This document outlines the schedule and activities for the first week of an AP Language class. The week includes discussions of descriptive essays, grammar exercises, vocabulary practice, and sample AP essays to analyze using the rubric. Students will also read and discuss excerpts from On Dumpster Diving and Once More to the Lake. The following week will cover additional readings including an essay about 9/11 and excerpts from The Grapes of Wrath and The Way to Rainy Mountain.
This document outlines the schedule and activities for the first week of an AP Language class. The week includes discussions of descriptive essays, grammar exercises, vocabulary practice, and sample AP essays to analyze using the rubric. Students will also read and discuss excerpts from On Dumpster Diving and Once More to the Lake. The following week will cover additional readings including an essay about 9/11 and excerpts from The Grapes of Wrath and The Way to Rainy Mountain.
This document outlines the schedule and activities for the first week of an AP Language class. The week includes discussions of descriptive essays, grammar exercises, vocabulary practice, and sample AP essays to analyze using the rubric. Students will also read and discuss excerpts from On Dumpster Diving and Once More to the Lake. The following week will cover additional readings including an essay about 9/11 and excerpts from The Grapes of Wrath and The Way to Rainy Mountain.
This document outlines the schedule and activities for the first week of an AP Language class. The week includes discussions of descriptive essays, grammar exercises, vocabulary practice, and sample AP essays to analyze using the rubric. Students will also read and discuss excerpts from On Dumpster Diving and Once More to the Lake. The following week will cover additional readings including an essay about 9/11 and excerpts from The Grapes of Wrath and The Way to Rainy Mountain.
2. Description: intro to analyzing description 3. Read On Dumpster Diving, page 27, and Once More to the Lake, page 52, and annotate in the book, on paper or on post-it notes. Be prepared to discuss the questions that follow each essay but don’t write the essays.
Wednesday 1. Discuss essays
2. practice AP: read and plan essay
Thursday 1. Grammar: 10 minutes
2. practice AP writing
Friday - 1. Vocab: 10 minutes
2. Read, discuss sample essays and rubric; evaluate essays using rubric
Next week: 9.11.01 p. 187 (and other materials)
The Turtle, from Grapes of Wrath The Way to Rainy Mountain (essay)