Pacing Guide Unit 2

Unit 2: Understanding Rhetoric and Style                                                                                                                        Time Frame: 2-3 Weeks

Objectives Skill Focus Instructional Strategies Activities/Assessments
·         Students will practice close reading strategies.

 

·         Students will refine annotating skills.

 

·         Students will practice multiple- choice skills.

 

·         Students will deconstruct argument and synthesis prompts.

 

·         Students will construct original arguments, incorporate evidence, and create commentary in their own writing.

 ·         Details and Diction

 

·         Understanding Rhetoric

 

·         Identifying Argument and Purpose

 

·         Building Archival Knowledge

 

·         Constructing Original Argument

 ·         Assign nonfiction that supports style analysis

/understanding of rhetoric.

·         Model active reading strategies and annotation skills.

·         Teach deconstruction strategies for Synthesis/Argument free-response questions.

·         Model written composition strategies

·         Model multiple-choice strategies.

 ·         Close Reading Exercises

 

·         Annotation Assignments

 

·         SOAPSTone Assignments

 

·         Identifying Argument Assignments

 

·         Synthesis/Argument Deconstruction Lessons

 

·         AP Language Multiple- Choice Practice
Unit 2: Texts, Lessons, and Assessments

Popular Culture

o Pop Culture  Unit

Sports 

o  first eight paragraphs of Chapter One

Lessons and Resources

Below is a list of possible lessons for a unit that focuses understanding rhetoric and style.

 

  • Room for Debate Lessons
  • SOAPSTone/Annotation Exercise
  • Dialectical and Cornell Notes
  • Close Reading Exercises
    • See NMSI Pop Culture Unit for Model Exercises

 

Suggested Free Response Questions

The free response questions below are a selection of the prompts that may be used. They compliment the ideas, arguments, and style of the essays/excerpts included in the suggested texts.

 

Synthesis

Argument

Rhetorical Analysis

Multiple Choice.

  • The Worst Years of Our Lives, Barbara Ehrenreich (5 Questions)
  • An Urchin in the Storm, Stephen Jay Gould (9 Questions)
AP Language Unit Two Calendar

 Week Three (in a nine-week grading cycle):  Understanding Rhetoric and Style

  • Discussion of Rhetorical Strategies, Style, and Writing as Craft
  • Close Reading Exercises and Argumentation Exercises
  • Composition Strategies and Prompt Deconstruction Lessons
  • Close reading of essays, editorials, and excerpted nonfiction

Weeks Four & Five: Understanding how Rhetoric Supports Argumentation/Purpose*

  • Close Reading Assignments
  • Argument/Synthesis Deconstruction Lessons
  • Free Response Writing Assessments
  • Multiple Choice Assessment
  • Multiple Choice Question Deconstruction and Passage Assessment
  • Multiple-Choice Error Logs and Rationale Writing
  • Close reading of essays, editorials, and excerpted nonfiction

Assessment: complete the essay, or  write a partial response (i.e. thesis/body paragraph).