Ms. Elizabeth A. Holub - Rm. 28
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AP III
Year-at-a-Glance
Sophisticated, well-reasoned analytical and argumentative writing
requires careful, reflective reading as well as drafting and purposeful
revision. Sentences, passages and even entire chapters or
sections may require multiple readings. Much of the writing in
this class will require you to work through multiple stages—pausing,
reflecting, revising, and conferencing with fellow students and the
instructor along the way. You decide when a paper is a final
draft—students are permitted to revise and resubmit (as long as
submission deadlines are met) until the end of the course. You will
practice your critical thinking, reading and writing skills in addition
to preparing for the AP® English Language and Composition exam.
The following syllabus is neither
exact nor complete. It will
however provide you with some indication of the activities in which we
will engage throughout the year.
Summer Nonfiction Reading
Proof of Purchase
Group, Discuss, Share
1st Person Reader Response (WA)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn “Proof of Purchase”
Test
Race in America
The “Race Paper” (WA)
“Cheddar” Sheets
“Mark Twain’s America,” Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Online NewsHour PBS, 11
April 1997
“Huckleberry Finn and the Problem of Freedom,” Sanford Pinsker,
Virginia Quarterly Review 7, no. 4 (autumn 2001): 642-49.
Literature
Resource Center
“Huckleberry Finn,” Brander Matthews, The Saturday Review, London Vol.
LIX No. 1527, January 31,1885, pp 153-54. Literature Resource Center
“Why Huckleberry Finn is a Great World Novel,” Lauriat Lane, Jr.,
College English, Vol. 17, No.1, October 1955, pp. 1-5. Literature
Resource Center
From The Norton Reader, Linda H. Peterson & John C. Brereton 2004
“Black Men and Public Space,” Brent Staples
”The Sports Taboo,” Malcolm Gladwell
“How it Feels to Be Colored Me,” Zora Neale Hurston
“The Recoloring of Campus Life,” Shelby Steele
“Mommy, What Does ‘Nigger’ Mean?” Gloria Naylor
From The McGraw-Hill Reader Issues Across the Discipline, Gilbert H.
Muller 2003
“The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a
Girl Named Maria,” Judith Ortiz Cofer
“Strangers From a Distant Shore,” Ronald Takaki
--As well as two additional texts chosen by the
student
The Cambridge Forum--Randall Kennedy discusses his book, Nigger:
Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.
“Strange Fruit” Billy Holiday and Nina Simone.
Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940 by Guy C.
McElroy
Reflection on the experience of writing the “Race Paper”
What kind of a writer am I? (WA)
From The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues Across the Discipline, Gilbert H.
Muller 2003
“The Writing Life,” Annie Dillard
“Freewriting,” Peter Elbow
“The Maker’s Eye: Revising your Own Manuscripts,” Donald M. Murray
From The Norton Reader, Linda H. Peterson & John C. Brereton 2004
“On Keeping a Notebook,” Joan Didion
“The Alfoxden Journal 1798,” Dorothy Wordsworth
Excerpts from Journals, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excerpts from Journals, Henry David Thoreau
Excerpts from Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton
Excerpts from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and
Life, Anne Lamott
Excerpts from Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within,
Natalie Goldberg
My Synthesis Portfolio or How
I learned to Start Thinking and Love this Stuff (WA)
This year-long Research Project will culminate in a research/argument
paper using at least sources.
Rhetoric and Rhetorical Techniques
Theme, Purpose, Audience, Literary
Techniques, Point of View
The Picture Paper (WA)
Says/Does Analysis
“The Stranger in the Photo Is Me.,” Donald Murray
All texts from The Essay Connection, Lynn Z. Bloom 2007
“Once More to the Lake,” E B. White
“The Inheritance of Tools,” Scott Russell Sanders
“Coming Home Again,” Chang-Rae Lee
“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Fairest of Them All?,” Sumbul
Khan
“In Search of Our Past,” Jenny Spinner
Gallery Walk
Reflection on the experience of writing the “The Picture Paper”
Timed Writing Practice AP
free response essay writing
Multiple Choice Practice
Death of a Salesman
Adaptation (WA)
The Great Gatsby
Film Review (WA)
Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
Rhetorical Analysis (WA)
Says/Does Analysis
“Brush Fire,” Linda Thomas
Excerpts from Los Angeles Notebook, Joan Didion
Nature or Technology (WA)
The Technology Cluster:
Flemish School, The Movements of the Sun and Moon, Fifteenth Century
“The Monastery and the Clock,” Lewis Mumford
“The Age of Simulation,” Jeremy Rifkin
“The Bird and the Machine,” Loren Eiseley
“Natural Selection,” Charles Darwin
“Darwin’s Middle Road,” Stephen Jay Gould
“Can Science Explain Everything? Anything?,” Steven Weinberg
The Natural World Cluster:
“Letter to President Pierce 1855,” Chief Seattle
“The Obligation to Endure,” Rachel Carson
“The Clan of One-Breasted Women,” Terry Tempest Williams
“The Watcher Watched,” Farley Mowat
“The Serpents of Paradise,” Edward Abbey
“The Greenest Campuses: An Idiosyncratic Guide,” Noel Perrin
“High Tide in Tucson,” Barbara Kingsolver
Reflection on the experience of writing the “Nature or Technology”
paper.
Subject to
addition, deletion and revision. (WA) = Major
Writing Assignment
