AP Lang Land

Day 1 is in the books, and it is not the most exciting day with the plethora of handouts, syllabi, and information coming at you from seven sources. However, day two is when the real fun begins when you read, analyze, share, and become an official AP Lang student.

As I mentioned to some of my classes, the goal of AP Lang is to make you college writers, thinkers, and speakers. I will provide you with all the tips, strategies, hints, and ideas to help you attain this goal. Apply the suggestions and consider the feedback, and you will see improvement in your English abilities.

For those absent, you will need to pick up the class syllabus and the rhetorical toolbox term list. To better succeed at rhetorical analysis in AP Lang, you will be creating a toolbox of terms and definitions. The toolbox can be flashcard-based with an index card holder or can be list-based with a Steno notebook (provided).

While those terms may seem daunting, these are the terms that will anchor our analysis for first semester and beyond. As mentioned in class, this toolbox is for YOU, which means your flashcards and/or lists are to help you learn and use rhetorical terms during class. You are not expected to have all these terms defined tomorrow or next week. Instead, you will continue to add to your toolbox as the class progresses. The toolbox is not for a grade and will not be spot-checked, which means when we have open toolbox quizzes or opportunities to use the toolbox on assignments, you will have all this information at your fingertips. I highly recommend you create this toolbox to help you with this class.

To wrap up class, you copied down the first unit of vocabulary words, which will be part of vocab expert work that starts tomorrow.

In addition, the first participation grade occurred, which means absentees will need to see me before or after school to make up this assignment.

Tomorrow, we will commence vocab experts, we will play with the cards, which will give you the opportunity to learn at least three or four terms for your toolbox. Then, we will be close reading a text via color marking. If you like highlighters, you will have a fun day tomorrow!

And, here is a link to a blog I wrote last year prior to the school year commencing. It features links to common writing problems and mechanical errors that work as reminders, flags for improvement, or areas of individual study.

http://fznaplang.blogspot.com/2017/08/ap-lang-round-7.html