What
to
Bring
Free
Response
Potpourri
Tantalizing
Terms
Rating a
Free
Response
Question
What
You
Say?
Say
What,
Again?
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200 200 200 200 200 200
300 300 300 300 300 300
400 400 400 400 400 400
500 500 500 500 500 500
What to Bring – 100
These are the
writing utensils you
are to bring to the
AP exam.
What are #2
pencils (nonmechanical) and
blue or black ink
pens?
What to Bring – 200
This is what you should
bring to keep the rumbling
in your tummy at bay
during the taking of your
AP exam.
What are water
and non-messy
snacks?
What to Bring – 300
If you bring this, then you
had better be darn sure that
you have turned it off, that
you do not have it on your
body, and that you have no
alarms that will go off.
What is a
cell phone?
What to Bring – 400
In case the testing area is
cold, this is something you
should bring to stay
comfortable.
What is a
sweatshirt,
hoodie, or
jacket?
What to Bring – 500
If you bring this or
consume it prior to the
exam, be wary because it
could make you pee when
you need to be focused
on the exam.
What is a
caffeinated
beverage?
Free Response Potpourri – 100
This is the most likely problem
students have when dealing
with the following prompt (you
will view on the next slide) or
one like it.
Free Response Potpourri – 100
“Using appropriate evidence,
write an essay in which you
evaluate the pros and cons of
corporate sponsorship for
schools and indicate why you
find one position more
persuasive than the other.”
What is not
deal with both
pros and cons?
Free Response Potpourri – 200
This is the most likely problem
students have when dealing
with the following prompt (you
will view on the next slide) or
one like it.
Free Response Potpourri – 200
“Write an essay that
develops a position on
whether or not there should
be specific texts that all
students of high school
English must read.”
What is not
taking a clear
position?
Free Response Potpourri – 300
This is the most likely problem
students have when dealing
with the following prompt (you
will view on the next slide) or
one like it.
Free Response Potpourri – 300
“Read the following passage
from ‘America Needs Its
Nerds’ by Leonid Fridman.
Then write an essay in
which you analyze how
Fridman develops his
argument.”
What is mistaking
an analysis prompt
for an argument
prompt?
Free Response Potpourri – 400
This is the most likely problem
students have when dealing
with the following prompt (you
will view on the next slide) or
one like it.
Free Response Potpourri – 400
“The passage below is an excerpt from
Jennifer Price’s recent essay ‘The
Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History.’
The essay examines the popularity of
the plastic pink flamingo in the 1950s.
Read the passage carefully. Then write
an essay in which you analyze how
Price crafts the text to reveal her view of
United States culture.”
What is focusing on
her attitude toward
the flamingo rather
than towards
American culture?
Free Response Potpourri – 500
This is the most likely problem
students have when dealing
with the following prompt (you
will view on the next slide) or
one like it.
Free Response Potpourri – 500
“The passage below is from ‘Training for
Statesmanship’ (1953), an article written by
George F. Kennan, one of the principle
architects of US foreign policy during the
period following the end of WWII. Read the
passage carefully and select what you believe
is Kennan’s most compelling observation.
Then write an essay in which you consider the
extent to which the observation holds true for
the US or for any other county. Support your
argument with appropriate evidence.”
What is not focus
on his most
compelling point?
Tantalizing Terms – 100
This is a terse
statement of known
authorship that
expresses a general
truth or principle.
What is an
aphorism?
Tantalizing Terms – 200
This is an extended
metaphor or surprising
analogy between seemingly
dissimilar objects, often
displaying cleverness as a
result of the unusual
comparison.
What is a
conceit?
Tantalizing Terms – 300
This is a more agreeable or
less offensive substitute for
a generally unpleasant word
or concept, possibly used to
conform to political
correctness or to add humor
or ironic understatement.
What is a
euphemism?
Tantalizing Terms – 400
The is a figure of speech
in which the name of
something is substituted
for something that is
closely associated with it.
What is
metonymy?
Tantalizing Terms – 500
This is a form of
understatement that involves
making an affirmative point
by denying its opposite; the
opposite of hyperbole; an
example being: “it isn’t very
serious…”.
What is
litotes?
Rating a Free Response – 100
This is the score for a
response that
demonstrates that the
writer knows what they
should be doing but does
not accomplish it very well.
What is
a 4?
Rating a Free Response – 200
This is the score for a
response that
demonstrates that the
writer knows what they
should be doing and writes
an adequate response.
What is
a 6?
Rating a Free Response – 300
This is the score for an
essay that demonstrates a
truly insightful, effective
response with strong,
mature prose writing skill.
What is
an 8?
Rating a Free Response – 400
This is the rating of an essay
that demonstrates that the
student knows what they
should do but has writing
elements that are adequate
as well as elements that are
inadequate.
What is
a 5?
Rating a Free Response – 500
For a rating to be in the
upper-half range, the
student writer must
demonstrate this about
whatever passage (s) he or
she has read in the prompt.
What is
demonstrate clear
understanding of
the writing/ prompt?
What You Say? – 100
This is the person who
wrote: “I did not wish to
live what was not life”.
Who is
Henry David
Thoreau?
What You Say? – 200
This is the person who
wrote: “I wanted to live
deep and suck out all
the marrow of life”.
Who is
Henry David
Thoreau?
What You Say? – 300
This is the person who
wrote: “Our life is
frittered away by detail”.
Who is
Henry David
Thoreau?
What You Say? – 400
This is the person who
wrote: “Envy is
ignorance”.
Who is
Ralph Waldo
Emerson?
What You Say? – 500
This is the person who
wrote: “Nothing is at last
sacred but the integrity of
your own mind”.
Who is
Ralph Waldo
Emerson?
Say What, Again? – 100
This is the person who
wrote: “The pitifulest
thing out is a mob”.
Who is
Mark Twain?
Say What, Again? – 200
This is the person who
wrote: “It is to the credit of
human nature, that, except
where its selfishness is
brought into play, it loves
more readily than it hates.”
Who is
Nathaniel
Hawthorne?
Say What, Again? – 300
This is the person who wrote:
“Life… is God's most precious
gift; no principle, however
glorious, may justify the taking
of it . . ..it may well be God
damns a liar less than he that
throws his life away for pride.”
Who is
Arthur
Miller?
Say What, Again? – 400
This is the person who
wrote: “And even if the
wars didn't keep coming
like glaciers, there
would still be plain old
death”.
Who is Kurt
Vonnegut?
Say What, Again? – 500
This is the person who
wrote: “So we beat on, boats
against the current, borne
back ceaselessly into the
past.”
Who is F. Scott
Fitzgerald?
FINAL
JEOPARDY
This would be the
most important thing
to think about when
ascribing meaning to
“AP”.