Advanced Placement English

Date: April 7, 2016

SSG: Effective Communication: Students will understand and relate written, oral, and visual ideas.
COMMON CORE READING STANDARD FOR LITERATURE:
RL.12.1. Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RL.12.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters,
setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
RL.12.3 Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
HOMEWORK DUE TODAY:
✓ Style TQ-PAThs
WARM-UP ACTIVITIES:
✓ TPS “Melting Pot” & “America” TQ-PATh
HANDOUTS:
✓ AP Practice

LESSON: Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison

✓ Style Analysis: "She's Got Style"

★ Two Pictures of Style in Fashion
‣ How do these two pictures differ?
‣ How would you describe each woman’s style? List a couple of terms for each picture.
‣ What specifically is involved in creating each woman’s style? List a few terms for each
picture.
‣ Write 2 TQ-PAThs that identify and analyze each woman’s style.
• Transition: Name the woman and state her location in terms of setting. This will
be fictional.
• Quotation/Fact/Paraphrase: Identify aspects of her style: her clothing, her
posture, her hair/eye color, eye contact, colors, etc.
• Analysis: Identify the woman’s style in a term: “jock,” “yuppy,” etc. Discuss what
aspects of her persona project that particular style.
• Theme: How might you interpret the statement her social presence makes? Does
the character seem to be saying to the world: “I envy all of you.” “I respect my
position as doctor’s assistant.” or “ …” ?
HOMEWORK/UPCOMING DUE DATES:
✓ Research Speeches & Visual Aides & Research Folders
✓ Bring Outside Reading to Class Everyday: Heart of Darkness
✓ Invisible Man Chapters 7-13 & DJs (1989 Prompt, 6 TQ-PAThs, focused on style and distortion) 4/11
✓ Vocabulary Review, Lesson 2: Choose 10 words from the lesson to write either a poem, a very
short story, or a paragraph. 4/11
✓ A.P. Multiple Choice Practice Test Adam Bede ~George Eliot 4/11
✓ Grammar 49-50 4/11
✓ Second Semester Literary Terms Test 4/15
✓ Third Quarter Outside Reading Test 4/29
✓ Writing Portfolio (You will need to save all your writing for this.) 6/1