Directions for 9/20

Welcome to class, AP students!  In my absence today, please do the following:

1.  Pick up your folder from the front tables.

2.  Go to AP Central released samples.  Then, please read the second released sample (3B) from the 2009 Q3 prompt, and take notes on the following:

• What is the claim this writer is making--either defending, challenging, or qualifying Horace's assertion?  Record their claim statement.
• What are the examples given, and do you believe they are appropriate and convincing? 
• What elements of effective writing do you feel this writer has particularly strong control over?
• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses you see in this person's essay.

Then, go back to your essay, and, using a different colored pen or with sticky notes (found in red basket on my desk), make some notes as to changes you might make to your own essay.  These can be additions, alterations, deletions, or overall shifts in your approach.  Write about these changes and what caused you to want to make these particular changes, based on the study of the released samples.  

Keep all of these notes in your folder, attached to this essay (paper clips and stapler available on front tables), and then, please return your folder on the front table.

You may then work on the next assertion essay , due tomorrow (see previous blog posting).  If you have this completed, you may work on reading in your social issues book, researching your social issues book author, or studying your vocabulary list.

Thank you, in advance, for your cooperation.