2024 AP English Language Exam Live Review - Night Before the Exam

English language you are in the right place I'm John from Marco learning and I want to walk you through what we're going to be doing tonight it's all about free response questions and the strategies we've got I do want to point out I've pinned this in the chat it's in the description this is our free study guide pack if you are cramming the night before if you are seeing the recording of this later you're taking it a couple of weeks we provide an overview of the whole exam and if you scroll down to right around page 11 you'll start to see how we actually physically break down each part of the free response so like how should you spend your time in synthesis how many minutes should you be spending on each part what are some samples look like the analysis essay and the argument essay this is available for you throughout our session tonight we're going to be referencing the 2023 AP English Language frqs these are published on the college board's website just Google 2023 AP Lang frqs you'll eventually find your way over to this page where you'll see samples scoring guidelines and everything else also want to point out we have one of the biggest playlists for AP Lang on YouTube it's 65 videos and Counting we break down the sophistication point we break down rubrics we have whole series on multiple choice we write essays live on the air all sorts of things more than you can need are available and finally I want to point out we have an Instagram and Tik Tok account with a lot of followers and memes such as this one about AP Lang students trying to get the sophistication Point um so definitely check that out keep us posted on your progress here at Marco learning we want to make sure that we are providing with you you with all the best um materials that we can so if you like Marco learning and you like this video press that like button I'm gonna be hanging out in the chat I want to invite Katie Upton on the the screen um because um yes Katie some people are asking how they're going to get 65 videos done in the next um couple of hours so um yeah we've got a really exciting jam-pack night in fact um for later what are you doing for later hang on he's going to make an early appearance for everyone CU he showed up here's Marco if you're all good we'll feed him treats live on the air um but in the meantime there's no time for white fluffy white dogs there's time for a slide deck that focuses on free response questions and everything you need to get ready so Katie I'm going to turn it over to you um and I'm really excited to learn from you about what your what insights you have from last year's exam they're going to help students for this year's exam thanks so much John and and um just so everyone knows John's going to be the one managing the chat so if there are some questions that are coming in that are very uh common or consistently um being asked it is going to be John who is going to jump on and let me know what those questions are so um what I can see it's just me and you talking so congratulations y'all you have made it to the night before the exam so uh I know some of you are wondering how you're going to watch 55 videos before um 8 amm in the tomorrow but uh the news is you're not okay uh so you guys have to remember that you've been working on this um the aping Zim all year long uh you guys always know more than you think you do which is always really fun for us to remind you as your teachers but I'm going to we're going to jump right into it and I'm going to walk you guys through some of the information that we have put together in order to make sure that you guys are good and ready to go for um your test tomorrow so first of all like John said we're really going to be operating from and I'll be sharing information from college board so make sure you Google that 2023 apling exam we're going to walk through some of the chief reader reports the notes from the graders um to kind of piggy back off of what you just learned um with freedus and all of those guys as you guys were listening to uh their their takeaways what you got John and real quick Katie before we get started is there a way you can switch your audio from your airpods just to the regular mic just so it's a little bit better couple quick questions um that I'm getting in the chat real quick some people are asking how long the stream will be it'll be about an hour but as we said at the beginning there is a playlist of 65 other videos to help you all out so Katie yeah let's see if we can switch your audio to just to the main mic and see if that works better yeah that's better and I think nice and Loud everyone here in the chat you all can adjust your audio to catch all that and I'll chime in if in case there's any other uh questions the good news is you guys didn't miss anything other than the fact that hey y are going to be good to go tomorrow but we're going to walk you through um some reminders before exam day so first of all we're going to talk about reviewing the exam format because we do want to make sure that you guys can control the controllables tomorrow we're going to give you some multiple choice tips some essay tips and hopefully leave some time for question and answer so that is our goal today if you've ever attended a session with me you know that I get a little bit long- winded so I'm going to try to keep it short and sweet here and really leave some time for some questions as we go through that so A couple of reminders about the exam you know tomorrow 45% of that test is going to be the multiple choice section so you're going to have and and we know that there are some issues right with the AP L exam specifically honestly I'm not going to speak to those I'm gonna let John do kind of the the College Board spill about some of the issues with the paper test whenever he's ready at the end of our session I'm going to work through this as if everybody's getting a perfect test okay so again tomorrow you're going to start with that multiple choice section it's gonna be 45% of your test score we know there are going to be 45 questions and we know you're going to have 60 minutes to take that multiple choice section then you're going to have a little bit of a break and then you're going to come back you're going to first walk around stretch your legs a little bit get the blood flowing make sure that you are in a good head space after reading through all of those reading passages and those writing passages you're going to clear the brain you're going to have some good energy you're not