AP LANG
FIRST SEMESTER
Syllabus / Daily Plan for Fall 2019
AP LANG Google Calendar
American Literary Periods / Information
Rhetoric / Rhetorical Analysis Essay
PowerPoint: Rhetorical Triangle and Rhetorical Situation
Sample Essay: Analysis of Queen Elizabeth's Speech
Essay Comments: Thomas Paine's The Crisis
Essay Comments: Louv's Last Child in the Woods
War and Identity
Essay: Paine's The Crisis
Poem: Crane's "War is Kind"
PowerPoint: Intro to The Things They Carried
Informational Text: "Conscription and the U.S. Draft"
Informational Text: "The Quang Ngai Province and the My Lai Massacre"
Photos: Vietnam Photo Gallery
Benchmark 1--Fall 2019
40 questions total
- 10 questions on material we covered
- 11 Writing/Revision questions
- 6 AP questions on a familiar passage
- 13 AP questions on an unfamiliar passage
Link to Quizlet review
Nature and Identity
PowerPoint: Transcendentalism
Essay: Emerson's "Nature"
Essay: Thoreau's Walden
PowerPoint: Romanticism
PowerPoint (assignment included): Bryant's "Thanatopsis" (poem is on the Fireside Poets handout two links above)
Short Story: London's "To Build a Fire"
Poems: Various Nature Poems
Religion and Identity
PowerPoint: The Scarlet Letter Overview
Study Guide: The Scarlet Letter Chapter Guide (Questions)
Benchmark 2--Fall 2019
45 Questions Total
- 7 questions over material we have covered or that you should know (Romanticism, Naturalism, Transcendentalism, Fireside Poets, etc.)
- 4 questions about an unfamiliar poem (by a poet we have covered)
- 7 questions that are writing/revision questions
- 15 AP questions about a familiar passage
- 12 AP questions about an unfamiliar passage
Link to Quizlet review
Field Trip Form
Additional materials and assignments are also available on Google Classroom.