Remote Learning Week 5 Assignment + Instructions
Remote Learning Week 5 Assignment + Instructions
Remote Learning Week 5 Assignment + Instructions
Submit to Canvas by Friday, 5/11 at 10AM. You may delete these instructions once you have
made a copy and clean up the formatting of the document however you would like, as long as
you make it super clear to me in your layout that you have done all of the steps. You must
complete ALL steps on your own to receive completion credit for this third week of Q4. Any
evidence of collaboration with classmates, plagiarism, or other forms of academic dishonesty
will result in an incomplete for the week and further disciplinary action.
Part 2: I want you to create your own one-page review/notes sheet that you can have out in
front of you during our AP exam. You can put anything on it that you would like, as long as it is
relevant to our class and this style of essay prompt.
● Feel free to consult the AP Exam Prep Materials Module (on Canvas) as needed to help
you create your notes page. You can also use any handouts I have given you or any
content that is in your spiral notebooks that you might find helpful. The goal is for you to
print the notes page and use it on exam day.
● Make sure you download your own copies of any documents/GoogleSlides
Presentations/PowerPoints/PDFs, etc. Remember that none of them can be shared
documents accessed on test day, or else you could trigger a security response from the
College Board.
● You can create your review sheet/notes page using a computer or by hand. If you create
by hand, you need to take a clear picture of it with a smartphone or tablet and upload
that image in the space below. If you choose to use a word processor, just copy and
paste the content below, or give me a screenshot. You can add images, colors,
whatever. This part of the assignment is about you doing what you need to do to put
yourself in a position to be successful.
● In addition to showing me your review sheet somehow below, make sure you print a
copy of it to use on test day if you used a computer to create it!
● IF YOU ARE NOT TAKING THE EXAM, PRETEND YOU ARE. :) SHOW ME WHAT
YOU HAVE LEARNED ABOUT RHETORICAL ANALYSIS ON YOUR NOTES PAGE.
English Language Review Sheet
Common Rhetorical Choices
● Allusion - Brief reference to a person, event, place, or work of art
● Analogy - A comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. Often, uses something
simple and familiar to explain something complex
● Anaphora - Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases,
clauses, or lines
● Anecdote - A brief story used to illustrate a point or claim
● Asyndeton - Omission of conjunctions between phrases, clauses, or words
● Complex Sentence - Independent and dependent clause
● Compound Sentence - Two independent clauses
● Cumulative Sentence - Completes main idea at beginning of sentence and then builds
● Diction - Word choice
● First-Hand Evidence - Evidence based on something writer knows from personal
experience
● Hortative Sentence - Exhorts, urges, entreats, calls to action
● Juxtaposition - Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or
differences
● Metaphor - Compares two things without like or as
● Periodic Sentence - Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end
● Personification - Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea
● Polysyndeton - Deliberate use of multiple conjunctions between clauses or words
● Rhetorical Question - question posed for rhetorical effect rather than getting an answer
● Simile - Compares two things using like or as
Part 3: Have a timer handy. Put yourself into a situation as close as possible to what you will
have on test day.
● Write in one sitting. Find a quiet place in your house where you can write with minimal
interruptions.
● Practice like you will perform! Use the same word processor you are planning on using
on test day. Just make sure you eventually put your essay into this document for me to
review.
● Program your timer for 45 minutes, unless you have a 50% extra time accommodation,
approved by the College Board, in which case you would have an extra 22 minutes to
add to your time.
Part 4: Access the practice prompt (2020 Practice Exam #2) in the Remote Learning Week 4
Module on Canvas. Type your response into the space below or copy/paste it in after you have
finished the practice test.
Note: I had two options left from 2020 newly released practice exams. I chose this one because
the reading is, well, different, from a lot of what we have seen this year. The process stays the
same. I didn’t want you to be caught unawares if the reading passage on your exam is like this
one. It’s a little more narrative-feeling than what we are used to. Some of you might find it more
challenging to analyze. Don’t be dismayed either way. This prompt is NOT a reason to throw up
your hands and decide you aren’t doing the exam. We are in preparation mode. That’s all I’m
doing in giving this one to you--preparing you.
● Record the time you started and stopped the practice essay. Stop yourself after 45
minutes...if you don’t finish, think about why and how you could move faster next week
on the exam.
● If you plan on printing out the question on exam day, do that, but you must start your
timer first. Printing will take a small bit of your testing time away.
● Use whatever word processor you are planning on using on test day (GoogleDocs,
Microsoft Word, Notes, Pages, etc.)
● Split your screen so you can look at the reading in one window and your response in
another (not tabbed...separate windows!).
● Single-space is fine.
● Disable Grammarly if you have it as an extension on GoogleDocs. It won’t work with the
test. We discussed that during our Google Meet session last week.
● If you are planning on hand-writing, you can do that now, but upload/insert the images of
your hand-written pages into the space below.
Part 5: Now that you are done writing, assess yourself in the space below. How do you feel?
What would you say are your strengths and weaknesses? What do you want me to look for
while I am reading? (Note: like last week, time constraints are heavy on me this week with full
essays coming in, so please give me something you want me to focus my comments on.)
I do not think that this is some of my best work. I tried at first to do an idea-device thesis,
but I had to scrap that and do only a device thesis because the idea paragraph I had just wasn’t
coming together and I didn’t have enough time to work it out. I think overall it is a fine essay,
maybe a 1-3-0 because I do not think that my analysis is totally thorough and could use some
more improvement. Also obviously I was running out of time at the end because my conclusion
is very bad. I do not know exactly what I want you to look for. I think that what I need to work on
is just having a clearer string of ideas. Sometimes I know what I am trying to write, but I have a
hard time putting it into words and then making it a very clear, easy to read thought process, so
I think working on being able to make my writing flow more between ideas is the next step in
order to improve my writing.
SUBMIT THIS ENTIRE DOCUMENT TO CANVAS! LOOK FOR THE WEEK 5 ASSIGNMENT.
NEXT WEEK! I will likely hold a few extra (OPTIONAL) Google Meet sessions before the
exam--more details to come. I'm going to go easy on you next week. You all have been working
so hard, and I want you to devote most of your energy into studying for our exam and any
others you might have left.