Assignment Details

Q2 essays, directions for Wed. and Fri.

English Classes

1B AP Language

Date Due

April 8, 2016

Additional Info
I'm out this afternoon because of a meeting, and I'm off Friday as well. If you have any questions, you need to email me tonight or tomorrow (or come by and see me). I won't have Internet access on Friday. If you have questions this afternoon, please email me.

Schedule for today and Friday:
Work with a partner will be done in the atrium.

Wednesday--Get a copy of The Water is Wide off of the shelf. The reading/writing assignments are posted in the "resources" section of the My Homework app.

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.

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

When you get finished with 2-6, continue working on "Serving in Florida"--the updated assignment is in the "schedule" section. The new "Serving in Florida" assignment is due Tuesday. Some of you also need to turn this assignment in or make corrections to it to get credit.

With any remaining time, read The Water is Wide.

DIRECTIONS FOR Q2 PARTNER-ESSAY
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)Make sure you turn in your redone (if necessary) and new work from "Serving in Florida" on Tuesday. If you haven't turned it in at all yet, you need to turn it in for some sort of credit.

8) Before you leave class on Friday, 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.

Q2 Essay Tips
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 Friday is designed to help you write the best paper you can on your own on Tuesday, so please take your work with your partner seriously.