At this point, you have all completed the final - the Sandy prompt that I know was a popular one last year and a toolbox quiz checking to see if you remember all those strategies that filled our semester with their own brand of joy.
I hope that you all enjoy your holiday break and that I will see you in 2019, which will be a year of adventure for all of us - in some fashion or another.
Second semester AP Lang becomes a hodgepodge of modes of discourse (remember the 11 of those?), allusions (time for you to have ethos on Biblical, mythological, literary, pop culture, and historical references for understanding texts and crafting some examples for hooks and argumentation), multiple choice (don't be scared of MC - you want to attack the readings and not cower to them - for instance, I was quite nervous about taking the AP Lit MC final this morning and decided to just go for it; while not my best ever, I missed only 5 of them - and most correct answers were my second choice) argumentation (time to show off all of your knowledge and background ethos), creative tone work (a chance to show off your voice and do something "outside of the box"), and synthesis (perfecting the usage of given evidence and citations). We will definitely have a variety of activities and assignments to help stretch your writing abilities and prepare you for the AP test in May. And while rhetorical analysis will not be at the forefront of our third quarter studies, you still need those abilities, terms, and writing techniques for later use.
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