going to talk about how cooked you are all right you're actually going to talk about how you ate that okay so we're gonna go through I apologize for that John um as you guys go through you're gonna make sure um that you remember you're gonna have two hours and 15 minutes for the free response section College Board recommends that you spend 55 minutes on the synthesis essay 40 minutes on the rhetorical analysis and 40 minutes on the argument essay but y'all let's be honest if there is anybody in the chat who has ever stuck to that action excuse me who's ever stuck to that specific number I would be very impressed um typically I teach my students you can probably shave a little bit of time off on the synthesis essay use that extra time for the rhetorical analysis and then just whatever may be will be for the argument essay okay we're going to get more into strategies for those actual sections real fast first of all we want to make sure that you guys recognize the fact that you know on the exam tomorrow the multiple choice section you're going to have five passages to read for the multiple choice section two of those passages are going to be based on the reading skills so essentially it's an objective test for the rhetorical analysis okay so if that is the area in which you shine hopefully you're going to do well here off as also okay we know on set one you're going to have 11 to 14 questions and you're going to have the same on set two now typically speaking one of those sets or one of those passages is going to be easier than the other now again I recognize that there's some subjectivity to that so in other words while there might be a passage that appears easier because of the length of the text because of when the text was written or maybe just the Lexile or reading level of the text some of you might find a different passage more approachable because you know more of the context however just from a standard Outlook there's one passage that is typically easier and here at Marco we recommend that you look for that easier passage and work through that passage first you're going to leave that second one um for later okay second actually now remember on the exam for multiple choice you're going to also have three Re writing passages okay and this is what the College Board experts say those writing passages are going to look like something a um College freshman would write so that's what you're looking for there in other words that means it's going to be a short those are definitely going to be shorter passages and you will also see that you have anywhere between seven to nine questions for the third and fourth set and that fifth set is going to be quite a bit shorter okay so that's what the multiple choice section is going to look like and again we want to make sure that you guys can control the controllables and some of those is just knowing exactly what to expect knowing that when you open up your test and you look at oh my gosh this first passage is really really challenging I'm going to move to the second one because I know that one's going to be a little easier for me and that's going to ease me into the test if you're taking the paper test you can answer the writing questions first if you feel like that is a strength of yours what we recommend is that you guys start with your strengths right we gotta we got to wake the brain up we got to ease into it a little bit it's just like a jog you want to warm up before you start spreading and the same thing for the multiple choice test so we've got some pointers here for you for the actual reading passages remember there's going to be two again complete the easy passage first that is in quotation marks for good reason we know that there is some subjectivity to that but here's what's kind of challenging for the AP L exam especially the the multiple choice reading questions it is probably contradictory to what a lot of you have learned as far as sat act strategies where you've been taught to read the questions first and Marco we really encourage you guys not to read the questions first the reason for that is whenever you are reading whenever you read those questions first and then your brain just automatically starts looking at things in isolation Okay so when you're younger we teach you guys we give you guided reading questions things that are going to help you work through the test by all means y'all we cannot approach these questions as if they are guided reading questions in fact approaching in that way may actually hinder us when we are trying to work through the questions because some of those answer choices the distractors The partially correct answers those are going to be common answers that a student would choose if they fail to look at the the text as a whole piece and that's really why we don't want you guys to read those questions first we want you to kind of sit back annotate for sure pay attention to the mood pay attention to the tone pay attention to work Choice pay attention to organization we want you to work through all of those things as a whole not independently looking at things okay now again remember we know you guys have been working on this all year long and we know that you have some strategies there's anything that I'm saying that's contradictory to what you've been doing and you've been successful don't mess up with don't mess with the game plan now but if you you you've been really inconsistent in your performance for multiple choice this could be one of the reasons or there could be a couple of reasons that are or suggestions on the screen that could really help you tomorrow be consistent okay so again we want to make sure that you guys are annotating we want you to look for that main idea the central argument we want you to think about the rhetorical situation again you're going to approach the two reading passages as if you were going to write a rhetorical analysis over these passages okay and then you're going to work through them critically as far as the answer choices you're going to be able to eliminate some of those and you're really going to work through them now believe it or not even within the P the questions for each reading passage there is sort of this little bell curve okay and this is what test ERS for college board have said to me in a training and really they they claim or at least in 2019 summer 2019 um what they claimed to me was that just like how College Board likes the bell curve on uh scores they also like it when developing difficult questions over a text so they are going to ease you in with some easier