May 4 - 8

It's May, an exciting month! Hopefully, some of the shelter-in-place conditions will lift safely in the coming weeks. It's also the last full month of school. Last but not least, you'll finally have the opportunity to write the AP Lang exam.

I have been lenient with due dates this far, but in order to prevent an unmanageable amount of work coming in at the end of the semester, please upload any late work by Sunday, May 10 if you're behind at all. I will take late points after that. Don't wait until the last minute! It'll be much harder to catch up. Please note that the final due date for all work (except for the writing assignment for the final, after the AP exam) is Wednesday night, June 3 at 11:59 p.m. PST. To be fair to all students, and to allow myself enough time for grading, I can't accept any regular work later than that. 

This week, we'll get more practice with rhetorical analysis prompts and work on ensuring that the technical aspects of the exam process are running smoothly for you. 

TUESDAY: AP updates: double check that everyone received the College Board e-mail from May 4 and can login to their College Board accounts. Discuss AP simulation link. SOAPS and analyze the Queen Elizabeth prompt together.

Due: Please read and annotate Queen Elizabeth's address to Great Britain on April 5, 2020  For next class, find three important rhetorical strategies and complete a quick SOAPS from this selection and have them ready for discussion. (You don't need to write the essay.)

Please double check your College Board account, so you're ready for the May 4 test e-mail:

1. Sign into your College Board account.Make sure the login is current, the password is working, etc.
2. Click “Update Account Information” or click their name in the top right hand corner and select “View/Edit My Profile”
3. Next to “Contact Information,” click “Edit” or click “manage your email communication preferences” at the bottom.
4. If it's not already selected, click to check the box next to “Yes, please send me updates and information about College Board and College Board deadlines, dates, and related programs and services.” Click “Submit changes.” Sign out and then back in and check account information to make sure the change has been saved.
5. Be on the lookout for a test e-mail you'll receive on May 4 from the College Board. 

Homework:  Read the actual College Board essay samples of the Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address Rhetorical Analysis prompt and score them with the updated rubric. Be ready to share your scoring and a rationale for the score on Thursday.

Please read the Performance Q & A for Question 1, which is overall comments about how the students in 2002 performed when they wrote the Abraham Lincoln question for the AP exam.

THURSDAY: Notes: pros and cons of each type of genre, for example: letters, books, speeches, etc. and some of the vocabulary/terminology that go with the different genre types. Post the scoring for the three College Board samples. View your own score and comments in both sections on Turnitin.com (in the essay text and in the Comment sidebar). Discuss overall results from Essay #2: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. Read and analyze the prompt in detail with the rubric.

Due: Read the actual College Board essay samples of the Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address Rhetorical Analysis prompt and score them with the updated rubric. Be ready to answer with a score and a rationale for the score on Thursday.

Please read the Performance Q & A for Question 1, which is overall comments about how the students in 2002 performed when they wrote this question for the AP exam.

Homework: IF you want the OPTIONAL practice, prepare for another "in-class essay" on Monday, May 11. It will not affect your grade at all if you don't login to Monday's Zoom in-class essay.

You will type the words "AP ID#" and your initials at the top of the electronic document or handwritten papers -- you can do this ahead of time before Monday's class. (You won't have an actual AP ID #, but I'd like you to put those items at the top of the papers anyway to get into the habit.)

If you have time, please watch the AP Lang videos produced by the College Board, beginning with 4/8 when the topics shift to rhetorical analysis.  (Pro tip: watch them on 1.5 or 2x speed if that works for you.)