AP English III Unit 8

Big Idea:

• Students will focus on their weakness as a writer for a specific essay.
• Focusing on multiple choice portion of the AP exam

Student Expectations:

Priority TEKS

SC9 The course requires students to demonstrate research skills and, in particular, the ability to evaluate, use, and cite primary and secondary sources.

SC6 The course requires students to produce one or more argumentative writing assignments. Topics should be based on readings representing a wide variety of prose styles and genres and might include such topics as public policies, popular culture, and personal experiences.

Ongoing TEKS

SC3 The course requires students to write in informal contexts (e.g., imitation exercises, journal keeping, collaborative writing, and in-class responses) designed to help them become increasingly aware of themselves as writers and/or aware of the techniques employed by the writers they read.

SC4 The course requires students to produce one or more expository writing assignments. Topics should be based on readings representing a wide variety of prose styles and genres and might include such topics as public policies, popular culture, and personal experiences.

SC7 The course requires nonfiction readings (e.g., essays, journalism, political writing, science writing, nature writing, autobiographies/biographies, diaries, history, criticism) that are selected to give students opportunities to explain an author’s use of rhetorical strategies or techniques. If fiction and poetry are also assigned, their main purpose should be to help students understand how various effects are achieved by writers’ linguistic and rhetorical choices.

SC11 Students will cite sources using a recognized editorial style (e.g., Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, American Psychological Association (APA), etc.).

SC13 The AP teacher provides instruction and feedback on students’ writing assignments both before and after the students revise their work that help the students develop a variety of sentence structures.

Learning Targets:

• Identify the question posed in the essay prompt (Argumentative, Research Synthesis, Rhetorical Analysis).
• Answer the identified question in the form of a position statement.
• Outline each essay in correct outline format.
• Write timed essays on each AP tested essay.
• Work backwards on AP multiple choice passages/questions.
• Analyze answers to the exam questions.
• Explain correct answers to the AP exam.

Essential Questions:

• What is the question posed by the prompt?
• What is your position based on the question?
• What evidence would you use to support your position?
• How will you explain the effects of your evidence on your position statement?
• Why are the answers to the MC questions correct?

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