Pacing Guide Unit 3

Unit 3: Evaluating Argument and Understanding Voice                                                                                                                                                                       Time Frame: 4 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 rhetorical analysis and argument prompts.

 

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

 ·         Understanding Argument

 

·         Close Reading

 

·         Identifying Argument and Purpose

 

·         Building Archival Knowledge

 

·         Constructing Original Argument

 

·         Constructing Commentary

 ·         Assigns nonfiction that supports deep understanding of argumentation.

 

·         Models active reading strategies and annotation skills.

 

·         Teaches deconstruction strategies for Rhetorical Analysis/Argument

free-response questions.

 

·         Models written composition strategies

 

·         Models multiple-choice strategies.

 ·         Close Reading Exercises

 

·         “Room for Debate” Lessons

 

·         Rhetorical Analysis Deconstruction Lessons

 

·         Author Voice and Purpose Lessons

 

·         Argumentation Exercises

 

·         Writing Templates

 

·         AP Language Multiple- Choice Practice
 Texts

 

  • Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer

A complete example unit for Into the Wild is included on the NMSI Blackboard AP Language Lounge.

  • Transcendentalism
  • A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
  • In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
  • Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass

 Lessons and Resources 

  • TED Talks Lessons
  • Paired Passage Exercises
  • Analyzing Images Exercise
  • SOAPSTone Exercise
  • Close Reading Exercises

Multiple Choice

  • Walden, Henry David Thoreau (14 Questions)
  • Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard (16 Questions)
Free Response Questions
Rhetorical Analysis

Argument: 2005 Question 3, Argument Free Response

AP Language Unit Three Calendar: Weeks Six and Seven (in a nine-week grading cycle):  Understanding Voice
  • Discussion of Argument and Purpose
  • Close Reading Exercises and Argumentation Exercises
  • Composition Strategies and Prompt Deconstruction Lessons
  • Analyzing Image Exercise
  • Close reading of full length nonfiction

Weeks Eight and Nine: Evaluating

  • Close Reading Assignments
  • TED Talks Assignment
  • Free Response Writing Assessments
  • Multiple Choice Assessment
  • Close reading of full length nonfiction

Assessment