AP Take-Home Essay Assignment
Directions:
1. Set your timer for 5 minutes: read and annotate the assigned passage.
2. Set your timer for 40 minutes: compose a 4- to 6-paragraph essay, per the instructions
provided in the prompt.
3. Read the student “9” essay sample provided after the prompt and passage.
4. Revise your essay as desired. ANY similarity between your essay and the "9" essay will
be thoroughly investigated. If plagiarism is detected, you will earn a zero for the
assignment AND after school detention AND your parents will be contacted for a
parent-teacher conference, to be conducted by you.
5. Take-home essays are due on Fridays when you arrive in class. If you are absent on a
Friday, your essay is due the day you return to class. Because this is a long-term
assignment, absent students do not get extra time on the essay once they return to
class.
Assignment Schedule:
DUE DATE ESSAY PROMPT
9/18/15
ESSAY TYPE
10/02/15
“Indispensable Opposition” by Walter Lippmann
“Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World” by Scott
Russell
NO ESSAY – FALL BREAK
10/09/15
NO ESSAY – FALL BREAK
10/16/15
Coca-Cola Letters by Ira C. Herbert & Richard Seaver
Comparison
10/23/15
1960’s American Society, Passages A & B
Comparison
10/30/15
Humor Argument (Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton)
11/06/15
“The Future of Life” by Edward O. Wilson
11/13/15
Ownership
11/20/15
Certainty & Doubt
11/27/15
NO ESSAY – THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
12/04/15
“On the Want of Money” by William Hazlitt
12/11/15
“Rights of Man” by Thomas Paine - America Argument
09/25/15
Analysis
Analysis
Argument
Analysis
Argument
Argument
Analysis
Argument