The picture above shows an AP EXAM READER table site. The yellow packet
contains 25 PINK exam booklets, each filled with a student's 3 essays. The
AP reader has a rubric, a stack of samples that we use to calibrate
ourselves so we stay on track, a name tag, an eraser, sticky notes, pencil,
etc.
After a week, each reader may have read about 1500 essays, going through
many of these yellow books. In June your English essays will be in one of
these, and someone will be evaluating your work. Let's make it
stellar!!!
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WELCOME TO THE GENERAL INFORMATION PAGE FOR AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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SYNTHESIS TEMPLATE:
Directions: The following prompt is based upon the accompanying six sources.
This question requires you to integrate a variety of sources into a coherent,
well-written essay. Refer to the sources to support your position; avoid mere
paraphrase or summary. Your argument should be central; the sources should
support this argument.
Introduction:
Computers have become indispensable to our lives. Yet questions remain
regarding what role they should play in assessments. Read the sources that
follow and determine whether the experiment in giving the SAT online should
become standard practice for this vital test. You may defend, challenge or
qualify the suggestion that the College Board should institute computerized
tests during the coming academic year.
Assignment:
Read the following sources (including any introductory information)
carefully. Then, in an essay that uses at least three of the sources for
support, take a position that defends, challenges or qualifies the claim that
that the College Board should institute computerized tests during the coming
academic year.
Refer to the sources as Source A, Source B, etc; titles are included for your
convenience.
Source A: “Schools try giving SAT via computer”
Source B: “Computing and Social Class Differentials”
Source C: Cartoon
Source D: “No. 2 Pencil Fades Graduate Exam Moves to Computer”
Source E: Computers per 100 people, 2006
Source F: Steven Pinker
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OLD STUFF
==The 4 assigned books (in this order): FALL--Their Eyes Were Watching
God and The Scarlet Letter. SPRING: 1984 and Brave New
World. Please purchase your own copies for annotation purposes.
COURSE OVERVIEW:
==Most of the course will be based on factual prose, not on literature. A
complete copy of the AP Language course syllabus is located on your Language
download page. Although it is arranged for 18 weeks, you can see the general
order of assignments.
==The beginning of the course we have the 2 American Literature
works (for studying terms and rhetoric), PSAT prep, the editorial contest,
and massive grammar and vocabulary study. As I see that you're ready,
we'll move into the AP material covered in depth on the course syllabus.
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AP LANG CLASS JOBS
