AP Synthesis In-class Essay 2016

Wesley 4AP

For April 27, 2016

Assignment:   Using the prompt and sources you developed for your AP synthesis project, write an AP synthesis essay in response to your prompt.  The essay is worth 70 possible points, and I will assess it holistically according to the rubric you created. Typically students write 2 ½ to 4 pages depending on the size of their handwriting and variation in style and/or development of their writing. 

Materials: You must have your own copy of your prompt, sources, and rubric.  You may not share with a partner.  You will staple your essay to the front of your AP synthesis packet and hand it in at the end of class. You will have approximately 45 minutes to complete your essay.

Objectives:

Thoughtfully evaluate and articulately take a position on an important issue you have researched.

Prepare for timed writing assignments in college and on the AP Language and Composition exam.

Grade Equivalents:

AP Score	Average	Points (out of 70)	Letter Grade
1	55%	39	F
2	60%	42	D-
3	65%	46	D
4	73%	51	C
5	78%	55	C+
6	83%	58	B
7	88%	62	B
8	93	65	A-
9	97-100%	67-70	A

The quiz on chapters 15-17 and the author's note will be moved to Monday.  I have a ten question (20 point quiz) prepared, however, I want to include another five to ten student-written questions, so that we will have a 15-20 question quiz on Monday, April 11 of next week.

With a partner, create an eight question, multiple choice text-based quiz for chapters 15-17 and the author's note) (two questions from each chapter and the author's note).  Email it to me for 5 completion points. (period 7 can handwrite their questions). Make sure your partner's name is on it too.  

Also, find one sentence in each chapter which contains a word that could be a vocab word.  Type out the sentence (with the word underlined), and then write or cut and paste a good (5 points) With a partner, create a ten question, multiple choice text-based quiz for chapters 4 and 5 (5 questions from each chapter). Also, find one sentence in each chapter which contains a word that could be a vocab word.  Type out the sentence (with the word underlined), and then write or cut a good definition of the word in that context below the sentence. 

Example of a text-based multiple choice question: 

1. Who is being described in the following passage?:

"Doing her college reading, (she) felt as sluggish so sluggish that she feared she'd caught dengue fever or malaria again" (Chapter 4, p. 50).

a. Asha
b. Meena
c. Manju
d. the One Leg
e. Zehrunisa

When you are finished, email them to me. (wwesley@lths.net). 
 of the word in that context below the sentence. 

Example of a text-based multiple choice question: 

1. Who is being described in the following passage?:

"Doing her college reading, (she) felt as sluggish so sluggish that she feared she'd caught dengue fever or malaria again" (Chapter 4, p. 50).

a. Asha
b. Meena
c. Manju
d. the One Leg
e. Zehrunisa

When you are finished, email them to me. (wwesley@lths.net). 

Take chptr 12-14 quiz

Watch part of American Terrorist

The lives of ordinary women– their working lives, domestic lives, and inner lives–are an important part of Behind the Beautiful Forevers. The author has noted elsewhere that she’d felt a shortage of such accounts in nonfiction about urban India. Do women like Zehrunisa and Asha have more freedom in an urban slum than they would have had in the villages where they were born? What is Meena, a Dalit, spared by living in the city? What freedoms do Meena, Asha, and Zehrunisa still lack, in your view?


 When we think of corruption, the examples tend to be drawn from big business or top levels of government. The kind of corruption Behind the Beautiful Forevers show us is often described as “petty”. Do you agree with that characterization of the corruption Annawadians encounter in their daily lives? Why might such corrruption be on the increase as India grows wealthier as a nation?
No homework

Library Rm E

Two tasks to complete by the end of the day:

Submit your hard copy and digital copy (turnitin.com) of AP Synthesis Project

With your partner, complete the following:

In preparation for Monday, create a study guide with three original and meaningful discussion questions (one per chapter) for chapters 10-12. (6 points possible; if working with a partner, please put both students names on your entry) Submit them to the turnitin.com discussion board (BBF ch 10-12 discussion) by the end of class. In your question, clearly label the page # and chapter where the quote came from. By Monday, respond online to one posted question for each chapter (each of you should respond online to three questions total...you may respond to question posted by students in either period 7 or 8, whichever you have access to, even if they are not in your class presently.)

Below are some examples of good discussion questions:

 

On page 112 in chapter 9, does Asha have a point when she argues that something isn’t wrong if the powerful people say that it’s right? How does constant exposure to corruption change a person’s internal understanding of right and wrong?

In chapter 9, shortly before Abdul is sent to juvenile jail, a major newspaper runs a story about the facility headlined: “Dongri Home is a Living Hell.” Abdul’s experience of Dongri is more complex, though. How does being wrenched away from his work responsibilities at Annawadi change his understandings of the hardships of other people? Are terms like liberty and freedom understood differently by people who live in different conditions?