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Unit 1: The Unending Conversation: Guiding Questions

The document outlines a 6-week unit plan for an AP Language and Composition course. The unit focuses on developing skills in identifying rhetorical situations, composing claims, and using evidence to support arguments. Each week breaks down the learning goals, activities, and assessments for that week. The timeline shows that students will analyze speeches, learn the components of rhetorical situations, practice writing paragraphs with claims and evidence, and be assessed through quizzes, discussions, and a unit test at the end of week 4.

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Unit 1: The Unending Conversation: Guiding Questions

The document outlines a 6-week unit plan for an AP Language and Composition course. The unit focuses on developing skills in identifying rhetorical situations, composing claims, and using evidence to support arguments. Each week breaks down the learning goals, activities, and assessments for that week. The timeline shows that students will analyze speeches, learn the components of rhetorical situations, practice writing paragraphs with claims and evidence, and be assessed through quizzes, discussions, and a unit test at the end of week 4.

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Unit 1: The Unending Conversation

Guiding Questions
● How do I identify and describe the components of a particular rhetorical situation?
● How can I develop a paragraph that includes a claim, and evidence supporting the claim?

Timeline of Learning

Days of Check for


Learning Understanding /
for Goals
Assessment
6 class ● I can identify and describe the components of a rhetorical
meetings situation.
● I can compose a paragraph that includes a claim and
evidence supporting the claim.

Timeline of Learning
Goals: All crafted from Enduring Understandings found in handbook. Check for
Week 1 Content Goal: I can recognize the strategic choices and author makes Understanding /
based on a particular situation. Assessment
(2 days) Language Goal: I can write and/or explain the components of a
rhetorical situation.

Class 1 Composing Your Own


A: Unit 1: Part 1 Quiz Activity.

N: Thunberg Speech Video and Speech Analysis


A: Work on Unit 1: Part 2/Small Group Discussion
G: You all use rhetoric every day, we are just putting
names to things you already understand.
HW: Unit
Class 2
A: Thunberg Close Reading Questions Part 1 Activity and Reflect
on the Essential Question
N: Elements of the Rhetorical Situation
A: Work on Unit 1: Part 2/Small Group Discussion
G: All communication, written, verbal, visual, all take
place in a rhetorical situation.

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HW: Part 1 Activity and Reflect on the Essential
Question p. 18
Week 2 Content Goal: I can recognize the strategic choices and author makes
(3 days) based on a particular situation.
Language Goal: I can write and/or explain the components of a
rhetorical situation.

Class 3 Slides
A: MC Answers Checkpoints 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
N: Student Draft on climate change p.5
A: Work on Unit 1: Part 2/Small Group Discussion
G: You all use rhetoric every day, we are just putting
names to things you already understand.
HW: Complete Readings/Activities for Unit I, Part II
Content Goal: I can identify and explain claims and evidence within an
argument.
Language Goal: I can write a paragraph that includes a claim and
evidence supporting the claim.

Class 4
A: Unit 1: Part 2 Quiz
N: Discussion Based on Student Questions
A: Work on Unit 1: Part 3/Small Group Discussion
G: Writers convey their positions through one or
more claims that require a defense.
HW: Unit 1: Part 3
Class 5
A: Claims Review
N: Discussion Based on Student Questions OR
Evidence and Reasoning: Developing and Explaining
Proof and Types of Evidence,
A: Work on Unit 1: Part 3/Small Group Discussion
G: Evidence may include facts, anecdotes,
analogies, stats, examples, details, illustrations,
expert opinion, observation, personal experience,
testimonies or experiments.

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HW: Unit 1: Part 3
Week 3 Content Goal: I can identify and explain claims and evidence within an
argument.
Language Goal: I can write a paragraph that includes a claim and
evidence supporting the claim.

Class 6
A: Checkpoint 2.3 Gallery Walk
N: Discussion Based on Student Questions OR 2.5
Source Materials
A: Work on Unit 1: Part 3/Small Group Discussion
G: Writers relate source material to their own
argument by embedding quotes, summaries or
paraphrases into their arguments.
HW: Unit 1: Part 3

Week 4 Content Goal: I can identify and explain claims and evidence within an
(3 days) argument.
Language Goal: I can write a paragraph that includes a claim and
evidence supporting the claim.

Class 7
Critical Thinking Activity and Share Out
HW: Study for Test #1
Class 8
Test #1 and Compose Your Own Activities due.

AP Language and Composition The Columbus School Revised August 2021

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