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Ryser Syllabi AP
ADVANCED PLACEMENT LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION
Advanced Placement Language and Composition develops both reading and writing skills by studying classic writers’ writing styles as well as classmates’ rhetorical techniques. The more a student reads the better his writing skills are. Readings will include autobiographies, biographies, literary critics, essayists, journalists, political writers, and authors of fiction. Writing will include narration, description, exemplification, persuasion, argumentation, analytical presentations. First trimester, in addition to multiple reading assignments, a second concentration is an in-depth study of grammar and sentence structure as well as application of language and syntax to writing style. Students will study and analyze their writing improvement as presented by graphic accounts recorded on their Portfolio MUGS. Each major novel studied will have a comparison/contrast essay of the novel to the video. Students will analyze graphics, visual images, fine art in McDougal Littell’s LITERATURE, graphics and cartoons in Warriner’s ELEMENTS OF WRITING COMPLETE COURSE, as well as artwork from teacher collection for each historical period; for example, students will analyze Arnold Rothstein’s photographs of the 1930s and Thomas Hart Benton’s murals in the INDIANA UNIVERSITY auditorium. Second trimester, in addition to multiple readings, a second concentration develops and prepares for correct usage, Advanced Placement Released Practice Tests, as well as weekly Advanced Placement Released Essay Prompts. Students will complete the study of the Advanced Placement Glossary from English APCD Language; rhetorical devices as well as rhetorical techniques studied will develop appreciation and utilization of tone, voice, diction, syntax to complement depth of perception and content. Linguistic choices control stylistic effects and content. Additionally, exemplification essays contain resources consisting of graphics, charts, cartoons, visual images from teacher collection. Trimester I: Weeks One through Six: Compositions, tests, quizzes, regarding required summer reading plus Hawthorne’s THE SCARLET LETTER The Parts of Speech Chapter 17 Warriner’s ELEMENTS OF WRITING COMPLETE COURSE The Parts of a Sentence Chapter 18 The Phrase Chapter 19 Narration: Kirszner and Mandell’s PATTERNS FOR COLLEGE WRITING pages 67-118 Description pages 119-168 Exemplification pages 169-216 Vocabulary Weeks Seven through Twelve: Compositions, tests, quizzes regarding McDougal Littell’s LITERATURE "An Emerging Nation: Early American Writing 1600-1800," "Celebrating the Individual: American Romanticism1800-1855," "An Age of Transition: From Romanticism to Realism 1855-1870," "Capturing the American Landscape: Regionalism and Naturalism 1870-1910," Twain’s THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Cather’s MY ANTONIA The Clause Chapter 20 (Subordinate and Main) Structure of Sentences as well as Sentence Purpose Argumentation: Kirszner and Mandell’s PATTERNS FOR COLLEGE WRITING pages 493-621 In-depth analysis of one classic author such as Thoreau per grade period Advanced Placement Released Essay Prompts Independent Reading with In-Depth Analysis of Style Vocabulary One Hundred Questions Multiple Choice Test Grammar Mastery Test Rhetorical Devices Mastery Test Trimester II: Weeks One Through Six: Compositions, tests, quizzes regarding McDougal Littell’s LITERATURE "A Changing Awareness: The Harlem Renaissance and Modernism 1910-1940," Steinbeck’s OF MICE AND MEN, Fitzgerald’s THE GREAT GATSBY Agreement Chapter 21 Warriner’s ELEMENTS OF WRITING COMPLETE COURSE Correct Pronoun Usage Chapter 22 Clear Reference Chapter 23 Correct Form of Verbs Chapter 24 Continued Readings of Analysis, Exemplification, Argumentation from PATTERNS OF COLLEGE WRITING Advanced Placement Released Essay Prompts Advanced Placement Released Practice Tests Vocabulary Weeks Seven through Twelve: Compositions, tests, quizzes regarding McDougal Littell’s LITERATURE "New Perspectives: Contemporary Literature 1940-Present," Steinbeck’s GRAPES OF WRATH Synthesis Essays from Teacher Collection such as Loneliness via Martin Gansberg, Brent Staples, Robert Frost, John Steinbeck; Study in Parallelism Writing Style via Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, Winston Churchill, John Kennedy; Individual Rights of Americans as presented by Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Camille Paglia; Privacy as presented by Source A Testaments Betrayed, Source B American Civil Liberties Union: USA Patriot Act, Source C "US scours phone records; Bush says privacy ‘fiercely protected,’" Source D "Adds he OK’d program more than 30 times," Source E The Guardian, The Washington Post, Source F "Amish teen fined