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Schedule for today and Monday:

Thursday--

Begin working on a Q2 essay with your partner (directions below). Writing the essay should take most of class. Directions are below. You must have the essay finished today. If you finish early, begin working on steps 2-4 below.

If you haven't yet, begin working on steps 2-4 below.

1) You will write two Q2 essays--you will write one with a partner today and Friday, and you will write one on your own on Tuesday. The one you write this week is for practice; the one you write Tuesday will be graded.

2)Go to the "resources" section of the My Homework app, and open up the document entitled "Student responses to Sanders essay." On a separate sheet of paper, which you'll submit with your partner-essay, write down two specific things that you think make the first essay a good one, and write down one thing about the second essay that you feel it doesn't do as well as the first essay.

3)You and your partner use your rubric to score your own essay.

4)Now you can read the comments from the readers that are beneath the essays--see if the readers saw any of the same things you did.

5)After finishing with the student essays, read the Q&A from the AP readers (the Q&A for the Sanders essay is in the "resources" section of the My Homework app).

6)Write down on the sheet from #2 the most important thing you took from reading the Q&A

7) When you finish this assignment, the following things need to be in the box: Your partner essay with both names on it; your essay prompt sheet with your name on it; your post-essay work with your name on it.

When you work with your partner, follow a step-by-step process (you decide what that process is). Make sure to read the prompt carefully. Make sure you understand exactly what you're being asked to do. My suggestion is that you each read and develop arguments individually--then you can start putting your thoughts and arguments together. Remember--the most important sentence you'll write is the one where you clearly and directly state your argument...everything you write HAS to come back to your "statement of argument." The work you do in class today and Monday is designed to help you write the best paper you can on your own on Wednesday, so please take your work with your partner seriously.