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AP English Language Pacing Guide (Year-long)

4 min readjune 18, 2024

Stephanie Kirk

Stephanie Kirk

Stephanie Kirk

Stephanie Kirk


AP English Language ✍🏽

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Unit 1: Foundations of Rhetoric

Week 1: Overview

Week 2: Rhetorical ASPECTS

Week 3: Visual Rhetoric

Week 4: Close Reading and Analysis

  • Noticing and Wonderings
  • Interacting with Annotations

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

Week 7: 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.

Week 9: The Rhetorical Precis Framework

  • TOBI Outlining

Week 10: The Writing Multiple Choice

  • Pretest
  • Question Stems
  • Application to Paragraph Corrections

Unit 3: Foundations of Argument

Week 11: Basic Elements of Argument

Unit 7: Reasoning and Complex Argumentation

Week 12: Argument Structure

Week 13: Tracking the 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

Week 17: Framing Commentary and Analysis

Week 18: Selecting and Embedding Evidence

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

Week 20: Confluence with the Argument (FRQ 3)

  • Pulling Evidence from Nothing

Unit 5-6: Style and Sophistication

Week 21: Taking Rhetorical Risks

Week 22: Focus on Diction and Syntax

Unit 8: Synthesizing Ideas

Week 23: Entering the Conversation

  • Defensible Positioning with Multiple Sources
  • REHUGO Evidence

Unit 9: FRQ Blitz

Week 24-25

Synthesis Showdown: All Things FRQ1

Week 26-27

Rhetorical Recipe: All Things FRQ2
  • Assessment? Try this.
  • Extensions for Study? Try this.

Week 28-29

Argumentative Assault: All Things FRQ3

Week 30: Sample Test and Personalized Remediation

Try taking some practice tests on your own. After grading them and see where you did well in as well where you can do better in! Use the practice tests to your advantage and work on understanding your mistakes to grow from them. Good luck and you've got this! 💪🏼
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🎀Unit 5 – How a writer brings all parts of an argument together
👥Unit 6 – Position, Perspective, & Bias
🥊Unit 7 – Successful & Unsuccessful Arguments
😎Unit 8 – Stylistic Choices
😈Unit 9 – Developing a Complex Argument
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