AP Language and Composition Review Activities

MCQS-In this AP Daily (from April 18, 2022): Live Review session, we will review the skills, knowledge, and strategies necessary for success on the multiple-choice reading questions. We will go over the format of the multiple-choice section, the types of questions, and the skills assessed most frequently. We will discuss some suggestions for reading the exam’s passages and working through the answer choices. We will also practice with a sample text and set of questions from the AP English Language and Composition Course and Exam Description. HANDOUT

Skills

Skill A.1:Rhetorical Situation Reading

OPTION 1: 2021 Live Review (Recorded) Video 1 Resources for Video Lesson

OPTION 2: View AP Daily Videos: Unit 1 (AP Classroom) and take notes.

Video 1-In this video, we will learn about rhetoric and the rhetorical situation.
Video 2-In this video, we will learn about audience and its relation to the rhetorical situation.
Video 3-In this video, we will learn about analyzing rhetoric and how rhetoric is effective for specific audiences.

OPTION 3: View AP Daily Videos: Unit 4 (AP Classroom) and take notes.

Video 1-In this video, we will focus on identifying the choices the writer makes given the audience of the rhetorical situation.
Video 2-In this video, we will focus on identifying the choices the writer makes given the exigence and occasion of the rhetorical situation.
Video 3-In this video, we will focus on identifying the choices the writer makes given the purpose of the rhetorical situation

Skill 1.B: Rhetorical Situation Reading

OPTION 1: View AP Daily Videos Unit 2 and 8 (AP Classroom) then complete MCQs "Practice Skill 1.B" in AP Classroom

OPTION 2: Prompt discussed in Review Videos

AP Review Video 1- Streamed live on Mar 26, 2020 • This AP English Language and Composition class covers analyzing how word choice reflects a writer’s understanding of audience. Review Handout Link

AP Review Video 2- Streamed live on Mar 27, 2020 • This AP English Language and Composition class covers analyzing how word choice reflects a writer’s understanding of audience. Review Handout Link

OPTION 3: 2022 Live Review (Recorded) Video 1 Resources for Video Lesson

Skills 2.AB: Rhetorical Situtation Writing

OPTION 1: View Coach Hall Writes Rhetorical Analysis Introductions and Conclusions Take notes. What tips does she offer about thesis statements, sentence frames, hooks, context/ background information for the introduction? What tips does she offer about conclusions? What does she suggest you do if you have only one or two minutes for the conclusion?

OPTION 2: View Unit 8 AP Daily Videos (AP Classroom) Take notes. Complete MCQs in AP Classroom "Practice Skills 1.B and 2.B"

Skills 3.ABC & 4.ABC Claims and Evidence (Line of Reasoning)

OPTION 1: Coach Hall-on Line of Reasoning for Rhetorical Analysis: This video examines the wording of row B of the AP Lang Q2 rubric to help students understand how to improve their rhetorical analysis scores. In order to help students’ understanding of developing effective evidence and commentary, this video also offers examples of weaker sentences and explains how to improve them. We also look at a sample essay and discuss how to improve the evidence and commentary.

OPTION 2: View Unit 2 AP Daily Videos (AP Classroom). Take notes. Complete MCQs in AP Classroom "Practice 4.A and 3.B"

OPTION 3: View AP Live Review 2022 video 2 (available after 6PM on April 19) on AP Classroom. Complete ANY unit progress check in AP Classroom. In your reflection write about how the video tips assisted you in answering the MCQs on the progress check.

OPTION 4: View AP Live Review 2022 videos 3 and 4 (available after 6PM on Apirl 20/21) on AP Classroom. Take notes. Write how this advice would help you write the synthesis essay? Metacognition Reflection Paragraph: What strategies presented do you intend to use on th exam (or would you use if you were taking the exam)? How are these different that what you have been doing?

OPTION 5: In your Language of Composition book, reread pages 94-98. View the quick review a la Shmoop. Now view this review. If you were to write an essay on the best review of thesis statements, what would be your thesis statement? Write a defensible thesis statement that starts to establish a line of reasoning based on the three resources provided here.

OPTION 6: View this lecture on Thesis statements related to "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Read King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Annotate the text making notes on his Line of Reasoning. Note the example in this video.

