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AP English Language and Composition Exam Study Guide
This document is 44+ pages of review for the AP English Language and Composition exam. It contains information about:Writing with sourcesAnnotating promptsRhetorical analysisIdentifying the rhetorical situation Argumentative writing with background knowledgeSample top scoring responsesThe structure of the exam & how the exam is scoredLinks to helpful YouTube videos that walk you through concepts you might have missedand more! It goes section by section of the exam and gives you tips and tric
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9th - 12th
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The Great GMO Debate: Argumentative Writing Practice - Made with Google!
Looking to prepare your students for a state writing test or the ACT writing test? Searching for a real-world relevant topic to aid your students in building argumentative writing skills? This is the unit for you! Are genetically modified foods cause for concern in America? Should food companies label genetically modified foods to warn consumers? How has the fear of genetically modified foods impacted American economics, politics, and culture? What should the Department of Health and Human Servi
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Gallery Walk Posters & Graphic Organizer for SOAPSTone Pre-AP Strategy
Get those kids moving! Both HISTORY and ENGLISH classes can use this kinesthetic activity and convenient graphic organizer to analyze an author's purpose, audience, and speaker in non-fiction, informational text, poetry, short stories, novels, and drama. Great as an assessment of comprehension for pre-class readings.SOAPSTone requires students to think critically to identify textual evidence that supports their analysis of a text's (S)peaker, (O)ccasion, (A)udience, (P)urpose, (S)ubjects, and (T
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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School Dress Code: An Evidence-Based Argumentative Writing Unit - Google Drive
This argumentative writing unit focuses on utilizing a popular and controversial topic, school dress codes, to spark informal dialogue and debate as well as claim/counterclaim development and evidence-based writing through article and video study. Examining students’ school dress code experiences, students are given many opportunities throughout this unit to discuss their positions with peers. These conversations and informal writings combined with an analysis of the differing viewpoints present
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6th - 12th
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AP Language Rhetorical Analysis Essay Worksheets & Activities Exam Prep Toolkit
Use these AP Language and Composition rhetorical analysis essay guided writing worksheets, graphic organizers, and scaffolding activities to provide your struggling AP Lang students with approachable, yet rigorous rhetorical analysis essay writing opportunities throughout the year. Not only will these AP resources help your students meet the college-level writing requirements of the course, but they will also help them plan with a purpose, organize their thoughts, and complete their essay withi
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
AP Language Synthesis Essay Guided Worksheets & Activities Exam Prep Toolkit
Use these AP Language and Composition exam prep synthesis essay guided writing worksheets, graphic organizers, and activities to provide your struggling AP Lang students with approachable, yet rigorous synthesis essay writing opportunities throughout the year. Not only will these AP resources help your students meet the college-level writing requirements of the course, but they will also help them plan with a purpose, organize their thoughts, and complete their essay within that daunting AP exa
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Writing Literacy | AP Essays: Synthesis Language (Rhetorical) Analysis Argument
Talking about Essay Types in AP Language & CompositionHi, Friends!Are your students a bit panicky right now? Help calm student nerves and add this handout into your routine RIGHT AWAY! IN FACT, go ahead and let students use this sheet as they get used to the idea that they'll be writing THREE back-to-back essays in May. Add this to your lesson plan—and then keep the inclusion consistent! Have a discussion about each essay type. AP Language & Composition students in Semester 1 (especially
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â | AP Language & Composition | Skills-Based | Enriched | Pre-AP | PUSH
ACT Reading Test Prep Bundle 2023 | 69 Questions | Keys/Explanations | Save $3!
At long last, here is the ACT Reading Bundle in the 2022/2023 format!Help your students prepare for the ACT Reading test with four original passages and a total of 69 questions and save $3!This bundle includes Daughter of the Samurai (Literary Narrative), The Full-Course Meal (Informational/Figure), Automation (Informational), and Ecotourism (Informational/Multiple Passages) for a variety of topics.The 69 total multiple-choice questions cover the three ACT score reporting categories in reading o
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10th - 12th
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SAT Reading Passages
TWELVE SAT READING PASSAGES INCLUDED IN THIS BUNDLEHalf of your students evidence-based reading and writing score comes from the new SAT Reading Test, a 65-minute test that requires you to answer 52 questions spread out over five passages. The questions will ask your students to do everything from determining the meaning of words in context to deciding an author's purpose for a detail to finding the main idea of a whole passage to pinpointing information on a graph. Each passage ranges from 500
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9th - 12th
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AP Language-Style Synthesis Essay Prompt or Practice Activity
Here's an original synthesis-style essay prompt that's perfect for AP Lang & Comp or a college Comp/Rhetoric class (where I use it). Can be used as a formal assessment tool, or as an informal introduction to synthesis thinking and writing--I generally have students do some freewriting with it, and then do a Lincoln-Douglas-style debate to talk it through.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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ACT Reading Test Prep | Drag Shows | 16 Questions + Key w/ Explanations
Help your students succeed with ACT Reading test prep, close reading strategy, making inferences/conclusions, and varied question types.This is a new original passage on the history and present state of drag shows, presented in a professional and supportive manner. There are 16 original ACT-style questions for additional rigor plus a detailed key with answers, explanations, and strategies.The entire document can be assigned to students to be completed and checked independently, or it can be taug
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10th - 12th
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ACT Test Reading Prep - Prose Fiction - Passage and 15 Questions w/ Explanations
Help students prepare for the Reading portion of the ACT.The passage is modeled after the Prose Fiction passage of the ACT Reading Test (2020-21). The source text is This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Includes key with answers and explanations, relevant passage lines, and question type for each of the 15 questions. Self-contained, no prep: students can complete the passage, check their work, and use the explanations to understand mistakes.Good luck!
