Munising Public Schools
A.P Language and Composition

A.P. English and Composition

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Syllabus
Participation
Links to practice for AP test  
Go to mel databases>learning express library>AP Comp practice test 1
Student samples of synthesis essay

Analytical Writing Rubric

Wikispace!

Rhetoric lists
List 1
List 2
Usage of rhetoric sample

Rubrics and other class materials

Trimester 1

How to study vocabulary and set up in your learning logs
Greek Play Analysis Project
Extemporaneous Discussion
Political Cartoon
Sample cartoon
Animal Farm/Lord of Flies Paper or question of censorship
Sample
Rubric for censorship paper
Competition Paper or college entrance essay
Sample Paper 1
Sample Paper 2
Acting rubric
Shakespeare Job Paper
Sample
Sample by Instructor MLA Style/APA Style

Links to notes and terms:
Sophocles
Golding
Orwell
Shakespeare

Required texts:  Write for College, Oedipus Rex, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Ditchdigger's Daughter, The Once and Future King. 

Optional texts:  The Hobbit, King Lear, Othello

*Note we will also read essays, speeches, and other texts in class together.  If you have previously read any materials, you may re-read, or select an additional text.

*Class photos of activities, acting out Macbeth and soon to come, Macbeth trial
     
     
     

Trimester 2

Blog entries and link to AP blog
http://www.apenglishnayback.blogspot.com/ (previous blog 2008-2009)

http://naybackapenglish.blogspot.com/

THIS IS 2009-2010 blog spot!


Video samples



Ophelia Drowning
Shocked Macbeth
Witches brewing
Macduff murders
Macduff blooper
Sample Fallacy Music Videos
Strawman argument
Scare Tactics

American Literature and modern writers
(Steinbeck, Hemingway, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, e.e.cummings, Atwood, etc.)
Faulkner/Hawthorne Food  Presentation
Food presentation rubric
Societal Problem Essay
Student Sample of society problem essay
Instructor Sample of society problem essay
Journals
Scrapbook Assignment
Heroic elements

Notes on authors:
Modern American
Hawthorne
Faulkner

Required texts:  Write for College, East of Eden, The Scarlet Letter, The Color of Water, As I Lay Dying, Brave New World, Handmaid's Tale, Night

Optional Texts:  1984, Native Son, Time Traveller's Wife, Catcher in the Rye, Treblinka

Trivia REVIEW

Hamlet
Another Hamlet

Other websites to use for review or author research
William Faulkner

Great Gatsby/F.S Fitzgerald





Trimester 3

AP Review of terms list---this one is AWESOME

You choose your own literature!
Book list possibilities

1.  Non-fiction/Biography
2.  Classical
3.  Your choice (if sufficient difficulty)

Rhetoric and Fallacy review
Senior Check Lists

Book Talk Rubric
Sample
Sample 2
Sample 3

Book Talk 1
Book Talk 2
Book Talk 3

Research Rubric
Genre list
Sample
Multi-genre sample paper 1
Multi-genre how to

Letter to Yourself in the Future

AP Writing Rubric


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