AP Language and Composition

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AP Language and Composition

• 1/13/13 Agenda
• Bell ringer Grassroots Ch. 27 Pr. 1, 3, 5,
  7, 9, 11, 13, 15
• Weekly Overview and Todays Objectives
• TODAY Grammar, discuss weeks agenda and final,
  and answer final questions on The Handmaids Tale
• TU (SUB PRESENT) Read The Men We Carry in Our
  Minds from 50 Essays and Reader Response Journal
  Questions3, 4, 5, 6, and 7
• WED Multiple choice practice questions, debrief
  last weeks AP, and discuss The Men We Carry in
  Our Minds
• TH Journal, finish yesterdays discussion, and
  explain Wollstonecraft jigsaw and final writing
  assignment on gender
• FRI Grammar or ACT passage, current event
  Seancorey and Jabriel

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• The Handmaids Tale - Final questions to ponder
• What do you think happened to Offred? How were
  you able to make this inference?
• This novel was written in 1986, in what ways was
  the author correct in her predictions of the
  future?
• Could what happened in the novel ever happen in
  real life?

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AP Language and Composition

• 1/15/13 Agenda
• Bell ringer 2001 Multiple Choice Passage
  English language
• Weekly Overview and Todays Objectives
• Today Multiple choice practice questions, wrap
  up HT, and discuss The Men We Carry in Our
  Minds
• TH Journal, pass back AP tests, finish
  yesterdays discussion, and explain
  Wollstonecraft jigsaw and final writing
  assignment on gender
• FRI ACT passage, current event Seancorey and
  Jabriel

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AP Language and Composition

• 1/16/13 Agenda
• Bell ringer Just write!
• Focus word SARCASTIC (tone used to show sarcasm
  the opposite of what was intended or expected)
• Weekly Overview and Todays Objectives
• Today Journal, pass back AP tests (maybe),
  finish yesterdays discussion about HT and
  discuss article from TU, and explain
  Wollstonecraft jigsaw and final writing
  assignment on gender
• FRI ACT passage, current event Seancorey and
  Jabriel

5

• The Handmaids Tale
• Knowing that the novel is a dystopia, what do we
  think the author is trying to say about gender?

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AP Language and Composition

• 1/17/13 Agenda
• Bell ringer ACT Practice Passage
• Weekly Overview and Todays Objectives
• Today Finish discussion about HT, discuss
  article from TU, and explain Wollstonecraft
  jigsaw and final writing assignment on gender
• Current event Seancorey and Jabriel will
  present next Thursday, so Tamiya and Kyla can you
  plan for the following week?