for wiretapping," Source G "How Wiretapping Works," Source H Cartoon; Television Effects on Presidential Elections as presented by Campbell, Hart and Triece, Menand, Chart, Ranney, Koppel Correct Use of Modifiers Chapter 25 Placement of Modifiers Chapter 26 Glossary of Usage Chapter 27 In-depth analysis of one classic author per grade period (Ayn Rand’s THE FOUNTAINHEAD) Advanced Placement Released Essay Prompts Advanced Placement Released Practice Tests One Hundred Questions Multiple Choice Mastery Test Usage Mastery Test Self-Evaluation of Writing Portfolio Methodology: Indiana State Advanced Placement Standards Indiana State Rubric Autobiographical Sketch via Clustering Editors’ Circles (Peer Editing) Socratic Seminars Writing Lab for Second and Third Drafts Individual Portfolio Self-Analysis after Each Composition Sentence Diagramming Timed Writings Daily Journal Entries Regarding Homework Readings Read More/Write More Student Notebooks Divided for Notes, Journal Entries, Grammar, Vocabulary Great Grammar Rap Analyzing Visual Versus Reading via Comparison/Contrast Plus Persuasive Writing Individual Portfolio Analysis via MUGS: Mechanics, Usage, Grammar, Sentence Structure, Spelling Parallel Sentence Structure, Inverted Sentence Structure, Periodic Sentence Structure via Color Coding in Essays for Content Effectiveness Effective Composition Organization of Thesis Statement in Introduction, Support of Thesis in Body, Restatement of Thesis in Conclusion juxtaposes Classic Novel Structure: Scaffold Scenes at the beginning, middle, and end of THE SCARLET LETTER; Mississippi River of THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN; the plow silhouette of MY ANTONIA; green light of THE GREAT GATSBY; Salinas Valley, Gabilan Mountains, green pools, sycamore trees, heron in OF MICE AND MEN; children watching mothers, wives watching husbands in THE GRAPES OF WRATH, as well as fire singing spider’s slender thread in Jonathan Edwards’ "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and other published essays and articles. Research Papers in the standards presented in MLA HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS OF RESEARCH PAPERS Fifth Edition SQRW Strategy for writing regarding text: Survey, Question, Read, Write Debate: Leader of GRAPES OF WRATH (1930s Culture) Small Group Collaborative Learning Individual Student-Teacher Portfolio MUGS Analysis Daily Mensa Quiz Touchstones: Historical Allusions, Literary Allusions, Biblical Allusions, Current Event Allusions Objectives: Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading and write those words accurately. Completed via reading and sharing with classmates autobiographies, biographies, literary critics, essayists, journalists, political writers, and authors of fiction Students read and understand rhetorical devices. Completed by analytical analyses of authors’ presentations of rhetorical devices in writing styles as well as by presenting evidence of authors’ biographies found in fiction and by studying literary criticism Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their study of history and social science. Completed via literature that presents rhetorical devices such as satire, parody, allegory, imagery, personification, surprises of meaning, surprises of sound, surprises of sentence structure plus literary criticism Students write coherent and focused texts that show a well-defined point of view and tightly reasoned argument. Completed and presented via multiple Synthesis Essays from Teacher Collection as well as multiple Advanced Placement Essay Prompts Students continue to combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description to produce reflective composition, historical investigative research, and resumes. Completed once a grade period via analytical presentations of classic authors’ writing styles; resumes completed first grade period plus college scholarship applications; Standard English required for all academic writing; extensive student presentation of research Students write presenting Standard English conventions. Completed and required via in-depth study of grammar and usage first grade period of each trimester plus weekly composition assignments Students formulate thoughtful judgments about oral communication. Completed weekly via discussions, Socratic Seminars, small group work, co-operative learning, oral-individual presentations of literary classics plus essays, narration, exposition, persuasion, description, historical documents as presented in text Students demonstrate control of grammar, diction, paragraph and sentence structure, as well as an understanding of English usage. Completed and required for weekly composition assignments to be coordinated with portfolio MUGS Students produce writing that shows accurate spelling and correct punctuation and capitalization. Completed