College Credit Options

At some point during your class, you received information regarding college credit options at FZN and the MOBap Excel program. (UMSL info will be tomorrow.) 

As an AP Lang student, you have the opportunity to earn college credit in a variety of manners at a lower cost than you would on a college campus. 

First, you can earn college credit during the course by signing up and paying $65-66 per credit hour. Your grade for the course will then transfer to your college transcript. Second, you can earn college credit from scoring a 3 or above on the AP test in May. This allows you to have credit for a 3 hour course, but you will not receive a grade on your transcript. Our class prepares you for this test as we go through prompts, practice exams, and skills to help you score well. (The average last year was a 3.3.) 

Now, this is not a Sophie's Choice situation - you can do both, and if your individual situation works, I highly encourage you to do both and amass as much college credit as you can while in high school. I have had students in the past take college credit through one of the schools during first semester and then just take the exam second semester. While I do encourage you to do every AP and advanced credit option available to you, it ultimately comes down to you, your family, and your future aspirations. 

And on a final note, I do know that, in almost every case of education, more college credit earned via dual credit or AP exams can only help you.

Now back to AP Lang Land...

1: We reviewed your vocabulary today, which mean a quiz is tomorrow. We attempted to jump back into the tips power point and managed to wrap up the scoring expectations. Obviously, there are many tips remaining - about 15 slides worth if I remember correctly. We will then have paper meetings to discuss you writing. Remember, nothing to be lachrymose about on this diagnostic prompt. I have a feeling that if I gave you the same prompt today (calm down, it is a hypothetical), the majority of you would do infinitely better.

3 & 4: You completed your first vocabulary quiz. Then, we made it through the AP scoring handout and (fourth hour kind of) a review of essay organization to help guide your future essays. I know you were disappointed to not hear all the tips and tricks of rhetorical analysis writing, so we will just have to finish up next block class.

7: We finished up our 15 vocabulary words, which means the review is tomorrow and the quiz will be Friday. Then, you were formally introduced to the 1-9 scoring scale and the goal sheet for your rhetorical analysis essays. We started a review of paragraph structure, and you know have tips on how to construct your introduction and your thesis statement. More tomorrow!