questions okay for the past message these are going to have line numbers they're going to be shorter in length they're going to direct you specifically to a section of the text and then in the middle of that set of questions right whether that be seven or nine we know it's going to be somewhere in between there in the middle of that that's where your most difficult questions are going to be and so those difficult questions are going to be over large chunks of text whole text questions inferencing questions implication questions those things that are really hard to sub or objectively measure those are going to be in the middle okay so let's talk a little bit about how you're going to eliminate those choices tomorrow well you're going to want to eliminate any answer choices with charged um or subjective words right or absolutes all always never you're often times your correct answer choice for these types of questions just like college board wants you to recognize Nuance oftentimes when they're creating their questions and their answer choices for the multiple choice section the correct answer is going to be one that recognizes nuance and if it's an answer choice that is full of absolutes that is certainly a red flag for La better phrase they w they there's so much gray in the area in the world they want to make sure that you as a reader and a thinker can identify that okay so other tips for helping you work through those answer choices through the passages you're going to make sure that you use context clues in the passage to help you understand unfamiliar vocabulary or complex ideas we just know those are going to be there right the passages are not always the easiest to understand right you're taking a test to earn college level credit it's not going to be easy so you've got to make sure that you rely on your reading skills going way back to sixth seventh eighth grade what do you do when you don't know what's going on right you write in the margins you identify what you can understand you put whatever you can understand in your own words you're going to work through those you're going to look for some okay most importantly when you're going through the reading questions you're going to ensure that you choose the best answer and that's what's really difficult about the reading questions and even just the multiple choice in general right there's the best answer it's your job to identify those we don't want to be fooled by the distractor what we want to do is identify if there's an answer choice that is just a little bit more accurate for example if there was a question and it was like my dad is a bear and answer Choice a was like hey this is figurative language okay a is correct my dad is a bear he's not literally a bear so that is figurative language that might be like a state assessment question for those of you who are familiar with them okay B answer Choice B might be this is a metaphor right which one is the most correct answer well it's a metaphor right state of language te correct metaphor most correct so we want to do the that we want to have that same type of thinking when we're going through the analysis oh okay well on the surface level this is correct but if I look at it from a more analytical side when I'm thinking more about rhetorical the rhetorical situation author's purpose implications this one is actually more accurate leading you to your best answer and now as far as how much time should you spend on the reading passage ideally I teach my students we really want to break it down I'm a I I love 3030 30 minutes on the two reading passages and 30 minutes on the writing questions and I promise there is a method to the madness there if you're spending 40 minutes on the reading questions and 20 minutes on the writing questions is that okay sure is but I want you to remember that all of these questions are equally weighted so if you get to a point where like if you hit that 30 minute Mark and you've still got no I don't know four or five questions left for the reading passage and you're beyond the 30 minute Mark I would move on to the writing questions and go back helps your brain shift gears a little bit it also allows you to take a second to move away from that text your brain's going to process a little bit more and then work through something else and you're going to come back to it and some answer choices that you might have really been struggling with are going to jump out at you when you go back to that text look at it a second time okay so let's talk about the writing qu the writing questions remember you're going to have three passages these are going to be much shorter and I'm talking shorter like about 600 words or so so that's that's quite a bit shorter maybe even like 400 to 600 it is written like something a college freshman would write and your job is to make suggestions for editing right so here are some answer some suggestions for you one I always tell my students that we certainly need to identify the text type is this an argumentative piece is it narrative is it descriptive are we talking is it if it is an argument is it shaped in problem solution is it cause and effect what is happening here when we are able to recognize the text type as specifically as possible then we're able to to eliminate some answer choices that just don't fit it with the type so for example if it is a narrative piece okay not artive just a narrative informational piece and there's an answer choice about um called action or a solution um a suggestion to include a solution narrative no that doesn't make sense so I can easily eliminate that answer choice so again identifying the text type is really important okay second best tip is that remember that Clarity is key you want to look for choices that are clear and concise as someone who grades for college board right I'm I'm and I'm an AP research grader um I I want those papers that are that are succinct to the point clear concise and well executed we want the same thing when you guys are looking at some answer choices and don't be afraid to choose the Asis option so sometimes we are afraid to choose that option but sometimes it is the most clear and most concise answer Choice all right we're gonna keep going here so one of the other things that I really want you guys to keep in mind is when you're looking at those writing questions and you're thinking about um a suggestion for some kind of improvement it is imperative that you are able to keep the overall tone or purpose in mind because a lot of times there's going to be an answer choice that sounds correct