AP® English Language and Composition Semester 1
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18 weeks or less
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17
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In AP English Language and Composition, students investigate rhetoric and its impact on culture through analysis of notable fiction and nonfiction texts, from pamphlets to speeches to personal essays. The equivalent of an introductory college-level survey class, this course prepares students for the AP exam and for further study in communications, creative writing, journalism, literature, and composition.
Students explore a variety of textual forms, styles, and genres. By examining all texts through a rhetorical lens, students become skilled readers and analytical thinkers. Focusing specifically on language, purpose, and audience gives them a broad view of the effect of text and its cultural role. Students write expository and narrative texts to hone the effectiveness of their own use of language, and they develop varied, informed arguments through research. Throughout the course, students are evaluated with assessments specifically designed to prepare them for the content, form, and depth of the AP Exam.
AP English Language and Composition is recommended for 11th and 12th grade students. This course fulfills 11th grade requirements. Consequently, we recommend that students take only one of the following courses: English 11, Texas English III, and AP English Language and Composition.
This course has been authorized by the College Board® to use the AP designation.
*Advanced Placement® and AP® are registered trademarks and/or owned by the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse this product.
Length: Two semesters
Required Semester 1 Course Materials
Unit 1: The American Revolution
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Lesson 1: Increasing Tension- Journal - That's Not Fair! Write a short, personal journal response to a prompt.
- Read - The Rhetoric of Revolution: Read and recall details from "Moving Toward Independence."
- Study - Understand Rhetoric: Identify types of persuasive appeals, rhetorical questions, rhetoric, parallelism, and figurative language (metaphor, simile, and personification). Analyze the purpose of persuasive appeals, rhetorical questions, parallelism, and figurative language.
- Quiz - Understand Rhetoric: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Read - Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine: Read and recall details from "Speech to the Virginia Convention" and excerpts from Common Sense. Identify rhetorical devices in each text. Analyze how the purpose and historical context of "Speech to the Virginia Convention" and excerpts from Common Sense affect the tone of each text.
- Discuss - Think It Through, Talk It Out: Discuss a claim, using evidence to support your stance and respond to your peers' arguments. Promote civil and democratic discussions.
- Study - Analyze Rhetoric: Determine the author's point of view or purpose by examining the rhetoric of "Speech to the Virginia Convention" and excerpts from Common Sense. Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure and rhetoric in both texts. Analyze how the purpose and historical context of "Speech to the Virginia Convention" and excerpts from Common Sense affect the tone of each text.
- Quiz - Analyze Rhetoric: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Study - Explore Writing and Presenting an Argument: Write an argument to support a claim. Develop the claim and the counterclaims thoroughly, addressing the possible biases of the audience. Use transitions and maintain a formal tone.
- Checkup - Language Skills: Context: Use context to determine the meaning of a word or phrase. Review connotation and denotation. Analyze how the connotation of a word enhances its emotional effect.
- Project - Revision Strategies: Revising a Letter: Revise a persuasive argument in order to thoroughly develop a response to the counterclaims.
- Read - The American Crisis, No. 1: Read and recall details from "The American Crisis."
- Study - Analyze The American Crisis, No. 1: Analyze, The American Crisis, and identify Paine’s purpose, audience, tone and rhetorical appeals.
- Quiz - Analyze The American Crisis, No. 1: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Checkup - Practice Essay Writing: Practice writing an essay for the AP exam.
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Lesson 2: Declaring Independence
- Journal - Defining Freedom: Write a short, personal journal response to a prompt.
- Read - Letter to Pickering: Why Jefferson? Summarize and analyze the underlying message of Adams' recollection of the process of developing the Declaration of Independence.
- Study - Understand the Declaration of Independence: Read and recall details from a study of the process by which the Declaration of Independence was written.
- Quiz - Understand the Declaration of Independence: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Read - The Declaration and Its Stylistic Artistry: Determine the author's point of view or purpose by analyzing the rhetoric of The Declaration of Independence and the article "The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence."
- Discuss - Think It Through, Talk It Out: Discuss a claim. Draw on evidence from text or other resources.
