November 12-16, 2012
AP Language and Comp
Blocks 3-5
Micki Ray
Unit 2: American Romanticism/Transcendentalism
Rhetorical Focus: Narration, Description, Exemplification
Writing Skills Focus: Organization/Transitions/Unity
Grammar: Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
Test Prep: Multiple Choice, Analysis, Synthesis, and Argument
Skills: Continue building upon skills from Unit 1, Motif, Analogy, Detail/Example, Hyperbole, Understatement,
Style, Dialogue, Paradox, Anecdote
Monday, November 12, 2012-Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Learning Targets:
 I can read and determine the context of a text.
 I can read and determine what creates the author’s EFFECT—purpose, theme, and
tone.
 I can read and determine the historical and cultural relationships between texts.
Agenda:
1. Read and analyze “Comparing Points of View” in New Lit BK (232).
a. From “Resistance to Civil Government,” Thoreau
b. From “On Nonviolent Resistance,” Gandhi
 What is the author trying to accomplish? What is the writer protesting?
 What parts of the text show you that? Include 3 textual examples.
 What can you infer the writer feels one must do in the face of social injustice?
 What competing arguments have you encountered in the text or can you think of?
 What historical or current examples can you note that relate to the text?
2. Read letter that King is responding to in “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” (Lang of Comp, 260)
3. Read King’s letter, and answer the 12 questions on rhetoric and style at the end of the text.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Learning Targets:
 I can analyze how the text develops two or more central ideas or themes.
 I can analyze how individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
 I can determine the themes, topics, and rhetorical features of a text.
Agenda:
BR: ACT English Practice, Passage 5 [9 minutes]
1. Notes over Dark Romantics and Poe’s Themes and Motifs.
2. View scene from The Simpson’s Tree House of Horrors: The Raven episode.
3. Read and analyze Poe’s The Raven. Chart the development of the motifs. How does Poe create an
atmosphere of horror?
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Learning Targets:
 I can analyze how the text develops two or more central ideas or themes.
 I can analyze how individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
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I can compare/contrast the treatment of similar themes, topics, and rhetorical features in 2 or more texts
from the same period.
Agenda:
BR: Grammar practice, Holt Handbook
1. Read and analyze Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death.
2. Chart the development of the motifs.
3. Outline an analysis essay, explaining how Poe uses rhetorical devices to create an atmosphere of horror.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Learning Targets:
 I can analyze how the text develops two or more central ideas or themes.
 I can analyze how individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
 I can compare/contrast the treatment of similar themes, topics, and rhetorical features in 2 or more texts
from the same period.
Agenda:
BR: Grammar practice, Holt Handbook
1. Begin reading Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher.
2. Analyze the development of the motifs.