April+Review

AP Review: days of wonder Homework will be to review and basically memorize all your lit reviews and to review the lit terms from BIG RED (the Mutha terms).
 * NIGHTLY HOMEWORK: REVIEW LIT REVIEWS AND MUTHA TERMS and ALL BIG RED MATERIAL **

1. HOs: ** HOMEWORK: ** Lit Term Short Packet, Review Speed Strategies for MCs and Essays/go over AP test format, timing, about guessing, scoring, what to bring, and protocol (see Cliffs book)/1 hour-Groups begin assigning literary titles to past AP prompts in Big Red-include title and a quick explanatory sentence or two. **HOMEWORK:** __Finish this at home if necessary. This drill will save you time and make you confident and comfortable with that last essay question.__ 50 points

2. **Thesis speed drills:** practice the “utilitarian intro paragraph” w/thesis statement, author name, and title of work. Use any 10 past AP prompts. Each of the 10 drills will be timed at 5 minutes for reading prompt twice and circling key words, formulating and writing a thesis statement which includes author name and work’s title. A clear thesis will 1) include all the demands of the prompt (topic) AND will outline 2-4 tasks that the paper will cover. (Each of those tasks would then become a topic sentence for an OREO body paragraph.) Correct Lit Term assignment. 50 points

3. ** OREO speed drills: ** HO Commentary (CM) Verbs-review the list; memorize at least five faves to use in your essays/Review sentences in SSS that show how commentary verbs bridge between CD and CM in the OREO/Do OREO speed drills. Choose three of your intro paragraphs from last class and write the first OREO as dictated by the thesis. Each of the three OREO speed drills will be 10 minutes-this includes the time you may take sketching out a quick outline of the OREO (topic sentence, cd1, cm, cm, cd2, cm, cm, cd3, cm, cm conclusion/transition sentence). Concentrate on using your five fave commentary verbs (aka CVs) in the OREO. 50 points

4. ** OREO speed drills **-the sequel: You will be given one prose excerpt and one poem from a past AP exam. You will have 20 minutes to 1) read the prose excerpt, 2) write an intro paragraph (thesis statement, author name, and work title) and 3) write the first OREO body paragraph of the essay. You will have 20 minutes to do the same for the poem. Note: poem is “The Retreat” by Henry Vaughan and prose is from Hardy’s //Tess of the d’Urbervilles// in the yellow AP practice book. 50 points

5. ** MC speed drills: ** first, we will practice MC passages in groups of 3 with our strategies handout on the desk and a longer time frame than the actual AP exam. Apply as many of the strategies as you can on the practice tests and come to a consensus on what you think the correct answers are and why. (Write on the test your justifications.) Then we will correct the passages. HW: Justify why the correct answer __is__ correct (DO NOT try to justify why your wrong answer should have been correct!) Write your ideas in the margins of the test itself. 50 points

6. ** MC speed drills-the sequel: ** without your strategies handout, take a full MC practice exam. Fifty-five questions and one hour to complete. Correct on your own when you are done. 50 points

7. ** TPLASSTT ** Divide into 5 groups, review-compare/contrast two sets of poems using TPLASSTT as your general guide in addition to your assigned lit devices: //How Annandale Went Out// with //To the Mercy Killers/Discuss the poems// 50 points

 8. Poetry Wrapup-Discuss three poems assigned.

The night before the test: Get a good night’s sleep Eat a good breakfast like oatmeal, milk, juice and/or fresh fruit Bring 2-3 pens-black or blue and 2-3 sharpened pencils with erasers Leave your cell phone in your locker or car Bring photo id. Bella reminds you... this exam is NOT a life or death experience. No matter what happens, just give it your best shot, and the experience you had as you prepared for this exam this year was not a waste. You are a fabulous person ready for college work, and this exam will not change that or ruin your college experience, your love life, or your future. It will not make or break your character or dignity. It will not destroy your career opportunities or mar your future children’s feelings for you. If you fail it, you are not a failure. I love you and wish you the best. See the exam for what it is…a learning experience. Shake off the dread and the stress, have fun with it, and I’ll see you after the exam! Love Mrs. Clark (Notice how if I leave the comma out after the word “love” it becomes a mandate rather than a valediction!)

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close  Number of Questions: **3** Approximate Test Duration: **120 Minutes**