and required for weekly composition assignments to be coordinated with portfolio MUGS Students apply appropriate manuscript conventions in writing—including title page presentation, pagination, spacing, and margins—and integration of source and support material by citing sources within the text, using direct quotations and paraphrasing. Completed and required for weekly composition assignments to be coordinated with portfolio MUGS as well as synthesized research papers—one per grade period Identify and correctly use clauses, both main and subordinate: phrases, including gerund, infinitive, and participial; and the mechanics of punctuation, such as semicolons, colons, ellipses, and hyphens. Completed and required for weekly composition assignments to be coordinated with portfolio MUGS
Course Texts:
Allen, Janet et al. LITERATURE. Evanston, Illinois: McDougal Littell, 2008. Bryson, Bill. I’M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF. Broadway, New York: Broadway Books, 2000. Cather, Willa. MY ANTONIA. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. English APCD Language, College Entrance Examination Board and Educational Testing Service, 1999. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. THE GREAT GATSBY. New York: Scribner Classic, 1992. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE SCARLET LETTER. New York: Signet Classic, 1980. Kinneavy, James L. and John E Warriner. ELEMENTS OF WRITING COMPLETE COURSE. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1993. Kirszner, Laurie G. and Stephen R. Mandell, eds. PATTERNS FOR COLLEGE WRITING. 8th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001. McDougal Littell Corporate Authors. GRAMMAR FOR WRITING. Evanston, Illinois: McDougal Littell, 2008. Rand, Ayn.THE FOUNTAINHEAD.New York, New York: Signet Classic, 1993. Salny, Dr. Abbie F. THE MENSA GENIUS QUIZ-A-DAY BOOK. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison- Wesley Publishing Company, 1989. Steinbeck, John. GRAPES OF WRATH. United States of America: Penguin Books, 1985. ---. OF MICE AND MEN. Centennial Edition. New York: Penguin Books, 2002. Thoreau, Henry David. WALDEN. Columbus, Ohio: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 200l. Twain, Mark. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. New York: Signet Classic, 1987. Vowell, Sarah. THE PARTLY CLOUDY PATRIOT. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. .
Presentation of Writing Style of Fitzgerald’s THE GREAT GATSBY Objective Product Descriptor Audience Prompt Present the classic structure of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s THE GREATGATSBY by analyzing symbolism, irony, oxymoron, and paradox regarding the green light. Consider especially the last paragraph of Chapter I, the middle of Chapter V, and the last two paragraphs of Chapter IX in presenting the classic novel structure. Format paragraphs of support, and conclusion. Employ one parenthetical citation for each paragraph of support of the thesis. Method Proofread the presentation for third person only, present tensefor fiction only, agreement of pronouns with antecedents in number. Length Five paragraphsPoint Value 100Due Date(s) The assignment is due at the end of class today.
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TRIMESTER ONE: ENGLISH ELEVEN: AMERICAN LITERATURE Materials: GRAMMAR FOR WRITING, McDougal Littell’s LITERATURE, WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND, SCARLET LETTER, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, MY ANTONIA Weeks One, Two, Three, Four: Readings: Unit I, An Emerging Nation: Early American Writing, WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND plus viewing of THE SCARLET LETTER Language: Eight Parts of Speech, Parts of a Sentence Evaluation: Daily Quizzes and Discussions, Composition, Common Assessments of Selection Tests and Unit 1 Benchmark Test Weeks Five, Six, Seven, Eight: Readings: Unit II, American Romanticism: Celebrating the Individual, Unit III, An Age of Transition: From Romanticism to Realism, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN Language: Prepositional Phrases, Verbals—Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives Evaluation: Daily Quizzes and Discussions, Composition, Common Assessments of Selection Tests as well as Units II and III Benchmark Tests Weeks Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve: Readings: Unit IV, Capturing the American Landscape: Regionalism and Naturalism, MY ANTONIA Language: Punctuation and Common Errors (Usage) Evaluation: Daily Quizzes and Discussions, Composition, Common Assessments of Selection Tests and Unit IV Benchmark Test Common Assessment Trimester One Final Exam Common Assessment Reading Comprehension Common Assessment Composition "Global Citizenship"
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