looks correct grammatically it aligns with the topic it's got a nice transition but let's say it totally changes the tone or the author's purpose roll it out cross it out we're done with it if it is contradictory to what the author has established or is trying to establish we're going to move on okay and along with that review the context of a sentence or a phrase um another game changer for my students was whenever it would say hey this student is looking for a way to revise sentence 10 and then if you only look at sentence 10 and 11 okay you might be in trouble it is really important even if it's asking about revising sentence 10 to include a better transition it's important that you read sentences 8 9 10 11 12 okay look at it as a whole when you're looking at that the context of that editing request and so again you want to think about am I really looking at the transition between sentence nine and 10 and that's going to help you get to that correct answer okay a reminder and you guys know this e effectively cited evidence is often introduced or embedded that should again help you choose that correct answer should be introduced or embedded remember to consider the purpose of an intro or conclusion they are multifaceted so in other words what that means and consistently my students really struggle with questions that are asking about revising the conclusion to make it more effective and I always teach my students hey if it's asking a question about how to revise the the conclusion you absolutely need to go back and reread the introduction it's sort of a nice little bookend and we want to make sure a good writer is going to want to create that book in same thing for you guys so look very carefully at those answer choices all right we are officially done with multiple choice tips John anything or are we all good Katie we're doing great in the chat hi everyone I'm John from the chat um real quick a couple of qu questions people are getting the AP English Language exam for 2024 is either digital or paper paper you're writing in pen on the 65 videos on our Channel almost all of them we do by pen those are a few examples where we write f frqs um by uh by uh by typing as well the one other thing I wanted to share with you this was the like breaking news that freaked people out in the chat for a minute in the 2024 AP English Language exam we have heard from the college board that some are um some of the books many of the print booklets are missing some pages I think four different pages and that the Proctors have been given those four pages for you to slot in so here's what you're all going to do tomorrow you're not going to freak out you're not going to make a whole drama thing about this it's a couple of missing pages you slot them in you focus on the disciplined way you need to take this test so y'all are going to be fine you'll cook but you won't be cooked or whatever um so Katie I'm going to let you dive into these free response questions and for a lot of the questions you everyone's having about specific things about individual essays I want to defer to those study guides that I pinned in the chat and to 65 videos absolutely guys remember everything that we everything that we're talking about today there's always some kind of nuance to it um you guys are individual writers um I myself am am an individual thinker your graders are individual people as well so remember remember that there's always a little bit of context and and that's kind of what's challenging about the apling exam and I would really argue um lit as well right there's some subjectivity to it but remember okay and this is one of the things I always um tell my students at the end right before we walk in or right before we when we finish up that last multiple choice section okay or or practice test although you guys would never be happy with um a 50% on a test okay remember for the multiple choice section 50% is actually pretty impressive now if you're really hoping to get up to a four and if you're really hoping to get a five on the exam it's imperative that you get a a better score in the multiple choice 60% 70% 80% but College Board does recognize that there is some subjectivity to these questions why because like I already said the multiple choice is a is an objective attempt to grade something or evaluate something that is very subjective and because of that there there's certainly room for mistakes with the multiple choice section keep that in mind don't panic don't talk about how you've done so horribly on the multiple choice all year long if you're at 50% which I know again if we saw that in the Gradebook at least in north Texas that like students would panic because of that not the case for the actual exam so keep that in mind tomorrow you've got 45 questions if we can get 30 of those correct you're going to be sitting pretty all right and so adjust those expectations for yourself recognize that there there's certainly room for error and that you're gonna be okay if you don't feel confident on five questions make your best your best guess and move on and I would say that that's probably one of my best pieces of advice here for the multiple choice section move on don't sacrifice um you know your time down towards the end of that 60 minutes because you're spending too much time working through one two or three questions or even a whole passage that seemed to be pretty difficult move on and go back to it you know yourself right you've been working on it all year long confident believe in yourself recognize that we've got room to miss 10 questions in all reality sometimes we need a little bit of those reality checks okay let's jump into the free response questions now remember you guys are going to have two hours and 15 minutes and it is going to be a running clock for you okay it's going to be a running clock and so it is your job to manage your time and I recognize that I could write a really good essay in two hours and 15 minutes totally recognize that a really good rhetorical analysis on exam day absolutely not you cannot do that on exam day you've again got to recognize the reality of the situation you've got to recognize that your essays are rough drafts and will be graded as such so do not spend so much time on your essay say that what you're actually doing is going through multiple drafts right those rubrics y'all they are forgiving those of us laye teachers who remember the ninepoint rubric not so forgiving this one is so that's great news for you guys okay so I'm just going to move in order of the questions but you guys know