Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Anchor Papers for Wordsworth/Dunbar Essay

Hello everyone...here's the page with the AP questions & anchor papers for the past few years. The anchor paper for the essay we talked about "in class" is in the 2001 exam. You probably have to log in.

Monday, March 26, 2007

Tests, assessments, etc.

You know, I have a hard time creating tests. I sat at my dining room table for an hour tonight trying to dream up passage based multiple choice questions for my students, to work into a longer desk, before I finally said to Hades with it.

Anyway, what do your tests look like? I'm looking for as many ideas as possible, because I want to start my last larger work this week and start building for next year. Here are a few things I did for Invisible Man.

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AP Style Essay (As we approached the end of the novel this was an in class writing assignment. (Google Doc)

AP Style Essay Accompanying Rubric
(Google Doc)

My final Invisible Man test (Google Doc)

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Signing Up

To sign up for blogger you have to create a Google account. The site will take you through the steps. Once you're comfortable with Blogger, you should check out Google Docs, an online word processor, and Google Notebook, which simply rules. Once we get going I think we should use this tool for collective AP research.

Anyway, nighty night.

BTW, nice job Julie.

Two Great Resources

Hello folks. This is our blog, post freely. This site, which I found yesterday, contains tons of good stuff. It has rubrics, a year long syllabus, syntax charts, response journal prompts, and much, much more. Check it out. A teacher named Carter Hammond created it.

Also, Anita asked me to repost the site for the AP/PreAp guidebook that I sent around. It can be found here.