- Study - Analyze the Declaration: Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure of The Declaration of Independence, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging. Distinguish between deductive and inductive reasoning and analyze how the Declaration's reasoning supports the ultimate conclusion or purpose. Analyze how style and content contribute to the persuasiveness of the text.
- Quiz - Analyze the Declaration: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Study - Explore Writing an Analysis: Write an analytical, explanatory essay. Use significant details to support the claim and use transitions to clearly connect ideas.
- Checkup - Language Skills: Parallel Structure: Identify and revise sentences that do not have parallel structure to create parallelism.
- Practice - Revision Strategies: Revise an Analysis Essay: Revise an analysis essay.
- Read - The Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence: Read and recall details from "The Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence."
- Study - Analyze the Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence: Analyze the, Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence, and determine how tone can affect appeals.
- Quiz - Analyze the Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Checkup - Practice Essay Writing: Practice writing an essay for the AP exam.
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Lesson 3: Setting Up a Nation
- Journal - A New Nation: Write a short, personal journal response to a prompt.
- Read - Creating a System of Government: Read and comprehend the Preamble to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and "Let's Give Up on the Constitution." Analyze the language of the Preamble to the Constitution. Summarize "Let's Give Up on the Constitution " and determine the author's purpose.
- Study - Understand the Constitution: Read and recall details about the process by which the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Supreme Court were created. Analyze the specific use of language in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
- Quiz - Understand the Constitution: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Read - Tinker v. Des Moines: Read and recall details from the majority opinion and dissent from the Tinker v. Des Moines Supreme Court case. Delineate the reasoning of the majority opinion and dissent from the Tinker v. Des Moines Supreme Court case.
- Discuss - Think It Through, Talk It Out: Discuss a claim. Establish individual roles.
- Study - Analyze a Supreme Court Decision: Evaluate the reasoning for the majority opinion and dissent in the Tinker v. Des Moines Supreme Court case.
- Quiz - Analyze a Supreme Court Decision: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Study - Explore Writing an Evaluation: Write an explanatory text to examine complex ideas. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary. Maintain a formal style and objective tone. Provide a concluding statement that supports the information presented.
- Checkup - Language Skills: Using Reference Materials: Consult a dictionary and thesaurus to clarify the meaning of a word, its etymology, and its pronunciation. Verify the meaning of a word in the dictionary. Consult a thesaurus in order to replace overused or weak words.
- Practice - Revision Strategies: Revise an explanatory essay.
- Read - Address of Susan B. Anthony: Read and recall details from "Address of Susan B. Anthony."
- Study - Analyze the Address of Susan B. Anthony: Analyze the, Address of Susan B. Anthony, and identify parallelism, alliteration, tone and rhetorical context.
- Quiz - Analyze the Address of Susan B. Anthony: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Checkup - Practice Multiple Choice: Practice answering multiple choice questions for the AP exam.
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Lesson 4: Wrap-Up: The American Revolution
- Review - The American Revolution: Prepare for the unit test by reviewing key concepts and skills.
- Test (CS) - The American Revolution: Take a computer-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.
- Test (TS) - The American Revolution: Take a teacher-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.
Unit 2: Romanticism and Transcendentalism
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Lesson 1: Whitman and Dickinson; Into the Wild, Part I
- Journal - Is Poetry Art? Write a short, personal journal response to a prompt.
- Read - Poetry as the Person: Read and recall details from "Changing the Landscape of Poetry."
- Study - Understanding Poetry: Identify and analyze the purpose or effect of poetic devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, rhyme, slant rhyme, eye rhyme, meter, and imagery. Identify Romantic elements and analyze the use of paradox in a poem.
- Quiz - Understanding Poetry: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Read - Whitman and Dickinson: Identify and analyze the purpose or effect of poetic devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, rhyme, slant rhyme, eye rhyme, meter, and imagery. Identify Romantic elements in select Whitman and Dickinson poems.
- Discuss - Think It Through, Talk It Out: Discuss a claim. Ensure a hearing for a full range of positions on a topic or issue.