you can answer any question first you can write any essay first what we recommend is that you start with the essay that you feel most confident in now there is a caveat to that I know many of you feel like the roral analysis is what you're great at and honestly you probably are I recognize that as well but I want you to recognize and have a real little internal conversation with yourself about the reason why you write a really great rhetorical analysis is because you spend an hour and a half writing it not tomorrow okay don't do that tomorrow because we're going to be very critical and we're going to think about points on the rubric and we're going to work this system a little bit okay and I'm going to talk about that as we go through these free response questions so remember the first option that you have is the synthesis essay which means to draw ideas from multiple sources together in a single argument so let me be very clear about what you are supposed to accomplish within this essay you are supposed to write your own argument first and then you are synthesizing or strengthening your argument with the materials or with with the source material okay with direct explicit evidence from those sources but let me be very clear it is important that you make your own argument first now again I would recommend certainly that you spend 10 minutes brainstorming and outlining your synthesis say to ensure that your argument can be supported with the sources from the stimulus material but it is a slippery slope and you've got to make sure that you are creating your own argument first so let's take a look at some of these examples and this is again set one of the 2023 exam and I want you to think about what you notice about the int what you notice about the introduction okay my V just got cut off over there as you're looking here you've got the reminder for the time you've also got a reminder and this is a great reminder this question counts as onethird of the total essay section score so I know again many of you are going to want to spend a lot of time on the rhetorical analysis but remember it's still just six points q1 six points Q2 six points Q3 six points okay so again I want you to really think through and have a game plan tomorrow what is the maximum amount of time you're going to spend on q1 on Q2 and on Q3 now again hopefully you know yourself I know I know even when I was your age I would not need 55 minutes to work through the synthesis essay simply because I wouldn't need the 15 minutes to read those sources right I'm just a fast reader always have been so I know I've got some wiggle room there so that's great for me I I will know that for tomorrow you need to know some things about yourself for tomorrow okay here's what I love about the synthesis essay is there or the prompt there is a lot of background information to help you recognize both sides in order to make that argument because essentially remember the synthesis the purpose of the synthesis essay is to evaluate your ability to synthesize sources to strengthen your own argument so they are going to to provide some support for you in actual writing prompt so Urban re Wilding is an effort to restore natural ecological processes in habitats and City environments many cities around the world have embraced reing is part of a larger movement okay when you hear things like many cities that's when you know you're getting one perspective so remember that that's going to be one of those perspectives okay um now a movement to to promote Urban rewilding is beginning to take shape in the United States as well oh okay so not only are they embracing it but now there are going to be movements in the US to to promote this Urban rewelding and then let's get to your actual prompt read the sources it's always going to say that write an essay that synthesizes material it's always going to say that I want to direct your attention to this really important part that says from at least three of the s ources if you look at the q1 rubric you must use three sources to get to the two column okay to get to the three column so you must tomorrow you absolutely have to use three sources on the q1 essay now is there any advantage to using more than three sources there isn't there's nothing on the RC that says the writer uses all of the sources or the writer uses five of six nothing all it says is that the writer uses at least three of the sources so remember that you got to use three that's the magic number okay and let's talk about our actual prompt here on the extent to which reing initiatives are worthwhile for urban communities to pursue so we've got this develops your position on this extent to which those initiatives are worthwhile for urban communities so that's the area we're going to stay in all right now again remember if you guys have searched the 2023 um free response questions you can also see the chief reader reports you can see the scoring guidelines and then you can also see some sample essays I'm not going to ride the sample essays on here for you because I want I want you to have something to do when we're done tonight so let's take a look here this is what the chief reader says so over the summer you know they have this grading and then the Chief reader is going to collect all the feedback from the graders and here is where students really struggled and here's where they really shine in the q1 essay so common misconceptions or knowledge gaps this is what students like you a year ago struggled with right so many responses asserted that Urban rewilding would be the solution to our problem okay that doesn't sound bad but that led to a simplistic development in their line of reasoning okay let's take a look at the prompt a movement to promote um extent to which these initiatives are worthwhile okay so what happened was students often overgeneralize the extent to which a source could prove the point or they oversimplified the point the source was trying to make in other words the students did not talk about the significance of the evidence and how it supported their own stance or their own supporting claim even within that body paragraph it is your job to develop a solid line of reasoning that really connects the evidence to your own claim so if we look to the right here higher scoring responses recognized the complexity of urban rewilding and had nuanced defensible positions now remember again I've said Nuance a couple of times myself um and it's kind of an AP or college board buzzword and it's essentially what that that means is that we recognize there's a lot of