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10th - 12th
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Graphic Organizer: CERCA --- Rhetorical Analysis -- Writing -- Pre-AP Strategies
Traditionally used for rhetorical analysis, you can use this convenient graphic organizer to help students deconstruct an argument or compose their own with additional areas included to ensure the fluency of higher-performing essays. CERCA requires students to think critically to analyze a text's (C)laim, (E)vidence, (R)easoning, (C)ounter-(A)rgument.This graphic organizer can be used as an assignment to assess students' ability to analyze an argumentative/persuasive text or as a pre-writing g
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Graphic Organizer: SOAPSTone --- Pre-AP Strategies
Traditionally used for rhetorical analysis, both HISTORY and ENGLISH classes can use this convenient graphic organizer to assess comprehension of a text's inciting occasion, author's purpose, target audience and speaker in non-fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, short stories, novels, and drama.
SOAPSTone requires students to think critically to identify textual evidence that supports their analysis of a text's (S)peaker, (O)ccasion, (A)udience, (P)urpose, (S)ubjects, and (T)one.
This grap
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Global History Evaluation Activity - Peter the "Great"?
Here's an activity that really gets students to not just cite evidence but to make the next step and start to analyze that evidence by constructing an argument. While it's probably best used in a Global classroom or as preparation for a Global History Regents examination, it concludes with a writing activity based on the Part 2 essay for the Common Core English Regents exam--a great product for some humanities collaboration!
The topic for this activity is Peter the Great and his transformati
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Close Reading Using Ronald Reagan's Tear Down This Wall Speech
In this Close Reading we used Ronald Reagan's Tear Down This Wall Speech. The excerpt is followed by eightteen multiple choice questions, an essay prompt, and a complete the chart which challenges the students understanding of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. This lesson was created for Advanced and Honors 10th,11th, and 12th grade students.This lesson can also be used by those students who are preparing for the SAT or ACT.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Constructed Response: Moving away from an acronym (OEQ/SAR)
Students use CAPE strategy to write thoughtful, fully developed responses to open-ended questions. Suitable for STAAR EOC instruction in Texas.
Additional practice is provided for embedding textual evidence.
Help students move away from formulaic, acronym-based responses with the extension activities.
Once this transferable skill is mastered, students will be able to build upon it to write text-based essays.
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STAAR English EOC Connecting Texts SAR using commercials
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9th - 12th
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Connecting Selections Constructed Response (OEQ or SAR)
Suitable for STAAR EOC instruction in Texas. Struggling students use APETPECC acronym to write thoughtful, fully developed responses to connecting selections open-ended questions. This strategy is designed to earn a two score point. After mastery, students easily may be coached up to a three score point short answer response.This strategy also is transferable to a synthesis essay. Students will be able to build upon this skill to write document-based essays.Related ProductsSTAAR English EOC
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3rd - 12th
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Global History Evaluation Activity - Causes of the French Revolution
Here's an activity that really gets students to not just cite evidence but to make the next step and start to analyze that evidence by constructing an argument. While it's probably best used in a Global classroom or as preparation for a Global History Regents examination, it concludes with a writing activity based on the Part 2 essay for the Common Core English Regents exam--a great product for some humanities collaboration!
The topic for this activity is the French Revolution, but it helps
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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ACT Reading Test Prep | Multiple Passages | Ecotourism | 20 Questions + Key
Help students prepare for the Reading portion of the ACT.The passage is modeled after the ACT Reading Test (2022-23), Multiple Passages variation, and features three original passages (about 700 words total) offering differing perspectives on ecotourism. The included key contains answers with detailed explanations, relevant passage sections, and question type for each of the 20 original questions. Self-contained, no prep: students can complete the passage, check their work, and use the explanati
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10th - 12th
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Graphic Organizer: Structure of Argument --- Pre-AP Strategies
Both HISTORY and ENGLISH classes can use this convenient graphic organizer to analyze persuasive texts such as speeches, commercials, etc.
This graphic organizer requires students to think critically to identify textual evidence that supports their deconstruction of a persuasive text to identify its HOOK, THESIS, SUPPORTING POINTS, EVIDENCE, CONCESSION-REFUTATION, and CALL TO ACTION.
So versatile! Attach this item to my SOAPSTone graphic organizer to create a great poster analyzing a complex
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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ACT Reading Test Prep | Automation | 15 Questions + Key/Explanations | UPDATED!
Help your students with ACT Reading test prep, close reading strategy, and varied question types.New original passage on the history, evolution, present state, and pros and cons of automation (650 words).15 questions (for rigor) plus key with answers, paragraphs, explanations, and question types.UPDATED per the 2022/23 format for ACT Reading passages (Informational type).Now included in the 2023 ACT Reading Bundle!Please comment with what new test prep materials you want me to create. Good luck
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10th - 12th
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ACT Reading Test Prep | Full-Course Meal | Informational | 19 Questions + Key
Help students prepare for the Reading portion of the ACT.The passage is modeled after the ACT Reading Test (2022-23). This Informational passage, "The Full-Course Meal," gives the history, examples, and current state of this elaborate style of dining. There is also a figure of table setting for a full-course meal with related questions, per the new Reading test guidelines.The included key contains answers with detailed explanations, relevant passage sections, and question type for each of the 19
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10th - 12th
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SAT Reading Passage: WWI (Wilson's 14 Points)
Half of your Evidence-Based Reading and Writing score comes from the new SAT Reading Test, a 65-minute test that requires you to answer 52 questions spread out over five passages. The questions will ask you to do everything from determining the meaning of words in context to deciding an author's purpose for a detail to finding the main idea of a whole passage to pinpointing information on a graph. Each passage ranges from 500 to 750 words and has 10 or 11 questions. Time will be tight on this te
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â WWI Bundle
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