Advanced Language & Literature Strong Roots for AP, College, and Beyond

Guided Tour of Advanced Language & Literature

1 Making Meaning

Knowing Others

Making Connections, Asking Questions, and Annotating Texts

A Model Annotation: Making Connections, Asking Questions

Reading for Understanding, Interpretation, and Style

Reading for Understanding

Reading for Interpretation

Reading for Style

A Model Analysis: Making Meaning

2 Understanding Literature

Interpreting Theme

Point of View

Characterization

Plot and Conflict

Setting

Symbolism

A Model Analysis: Connecting Elements of Fiction to Theme

Plot

Character

Setting

Symbolism

Making Meaning – Looking for Shifts

Speaker

Structure

Sound

A Model Analysis: Connecting Elements of Poetry to Theme

Diction

Syntax

Figurative Language

Imagery

Analyzing Style and Tone

A Model Analysis: Connecting Style to Tone

Analyzing Style and Theme

A Model Analysis: Connecting Style to Theme

3 Understanding Rhetoric and Argument

Personal Experience and Anecdotes

Facts and Data/Statistics

Scholarly Research and Expert Opinion

Detecting Bias

Logos

Pathos

Ethos

Counterarguments

Speaking & Listening Focus — Differences of Opinion

Logical Fallacies

Images as Rhetoric

Connotative Language

Figurative Language

Parallel Structure

Rhetorical Questions

A Model Analysis: Connecting Content and Style

Approaching a Source

Examining Sources

Considering Sources in Conversation

Speaking and Listening Focus - Considering Sources in Conversation

Researching Additional Sources

Using Commentary

Using Visuals as Evidence

Integrating Counterarguments

Citing Sources and Using Quotations

Malala Yousafzai, Speech to the United Nations Youth Assembly

Section 1

Bill Bystricky, When 16-Year-Olds Vote, We All Benefit

David Hogg, The Road to Change

Amber Tamblyn, Im Not Ready for the Redemption of Men

Denise Cummins, How to Get People to Change Their Minds

Michelle Alexander, What if Were All Coming Back?

Dolores Huerta, from Speech at UCLA

Central Text DeRay Mckesson, Bully and the Pulpit

Nelson Mandela, from An Ideal for Which I Am Prepared to Die

Martin Luther King Jr., I Have Been to the Mountaintop

Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

Luisa Valenzuela, The Censors (fiction)

Skill Workshop – Understanding Character and Theme in Prose

Judith Cofer, Abuela Invents the Zero

Gathering Textual Evidence

Activity – Gathering Textual Evidence

Organizing and Analyzing Textual Evidence

Activity – Organizing and Analyzing Textual Evidence

Analyzing Characterization

Activity – Writing a Character Analysis

Connecting Characterization and Theme

Culminating Activity

Faith Erin Hicks, from Friends with Boys

Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Kristen Iskandrian, Good with Boys

Billy Collins, On Turning Ten

Amy Silverberg, Suburbia!

William Shakespeare, The Seven Ages of Man

Central Text Amy Tan, Rules of the Game

Oliver De La Paz, In Defense of Small Towns

Lesley Nneka Arimah, Glory

James Joyce, Eveline

Trevor Noah, from Born a Crime (nonfiction)

Writing Workshop – Writing an Analysis of Character and Theme

7 The Individual in School (nonfiction)

Skill Workshop – Understanding Rhetorical Situation

Adam Grant, What Straight-A Students Get Wrong

Peter Gray, from Children Educate Themselves: Lessons from Sudbury Valley

Dyan Watson, A Message from a Black Mom to Her Son

Mindy Kaling, Dont Peak in High School

Maya Angelou, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Alexandra Robbins, from The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth

Zitkala-Ša, from School Days of an Indian Girl

Central Text John Taylor Gatto, Against School

Rebecca Solnit, Abolish High School

Yuval Noah Harari, Education: Change Is the Only Constant

Albert Einstein, from On Education

Lisa Parker, Snapping Beans (poetry)

Writing Workshop – Writing a Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Continuing the Conversation – The Individual in School