Skills 5.ABC & 6.ABC Reasoning and Organization

OPTION 1: View AP Live Review 2022 (available after 6PM on April 19) on AP Classroom. Take notes.

OPTION 2: View AP 2020 Live Review Incorporating Commentary in Rhetorical Analysis Essays. Use handout 1 and handout 2 . Here is a copy of the prompt.

OPTION 3: View Commentary for Synthesis by Coach Hall Writes. Take notes. Then complete practice activity.

OPTION 4: Review the following document regarding the argumentative essay (Q3). Take notes. Then complete the following practice on selection of evidence.

OPTION 5: Review the Strategies here. Then write a multiple choice quiz testing for each one. Provide a key.

OPTION 6: Read King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Annotate the text demonstrating how King distinguishes between just laws and those that are unjust. Then, identifying how King progresses through ideas and employs claims and support, indicate King’s rhetorical choices: organization, reasoning, explanation of evidence, and the use of counterarguments (whether implicit or explicit).

Skills 7.A & 8.A: Word Choice/ Diction and Tone

OPTION 1: View Tone Words You Need to Know but Probably Don't: Coach Hall Writes Video, Review Link to Tone Words, and Practice with Tone Review 1 Quiz in AP Classroom. Were you able to do better with these questions?

OPTION 2: Concise Diction--Rhetorical and Stylistic Strategies--Language of Composition pages 781-784. In your textbook open to page 781. Read Grammar as Rhetoric and Style. Then compete exercises 1 and 2 on pages 783-784. If you scored poorly on the section of your Kind/Cruel essay in the section of Style, Craft, and Organization, due to "clarity/concision/cohesion" or "formal/ objective tone" or "syntax/ diction" revise at least five passages with these errors. Reflect on how it makes the writing better.

OPTION 3: Read Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “Declaration of Sentiments” comparing how the second was influenced by the first. Complete the close reading guide that will walk you through the comparison. Consider the use of literary devices, syntax, and diction.

OPTION 4: Read and annotate excerpts from Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

Excerpt 1 Excerpt 2

Specifically, note rhetorical devices, choice of details, diction choices, and syntactical structures. As you make annotations, consider what alternatives might have been made and the impact those choices would have on the audience and purpose.

OPTION 5: Read "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Analyze the strategic word choice, use of comparisons, and syntactic choices King makes to convey his tone towards the idea that he is an extremist. As you are reading. Jot down words, phrases, and clauses that demonstrate this tone. View the video on the reading and compare your notes with what the presenter discusses. Did you get many of the same things? What did you miss? What additional elements did you learn about in the video?

OPTION 6: Go to NoRedInk, join the class by using this link. Complete the lesson called: Concise Wording/ Avoiding Redundancy.

OPTION 7: Go to NoRedInk, join the class by using this link. Complete the lesson called: Using an Academic Tone.

Skills 7.B & 8.B Sentences

OPTION 1: View AP Live Review 2021 We will revise sample student drafts by evaluating the rhetorical purpose for certain choices that we suggest the author makes. We will focus on maintaining conveying ideas through grammatical structure, providing cohesion by constructing lines of reasoning, all while reviewing the basic structures of paragraphs. This video is meant to help students understand the importance of revision, the basics of rhetorical grammar, and move them to realize that they can practice for AP English Lang multiple choice by revising either their own works or papers readily available to the public on AP Central. Handouts are available in the video description.

OPTION 2: Review this handout on Topic Sentences. View Timm Freitas' discussion of topic sentences. The handouts for that lecture are in the description of the YouTube video. Take notes. Revise the topic sentences in your Kind/Cruel essay.

OPTION 3: Review this handout on Syntax and the Sophistication Point. View Marco Learning's The Sophistication Point in AP English Language video. The handouts for that lecture are in the description of the YouTube video. Take notes. Revise five of your sentences in your Kind/Cruel essay to reflect better sentence construction.

OPTION 4: View the recorded Webinar on Engaging Readers with Sentence Structure in Academic Writing. Then revise a paragraph of your Kind/Cruel essay making strategic choices to change sentences, words, phrases, and punctuation to better engage the reader.

