**ATTENTION 1st/2nd AP/1102 IMPORTANT HOMEWORK DUE COMPLETED MON. 2/22**

1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1101

IMPORTANT AP LANG HW DUE MON. 2/22:

**FOR 1/3 of THIS APLANG/ENG1102 GRADE, using the: 

• The Things They Carried (TTTC) AP LANG EXAM PRACTICE Q2 Rhetorical Analysis Essay Prompt and Sample Student Response packet from class Thursday 2/18 (AP PRACTICE EXAMS binder section/PDF on the Classroom), complete the following (*or anything we DID NOT get around to finishing in class Thursday!): 

--FIRST, after reading both the RHETORICAL ANALYSIS PROMPT QU/PASSAGE and THE STUDENT SAMPLE RESPONSEas we did in class, use the "Scoring Rubric" on the back page: 

• to decide on a 1-9 HOLISTIC SCORE (*TRANSLATED TO THE NEW 1-6 ANALYTIC SCORING RUBRIC) you think is appropriate for this student response 
• **BE READY TO DEFEND YOUR SCORE POSITION USING THE ESSAY RESPONSE, ITS MERITS, WHAT IT LACKS, UPPER vs. LOWER-LEVEL SCORE, etc. 

--AFTER deciding on a score, complete ALL/WHAT WE DID NOT COMPLETE TODAY IN CLASS of the "You Rate It!"sheet, (3rd page) THOROUGHLY ANSWERING ALL FOUR (4) QUESTIONS

**AND REMEMBER RE: the STUDENT SAMPLE RESPONSE YOU HAVE: 
This former UCHS student wrote this response in 40-minutes;

**REWARD your student writer for what they DO RIGHT!**

**ALSO: REMEMBER THIS HOMEWORK is 1/3 of an AP LANGUAGE/ENG 1102 MAJOR GRADE!! BE PREPARED to share your written responses/ASSESSMENT to/of this assignment in class MONDAY as part of that 1/3 portion of this grade! 

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2) ALSO, FOR ANOTHER 1/3 OF THIS MAJOR GRADE, DUE COMPLETED/WITH YOU IN CLASS MON. 2/22 : 

COMPOSE (*typed/printed or written, JUST HAVE A HARD COPY WITH YOU!) YOUR OWN FULL, ROUGH DRAFT AP LANG EXAM Q2 PRACTICE RHETORICAL ANALYSIS RESPONSE TO THE SAME TTTC PROMPT/QUESTION

**TIPS TO REMEMBER AS YOU WRITE:

• FIRST: Consider and UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT THE PROMPT IS ASKING YOU TO SHOW/DO IN YOUR ESSAY, and look for ways O'Brien addresses this within his text

• look for RHETORICAL/LANGUAGE elements/devices (simile, tone, allusion, repetition, syntax [sentence types/structure], ____ diction, ____ imagery, understatement, point of view, etc.) O'Brien incorporates in the TEXT EXCERPT you have been given, and explain HOW those elements rhetorically appeal (ethos, pathos, logos--TRY TO STICK TO ONE of the appeals) to an audience 

• USE THE STUDENT SAMPLE TO *GUIDE* YOU, NOT AS A BASIS FOR YOUR OWN RESPONSE!!

• consider elements on the "HOW TO EARN THE SOPHISTICATION POINT" valuable handout I gave you in class Friday that you may want to try to incorporate into your own response (AP EXAMS PRACTICE binder section)

**DUE MON. 2/22, HAVE WITH YOU YOUR COMPLETED 'DRAFT' RESPONSE ESSAY FOR THIS QUESTION/PROMPT; we'll spend a few minutes Monday going over a few last-minute elements you can revise/edit in your response 
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**AND FINALLY, LOOKING AHEAD TO CLASS MON. 2/22:

• for the FINAL 1/3 portion of this AP LANG FINAL GRADE, YOU WILL BE GIVEN 40 MINUTES IN CLASS MON. 2/22 TO REWRITE YOUR DRAFTED TTTC RHET. ANALYSIS ESSAY RESPONSE AND TURN THIS IN AS A 'FINAL' DRAFT 
• YOUR SCORE ON THIS 'FINAL' TIMED REWRITE ASSIGNMENT WILL BE BASED ON THE AP EXAM ESSAY 1-9 HOLISTIC/1-6 ANALYTIC SCORING SCALE
• VIRTUAL/ABSENT STUDENTS: MAKE SURE YOU KNOW YOU'LL BE JOINING US MON. 2/22 VIA MEET TO COMPLETE THE IN-CLASS REWRITE! JUST A HEADS-UP NOW!

**FOR CONVENIENCE-SAKE, KEEP ALL THIS TTTC PROMPT PACKET/RESPONSE/YOUR OWN RESPONSE TOGETHER IN THE 'AP EXAMS/TEST PRACTICE' SECTION OF YOUR BINDER**