- Study - Analyze Poetry: Identify and analyze the purpose or effect of poetic devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, rhyme, slant rhyme, eye rhyme, meter, and imagery. Identify Romantic elements in select Whitman and Dickinson poems. Compare Whitman and Dickinson's attitudes toward death.
- Quiz - Analyze Poetry: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Study - Explore Writing an Analysis: Write an explanatory text to analyze the connection between two poems. Select significant and relevant evidence to support the claim. Provide a concluding statement that supports the information presented.
- Checkup - Language Skills: Dashes and Hyphens: Identify the correct use of dashes and hyphens in sentences. Analyze the purpose and effect of dashes in writing.
- Practice - Revision Strategies: Revise an analysis essay.
- Read - Into the Wild Part I: Read and recall details from "Into the Wild."
- Study - Analyze Into the Wild Part I: Analyze, Into the Wild, and review its structure.
- Quiz - Analyze Into the Wild Part I: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Checkup - Practice Essay Writing: Practice writing an essay for the AP exam.
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Lesson 2: Gothic Writing and Into the Wild, Part II
- Journal - Symbolism: Write a short, personal journal response to a prompt.
- Read - A Complex Portrait
- Read and recall details from "A Complex Portrait: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe."
- Study - Understand Gothic Writing: Identify elements and analyze the purpose, effect, and techniques of Gothic or "Dark Romantic" writing.
- Quiz - Understand Gothic Writing: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Read - "The Raven" and "The Philosophy of Composition": Identify and analyze the effect of poetic elements such as alliteration and meter in "The Raven." Read and recall details from "Philosophy of Composition."
- Discuss - Think It Through, Talk It Out: Discuss a claim. Clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions.
- Study - Analyze Poetry Readings: Identify elements of interpretation such as tone of voice, pace of delivery, and use of emotion. Analyze the effect of two readings of "The Raven" based on tone of voice, pace of delivery, and use of emotion. Evaluate the strengths of each interpretation of "The Raven."
- Quiz - Analyze Poetry Readings: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Study - Explore Writing a Narrative Poem: Write a narrative poem that introduces a narrator, creates a particular tone and mood, and builds suspense.
- Checkup - Language Skills: Denotation, Connotation, and Nuance: Demonstrate an understanding of nuances in words that have similar denotations.
- Practice - Revision Strategies: Revise a narrative poem.
- Read - Into the Wild Part II: Read and recall details from "Into the Wild."
- Study - Analyze Into the Wild Part II: Analyze, Into the Wild, and identify inferences.
- Quiz - Analyze Into the Wild Part II: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Checkup - Practice Multiple Choice: Practice answering multiple choice questions for the AP exam.
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Lesson 3: Emerson and Thoreau; Into the Wild, Part III
- Journal - Living Up to Expectations: Write a short, personal journal response to a prompt.
- Read - "Self-Reliance" and Walden: Read and recall details from excerpts from "Self-Reliance" and excerpts from Walden. Analyze the purpose and structure of each of the texts.
- Study - Understand Transcendentalism: Read and recall details about the background, beliefs, and writings of Emerson and Thoreau.
- Quiz - Understand Transcendentalism: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Read - "Resistance to Civil Government": Determine two or more of the central ideas of "Civil Disobedience." Determine the meaning of words as they are used in a text. Analyze and evaluate the structure of an argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.
- Discuss - Think It Through, Talk It Out: Discuss a claim. Set clear goals and deadlines.
- Study - Analyze "Resistance to Civil Government": Determine two or more of the central ideas of "Civil Disobedience." Determine the meaning of words as they are used in a text. Analyze and evaluate the structure of an argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging. Analyze how the rhetorical style of "Civil Disobedience" contributes to its power.
- Quiz - Analyze "Resistance to Civil Government": Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Study - Explore Writing an Argumentative Speech: Write an argument to support a claim. Create an organization that logically sequences a claim, counterclaims, reasons, and evidence. Use words and phrases to clarify the relationships between claims and counterclaims.
- Checkup - Speaking Skills: Speaking Rate and Volume: Use an appropriate speaking rate and volume for a given audience.
