AP English Language and Composition
Syllabus Fall 2010

All assignments are due on the dates listed below.

08/26
Memorize terms on
Discuss An Education for our Time.

Model writing: An Education for our Time
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Chapters 1--5

09/02
Memorize terms:
Quiz on terms
Essay due: What I Want from College
Strunk and White, Part I
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Chapters 6--8

09/09
Memorize terms
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 9--11
Strunk and White, Part I
Model writing: Pilgrim

09/16
Finish Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Essay on backyard due
Strunk and White, Part II

09/23
Memorize terms
In-class essay: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Strunk and White, Part II
Read Orwell‘s, Politics and the English Language

09/30
Memorize terms.
Test on terms.
Selected political essays online.
Model essay

10/07
Memorize terms
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from the Birmingham Jail”
Assigned political essays

10/14
Memorize terms
Political essay due: “Why ___________ Should Win __________ in November
Strunk and White, Part III

10/21
Memorize terms
My Early Life, I--VII
Strunk and White, Part IV
Assigned anaylsis from Cliff’s AP

10/28
Memorize terms
My Early Life, VIII--XIV
Strunk and White, Part IV
Model writing: Churchill

11/4
Memorize terms
My Early Life, XV--XXI
Strunk and White, Part V
Orwell, On Shooting An Elephant

11/11
Essay due: Why my Candidate Won (or Lost) the Election
Memorize terms
Strunk and White, Part V
My Early Life, XXII--XXIX


11/18
Memorize terms
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman, Part 1 and 2
Model essay: Churchill

11/25
Thanksgiving

12/2
Finish Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman
In-class discussion of book
12/9
Test on terms
Take home essay from Cliff AP
In-class discussion of Feynman

12/16
C.S. Lewis, Part I


01/06
Lewis, Part II and III