8 Cultures, Conflicts, and Connections (literature)

Skill Workshop – Understanding a Poem’s Speaker and Meaning

Claude McKay, The Tropics in New York

Sandra Cisneros, No Speak English

Amit Majmudar, Dothead

Margarita Engle, Unnatural

Tahira Naqvi, Paths Upon Water

Franny Choi, Choi Jeong Min

Richard Blanco, My Father in English

Central Text Eavan Boland, An Irish Childhood in England: 1951

Ha Jin, Children as Enemies

Natasha Trethewey, Enlightenment

Li-Young Lee, For a New Citizen of These United States

Viet Thanh Nguyen, America, Say My Name (nonfiction)

Writing Workshop – Writing an Analysis of a Poem’s Speaker

Continuing the Conversation – Cultures, Conflicts, and Connections

9 Our Robotic Future (nonfiction)

Skill Workshop – Understanding Evidence in Argument

Lela London, This Is What The Future Of Robots Might Do To Humanity

Evan Selinger and Woodrow Hartzog, The Dangers of Trusting Robots

Arthur House, The Real Cyborgs

Alex Williams, Will Robots Take our Childrens Jobs?

Federico Guerrini, By Giving Robots Personhood Status, Humanity Risks to Be Demoted to the Rank of a Machine

Kevin Kelly, from Better Than Human

Rosa Brooks, In Defense of Killer Robots

Central Text Sherry Turkle, Why These Friendly Robots Can’t Be Good Friends to Our Kids

Francis Fukuyama, Transhumanism

Stephen Hawking, Will AI Outsmart Us?

Kate Darling, Extending Legal Protections to Social Robots

Ken Liu, The Perfect Match (fiction)

Writing Workshop – Writing an Evidence-Based Argument

Continuing the Conversation – Our Robotic Future

10 Utopia/Dystopia (literature)

Skill Workshop – Understanding Style and Meaning in Prose

Cory Doctorow, Printcrime

Ray Bradbury and Tim Hamilton, from Fahrenheit 451

N.K. Jemisin, Valedictorian

Naomi Shihab Nye, World of the Future, We Thirsted

Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

Nnedi Okorafor, Spider the Artist

Joy Harjo, Once the World Was Perfect

Central Text Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron

Ursula Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, The Era

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from Herland

Rutger Bregman, from Utopia for Realists (nonfiction)

Writing Workshop – Writing a Close Analysis of Prose

Continuing the Conversation – Utopia/Dystopia

11 Do the Right Thing (nonfiction)

Skill Workshop – Understanding Style and Tone in Argument

Jose Antonio Vargas, What America Looks Like from a Jail in South Texas

Toni Morrison, The Work You Do, the Person You Are

Laura Hercher, Designer babies aren’t futuristic. They’re already here.

Marie Colvin, Truth at All Costs

Monica Hesse, The Case of the Photoshopped CEOs

Michael J. Sandel, Are We All in This Together?

Chuck Klosterman, Why We Look the Other Way

Central Text Jamaica Kincaid, from A Small Place

David Callahan, from The Cheating Culture

Sam Harris, from Lying

George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark (poetry)

Writing Workshop – Writing an Analysis of Tone

Continuing the Conversation – Do the Right Thing

12 Power (literature)

Skill Workshop – Understanding Figurative Language and Meaning in Poetry

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 94 and Sonnet 29

W. Haden Blackman and Richard Pace, Ghost

Hernando Tellez, Lather and Nothing Else

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

Central Text William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Emma Donoghue, The Tale of the Kiss

Warsan Shire, Backwards

Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat

Elena Ferrante, A Power of Our Own (nonfiction)

Writing Workshop – Writing an Analysis of Figurative Language in a Poem

Continuing the Conversation – Power

1. Effective topic sentences and unified paragraphs
2. Effective thesis and essay structure
3. Balanced evidence and commentary
4. Appropriate evidence and support
5. Effective transitions
6. Effective syntax
7. Effective diction
8. Effective introductions and conclusions

A Guide to Grammar Terms

1. Passive and Active Voice
2. Adjectives and Adverbs
3. Capitalization Errors
4. Comma Splices and Run-Ons
5. Subordination and Coordination
6. Homophones
7. Fragments
8. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
9. Parallelism
10. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
11. Pronoun Reference
12. Shifts in Person and Number
13. Shifts in Verb Tense
14. Subject-Verb Agreement
15. Nonstandard Verb Forms
    

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