Agenda, April 23

Due on or before Friday: War Essays    
Wanna practice? Spend your time in a Room for Debate.

1. Become a section expert
2. And the answer is ...

Agenda, April 22

Due on or before Friday: War Essays  
Wanna practice? Spend your time in a Room for Debate.

1. Multiple Choice Practice Test
2. Essay Questions

Agenda, April 18

Due Now: Scored Synthesis Papers  
Due Tuesday (?): War Essays
Wanna practice? Spend your time in a Room for Debate.

1. Essay Questions
2. Calibration
3. Scoring Circles

Agenda, April 17

Due Tomorrow: Scored Synthesis Papers
Due Tuesday (?): War Essays

1. Synthesis Timed Write
2. Essay Questions

Agenda, April 16

Do by Wednesday: Pay $11.50 in accounting if you ordered an AP Lang T-shirt  
Due Now: Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write Scores  
Due Now: War Essay Outline
Coming Tomorrow: Synthesis Timed Write

1. Calibration
2. Scoring in small groups

Agenda, April 15

Due Now: Your taxes
Do by Wednesday: Pay $11.50 in accounting if you ordered an AP Lang T-shirt
Due Tomorrow: Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write Scores (Are you a guy? Should you be taking care of someone?)
Due Tomorrow: War Essay Outline

1. Scoring in small groups
2. Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write (5 min to read and 40 min to write)
3. Outline/Essay Questions, if time allows

Agenda, April 14

Due Now: Timed Write Scores
Coming Tomorrow: Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write

1. Calibration
2. Scoring in small groups
3. Outline/Essay Questions, if time allows

Due Moday: Scoring of Timed Writes
Today: Let the test prep commence!

-Test Prep
-Final Speeches
-Multiple Choice Review

How to Score a Timed Write

1.     Read the essay from beginning to end. Read it fast.

2.     Highlight strong writing – good diction, syntax, and imagery; convincing, credible evidence – in one color.

3.     Highlight egregious errors – misspelling of common words, capitalization errors, weaknesses in logos or ethos – in a second color.

4.     Give the writing a score based on content:

8 = effective

6 = adequate

4 = inadequate

2 = little success

5.     Adjust the score for the grace and quality of the style:

9 = a “pretty” 8 (“pretty” means exceptional diction OR syntax OR imagery)

7 = a “pretty” 6

3 = an “ugly” 4 (“ugly” means particularly weak conventions or simplistic diction)

1 = an “ugly” 2

6.     Special cases:

            A 5 is reserved for essays that are part 6 and part 4. If it’s almost a 6, then it’s a 4.

            If the conventions are not college level, the paper cannot score more than a 4. Frequent misspellings, capitalization errors, run-ons, and comma splices can lower the score of an adequate paper (a 6) to inadequate (that’s a 4, not a 5. A 5 is not an “ugly” 6).

7.     Write a brief justification of your score. Why is the paper not the score above? Why is not the score below?

Outline Expectations

Due on or Before 4/16/14

Outlines will be read in the order received.

The sooner you submit it,

the sooner you’ll receive feedback

I.               State your claim as a complete sentence.

II.             Write the topic sentence for each body paragraph.

a.     List two pieces of evidence for each body paragraph.

b.     The evidence could be the title of your source OR the quotation you will use.

III.           Not all of your paragraphs need to be synthesis paragraphs.

a.     Each paragraph, however, requires two supporting details.

b.     Your supporting details should be one sentence each.

IV.            You do not need to write a complete intro OR conclusion.

a.     If you have considered something bold, creative, or inventive in terms of organization or structure, you might want to leave me a note about it.

b.     If you have a plan for your conclusion (look to the future; close with an image) you might want to tell me about it (no more than a sentence or two)

V.              Beware of five paragraph essays.

a.     Three synthesis paragraphs is a minimum.

b.     Not all of your paragraphs need to be synthesis paragraphs.

VI.            Do I need to say typed?