This week will commence our return to writing as a focus as the various classes have or will create exemplification paragraphs on vision and move into CDQ-style prompts, the former argumentative expectations on the AP Lang exam. Even though a CDQ has not made an appearance on the exam for the past few years, CDQ's are an excellent way to practice exemplification, or the way that you can bolster your arguments with a plethora of examples from multiple subjects.
1: We resumed our vision exemplification groups with each group member assigned 1 topic in order to compose a specific paragraph in your group document. This is due by 7:25 a.m. tomorrow morning so that you may have evaluative feedback before your finalize your work.
3: We began our look at exemplification and its focus on relevance, range, and specificity by reading "The History Teacher" by Billy Collins and looking at his overall purpose, selection of relevant examples, and ordered range. Following that, you found out about the steps to construct an exemplification and then began to follow these steps to create a group exemplification on a shared Google document. At this point, you have a very lengthy brainstorm, a thesis statement, and the examples narrowed to 5 selections. We will finish this up tomorrow.
4: We spent the majority of time on a practice MC passage, which offers a more demanding text and questions to help you prepare for the exam. Whether you did well or not, the review of the answers helped to reiterate the importance of close reading, paraphrasing challenging syntax and diction to understand the point, and adopting multiple choice strategies for success. I gave you the background of the CDQ-style prompts, which we will, hopefully, put into action tomorrow.
7: At this point in time, 12:57 p.m., I would assume that you are doing exactly what fourth hour accomplished today with a MC passage.
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