AP English Language & Composition

Dr. Ray Gen

All things are ready, if our minds be so.
Henry V, William Shakespeare
 
rgen@esusd.k12.ca.us school    
raygen@gmail.com home       
docraygen.aplanguage@gmail.com     assignments only - for google docs
Moodle Online Classroom
Welcome Video  
Welcome PodCast
Student Web Pages

 

Useful for our study

 
  Course Description - College Board  (official description - in pdf)
AP Language - College Board Web Site (resources)
Class Syllabus         (pdf version)
Wordle
AP Rhetoric Guide
Literary Terms)
BYU's Guide to Rhetorical Terms
Genre Terms
Language Registers

Language SubSystems
Reading and Writing the Open-ended Essay
Essay Writing Rubric
AP Score Card
Rhetorical Devices
 
Rhetorical Pyramid
Tabasco (because some like it hot)   (pdf version)
      Lesson 1     Lesson 2
Evaluating Web Sources (UCLA)
MLA Citation Style  (Modern Language Association)
MLA (Purdue - OWL)
MLA (UGA Library)
MLA Online Sources

APA  (American Psychological Association)
APA handout
More APA Citation Style 
APA (Purdue - OWL)
APA (UGA Library)
APA Game
APA & MLA Game

Chicago Manual of Style
Chicago (Purdue - OWL)
Chicago (UGA Library)
More Chicago
Chicago 1 sample
All Three Styles - download cheat sheets
All Three Styles - one web page
UC Berkeley MLA pdf
UC Berkeley APA pdf
UC Berkeley Chicago pdf
Course resources Sample papers MLA  APA  Chicago1 (pdf)
Applying to Colleges
Application Resources
College Board: Majors
College Board Tips
UC Admission Stats
Famous First Lines
How to Write a Term Paper
Sample Literary Paper
MLA Style - Bibliography Formats
MLA Style - Electronic Sources
Peer Response Form
Brief Grammar
Grammar Exercises
Famous Quotes
Former Student College Papers
Girls' College Admissions
California Exit Exam Takes Toll
Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal
Plato's Republic
       John 1
       Koran -The Light  Sura 24.35
       Isaiah 9:2
       Bhagavad Gita chp 5
The Communist Manifesto
     Acts 4:34-37; Acts 5
The Prince by Machievelli
Plato/Marx & Engles/Machiavelli  Writing Assignment
Epictetus
Darwin - The Origin of the Species
Donne - Meditation 17 -No man is an island...
Douglass - Narrative of...
Emerson - Nature
Freud - Dreams as wish fulfillment
Montaigne On Cannibals
Stanton - Declaration of Sentiments

Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - "I Have a Dream"
Gandhi - Speech to Indian Congress
Barak Obama - Convention Speech
Theodore Kaczynski - Against technology
Thoreau Essay

JFK's first inaugural
Obama's Speech 06.03.08 vs. McCain's Speech 06.03.08
 

 

 


 

Class Assignments  
  Course Requirements
Summer Reading
Personal Statements/College Entrance Essays

Essays
Descriptive Essay
Process Essay

Final Paper
Synthesis Essay 1
Abigail Adams
Online Assignment
Sir Francis Bacon
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Favorite Quote
Final Projects
 
Greek and Latin - An Introduction to Classical Languages  
     
Interesting Articles Pertaining to our Study  
    ETS - Plan for College*
ETS - Find a College*
ETS - Apply to College*
ETS - Pay for College*
ETS - Achieving Diversity in Education*
 

 

 

Threaded Discussion

 
   

 

 
  Click to see your grades in PowerSchool  
Rubric Score Approximate translation to letter grades
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9 - Creative writing; virtually error free; unique interpretation of text
8 - Excellent writing; few minor errors; excellent interpretation
7 - Good writing; strong grammar; strong interpretation
6 - Solid writing; few major errors; good understanding
5 - Dependable writing; some major errors; fair understanding
4 - Inconsistent writing; major grammar errors; decent understanding
3 - Poor writing; many errors; faulty understanding
2 - Very poor writing; substantial errors; misunderstanding
1 - Inadequate writing; bone-head errors; did not read the text 

9 - 100%
8 - 95%
7 - 90%
6 - 84%
5 - 80%
4 - 72%
3 - 64%
2 - 40%
1 - 20%
   
     
Advanced Placement English - Honors Society (APE)  
  Class Pics A.P.E 
 
   
  AP 2005 Pics  

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