gray in the world there's there's very rarely do we have things that are all good or all bad and college board and graders want to see that you're able to recognize that nuanced so an example of that would be while many believe the impacts of R reing are not worth the work needed to begin this process interesting and this is straight from college board right this is a students work you'll see that this is actually remember semicolon connects two independent clauses this is not an independent clause students get away with it right it's a rough draft and will be gred as such however I believe now I would tell my students let's avoid those I believe statements but again this is a this is a good example here I would argue they probably don't earn the sophistication point because I believe it's not a great statement but is it still okay for a stance let's read the impacts are not fixing every every problem that we hope it would it is still worth the time and effort because it provides several great techniques of problem solving um that can be used in other techniques achieving similar goals and the benefits it has on humans is very evident so we've got the reasons in the body or the reasons in the thesis statement which is great we do have this recognition of while many believe they are not worth the work we can assume that the student's going to expand on that in the body paragraphs so that's what makes it Nuance recognizing that it's not perfect it's not going to be the be all end all Solution that's the difference between the two there that's the difference between an overgeneralization and a nuanced defens nuanced defensible position okay and that's where you want to be tomorrow again just like I said with the multiple choice um answer choices often times choices that include absolutes are not going to be the correct answer because that's not what college board wants same thing when you're writing your own thesis statements your own supporting claims your own overall arguments you got to recognize that they're just are very little absolutes in the world okay so let's get into feedback specifically about commenting on sources so lower lower responses again tended to include commentary that overgeneralized or over simplified a sources um argument so in other words they tended to look at a sources merely supporting or challenging reing which often led to a superficial understanding of the source so it is important that you recognize through your own commentary maybe when you are introducing the source that you recognize that there's got to be a deeper analysis of the source and how the evidence fits in the context of your essay so if we're looking here and I'm going to try to speed it up a little bit because I know we're getting a little we're getting bogged down and I'm worried about that so I'm going to move a little faster here but the commentary seen and higher scoring responses were more developed and insightful and that's what you guys have to be tomorrow right here's what we want to see when we're looking at an essay whether it's an AP research essay L essay um you a push essay readers need to see a mind at work and it it can't be our mind at work it's got to be evidence of your mind at work what does that look like well we've got an example here instead of merely paraphrasing after after including a quotation from a source a response offers small actions and efforts by humans can add up and create a larger lasting impact on the future of our world that is commentary from the student right and so there is a suggestion that that fully supports the student's either overall claim or supporting claim for that body paragraph right most importantly down there the connections between the evidence and the supporting or overall claim was explicit and that's what's just I mean it's got to be explicit it can't be simplified right or simplistic but it's got to be explicit okay so overwhelmingly here's what um here's what college board told their teachers to work on okay so I'm going to P I'm going to give you just this final reminder for tomorrow I wish I would have highlighted it in yellow now that I'm thinking about it but students often focus on the idea of evidence as support for their claim which is good right however listen to this let me finish which leads to cherry picking quotes that seem to support their thesis stronger responses explain those quotes and so here's the difference between the earlier sentence and then this sentence students focus on the idea of evidence as report and leads them to cherry-pick and so students fail to explain the significance of the evidence because they assume it's going to just explain itself okay that cannot just be explained itself you've got to explain how it how it strengthens your idea further more um to develop this this idea more da da right you've got to really use some of those transitions to fully engage in conversations all right look at a concept through different lenses different perspectives different scales remember all of this is on college board for you so if you want to go back to it you can see those but most importantly the the it's it's right here stronger responses explain those quotes weaker responses paraphrase them after including them like they just restate what they said what you're going to do tomorrow is embed that evidence and explain the significance of that evidence okay that's what you're going to do tomorrow for that q1 then you're going to wrap it up and you're going to move on now full disclosure for the the q1 and the Q3 we want a fully developed intro and we want a fully developed conclusion okay four rhetorical analysis not so much all right for years and years and years AP Lane teachers have been teaching their students that for the rhetorical analysis a thesis statement and a concluding statement is totally appropriate for a rhetorical analysis right mostly because if you look at this Q2 rhetorical analysis right so that is analyzing rhetoric you're not writing an essay for synthesis you're writing an essay for argument you're writing an essay for rhetorical analysis you're analyzing rhetoric okay so let's get into this piece now what do you notice about the writing prompt it's long there's a lot of context here and here's what I taught my students for years is that whatever College Board provides for you in the prompt they expect to see it in your commentary that means whatever is in the prompt is critical to your understanding of the rhetorical situation so you've got to make sure that you reference it when you are writing your own