REHUGO: The Final Frontier — DEADLINES APRIL 6 (A)/APRIL 7(B)
Yes, yes, we know you LOVE working on REHUGO, but the time has come to wrap this project up and put it to use. (Remember, after you’re done, you’ll be required to have it with you — and, ideally, USE it — for every timed writing.) So, without further ado, here are next steps…
Visit the rhetorical analysis starter kit on the blog, review the resources provided on tone words and add a total of 50 tone words that cover every possible tone and situation you can imagine. (Pro tip: Review those released argumentative prompts as you build your list!)
Next , review the lists I’ve provided of rhetorically accurate verbs and find at least 30 – the more the merrier – that will help you upgrade your language on the exam. (Pro tip: Look up the words you don’t know!)
When you’re done, go through the blog and add to your REHUGO absolutely anything you think will help you improve your writing and the quality of your essays as we prepare for the exam. This is totally up to you: what do you think you need and will use?
Then, FORMAT your work so it is clean, legible, organized, and ready to for you to use – quicky – on your timed writings over the next several weeks.
Finally, print and staple or bind your work, and bring it to class for fourth-quarter project grade on April 6 (A Day) or April 7 (B Day).
Remember, this is you working to help you. This project — and the support and help it provides you over the next several weeks of test prop — will be as helpful or as useless as you make it. You know what to do!
Gettin’ Buggy Wit It: Prompt Edition
Read this link, then read and examine with your group five different prompts of your choice from our historical index of AP Language exam argumentative prompts through the decades. Pro tip: Select prompts that at first examination might logically be used to explore or frame a text — and, ideally, a text like Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.
After you’ve analyzed those prompts, work as a group to develop a formal, AP-style prompt about The Metamorphosis inspired by the supplied New York Times “The Ethicist” column. Make sure that your prompt is formatted and reads like a true AP prompt, that it’s grammatically correct, and then add it as a slide to this shared Google slides deck.
Make sure you include your period, your table number, and the names of the people in your group in the speaker notes on your slide. When you’re done, let me know, and new instructions will follow in class.