your understanding of the historical implications. __Then__ read the packet. Pay particular attention to White’s rhetorical analysis of the speech. Revisit your entry. <span style="color: rgb(238, 47, 47);">2/25 - *Discuss Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural specifics //*Speech Unit project (Note – we have fewer shorter papers, but 2 “project” papers// // for this marking period. Be sure to keep work ongoing, and be mindful of due dates.) // HW: Begin search for a speech for your project **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; background-color: rgb(188, 241, 233);"><span style="color: rgb(241, 19, 19);">2/26 - *Comparison – Lincoln’s first inaugural to second inaugural <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; background-color: rgb(168, 235, 235);"> *Review of other “standard inaugural speeches” **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(239, 52, 52);">HW: **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(239, 52, 52); line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">FDR inaugural speech analysis / MC questions <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; background-color: rgb(206, 237, 243);">2/27 - *Review analysis of FDR / MC answers <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; background-color: rgb(206, 237, 243);"> *Questions on upcoming papers HW: Research <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(80, 31, 239);"> <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(49, 20, 240); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">  **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(44, 0, 255); line-height: 115%;">3/2 – 3/6 <span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(69, 21, 229);">Independent Work + In-class assignments / conferencing on papers/writing/etc. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">DUE DATE CHANGE FOR RESEARCH DRAFT - NOW DUE NO LATER THAN MONDAY, MARCH 16. **<span style="background-color: rgb(250, 251, 142);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> = = =<span style="display: block; color: rgb(14, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 160%; color: rgb(57, 234, 134); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; background-color: rgb(243, 202, 252); text-align: left;">SPEECH UNIT Due date: Friday, March 20 <span style="display: block; color: rgb(14, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;"> = = = == == =<span style="display: block; color: rgb(14, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">Resources: = =<span style="font-size: 70%; color: rgb(14, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(14, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: 70%; color: rgb(14, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">http://www.americanrhetoric.com/ <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(14, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: 70%; color: rgb(14, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/speeches/speeches.cfm <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(14, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">Sign up for your speech on the discussion page. = =<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(14, 0, 255); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;"> = =Items for Journal due by 3/26:= =Dillard "The Stunt Pilot"= =Lincoln - 2nd Inaugural + annotations= =Annotations for the following:= FDR Inaugural Patrick Henry Bush - War in Iraq Queen Elizabeth to the troops King Henry to his troops (Shakespeare) Gettysburg Address Elie Wiesel on Indifference William Wilberforce Malcolm X Sir Thomas More //A Lesson Before Dying / To Kill a Mockingbird//
 * Discussion of reading.
 * Stamp journals J
 * Poem: //Booker T. and W.E.B//
 * Comparison to Paul Farmer?
 * Strategies for making meaning of Carlyle?
 * Connections to current economic situation?
 * Collect journals
 * Finish discussion of Carlyle and O'Keefe . ..
 * Handouts – Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural / //And the War// //Came// packet
 * Handouts – Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural / //And the War// //Came// packet
 * What insight did White provide about the magnitude of this short speech? **