- Project - Revision Strategies: Revise an Argumentative Speech: Revise a persuasive essay.
- Read - Into the Wild Part III: Read and recall details from "Into the Wild."
- Study - Analyze Into the Wild Part III: Analyze, Into the Wild, and identify Krakauer's tone, and purpose.
- Quiz - Analyze Into the Wild Part III: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Checkup - Practice Essay Writing: Practice writing an essay for the AP exam.
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Lesson 4: Wrap-Up: Romanticism and Transcendentalism
- Review - Romanticism and Transcendentalism: Prepare for the unit test by reviewing key concepts and skills.
- Test (CS) - Romanticism and Transcendentalism: Take a computer-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.
- Test (TS) - Romanticism and Transcendentalism: Take a teacher-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.
Unit 3: The American Narrative
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Lesson 1: Humor, Subjectivity, and Satire
- Journal - That's Funny! Write a short, personal journal response to a prompt.
- Read - "I Sell a Dog": Read and recall details from "I Sell a Dog." Analyze the comedic techniques in the text. Analyze how the structure and style contribute to the purpose of "I Sell a Dog."
- Study - Understand Mark Twain and Satire: Read and recall details from "The Influence of Mark Twain."
- Quiz - Understand Mark Twain and Satire: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Read - Life on the Mississippi: Read and recall details from Life on the Mississippi. Analyze the comedic and narrative techniques in the text.
- Discuss - Think It Through, Talk It Out: Discuss a claim. Pose and respond to questions that probe reasons and evidence.
- Study - Analyze Life on the Mississippi: Analyze the comedic and narrative techniques in Life on the Mississippi.
- Quiz - Analyze Life on the Mississippi: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Study - Explore Writing a Narrative: Write a personal narrative that inlcudes comedic techniques. Introduce a narrator, and establish a point of view. Use sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experience or event.
- Checkup - Language Skills: Interpret Figures of Speech: Apply the understanding that language changes over time. Interpret figures of speech in context and analyze their role in text.
- Practice - Revision Strategies: Revise a narrative.
- Read - "The War Prayer": Read and recall details from "The War Prayer."
- Study - Analyze "The War Prayer": Analyze, The War Prayer, and identify polysyndeton, polyptoton, and asyndeton.
- Quiz - Analyze "The War Prayer": Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Checkup - Practice Essay Writing: Practice writing an essay for the AP exam.
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Lesson 2: Formality in Personal Narratives and Speeches
- Journal - Why Is Lincoln So Famous? Write a short, personal journal response to a prompt.
- Read - Second Inaugural Address: Determine two central ideas in Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and how they build on one another. Determine the meaning of connotative words and phrases in the text. Analyze and evaluate how the structure of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address makes points clear, convincing, and engaging, and how his rhetorical style supports his purpose.
- Study - Understand The Civil War: Understand details about the Civil War.
- Quiz - Understand The Civil War: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Read - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Read and recall details from an excerpt of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Analyze the way Douglass achieves an objective tone while writing a personal narrative.
- Discuss - Think It Through, Talk It Out: Discuss a claim. Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives.
- Study - Analyze Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Analyze the way Douglass achieves an objective tone while writing a personal narrative. Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure of Douglass's narrative.
- Quiz - Analyze Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Study - Explore Writing an Analysis: Write an explanatory text that analyzes the narrative techniques of two different authors (Twain and Douglass). Develop the topic by providing relevent quotations from each narrative. Establish and maintain a formal style. Provide a concluding paragraph that supports the explanation.
- Checkup - Language Skills: Word Patterns: Recognize suffixes that change a word's part of speech. Revise wordy sentences by changing a word's part of speech.
- Practice - Revision Strategies: Revise an explanatory essay.
- Read - "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?": Read and recall details from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
- Study - Analyze "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?": Analyze, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, and identify ethos, allusions and analogies.
- Quiz - Analyze "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?": Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Checkup - Practice Essay Writing: Practice writing an essay for the AP exam.
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Lesson 3: Diaries, Journals, and Essays
- Journal - New Frontiers: Write a short, personal journal response to a prompt.
