After a quarter of prepping for writing and MC, AP Langers are now in the realm of real tests, real prompts, and real skills at the highest level. Today, you turned in your C/D philosophical prompt (with its prewriting), an argumentative exercise accumulating all the parts of argument, exemplification, and vocabulary, or what we have spent many weeks in practice.
In addition today, we had a class tone quiz over all of the tone words from this quarter. If you were absent, you will need to schedule a make-up time a.s.a.p. While our tone work had elements of fun (those quirky paragraphs), the result was having a stronger diction to describe tone and the ability to understand all the options on MC tone questions.
And speaking of MC, you received your MC test back, and we spent quality time analyzing some of the passages and answers for a better round next time. After correcting your mistakes, make sure to bring back your MC test tomorrow so that we may finish the analysis.
And one more item of note, you have the rangefinders for the C/D philosophical prompt. Score those for tomorrow, and we will have a discussion regarding AP-level exemplification. I have a feeling some of you may have done a better job with argument than those in that packet.
Next week, we will be working on a lot of writing and work to do - a synthesis diagnostic so that you have a preview of the style, the rangefinders for a sample, and tips prior to fourth quarter, another argument with exemplification, and the District post-test MC 2 passages. Yes, very busy are we, so make sure you are in class unless of an emergency. Time is very precious, and I would think you want all of the work complete before spring break.
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