John Brown Reading and Notes due Tuesday, 1/16
You will be reading the John Brown articles in your white book and considering the question: is John Brown best seen as a patriot or a terrorist? (731-754). You will be gathering evidence from your articles on a 4 quadrant chart that you will turn in for points. The evidence that you list should be a combination of paraphrase and direct quotations and contain a parenthetical citation of author and page number. Each quadrant concept is explained in more detail below.
Patriot:
In this quadrant, you will list evidence from your articles supporting the claim that John Brown and his actions should be seen as patriotic.
Terrorist:
In this quadrant, you will list evidence from your articles supporting the claim that John Brown and his actions should be seen as terrorism.
Refutations and outside examples that support Patriotism:
In this quadrant you are going to list examples from your articles where you refute the evidence the writer gives you. In other words, your author is claiming he is a terrorist, but you are going to refute your author's claim and thereby prove that he is actually better seen as a patriot.
You are also going to try to find a relevant example from another time or place in history that you will compare to Brown and allow you to prove that he was a patriot.
Refutations and outside examples that support Terrorist
In this quadrant you are going to list examples from your article where you refute the evidence the writer gives you. In other words, they are claiming he is a patriot, but you are going to refute your author's claim and thereby prove that he is actually better seen as a terrorist.
You are also going to try to find a relevant example from another time or place in history that you will compare to Brown and allow you to prove that he was a terrorist.
AP Language Semester 1 Study Guide
Your final exam will have approximately 125 multiple choice questions. The semester one reading list below covers authors that will be asked about on the final exam. There are some passages that we read this year that will not be covered on the exam.
Reading List
Novels:
The Scarlet Letter
Huckleberry Finn
Literature Passages:
“Huswifery” (Edward Taylor)
“To His Excellency, General Washington” (Phillis Wheatley)
“To a Waterfowl” (William Cullen Bryant)
“Devil and Tom Walker” (Washington Irving)
“Fall of the House of Usher” (E.A. Poe)
“The Prairie” (James Fenimore Cooper)
Non-Fiction Passages/Excerpts:
On Plymouth Plantation (William Bradford)
General History of Virginia (John Smith)
Wonders of the Invisible World (Cotton Mather)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Johnathan Edwards)
Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson)
Speech in the Virginia Convention (Patrick Henry)
The Crisis (Thomas Paine)
Speech of Miss Baker (Benjamin Franklin)
Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs)
My Bondage, My Freedom (Frederick Douglass)
Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Walden (H. D. Thoreau)
Question Breakdown:
Two 5-event Huck Finn Timeline questions
12 HF character to quotation matching
6 HF social commentary
11 HF character analysis
10 general HF questions
8 Literary device quotation identification
10 literary device definition matching
14 Author to title matching
11 Romanticism quotation or author identification
7 Critical reading passage questions
6 Fallacy identification
10 Scarlet Letter True/False
10 Writing process questions
