Advanced Placement English Language and Composition

1st SEMESTER EXAM

                                                                                                                               Current Assignment:
Course Overview                                                                                                     NOTE calendar changes!
Syllabus                                                                                                                www.poetryoutloud.org
AP Grading Rubric -- general
                                                                                                            THE ONION!! Read it and weep!
AP 9-point to 100-point Scale
Student Samples -- from AP Comp test, NOT Petoskey HS students
CURRENT // HOLIDAY READING ASSIGNMENT

SAT Vocabulary Lists / VOCAB PROJECT                                                                LIT // Rhetorical Terms

THE FOUNTAINHEAD reading/discussion timeline

BASIC/CUMULATIVE/PERIODIC/COMBO Sentences

COLLEGE APPLICATIONS    MSU     M-Common App       Personal Info      FAFSA       Interview Alert!
    COLLEGE ESSAY                                    Supplement          PDF pages

AP TESTING INFORMATION!!!

AP ESSAY SAMPLES 2010                    
                                                                    Question 2 -- Banneker // Slavery
                                                                    Question 3 -- de Botton / Humorists

AP ESSAY SAMPLES 2011                      Question 1 -- Synthesis Essay // Locavores

READINGS on the Synthesis Essay        2010 EXAM Question 1: Student Samples
                                                                     Tues. 4/19                        Scoring Commentary **

                                                                     2010 EXAM Question 3: Student Samples
                                                                     Thurs., 4/28                      Scoring Comm: same as above **

AP Essays: Scored Student Examples - WELTY   

SEMESTER EXAM -- review terms