AP Unit 8 - Language

How does the language we use reveal who we are?

• SHS - Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• LC - Rodriguez – “Aria: A Memoir of a bilingual Childhood” (1982 narrative)
• LC - Orwell – “Politics and the English Language” (1946)
• Online - Anzaldua – “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” (1987 definition)
• LC - Tan – “Mother Tongue” (1990 classification)
• LC - Thiong’o – From Decolonising the Mind (1986)
• LC - Agosin – “Always Living in Spanish” (1999)
• LC - Berkowitz and McFaul – “Studying Islam, Strengthening the Nation” (2005)
• LC - Hayakawa – “Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the Official Language” (1989)
• LC - Nunberg – “How Much Wallop Can a Simple Word Pack?” (2004)
• LC - Okrent – “The War of Words: A Dispatch from the Front Lines” (2005)
• LC - Various – Responses to “The War of Words”
• Online - Lederer – From “English is a Crazy Language”
• Visual text - “Born to Trouble” 

• Long-Form Formal Essay – Analysis of author’s purpose: Explore Twain’s use of language in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Analyze the stylistic and rhetorical choices he makes, linking those choices to what you see is his purpose.
• Long-Form Formal Essay peer response, editing activities, focused revision, polished final draft, reflection
• Timed Formal Responses (3) – Timed write, annotation/dissection of an AP prompt, analysis of AP essay scoring guidelines; instructor keyword: Okefenokee (sans), Sputnik (sans), Coca-Cola (w/s, w/oa)
• Revision of and reflection on Timed Formal Response – for grade submission