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I'm no expert, but I love to share! Here is my week-by-week lesson design for AP Language and Composition.
[Please Note: This year of curriculum was designed prior to the 2020 exam changes. However, most materials still cross over.]

Quarter 1

Units: Critical Reading, Rhetorical Analysis
Week 1
Student Interviews
​Draft: Diagnostic Essay
Week 2
Independent Reading Annotation
Peer Review
Emulation
​Revision
Week 3
Responsible Citizenship ("Fake News" Socratic Seminar)
Draft: My Dream for America
Rhetorical Triangle
Week 4
Expository Writing Practice (Compare and Contrast Washington and McCain's Farewells)
BIG Ideas
Juxtaposition (or Paired Concepts)
Week 5
Tone and Diction
Syntax
Imagery
​Rhetorical Appeals
Week 6
Annotation
​SOAPSTone
Week 7
Critical Reading Test
Independent Reading Assessment
Week 8
Rhetorical Analysis:
Task Analysis and Passage Annotation
Claims and Assertions
Evidence Integration
Week 9
Rhetorical Analysis:
Analytic Body Paragraphs
Collaborative Practice
Rubric Analogy Project
Week 10

​Scoring Rhetorical Analysis
ACT Prewriting

Quarter 2

Units: Synthesis, Argument
Week 11
ACT Prep:
Collaborative Writing
​Diagnostics
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Week 17
Week 18
Week 19
Synthesis:
Task Analysis
​Source Mining
Prewriting
Semester Portfolio
Synthesis FRQ
​Revision

Argument:
Prompt Analysis
Prewriting
​Peer Revision
Argument:
Collaborative Writing
​Revision
Introduce New Unit: Debate
​Rhetorical Analysis FRQ
Research

​Debate Constructive Synthesis



Collaborative Writing: Final Debate Constructive
Refutation
Debate Refutation Argument FRQ


​Debates
​FINALS!

Quarter 3

Units: Rhetoric of Activism, Fear and Extremism (The Crucible)
Week 20
Week 21
Unit Introduction: Protests Songs and Poems
Harvey Milk's Hope Speech: RA Review and Multiple Choice
Campaign Speeches


Rhetorical Analysis Review: Timed Prewriting
Obama's Nomination Acceptance Speech
Campaign Speeches
Week 22
Week 23
Week 24
Week 25
Week 26
Week 27
Week 28

Protest Art and Memorials Analysis
​Protest Art One Pager



MC Diagnostic
Position Essay

"Civil Disobedience"
FlipGrid Presentations: "The Disobedients"


"Small Change" Prose Study
​Argument FRQ


Position Essays
​Introduce The Crucible


The Crucible (Act 2)
Lit Circles
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

"Sinners" Multiple Choice Practice
The Crucible (Act 3)
Synthesis FRQ: Individuality vs. Conformity

Quarter 4

Week 29
Week 30
Week 31
Week 32
Act III AP Style MC Quiz
"Why I Wrote the Crucible" Cause/ Effect
Film/Play Compare and Contrast

The Crucible (Act 4)
Red Scare Propaganda
Argument FRQ: Certainty and Doubt (Modified)

Self Paced Unit:
Standard 1 (Prewriting)
Standard 2 (Prose and Voice)

Self Paced Unit:
Standard 3 (Revision)
​Standard 4 (Presenting Information)
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