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Last Minute Logistics
a six-minute video of the resources/parts to keep in mind as you head into the AP Exam on Wenesday, 5/20

Security
This link about exam security is a good FYI, in case you were interested. Basically, don't chat with anyone while you're taking the test from 2:00-2:50pm.

Prep week: of 5/11

Complete the two Practice AP Prompts  as you will on Exam day by midnight Sunday. The assignments are linked to Classroom submission/ Infinite Campus assignments. .

1

Practice Prompt #1
50 min

Read and respond to this prompt as a practice for your rhetorical analysis essay for AP Lang on May 20.

Leave the prompt open in a browser window- open a new document in whatever browser you want and type your response there.  You'll be copying your response into a Google Classroom Assignment for submission

-or-

You'll be handwriting your response and taking a photo of it (name/AP ID at the top of every page) and uploading it.

Suggestions for resources, notes

• Practice Prompt #1
• Submit through Google Classroom here (Blue 1, Blue 2)
• Complete the self-analysis (Blue 1, Blue 2)

2

COMING SOON

Practice Prompt #2
50 min

Read and respond to this second prompt as a practice for your rhetorical analysis essay for AP Lang on May 20.

Leave the prompt open in a browser window- open a new document in whatever browser you want and type your response there. You'll be copying your response into a Google Classroom Assignment for submission

-or-

You'll be handwriting your response and taking a photo of it (name/AP ID at the top of every page) and uploading it.

• Practice Prompt #2
• Submit through Google Classroom here (Blue 1, Blue 2)
• Complete the self-analysis (Blue 1, Blue 2)

AP Lang Exam

May 20, 2020
2:PM

Me too, but some nervousness is okay.

Really.

Grading for second semester 2020 @ MTA

MTA 2nd SEMESTER POLICY

To Accomplish week of 5/4

Complete the following three tasks by midnight Friday.  The assignments are linked to Classroom submission/ Infinite Campus assignments. 

The linked videos were recorded live on a schedule (3pm EST), so usually the first minute or so are simply the presenter waiting for the clock to start.

1

Crafting a thesis statement
34 min. vid

This continues our work with  Secretary of State Madeline Albright's 1997 spech from the  2018 AP Exam.  Hopefully you've still got your annotated copy, and/or your notes. 

Watch the instructional video about the analysis essay.  You can skip ahead to 1:18 for instruction,

Revise your introduction from lst week, specifically looking at your theisis. I've returned those to you so you have access again.

Submit it through Google Classroom
here for Blue 1,  
here for  Blue 2.

2

Constructing Sophisticated Conclusions
25 minute vid.

Watch the following video from the Collegeboard.   
Complete the video- near the end there's a sample for which Mrs. Valaitis gives potential conclusions.  When you pause the video, you can read that essay here.  

Finally, write the conclusion to different sample student essay found as your Google classroom assignment: 
Blue 1 here
Blue 2 here

3

Complete the "Stylistic Choices" 
Multiple Choice Assessment

Print (if  you can) and complete the Exam Day Checklist.  (If you can't print, make a new document or write your responses to the questions in a safe place)

Log into AP Classroom and complete the Quiz titled "Stylistic Choices" before Friday at 11:45 pm:
3 passages, 3 questions each.  

Take your time, do your best.  I'e given you access to the answers, so be sure to use the right anwsers to learn from- what makes the right answers right and the worng answers wrong?

Note: This exam uses the same Secure Lockdown Browser technology that will be used on your AP Exam on 5/20.  You will likely have to download/install LockDown Browser using the link they give you, or just use this one. It's a good trial-run for the real deal. Make sure everything is installed properly.
Here's a step-by-step on installing it.

Do all of this by Friday 5/8.  Budget your time as you see fit.

To Accomplish week of 4/27

Complete the following three tasks by midnight Friday.  The assignments are linked to Classroom submission/ Infinite Campus assignments. 

The linked videos were recorded live on a schedule (3pm EST), so usually the first minute or so are simply the presenter waiting for the clock to start.

1

Attack the prompt
42 min. vid

Get ready for the lesson by downloading  this resource- Secretary of State Madeline Albright's 1997 spech from the  2018 AP Exam.  Print it if you can. 

Watch the instructional video about the analysis essay.  You can skip ahead to 14:34 for instruction, or you can watch the whole thing- the first part is about the exam administration and the schdule of resources that Collegeboard will be putting up.  We'll do some, but not all of these lessons.

(HINT: Exigence means the need-often urgent-  for the occassion)

Attack Margaret Thatcher's speech (eulogy for Ronald Reagan).
• 3 minutes to annotate the rhetorical situation
(or take notes if you can't print it)
• 7 minutes to annotate passage

Take a photo of yourself with your handwritten annnotated passage or notes (just use Photo Booth on your MacBook) and submit it to me through Google Classroom:
here for Blue 1,  
here for  Blue 2.

Smiles are nice.  Scowls are scary.

2

Overview of the Rhetorical Situation
40 minute vid.

Watch the following video from the Collegeboard.   
Complete the multiple choice questions at the end that are attached to the Guerrero passage found here.  

Submit your responses through Google Classroom on the form:
Blue 1 here
Blue 2 here

3

Constructing an Introduction
(33 min vid)

Follow the instructional tutorial for Constructing an Introduction.
Using the guidelines, write a good– no, a great– introduction to the Margaret Thatcher eulogy to Ronald Reagan.  
Blue 1 here
Blue 2 here

Do all of this by Friday 5/1.  Budget your time as you see fit.

Exam Prep

College Board
2020

55 Mutiple Choice, 3 Essays

No problem, we've been practicing all year.

Nope.  Not this year.

One written prompt: Rhetorical Analysis.  
In your home.  
I'm talkin' jammies and bunny slippers.  
Weird year.  You'll have some stories to pass on about thistime in your life!

CollegeBoard info han be found here.

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote
1965

We did it.  Made it through as planned, thought not as planned.

Your ICB papers are good.  I'll have them graded soon.

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