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Remember the new plan: Work with your partner on the the Sanders essay until 9:00. Then read the first two student essays (NOT the comments from the AP readers). If you were not here on Wednesday, you and your partner need to work quickly--you still need to be done by 9:00. If you were here on Wednesday and your partner is absent today, you can either work on your own or try to pick up a new partner from the people who were absent last class.

If you have any downtime, read your new book. And if you don't get finished with the student essays or the Q&A stuff, you can finish first thing Tues. morning.

1) You will write two Q2 essays--you will finish writing one with a partner today (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.

You have a sheet with two Q2 prompts--one on each side. You will write one with a partner today (the Sanders prompt), and you will write one on your own on Friday (the Barry prompt). The one you write today is for practice; the one you write Friday will be graded.

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."