commentary when you are analyzing the rhetorical choices and their impact on the audience and how they illustrate the writer's understanding of the the audience's beliefs values and needs right so again I'm going to say it one more time if it is in the prompt graders will expect to see this information in some way right in your commentary as well in other words it's important to recognize that lady that um the first lady right that she led programs including the reach higher initiative it's important that you recognize what that initiative is for encourages students to continue their education it's important to know that it supports high school counselors that's going to that's going to be why she addresses the counselors It's going to be important to know that this was 2017 it's an event honoring outstanding school counselors right that's it's got to be in your comment as well and then you'll notice we actually have the overall message which is her message is about her expectations and hope for young people in the United States what we don't have in this rhetoric in this prompt is her purpose right so we have the message but what's her purpose is she going to try to inspire them what is what is she doing that's what you as the writer are going to have to figure out so let's take a look at what students did really well with this prompt and where students really struggled I'm going to start with the struggles first so many weaknesses did not demonstrate an adequate ability to discuss the the role of syntax in grammar so here's what happens students talked about polycon students talked about dashes students talked about different forms of parallelism but what happened was they didn't have enough um or a deep enough analysis to to explain the significance of those choices and here's how I break that down for my students I teach my students hey let's not ever analyze alliteration like let's just not do that and the reason why I don't want you to do that is because I can't think of really anytime I've been been convinced to do something because a writer used a literation it's just not the most effective rhetorical Choice okay now y'all like it because it's easy to identify but when you think about in the grand scheme of things is it easy to write solid um commentary or analysis over sure isn't so skip it right skip it here's what happened when provided the examples were not always represented of the name choice so students mislabeled them and they were ill prepared to discuss why they mattered to Obama's message mostly because they probably weren't very important there were many other choices that were more important okay so for example Michelle used which we should always call her by our last name right but this student writes Michelle used parallelism to help highlight key components of her speech but and then the response provided evidence that wasn't parallelism okay parallelism is highly effective I'm gonna say it again parallelism highly effective but what happened were a lot of students mislabeled strategies if you're not 100% of the name of the strategy or strategy don't name it just list it and analyze it okay just use that text evidence and move on so you're going through here you're going to want to notice that stronger essay is consistently and clearly explained why her repetition was effective why that parallelism was effective she repeat repeats the phrase so you has a form of anaer accurate right so it's really looking at the those effective choices so I guess maybe that's my my big takeaway for rhetorical analysis tomorrow make sure that the choices you choose are truly effective and so think about some of those most popular ones imagery repetition parallelism anaer um tone J to positions comparisons organization think about those those most effective strategies that's what you want to be looking for okay I do I'm I know we're getting low on time but we're good here but I want to make sure that we talk about this I'm not going to read the positive side here because what I really want is to make sure that you guys hear this because even when y'all join me for boot camps or jump starts or whatever it may be it never fails that I have some students who talk about how Obama or the speaker uses ethos POS or logos as a rhetorical choice but listen to me kids and I was so glad to see this in the chief reader report because I've been saying it to my students for years and years is that remember those those appeals those were those rhetorical appeals so ethos appeal to emotion appeal to act or appeal to emotion appeal to reason appeal to credibility right those are effects of choices those are not choices eles every every choice parallelism imagery loaded language inclusive language those all result in an appeal so if you're saying that she uses ethos or she uses posos which y'all there are so many emotions for you to just say she uses posos no way Jose don't be that person okay we want to make sure that you're going through and you are you're talking about those things but only as a result of a choice okay make sure you get there tomorrow and then I just want to remind you so here's why you have this screenshot here are some sample thesis statements these are listed again in the the scoring guidelines and the chief reader reports so you all can look at some example thesis statements and you can look at some week P of statements here I feel like that is very powerful powerful for you guys I'm not sure if you've been do doing that and it it's never too late to look at some sample thesis statements gives you an idea of what to expect for tomorrow all right final thing I want to make sure that you really work diligently on embedding your quotations tomorrow okay students would it by embedding you are able to rely Less on the speaker's words so that way you're not in danger of summarizing or paraphrasing right in only is what I'm saying okay there should not be long Snippets of text I teach my students our text evidence should be no more than four to seven words and the the shorter the better small Snippets of text evidence so that way the rest of it is your own commentary small Snippets of text evidence okay the dreaded argument essay I feel like you guys tomorrow right by the time you get to the D the argument essay you may be short on time and here we are okay so a couple of reminders as we're thinking about running out of time tomorrow remember this the rubric is break is broken down in a way that even if on the argument essay or the rhetorical analysis or the the thesis the synthesis essay if all you