This is a general outline of this week's activities and is subject to change, based on the needs of the students. Please continue to check the blog daily, for detailed information on class activities, assignments, requirements, and deadlines.
Planning Your Week:
Monday, August 14: Handwritten pre-course notes and annotations due; Finish reading Act II if not completed in class (due Wednesday)
Wednesday, August 16: Finish reading Act III if not completed in class (due Thursday)
Thursday, August 17: Finish reading Act IV if not completed in class (due Friday)
Friday, August 18: Presentations for Friday Forum, vocabulary check (interactive notebook), Rhetoric Wrap-Up from Friday, August 11th due
Learning Goals: Identify logical fallacies and rhetorical strategies in arguments. Read and analyze The Crucible. Build your reader experiences to help interpret texts. Read for pleasure, for information, and for a combination of purposes. Use the features of texts and authors to help interpret what you read. Determine how to use genre to make meaning as you read.
Focus Standards:
ELAGSE11-12RL1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. ELAGSE11-12RL2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. ELAGSE11-12RL3: Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed). ELAGSE11-12RL6: Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement). ELAGSE11-12RL7: Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text. ELAGSE11-12RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text. ELAGSE11-12RI1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
Monday, August 14
Materials provided by student: The Crucible study guide Handwritten notes and annotations from pre-course assignment.
Handouts provided by teacher: AP Language practice test
Handouts provided by teacher: Feedback Analysis
Materials provided by student: The Crucible study guide
Materials provided by student: The Crucible study guide
Friday, August 18
Handouts provided by teacher: Rhetoric Wrap-Up assignment/rhetorical analysis handout, SOAPStone
Materials provided by student: Written deliverables from students presenting today, Friday Forum notes document (completed in class) from all students, Rhetoric Wrap-Up
Planning Your Week:
Monday, August 14: Handwritten pre-course notes and annotations due; Finish reading Act II if not completed in class (due Wednesday)
Wednesday, August 16: Finish reading Act III if not completed in class (due Thursday)
Thursday, August 17: Finish reading Act IV if not completed in class (due Friday)
Friday, August 18: Presentations for Friday Forum, vocabulary check (interactive notebook), Rhetoric Wrap-Up from Friday, August 11th due
Learning Goals: Identify logical fallacies and rhetorical strategies in arguments. Read and analyze The Crucible. Build your reader experiences to help interpret texts. Read for pleasure, for information, and for a combination of purposes. Use the features of texts and authors to help interpret what you read. Determine how to use genre to make meaning as you read.
Focus Standards:
ELAGSE11-12RL1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. ELAGSE11-12RL2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. ELAGSE11-12RL3: Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed). ELAGSE11-12RL6: Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement). ELAGSE11-12RL7: Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text. ELAGSE11-12RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text. ELAGSE11-12RI1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
Monday, August 14
Materials provided by student: The Crucible study guide Handwritten notes and annotations from pre-course assignment.
- Opening: Answer and discuss EOC/SAT/ACT warm-up question.
- Student Work Session: Read and analyze The Crucible Act II. Complete study guide.
- Closing: What rhetorical strategies and/or logical fallacies did you notice in the argument between John and Elizabeth Proctor?
- Out-of-class assignment: Finish reading Act II if not completed in class.
Handouts provided by teacher: AP Language practice test
- Opening: Answer and discuss EOC/SAT/ACT warm-up question.
- Student Work Session: Complete AP Language practice test.
- Feedback analysis of Native American Assimilation synthesis essay.
- Independent reading.
- Closing: After completing your AP Language practice test, determine the areas on which you can focus in preparation for the exam. Plan to create a Popplet covering one of these areas.
Handouts provided by teacher: Feedback Analysis
Materials provided by student: The Crucible study guide
- Opening: Answer and discuss EOC/SAT/ACT warm-up question.
- Student Work Session: Read The Crucible Act III. Complete study guide.
- Closing: In what sense does Danforth’s logical fallacy have ramifications far beyond the conviction of John Proctor?
- Out-of-class assignment: Finish reading Act III if not completed in class.
Materials provided by student: The Crucible study guide
- Opening: Answer and discuss EOC/SAT/ACT warm-up question.
- Student Work Session: Read The Crucible Act IV. Complete study guide.
- Assign Sadlier Vocabulary. (tentative)
- Closing: Miller uses the proceedings of the Salem court as an allegory for the hearings conducted by Congress during the late 1940s to mid-1950s. Based on the play’s details, what criticisms is Miller making about the way these congressional committees dealt with those it questioned and those who criticized it?
- Out-of-class assignment: Finish reading Act IV if not completed in class.
Friday, August 18
Handouts provided by teacher: Rhetoric Wrap-Up assignment/rhetorical analysis handout, SOAPStone
Materials provided by student: Written deliverables from students presenting today, Friday Forum notes document (completed in class) from all students, Rhetoric Wrap-Up
- Opening: Answer and discuss EOC/SAT/ACT warm-up question. Collect Rhetoric Wrap-Up from last week.
- Student Presentations: Friday Forum.
- Assign next week’s Rhetoric Wrap-Up: “Why I Wrote the Crucible” rhetorical analysis - due Friday, August 25th.
- View and analyze “PBS Secrets of the Dead: The Witch’s Curse” and discuss forensic rhetoric. Complete a SOAPStone analysis.
- Closing: Discuss SOAPStone.