AP English Language Pacing Guide (Year-long)

Unit 1: Foundations of Rhetoric

Week 1: Overview

• AP Language and Composition Course Introduction

• AP Credit Search
• Lang vs Lit

Week 2: Rhetorical ASPECTS

• Rhetorical Appeals
  • AP English Language: Identifying and Analyzing the Appeals
  • Evaluating Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos

• Full Rhetorical Situation
  • The Rhetorical Situation
  • Understanding the Rhetorical Situation

Week 3: Visual Rhetoric

• OPTIC Outlining

• Identifying Implicit Claims

Week 4: Close Reading and Analysis

• Reading Study Skills

• Noticing and Wonderings

• Interacting with Annotations

• Chunking the Text

Week 5: The Rhetorical Analysis Multiple Choice

• Pretest

• Question Stems

• Application to Sample Texts

Unit 2: Analyzing and Writing about Rhetoric

Week 6: Author’s Purpose and Audience Movement

• Purpose PIE

• Common Topics
  • Methods of Development

• Special Topics

Week 7: Claims and Evidence

• Types of Claims
  • AP English Language and Composition Handout: Types of Claims

• Lines of Reasoning
  • What are Claims, Sub Claims, and Evidence?

Week 8: Point Winning Thesis Statements

• 4B Writing: Write a thesis statement that requires proof or defense and may preview the structure of the argument.
  • Thesis Statements

Week 9: The Rhetorical Precis Framework

• TOBI Outlining

• Introductions and Conclusion
  • AP English Language: Constructing Introductions for a Rhetorical Analysis Essay
  • Improving Introductions and Conclusions

Week 10: The Writing Multiple Choice

• Pretest

• Question Stems

• Application to Paragraph Corrections

Unit 3: Foundations of Argument

Week 11: Basic Elements of Argument

• Toulmin (as Analysis of Argument)

• Toulmin (as Paragraph Outline)

• Toulmin (as Culminating Argument)

• Resources:
  • Toulmin Argument (from Everything’s an Argument Text)
  • Claim, Evidence, Warrant | Essay Writing | The Nature of Writing
  • Qualifying Claims

Unit 7: Reasoning and Complex Argumentation

Week 12: Argument Structure

• Developing an Argument

• Classical Argument Structure
  • Classical Argument (from Purdue Writing Lab)
  • Classical Model for Argument (based on instruction in The Language of Composition Text)

• Rhetoric to Advance Purpose
  • AP English Language: Analyzing the Author's Purpose and Technique

Week 13: Tracking the Line of Reasoning

• AP English Language: Understanding Line of Reasoning

Week 14: Addressing the Counterargument

• Counter

• Concession

• Refutation

Week 15: Practice with Quick Debates

Unit 4: Reasoning and Organization

Week 16: Modes of Development

• 5C Reading: Recognize and explain methods of development to accomplish a purpose.
  • Methods of Development

• 6C Writing: Use appropriate methods of development to advance the argument.

• Link to lines of reasoning
  • AP English Language: Understanding Line of Reasoning

Week 17: Framing Commentary and Analysis

• 5A Reading: Explain the line of reasoning and explain whether it supports the thesis.
  • CLAIM, EVIDENCE, REASONING: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

• 6A Writing: Develop a line of reasoning and commentary that explains it.
  • AP English Language: Organizing Line of Reasoning

Week 18: Selecting and Embedding Evidence

• Develop a Paragraph
  • Developing a Paragraph that Supports a Line of Reasoning

• Appropriate Evidence
  • AP English Language: Selecting Appropriate Evidence
  • Embedding Evidence

• Creating YOUR Style/Sophistication
  • Varying Your Sentence Structure to Get a 9
  • Enhancing Fluidity in Sentences and Paragraph Writing

Week 19: Confluence with the Rhetorical Analysis (FRQ 2)

• Coherence
  • What is coherence?
  • Enhancing Fluidity

• Rhetorical Grammar and Meaning
  • A Working Vocabulary on Rhetoric and Grammar
• How Grammar and Word Form Affect Meaning

Week 20: Confluence with the Argument (FRQ 3)

• Pulling Evidence from Nothing

Unit 5-6: Style and Sophistication

Week 21: Taking Rhetorical Risks

• Finding/Analyzing Rhetorical Elements
  • Identifying and Analyzing Common Rhetorical Strategies Part 1

• Faulty Logic
  • Mr. Gunnar’s Common Logical Fallacies

Week 22: Focus on Diction and Syntax

• Rhetorical Grammar and Meaning
  • A Working Vocabulary on Rhetoric and Grammar
  • How Grammar and Word Form Affect Meaning

• Defining Diction and Syntax
  • What Is the Connection between Diction and Syntax?

• Effects of Syntax
  • The Effects of Syntax and Diction

• Tone
  • Style and Language Analysis Guide
  • Using Tone In Communication For Effective Writing

Unit 8: Synthesizing Ideas

Week 23: Entering the Conversation

• Entering the Conversation
  • They Say/I Say Templates (handout from CSUB)

• Defensible Positioning with Multiple Sources

• REHUGO Evidence

Unit 9: FRQ Blitz

Week 24-25

• How to Ace the AP English Language and Composition Synthesis Essay

• Synthesis Templates and Tips

• Synthesis Videos

• Assessment? Try this.

• Extensions for Study? Try this.

Week 26-27

• Rhetorical Analysis Essay

• Identifying and Analyzing Common Rhetorical Strategies Part 1

• How to Write Rhetorical Analysis

• Assessment? Try this.

• Extensions for Study? Try this.

Week 28-29

• How to Ace the AP English Language and Composition Argument Essay

• General Guidelines for Advancing Arguments

• How to Get a 9 on Argument FRQ in AP English Language

• Assessment? Try this.

• Extensions for Study? Try this.

Week 30: Sample Test and Personalized Remediation