AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMP-C (24-25)
Mrs. Heather Zucker
Office Hours: After school M-F, 2:05-2:30pm, or by appointment
Email: heather.zucker@rentonschools.us
Google sharing: hzucker@g.rentonschools.us
AP Lang Exam Date: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
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3/17 Day Between Trimesters NO SCHOOL |
3/18 Intros |
3/19 |
3/20 |
3/21 Outline and begin writing full synthesis essay |
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3/24 Synthesis essay drafting - full draft due tonight! Turn in Grammar Packets |
3/25 Peer editing and writing conferences |
3/26 |
3/27 |
3/28 Synthesis Dinner Party Share Outs |
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3/31 AP Classroom Progress Checks |
4/1 Synthesis Timed Write |
4/2 Begin Argument Essay Review |
4/3 CHORES Brainstorm Activity |
4/4 Grammar Packet Review |
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4/7 SPRING BREAK |
4/8 SPRING BREAK |
4/9 SPRING BREAK |
4/10 SPRING BREAK |
4/11 SPRING BREAK |
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4/14 Pair Share Thematic Topics (Spring Break Assignment) Continue Argument Review (2011 Prompt) |
4/15 |
4/16 |
4/17 Argument Timed Write |
4/18 MCQ Practice |
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4/21 Begin Rhetorical Analysis Review |
4/22 MCQ Quiz Review (from Friday) Share "Sorry Not Sorry" revisions |
4/23 Discuss Declaration of Independance Homework Begin reading "Letter from Birmingham Jail" with annotations (par. 1-29 due tonight) |
4/24 Finish reading "Letter from Birmingham Jail" with annotations (par. 30-50) Introduce Analysis Project and get assignments |
4/25 Work on Analysis Project (due Monday) |
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4/28 "Letter from Birmingham Jail" Analysis Project Presentations |
4/29 "Letter from Birmingham Jail" Analysis Project Presentations |
4/30 Review "Letter from Birmingham Jail" Multiple Choice |
5/1 Rhetorical Analysis Prompt Practice
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5/2 Choose one prompt and write a complete RA essay
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5/5 RA essay practice feedback and score sample essays
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5/6 Final Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write |
5/7 MCQ practice Review |
5/8 MCQ practice Review |
5/9 MCQ practice Review |
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5/12 Final Review |
5/13 Final Review |
5/14 AP Lang Exam |
5/15 Movie Day! |
5/16 Movie Day! |
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5/19 Begin College Project |
5/20 Finish Part 1 - formatting Intro Parts 2-3 College rubric work day Part 1 Due Tonight |
5/21 College rubric work day |
5/22 Intro part 4 college poster Finish rubric work if needed (Parts 2-3 due tonight) |
5/23 Miles Visit - Application and Scholarship Discussion |
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5/26 MEMORIAL DAY NO SCHOOL |
5/27 College poster work day |
5/28 College poster work day |
5/29 COLLEGE FAIR HW: Reflect on examples of college essays |
5/30 Intro College Essays (Part 5-6) (short day - Gordy Games) |
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6/2 College Essay Work Day |
6/3 College Essay Work Day |
6/4 College Essay Work Day |
6/5 College Essay Work Day |
6/6 College Essay Peer Review Essays DUE SUNDAY NIGHT 6/8 |
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6/9 DNA Poetry Project Intro Lit Analysis Review |
6/10 Poetry Analysis work time |
6/11 Graduation - 28 minute classes Poetry Analysis work time |
6/12 Finish Poetry Analysis (due end of day) |
6/13 Recitation practice |
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6/16 Recitation practice |
6/17 Poetry Recitation Performances |
6/18 Poetry Recitation Performances |
6/19 Happy Juneteenth! NO SCHOOL |
6/20 Finals Day 1 (HR, 1st, 2nd) |
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6/23 Finals Day 2 (3rd, 4th, 5th) |
6/24 Last Day of School Half Day |
Course Information
In two years, you will begin leading a life outside the structures and the vicissitudes of high school. The support you have had (teachers calmly explaining “the meaning” of texts, well-meaning adults telling you that you should read more, well-read people handing out endless book and media recommendations) will be replaced by the freedom to think, write, read, and feel for your own.
We are here to give you the tools to do so successfully.
The AP English Language and Composition course is designed to help students become analytical, rhetorical readers and writers. Students in this course are taught to read critically by focusing their attention on the choices that authors make in relation to social context(s), audience(s), and purpose(s). Most texts used throughout the year will be nonfiction and will come from a variety of formal and informal sources and genres (e.g., academic journals, advertisements, speeches, letters, political cartoons, essays, charts and graphs, etc.). In conjunction with reading and analyzing texts of such variety, students will also be required to produce formal and informal writings of the same sort; consequently, the course helps students become skilled, rhetorical writers who compose for a variety of purposes within a variety of contexts. Students learn to write while making their own choices that pay strict attention to social context(s), target audience(s), rhetorical mode(s), and overall purpose(s).
Students who take the AP exam in May and earn a qualifying score of three (3) or better on the AP exam may earn college credit.
Students who opt out of taking the AP exam in May will be given a mock exam in class on the exam date, with results of the mock exam going into the gradebook as an assessment.
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| Dates | 03/18- 03/21 | 03/24 - 03/28 | 03/31 - 04/04 | 04/14 - 04/18 | 04/21 - 04/25 | 04/28 - 05/02 | 05/05- 05/09 |
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| Dates | 05/12 - 05/16 | 05/19 - 05/23 | 05/27 - 05/30 | 06/02 - 06/06 | 06/09 - 06/13 | 06/16 - 06/20 | 6/22 - 6/24 |
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