- Read - "Oregon": Analyze the structure of the argument in the article "Oregon." Analyze how the persuasive appeals in the article support the author's purpose.
- Study - Understand Westward Expansion: Analyze the logical fallacies in the arguments for Indian Removal, specifically non sequiturs, circular reasoning, and hasty generalizations.
- Quiz - Understand Westward Expansion: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Read - Diary of a Pioneer Woman: Analyze the narrative and rhetorical techniques Frink uses to convey her purpose in specific sections of the journal, and how Frink connects events in order to develop them over the course of the text. Analyze how the pioneers' beliefs about Native Americans were either reinforced or debunked.
- Discuss - Think It Through, Talk It Out: Discuss a claim. Synthesize comments, claims, and evidence made on all sides of an issue.
- Study - Analyze the Diary of a Pioneer Woman: Analyze the narrative and rhetorical techniques Frink uses to convey her purpose in specific sections of the journal, and how Frink connects events in order to develop them over the course of the text. Analyze how the pioneers' beliefs about Native Americans were either reinforced or debunked.
- Quiz - Analyze the Diary of a Pioneer Woman: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Study - Explore Writing an Argumentative Speech: Write a speech that persuades an audience that there should or should not be a monument in Washington, D.C., dedicated to the pioneers. Create an organization that logically sequences a claim, counterclaims, reasons, and evidence in the format of a classical speech. Write two versions of the speech in order to appeal to two different audiences.
- Checkup - Speaking Skills: Eye Contact and Purposeful Gestures: Use consistent eye contact and purposeful gestures to engage an audience.
- Project - Revision Strategies: Revise a persuasive speech.
- Read - "The Significance of the Frontier in American History": Read and recall details from "The Significance of the Frontier in American History."
- Study - Analyze "The Significance of the Frontier in American History": Analyze, The Significance of the Frontier, and identify perspectives.
- Quiz - Analyze "The Significance of the Frontier in American History": Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Checkup - Practice Multiple Choice: Practice answering multiple choice questions for the AP exam.
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Lesson 4: Wrap-Up: The American Narrative
- Review - The American Narrative: Prepare for the unit test by reviewing key concepts and skills.
- Test (CS) - The American Narrative: Take a computer-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.
- Test (TS) - The American Narrative: Take a teacher-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.
Unit 4: Modernism and the American Dream
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Lesson 1: The Rise of Modernism
- Journal - Changed by Trauma: Write a short, personal journal response to a prompt.
- Read - "The End of Something": Read and recall details from "The End of Something." Analyze how the structure of the text contributes to the theme and its overall aesthetic impact.
- Study - Understand the American Dream: Read and recall details from the study.
- Quiz - Understand the American Dream: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Read - William Faulkner: Analyze Faulkner's choice to relate As I Lay Dying through the voices of different narrators. Analyze how the structure of Cash's chapter reveals meaning. Evaluate the structure of Faulkner's Nobel Prize speech and whether that structure makes his points clear, convincing, and engaging. Determine how the rhetoric of Faulkner's Nobel Prize speech contributes to its overall purpose.
- Discuss - Think It Through, Talk It Out: Discuss a claim. Promote divergent or creative perspectives.
- Study - Analyze the Voices of Faulkner: Analyze Faulkner's choice to relate As I Lay Dying through the voices of different narrators. Evaluate the structure of Faulkner's Nobel Prize speech and whether that structure makes his points clear, convincing, and engaging. Determine how the rhetoric of Faulkner's Nobel Prize speech contributes to its overall purpose.
- Quiz - Analyze the Voices of Faulkner: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Study - Explore the Research Project, Part I: Gather relevant information from sources. Use advanced searches effectively. Assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of validity and reliability. Avoid overreliance on any one source.
- Checkup - Language Skills: Spelling: Identify a variety of spelling rules. Apply spelling rules.
- Practice - Revision Strategies: Revise a research essay.
- Read - "How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South from Itself": Read and recall details from "How William Faulkner Tackled Race—and Freed the South from Itself."
- Study - Analyze "How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South from Itself": Analyze, How William Faulkner Tackled Race—and Freed the South from Itself, and identify Sullivan's approach, tone, and style.
