Monday 25 April: Begin AP Daily Videos; Scoring the AP Essays: Revising your work; finish watching this video for homework, and work on your essay revision; students who did not take the practice exam can find the prompt here and are obligated to produce a solid essay (beyond a first draft, but not necessarily with distinct drafts) by the due date
Tuesday 26 April: Workshopping synthesis thesis statements; HW is AILD project Wednesday 27 April: Workshopping LOR prominence in synthesis essay; HW is essay revision Thursday 28 April: Rhetorical Terms #5 Test; Workshopping the argument-evidence-commentary sequence; finish synthesis rewrite Friday 29 April: Synthesis rewrite due; Workshopping rhetorical analysis thesis and LOR prominence; HW is AILD project Monday 2 May: Workshopping argument thesis statements and concrete evidence; HW is essay rewrite Tuesday 3 May: MC reading review; HW is AILD Wednesday 4 May: AILD explication and project due; HW is essay rewrite Thursday 5 May: MC writing review; rhetorical analysis OR argument rewrite due Friday 6 May: No class; First Friday Mass (also, AP USH exam today) Here are review materials: Spend ~2 hours total reviewing the concepts of They Say/I Say. Look at the transition appendix as well as the other appendices. Here is the famous UMD essay that deploys transitions with especial skill. Here is the famously difficult Hazlitt Rhetorical Analysis passage from a past exam; look at question 2, of course, not the business about flamingos except as a piece of AP Lang lore (the AP Lang iconic flamingo). Here are some position papers for you to peruse as you think about how to use anecdote and how to handle counterarguments. Use the online tests from 5 Steps to a 5 to find sample passages for the multiple choice. Choose anything from the 1800s or earlier, as the non-fiction will be more challenging. Here is my 2020 Rhetorical analysis review: rhetorical analysis #1, rhetorical analysis #2. Here is the old rhetorical analysis assignment sheet. Here is an AP Lang cheat sheet from a colleague. Here is the scoring worksheet for the practice test you took. Monday 9 May: Last day of classes for seniors (also, AP Calc Exam, AP Italian Exam) Tuesday 10 May: AP Lang Exam!! Wednesday 11 May: Begin Othello in class (also, AP Bio Exam) Comments are closed.
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