As you are all aware, Wednesday, May 11 is the AP English Language and Composition exam date. Our class has written 10 challenging essays (take home and in-class) and completed a term paper so far this year. I truly believe that the class is more than ready to tackle the exam this Wednesday morning.
Here's what we have for the week:
TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Review homework. Calibrate argument essay from practice exam, peer grading. Last portion of class: AP exam review baseball.
Due: Read Scoring Guidelines (rubric) and College Board samples of the Monument prompt and finish self-scoring. Bring your Monuments prompt to class with you on Tuesday with a score.
Complete one multiple choice passage and its questions.
Generate an outline and some examples for this argument prompt (ownership).
Read the rhetorical analysis prompt and SOAPS it. Pick 1-2 words that describe its tone, and come up with 2-3 rhetorical devices you could write about.
Homework: Review your notes, the AP exam essay tips on this website, and most importantly, get a good night's sleep.
WEDNESDAY: Join your classmates at 7:00 a.m. in Room 509 for coffee, snacks and a little camaraderie before the exam. I promise to limit the number of times I draw the linear AGREE/DISAGREE graph and nag you about outlining. We will walk over to the AP exam area at 7:25ish and be there on time.
THURSDAY: Journal warm-up. Discuss/reflect on the exam and the year so far. Last 30 minutes of class will be spent listening to the performance lesson for CAASP beginning next Monday.
Due: n/a
Homework: n/a. I'd suggest making sure you have a journal entry for each of the days you were in class and we weren't having a current events quiz. I'll collect the journals the week after CAASP.
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