AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION
First Quarter
EDUCATION

UNIT OF STUDY

UNIT OBJECTIVES

Language of Composition

CHAPTERS

CHAPTER READINGS

WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

Rhetorical Review, Summer Reading, Thematic Study of Education

A. Introduction to Rhetoric

   1. Key Elements

   2. Appeals

   3. Logical Fallacies

   4. Visual Rhetoric

   5. Rhetoric in Literature

B. Vocabulary and Grammar

   1. SAT Vocab Bee

   2. A look at appositives

C. Close Reading

   1. Analysis of Style

   2. Taking notations

   3. Writing about close reading

D. Synthesizing Sources

   1. Types of Support

   2. Sources

   3. Synthesis Essay

E. Education

   1. Summer Reading Essays

   2. Thematic Discussion 

1.        Identify and analyze elements of rhetoric in fiction, nonfiction, and visual text

2.        Identify and analyze rhetorical fallacies in arguments

3.        Closely read a passage, noting relationships between style and content

4.        Synthesize sources of research to form a cogent argument and understand how to inform but not overwhelm the reader using these sources

5.        Define education and recognize the ideal and realistic goals of the American education system

6.        Compare multiple authors’ investigations of the education system

7.        Use personal experience as evidence in an argument

8.        Synthesize primary and secondary research on education to form a unique argument about the best way to educate students of the 21^st century

CHAPTER 1: An Introduction to Rhetoric: Using the "Available Means"

CHAPTER 2: Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Analysis

CHAPTER 3: Synthesizing Sources: Entering the Conversation

CHAPTER 4:
Education

To what extent do our schools serve the goals of a true education

ADDITIONAL LITERATURE

Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie

Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild

Darcy Frey’s Last Shot

 MEDIA

Cheaters

Classic Essay Ralph Waldo Emerson, Education

Sherman Alexie, Superman and Me

Margaret Talbot, Best in Class

James Baldwin, A Talk to Teachers

Kyoko Mori, School

Kyoko Mori on Writing

Billy Collins, The History Teacher

Sandra Cisneros, Eleven (fiction)

Visual Text NEA, from Reading at Risk (tables)

Conversation Focus on the American High School

Horace Mann, from Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education

Leon Botstein, High School, an Institution Whose Time Has Passed

Todd Gitlin, from The Liberal Arts in an Age of Info-Glut

David S. Broder, A Model for High Schools

Floyd Norris, U.S. Students Fare Badly in International Survey of Math Skills (includes table)

Norman Rockwell, Spirit of Education (painting)

Analysis:            1.Sandra Cisnerso' Eleven

2. Lady Mary Montague's letter

3. Jamaica Kincaid's On Seeing England

4. Gary Soto's autobiographical narrative

Argument:                   5. Summer Reading Essay

6. Lapham's Money and  Class in America

7. Ecclesiastes quote

Outside Writing:         1. Current Issue in Education

2. #9 in LOC pg.175. Include at least one literary source (newspaper, magazine, or book) and two interview sources.

3. Entering the Conversation: choose 1-4 Cite at least three LOC sources and at least one summer reading source.  Include a work cited.