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AP English Literature and Composition 2013 Free-Response Questions |
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AP English Literature and Composition 2014 Free-Response Questions |
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Audio Books are Awesome! In this task, students will explore the power of an audio book and record their own reading of a children's piece. This task includes: |
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Band Geeks, Dumb Jocks, Preps and Nerds: Examining Bias in the Media In this task, students will explore bias in the media to help them be able to differentiate between fact and fiction. This task includes: |
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Chalk Dust or Guitar Hero? In this task, students will come up with ways to use every day technologies and games in a class lesson. This task includes: |
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Choral Reading The Choral Reading performance assessment includes two tasks and will be completed twice, once as a pre-assessment and once as a post-assessment, for a unit on nonfiction reading/information book writing. In Task 1, students will choral read a book and draw and write questions they have about the details in the text. They will try to answer their questions. Students will then discuss the book and share out some of their questions and answers. In Task 2, students will write their own information book to teach the important information they have learned. The last page of their book will include a big idea or observation. This assessment includes a rubric. |
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Community Service: Save the Future In this task, students will create a culminating project that will be about the importance of being a well-rounded person. This task includes: |
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County Conundrum In this task, students will convince others to visit their country by researching and presenting the impact tourism has. This task includes: |
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Crossing the Border Into... In this task, students will create a multimedia presentation to help bring in tourism to their town in an effort to empower the local community. This task includes: |
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Democracy: Is It for Everybody? In this task, students will examine how historical civilizations have contributed to modern democracy and use their knowledge to come up with ways to continue furthering it. This task includes: |
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