Below is the current version of the synthesis rubric. I do not expect it to undergo any major changes.
The essay presents a clear argument.
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The essay responds to the prompt question.
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The essay acknowledges alternative viewpoints (antithesis).
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The essay uses both paraphrase and direct quotations.
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The essay uses one or more advanced elaboration techniques.
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The essay demonstrates polished composition and writing.
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AP Language Semester 1 Study Guide
Your final exam will have approximately 125 multiple choice questions. The semester one reading list below covers authors that will be asked about on the final exam. There are some passages that we read this year that will not be covered on the exam.
Reading List
Novels:
The Scarlet Letter
Huckleberry Finn
Literature Passages:
“Huswifery” (Edward Taylor)
“To His Excellency, General Washington” (Phillis Wheatley)
“To a Waterfowl” (William Cullen Bryant)
“Devil and Tom Walker” (Washington Irving)
“Fall of the House of Usher” (E.A. Poe)
“The Prairie” (James Fenimore Cooper)
Non-Fiction Passages/Excerpts:
On Plymouth Plantation (William Bradford)
General History of Virginia (John Smith)
Wonders of the Invisible World (Cotton Mather)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Johnathan Edwards)
Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson)
Speech in the Virginia Convention (Patrick Henry)
The Crisis (Thomas Paine)
Speech of Miss Baker (Benjamin Franklin)
Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs)
My Bondage, My Freedom (Frederick Douglass)
Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Walden (H. D. Thoreau)
Question Breakdown:
Two 5-event Huck Finn Timeline questions
12 HF character to quotation matching
6 HF social commentary
11 HF character analysis
10 general HF questions
8 Literary device quotation identification
10 literary device definition matching
14 Author to title matching
11 Romanticism quotation or author identification
7 Critical reading passage questions
6 Fallacy identification
10 Scarlet Letter True/False
10 Writing process questions