- Quiz - "How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South from Itself": Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Checkup - Practice Essay Writing: Practice writing an essay for the AP exam.
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Lesson 2: The Harlem Renaissance and The Great Gatsby, Part I
- Journal - I Love It, I Hate It: Write a short, personal journal response to a prompt.
- Read - "The Pen and the Paradox": Read and recall details from "The Harlem Renaissance." Analyze the impact of specific word choices in "I, Too," and "America" on meaning and tone. Analyze the irony (hyperbole, paradox) in "America." Connect the poems to the idea of the American Dream.
- Study - Understand the Jazz Age: Read and recall details from the study.
- Quiz - Understand the Jazz Age: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Read - The Great Gatsby, Part I: Analyze the purpose of the point of view, specifically how it impacts the plot and the setting. Analyze how the figurative language helps shape the author's portrayal of plot and setting. Analyze the symbolism in the novel. Analyze the paradox of Daisy.
- Discuss - Think It Through, Talk It Out: Discuss a claim. Resolve contradictions when possible.
- Study - Analyze The Great Gatsby: Analyze the purpose of the point of view, specifically how it impacts the plot and the setting. Analyze how the figurative language helps shape the author's portrayal of plot and setting. Analyze the symbolism in the novel. Analyze the paradox of Daisy.
- Quiz - Analyze The Great Gatsby: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Study - Explore the Research Project, Part II: Integrate information and media into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas. Consult a style manual in order to find out how to document sources. Provide an accurate and honest representation of divergent views (i.e., in the author's own words and not out of context).
- Checkup - Language Skills: Sentence Patterns: Identify elements of syntax. Vary syntax for effect.
- Practice - Revision Strategies: Revise a research essay.
- Read - "Salvation": Read and recall details from "Salvation."
- Study - Analyze "Salvation": Analyze, Salvation, and identify irony, imagery, tone and point of view.
- Quiz - Analyze "Salvation": Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Checkup - Practice Essay Writing: Practice writing an essay for the AP exam.
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Lesson 3: The Great Gatsby, Part II and "Every Man a King"
- Journal - Reinventing Yourself: Write a short, personal journal response to a prompt.
- Read - Superficial Gatsby: Read and recall details from "The Serious Superficiality of The Great Gatsby."
- Study - Understand the Message of Gatsby: Read and recall details about a study that involves a review of terms, such as irony and theme.
- Quiz - Understand the Message of Gatsby: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Read - The Great Gatsby, Part II: Analyze the symbolism of Gatsby, Daisy, and the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg. Analyze the irony at the end of the novel. Determine two or more themes and analyze how they build on each other and interact over the course of the text. Analyze how the ending of the novel creates a specific aesthetic impact.
- Discuss - Think It Through, Talk It Out: Discuss a claim. Determine what additional information or research is required to deepen the investigation or complete the task.
- Study - Analyze The Great Gatsby: Analyze the symbolism of Gatsby, Daisy, and the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg. Analyze the irony at the end of the novel. Determine two or more themes and analyze how they build on each other and interact over the course of the text. Analyze how the ending of the novel creates a specific aesthetic impact.
- Quiz - Analyze The Great Gatsby: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Study - Explore the Research Project, Part III: Create a Works Cited page.
- Checkup - Speaking Skills: Smooth Transitions and Rhetorical Devices: Use smooth transitions to connect ideas. Use rhetorical devices to clarify ideas.
- Project - Revision Strategies: Revise a research essay.
- Read - "Every Man a King": Read and recall details from "Every Man a King."
- Study - Analyze "Every Man a King": Analyze, Every Man a King, and identify false analogies and logical fallacies.
- Quiz - Analyze "Every Man a King": Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
- Checkup - Practice Multiple Choice: Practice answering multiple choice questions for the AP exam.
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Lesson 4: Wrap-Up: Modernism and The American Dream
- Review - Modernism and The American Dream: Prepare for the unit test by reviewing key concepts and skills.
- Test (CS) - Modernism and The American Dream: Take a computer-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.
- Test (TS) - Modernism and The American Dream: Take a teacher-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.
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