can do is write a thesis statement write the thesis statement because that way you're at least going to get one point if all you can do is write a thesis statement in one body paragraph write one body paragraph because guess what maybe you're going to get one point or possibly even two on row b right so again this is what I was talking about earlier when I said we're going to have to think strategically and critically about our choices if we're running out of time we don't throw in the towel we don't go back and and try to revise or edit something we've already written we move on to the next essay and if we only we have five minutes to write write as much as we can for five minutes we and and when I say write as much as we can I'm not talking about an introduction I'm talking about thesis statement and at least one body paragraph if we get to a point tomorrow where you're running out of time work the system get those points on the rubric two points out of six is way better than zero out of six right and I know you guys can get that thesis statement point so things strategically there let's look at some of this information for the chief reader report for the argument essay and again I'm sure you guys are sensing a theme here and the idea is that stronger responses recognize the complexities within the power of an individual voice so again let me be clear when students wrote their thesis statement what they did was identified that there there's an extent so Kingston's claims Mrs College Board um is largely correct however a community of voices is only more powerful when it's doing what is right for everyone some typos there from the student it's okay y'all it's a rough draft it's okay doesn't have to be perfect shouldn't be perfect okay we want to recognize those choices okay we want to make sure on your argument essay tomorrow that you're going to pull at least three pieces of evidence to support your stance and we talk about where can that evidence come from and I teach my students that a personal anecdote is appropriate that is okay a historical example even better think about examples from your other classes something you've learned in AP site something you've learned in AP C somehow but thinking about different types of evidence you can use I know sometimes we panic because we're like my teach said I couldn't use um two historical examples yes you can yes you can okay if it comes down to using two historical examples or only one historical example and running out of time use two historical examples okay think about the current climate think about current events all right when you're thinking about your evidence the only thing I would caution you is if you're taught if you've been taught to use literature just make sure that you're focusing on the purpose of the literature the author want the themes why they thought it was appropriate literature makes me real nervous to use as evidence because literature is often right it's fiction and so if we're talking about you know a main character as a reason why we should all believe in the power of voice the character is not a real character so that's a slippery slope just make sure you can handle it well okay again sample thesis statements for you guys to look at simple Kingston's belief in the strength of a community of voices is completely valid you can be as clear and concise as that all right as we're going through here I want to make sure that we take a look and we've talked about the rubric again I always am going to have a lot more talking points than we're ever going to be able to talk about none of this information is new I've mentioned the rubric as if we as if we've been talking I know you guys want that sophistication point but listen if that sophistication point if that nuanced argument doesn't come to our brains naturally I wouldn't spend a lot of time trying to develop our arguments in such a way that we earn that sophistication Point okay it's not a unicorn I would say it is absolutely achievable but I I think it should happen naturally and it shouldn't be forced if it's forced we're probably sacrificing our time which could hurt us on row b which is evidence and commentary and I think all of us in this room are way more likely to get a four out of four on evidence and commentary than we are to earn that sophistication point so again let's think strategically let's think about is it better for me to try to use my own rhetorical choices or is it better for me to develop a stronger line of reasoning with evidence and commentary every time evidence and commentary every time okay we G we want to make sure that you guys manage your time tomorrow again I've talked about it y'all know read your instructions carefully think about the think pieces read those texts carefully plan your essays do not just start writing please don't do that that makes me a nervous wreck plan your essays first always want to make sure that when you Revis your work at least leave yourself two to three minutes at the end of each essay to go back and just read over it that way you can look for any really pressing concerns maybe you messed up something on your on your thesis statement you need to edit that a little bit leave yourself some time to do that okay and here's here's our final Point here right the night before the exam is about reinforcing what you already know rather than trying to learn new material so take a look at our videos take a look at some of this information from college board but y'all tonight is not the night to try to learn an entirely new strategy or to write seven essays tonight focus on staying relaxed and confident and you will do great most importantly you got to make sure you get a good night's rest and as you are in a good mental state of mind tomorrow I always tell my students whether you think you can or you think you can't you are right so just walk in there knowing that you're going to cook tomorrow all right y'all John muscatello what do we got are we G to feed yeah let's let's bring on our founder and CEO Marco go ahead and stop your screen share I'll bring him on Marco come here why don't you say hi to Katie and all the nice people hey everyone how's it going look at him he's gonna get like a four or five and he can't even read good so he looks very ready he's ready he's be ready be a good boy no don't lick he's so listen and also he the thing he's been telling everyone is you are not cooked right y'all or as you would say Katie y'all are not cooked anyway he's he's 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Published: Tue May 14 2024