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2023-2024 Day By Day Slides

1st quarter: Rhetoric in the Wild and Across Genre
AP Lang Units 1,2, and 3
Monday 8/14 Tuesday 8/15 Wednesday 8/16 Thursday 8/17 - A-day Friday 8/18 - B-day

Your World in 90 seconds (with argument prompt of the

3 weeks) Directions here
Begin sentence construction (in notebook or on Google
doc) Due at the end of every three weeks for completion
S.O.A.P. yourself

Monday 8/21 - A-day Tuesday 8/22 - B-day Wednesday 8/23 - A-day Thursday 8/24 - B-day Friday 8/25 - A-day Test prep day #1

Schoology basics Your World in 90 seconds Behavioral expectations

Give vocabulary assignment words and worksheet. Continue sentence construction meeting
(You must use these words in your sentences with Discuss Lincoln FIG Timed Reading MC #1
Pledge of allegiance assignment.
world in 90 seconds from now on) (baseline) results on tracking
Your World in 90 seconds sheet.
Continue sentence construction (in notebook)
Watch Best speeches EVER . Try to SOAP each one
as it happens. See what rhetorical choices you notice.
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address. Think
aloud/together--EVERYTHING you can find. Use
your resources!! (It’s okay that this is new to you.
We’ll practice A LOT!)

Change to the FIG? Or the summary….

Monday 8/28 - B-day Tuesday 8/29 - A-day Wednesday 8/30 - B-day Thursday 8/31 - A-day Friday 9/1 - B-day Test prep day
#1
 Your World in 90 seconds Timed Reading MC #1
Continue sentence construction (baseline) results on tracking
Your World in 90 seconds Rhetoric in the wild sheet.
Continue sentence construction ● Prancer dog ad and here, and adoption
Taylor Swift NYU Commencement ‘22 ● Haribo gummy bears, and some of these Essay conferencing and
● Guy Fieri restaurant reviews and his response reading
Work on writing a summary… (Frietas) ● Barbie speech and Ken Lyrics and lyrics to
Push
● Taco Tuesday: Lebron and the actual petition
and resulting response
● Obituary #1 and Obituary #2 and brother’s
response to the obit and Obit #3

Jigsaw of these look at SOAP… and consider claims,

evidence and choices that each was making and why

Monday 9/4 Tuesday 9/5 - A-day Wednesday 9/6 - B -day Thursday 9/7 - A-day Friday9/8 - B-day

Vocab test (50 percent of test grade) Your World in 90 seconds

Your World in 90 seconds
Continue sentence construction
Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry
God” rhetorical choices (or change to Patrick Henry)?
Continue sentence construction
Patrick Henry? Or something more modern? Letters?
Social media posts/texts?
Intro rhetorical precis

Monday 9/11 - A-day Tuesday 9/12 - B-day Wednesday 9/13 - A-day Thursday 9/14 - B-day Friday 9/15 - A-day Test prep day #2

Your World in 90 seconds

Your World in 90 seconds Continue sentence construction
Continue sentence construction (in notebook) Timed Writing MC #1
King or Kennedy TEST GRADE (or change to letting (banana prompt? Use
September 11 assignment, with speech focus on tone them choose one of their own? Draw from a bank?) John Greene stickers)
and choices
 Better still… DO the Timm Freitas MC test…
Rhetorical precis again

Monday 9/18 Tuesday 9/19 - B-day Wednesday 9/20 - A-day Thursday 9/21 - B-day Friday 9/22 - A-day

Your World in 90 seconds

Continue sentence construction
Silly rhetoric project: Choose your medium and your SOAP TEST GRADE

Monday 9/25 - B-day Tuesday 9/26 - A-day Wednesday 9/27 - B-day Thursday 9/28 - A-day Friday 9/29 - B-day Test prep day #2

Your World in 90 seconds Your World in 90 seconds Timed Writing MC #1

Continue sentence construction Continue sentence construction
Attacking the prompt of a rhetorical analysis Attacking the passage of a rhetorical analysis essay.
essay

Monday 10/2 - A-day Tuesday 10/3 - B-day Wednesday 10/4 - A-day Thursday 10/5 - B-day Friday 10/6

Vocab test #2 (second 50 percent) Your World in 90 seconds

Your World in 90 seconds Continue sentence construction
Continue sentence construction Writing the body paragraph
Writing the introduction Review attacking the prompt
Establish exigence Review attacking the passage
And the precis

Monday 10/9 Tuesday 10/10 - A-day Wednesday 10/11 - B-day Thursday 10/12 - A-day Friday 10/13 - B-day
 Your World in 90 seconds Your World in 90 seconds
Continue sentence construction Continue sentence construction
Go over different methods for writing the conclusion PearDeck rubric review
Develop battle plan (Writing essay next time)

Second quarter