OPTION 5: Go to NoRedInk, join the class by using this link. Complete the lesson called: Grammar and Mechanics

Skills 7.C & 8.C Use of Grammar and Mechanics

OPTION 1: View AP Live Review 2021 (available after 6PM on Apirl 19) on AP Classroom

OPTION 2: Go to Quill.org. Login with Google. Complete the two diagnostic quizzes assigned. Make a list of the grammatical areas you need to brush up on. Find a lesson on that skill on Khan Academy. View/complete and take notes.

OPTION 3: Read "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Analyze the use of quotation marks in various ways throughout the text to advance his specific purposes and create special effects.

OPTION 4: Review the following video on conciseness. Take notes. Now you try: Review what you learned here by reading the information and doing the practice sentences.

OPTION 5: Go to NoRedInk, join the class by using this link. Complete the lesson called: Grammar and Mechanics

General Synthesis Review (FRQ1)

Use this section if you did not see any specific areas you struggled, but want to review or strengthen your synthesis skills.

OPTION 1: View AP Live Review 2021 (available after 6PM on Apirl 20/21) on AP Classroom

OPTION 2: Integrating Quotes. Review website, take notes, and complete quiz (at the top of the page). Then view quick video. Finally, revise your Kind/Cruel paper revising at least three quote integrations.

OPTION 3: Review the information from the College Board on synthesis here with the Sample 1 documents. Then write the essay for Sample 2 using the allotted time (15 reading, 40 writing). When you finish writing, highlight your thesis statement. Look back at the prompt. Did you address the prompt and make a defensible claim? If not, rewrite the thesis statement and in your reflection be sure to include your rewritten thesis and how/why the new one is better. Second, assign each resource in the synthesis prompt a different highlighter color (you only need to assign colors to the ones you used in your essay--these should be different than the one for your thesis). Highlight the evidence you used from each source in the color assigned to the article. Do you have two or more using the same source in a paragraph? Do you have two or more from the same source in a row? What could you have switched out to make this more synthesized?

OPTION 4: View Commentary for Synthesis by Coach Hall Writes. Take notes. Then complete practice activity.

OPTION 5: Review the following document regarding the argumentative essay (Q3). Take notes. Then complete the following practice on selection of evidence.

OPTION 5: Go to NoRedInk, join the class by using this link. Complete the lesson called: Embedding Quotes/ Using Evidence

OPTION 6: Go to NoRedInk, join the class by using this link. Complete the lesson called: Using an Academic Tone.

General Rhetorical Analysis Review (FRQ 2)

Use this section if you do not see any specific areas in which you struggled with rhetorical analysis.

OPTION 1: Read the 2018 Question 2 prompt (Madeline Albright), read the student samples graded on the new rubric, read the scorers’ commentary.

OPTION 2: Quick Guide by Timm Freitas Look at the guide and reflect on how it is similar to and different than the precis and line of reasoning outline we learned in class.

OPTION 3: Watch this Ted Talk: Then, make an outline of strategies in the 2015 Q2 Prompt using Nancy Duarte’s discussed structure

OPTION 4: Rhetorical Analysis Advice from Readers What advice speaks to you? Why? How can you apply this advice to your writing both for the exam and in general?

OPTION 5: Go to NoRedInk, join the class by using this link. Complete the lesson called: Using an Academic Tone.

General Argument Review (FRQ 3)

Use this section if you do not see any specific areas in which you struggled, but want to strengthen or review argument.

OPTION 1: View Video tutorial on the 2018 Prompt for Q3. Then go to a reliable news outlet and read two news stories. Write a summary of the news and reflect on how this knowledge can better help you understand the world.

OPTION 2: View How to Gain General Knowledge. Then create an info bank with at least 2 items for each category.

OPTION 3: View the Marco Learning How to Ace the Q3 Essay Video. Review the prompt here. Then read the student samples. Score them as you read them using the rubric. Finally, compare your scores to the scorers. What did you see that you will or won't do in your argument essay?

OPTION 4: Select a TED Radio Hour podcast on any topic. Listen. Then consider the implications of the information provided. How could you use this kind of information in an argument prompt? Consider the following when thinking about the podcast: economic, environmental, or time implications; safety, ethical, or technological concerns; and/or international relations.

OPTION 5: Go to NoRedInk, join the class by using this link. Complete the lesson called: Using an Academic Tone.

OPTION 6: First, view this video. Go to NoRedInk, join the class by using this link. Complete the lesson called: Counter Argument Review. View this video lesson and take notes.

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