AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMP-B
Ms. Heather Zucker
Room 203
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 13th, 2026
TRIMESTER 2 CALENDAR (subject to change)
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12/1 No School |
12/2 UNIT 1: Advertising & Rhetoric Tone Turkeys |
12/3 Consumer Profiles |
12/4 |
12/5 Rhetorical Analysis of an Ad |
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12/8 Rhetorical Analysis of an Ad continued.... |
12/9 Multiple Choice Full Practice Test Shot by Shot Ad Description Due |
12/10 Work on Ad Posters |
12/11 Review Synthesis Timed Write Work on Ad Posters |
12/12 MCQ Test Corrections Work on Ad Posters |
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12/15 Present Ad Posters |
12/16 Begin Commercial assignment |
12/17 Work on Commercials |
12/18 Work on commercials |
12/19 Work on commercials (due Sunday 1/4) |
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12/22 WINTER BREAK |
12/23 WINTER BREAK |
12/24 WINTER BREAK |
12/25 WINTER BREAK |
12/26 WINTER BREAK |
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12/29 WINTER BREAK |
12/30 WINTER BREAK |
12/31 WINTER BREAK |
1/1 WINTER BREAK |
1/2 WINTER BREAK |
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1/5 Watch Commercials! (Due Sunday 1/4) |
1/6 Rhetorical Analysis timed write #2 |
1/7 UNIT 2: "What is Art?" Introduction and text selection |
1/8 Watch Exit Through the Gift Shop |
1/9 Watch Exit Through the Gift Shop and post-film discussion |
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1/12 Meet with group and share art text spew |
1/13 Art text group work time |
1/14 Art text group work time |
1/15 RA Timed Write Review Art text group work time |
1/16 MCQ Practice |
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1/19 NO SCHOOL Position Paper and Discussion Questions/Plan Due at Midnight |
1/20 Discuss "It Is and It Isn't" |
1/21 Discuss "Notes on Camp" |
1/22 D Discuss "Why AI Isn't Going to Make Art" |
1/23 MCQ Practice |
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1/26 Discuss "Shakespeare's Sister" |
1/27 Discuss "On Seeing England for the First Time" |
1/28 |
1/29 Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write #3 |
1/30 MCQ Practice |
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2/2 Work on Art Essay |
2/3 Work on Art Essay |
2/4 Work on Art Essay |
2/5 Work on Art Essay |
2/6 Work Day |
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2/9 UNIT 3: Satire What is Satire?
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2/10 More Satire....
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2/11 Introduce A Modest Proposal, begin reading together HW: "A Modest Proposal" Discussion Questions
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2/12 Counselor Registration Visit Day "A Modest Proposal" discussion and MCQ |
2/13 |
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2/16 Mid-Winter Break |
2/17 Mid-Winter Break |
2/18 Mid-Winter Break |
2/19 Mid-Winter Break |
2/20 Mid-Winter Break |
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2/23 Introduce Satire Unit Final Read Articles & Analyze |
2/24 “Tough Room” podcast, brainstorm headlines |
2/25 Pitch Meeting |
2/26 Choose your headline/ brainstorm, begin writing satirical article |
2/27 Satire Writing Work Day |
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3/2 Satire Writing Work Day |
3/3 SAT |
3/4 Watch Get Out |
3/5 Watch Get Out |
3/6 Get Out Discussion Satire Writing/ Paper Name |
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3/9 Argument Timed Write Satire Pair Share Check-In |
3/10 Satire Writing/ Editing |
3/11 Satire Newspaper Final Edits |
3/12 1st and 5th Finals |
3/13 2nd, 3rd and 4th Finals MCQ Final Review Satire Newspapers Course Evaluation & Reflection |
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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Weekly Schedule
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