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This week, our blog work is all about exam readiness — and our work will be so straightforward I’m not going to spend a lot of time setting up here.

First, you’ll be turning in your locavore synthesis outline as you turned in your timed writing. If you haven’t prepared your outline for an Aristotelian essay yet, go get that done. Second, in your first period of this week, you’ll be writing the essay in 40 minutes — 60 minutes if you have extended time — and turning it in IMMEDIATELY with your outline — when you’re done. I’ll provide you with links to a Google form to turn in your work, then you’ll come here and post it as a comment. 

Second, you’ll review the AP synthesis rubric, then come back TO THIS BLOG POST and use the  rubric to peer score two of your peers.

Next week, you’ll use the AP Synthesis rubric, to conduct a detailed peer review for an accountability partner of your choice and, then, conduct a one-on-one conference with that peer.Explainer: what is peer review?

Pro tips for timed writings, which we’ll be doing regularly from this point forward:

  • Do the outlines in advance. They help, and for the next several timed essays, you’ll be allowed to plan in advance and use them as you write.
  • If you miss a timed writing, you’ll need to arrange with me to make it up within three calendar days.
  • The process we set this week for writing, reviewing and rewriting will be our process for timed essays the rest of the year.
  • Your peer review score is not your grade — I will assign your grade. And if you’re not happy with your grade, you’ll be allowed to rewrite for consideration for a higher grade.

This Week’s Assignments:

  1. Bring your completed locavore outline to your first class of the week for the timed writing. You’ll be turning it in for a grade, along with your timed essay, via a google doc I’ll supply to you during class.
  2. When you’re done turning your work into the Google form, you’ll then cut and paste your essay as a comment, HERE, below. As you turn it in, make sure that it’s formatted properly before you hit submit.
  3. By your Sunday night, 10 p.m. deadline (juniors) or Wednesday night, 10 p.m. deadline (sophomores), come back to this blog post and use the rubric to score two of your peers and comment, providing the following information: give BOTH of the people you comment on a suggested score, broken down by the rows of the rubric, provide a few sentences explaining the score you assign, then tell them 3 SPECIFIC things they did well in their essay and 3 SPECIFIC things you think might improve their score.
  4. Go to AP Classroom, complete for a late grade any Unit 2 work you have not yet completed. I’ll be assigning work on Unit 3 next week, and you don’t want this work to stack.

See you in class Tuesday (juniors) and Thursday (sophomores) for our first timed writing!

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