AP Lang summer reading quiz

How long is the exame

3 hours 15 minutes

How long is the multiple choice section

1 hour

How long is the free-response section

2 hours 15 minutes

15 minutes reading time

40 minutes synthesis essay

40 minutes rhetorical analysis essay

40 minutes argument essay

How many sources are given on synthesis essay

6-7 (documents and images) sources on a given topic

what is the task on the synthesis essay

To use ideas from at least three sources to support your argument

What are the topic on a synthesis essay

current events

How many passages are included in a rhetorical analysis essay

one passage to read

What is the task in the rhetorical analysis essay

explain how an author’s use of rhetorical choices impacted the audience to achieve a specified purpose or effect

What passages have recently been included in the rhetorical analysis essay

articles from a magazine, a eulogy, a journalist’s speech in front of a convention, and a commencement address

What do you need to include in the argument essay

a short introduction to the topic

what is the task in the argument essay

to take a position on the topic and support it with ideas from your own reading and experiences

what are the topics like in the argument essay

broad and/or abstract

How to use Ethos Pathos Logos when analyzing

Take notes of textual evidence that appeals ethically, logically, or emotionally to the audience

How to use ethos logos pathos when developing commentary

When discussing impact, you will likely refer to a logical, emotional, or credible appeal, but avid using the terms ethos, logos, and pathos

Ethos

credibility, appeal to authority. When appealing to authority, author can present details or evidence of experience, moral character, credentials, or accolades to show credibility

Pathos

Emotion, author can make audience feel a wide variety of emotions by including sympathy, sadness, anger, joy, pride, or fear

Logos

Logic, can be accomplished by supplying facts, statistics or data, evidence, or rational and logical argument

Earning points on rhetorical analysis thesis

• responds to prompt with defensible thesis that analyzes writers rhetorical choices

• responds to prompt rather than restate or rephrase prompt

• thesis clearly takes a position

Earning points on rhetorical analysis evidence and commentary

• Evidence: provides specific evidence to support all claims in a line or reasoning

• Commentary: consistently explains how the evidence supports a line of reasoning

• explains how multiple rhetorical choices in passage contribute to writer’s argument, purpose, or message

Earning points on rhetorical analysis sophistication

• Response demonstrates sophistication of thought and/or a complex understanding of the rhetorical situation

Earning points on argument essay thesis

• responds to prompt with a thesis that presents a defensible position

Earning points on argument essay evidence and commentary

• Evidence: provides specific evidence to support all claims in a line or reasoning

• Commentary: consistently explains how the evidence supports a line of reasoning

Earning points on argument essay sophistication

• demonstrates sophistication of thought and/or a complex understanding of the rhetorical situation

Earning points on synthesis essay thesis

• responds to prompt with a thesis that presents defensible position

Earning points on synthesis essay evidence and commentary

• Evidence: provides specific evidence from at least three of the provided sources to support all claims in a line or reasoning

• Commentary: consistently explains how the evidence supports a line of reasoning

Earning points on synthesis essay sophistication

• demonstrates sophistication of thought and/or a complex understanding of the rhetorical situation

SPACECAT

Speaker

Purpose

Audience

Context

Exigence

Speaker

• write person’s name correctly

• 1st include full name, then last name

• Know speakers credentials

Purpose

• If the prompt includes the purpose, dig deeper

• Use synonyms from the prompt to be more specific and demonstrate a better understanding of the passage

Analyzing the audience

• author makes rhetorical choices based on the audience

• think about the audience’s relationship with the speaker and the audience’s beliefs, desired, and/or values

Context

• Think of context as the big picture

• think about relevant/historic events that happened in the time period

Exigence

• the immediate reason that the speaker is giving the speach

• examples: responding to a letter, a graduation ceremony, a funeral

what is MAP

Message

Argument

Purpose

• All passages have purpose, and a passage typically had either a message or an argument

Syntax

The grammatical structure of sentences

Phrases

groups of related words without subject, predicate, or both

Clauses

groups of related words with subject and predicate

loose sentence

main paint at beginning

periodic sentence

main point at end

natural order

subject before main verb

sentence types ex.

declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory, simple sentences

Test prompt from 2018 exam question 1

• Kindergarten is an educational setting to prepare children for academics. the drive towards increased academic standards is concerning some that the kindergarten experience is being compromised

• consider implications of transforming kindergarten into a more academic environment

• synthesize information from 3 sources and form a well written argument on your position of the kindergarten issue

Test prompt from 2018 exam question 2

• an author who published essay about the need to rethink the idea of wilderness in modern culture

• read then write essay where you analyze choices author makes

Test prompt from 2018 exam question 3

• about a booked published by a psychologist

• How does thinking about the future affect one’s ability to experience and appreciate the present?

• write an essay and develop a position on the question

Line of reasoning

• a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood

• you need a solid line of reasoning

• develop your own unique line of reasoning