1. Today is Monday August 7, 2017
The students will be able to access baseline levels of comprehension on an AP MC test
Warm up: Why is it important to do BOTH Dual Enrollment and the AP test? Explain certain circumstances where this is not the case.
Into to rhetoric
Score Diagnostic MC
Identify Question types and distractors
Reverse Map incorrect answers
HWK: Read and post to turnitin

2. Determine the Tone
During the whole of the dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing along, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher…

3. TYPES OF QUESTIONS What text says Summary Tone Theme development
Text structure
Non-US point of view
Character Development
Two different mediums.
Meanings of words
Themes/topics/ideas from other pieces.

4. TYPES OF DISTRACTORS Too specific Goes beyond scope Too general
True but doesn’t focus on the specific question
Violates tone
Partially correct
Irrelevant
Absolute/overstatement
Opposite
Feature not mentioned
Only echoes language
Clearly wrong

5. PARTIAL MULTI-FLOW MAP
QUESTION TYPE:
It’s not A because… <add distractor type & explain here>
It’s E because…
It’s not B because… <add distractor type & explain here>
It’s not C because… <add distractor type & explain here>
It’s not D because… <add distractor type & explain here>
In order to do better on this type of question, I need to

6. STEP 1: READ THE QUESTION
Chapter 1 begins with a peaceful scene at the river until the two men come into it and disrupt the serenity. Then, after some introduction to the characters and plot, things get peaceful again at the end when George and Lennie fall asleep by their dying campfire. How might you categorize this structure?

7. STEP 2: IDENTIFY THE QUESTION TYPE
What text says
Summary
Tone
Theme development
Text structure
Non-US point of view
Character Development
Two different mediums.
Meanings of words
Themes/topics/ideas from other pieces.

8. STEP 3: READ THE ANSWER CHOICES
Steinbeck is using a cause-effect pattern of development.
Steinbeck is using a comparison/contrast pattern of development.
Steinbeck is using a circular pattern of development.
Steinbeck is using a narrative pattern of development.
Steinbeck is using an expository pattern of development.

9. STEP 4: IDENTIFY & JUSTIFY CORRECT ANSWER & DISTRACTORS
Steinbeck is using a cause-effect pattern of development.
DISTRACTOR OR CORRECT? WHY?
It’s not A because it doesn’t focus on the specific question about the beginning and ending. There is cause-effect development within the chapter, but not in terms of the beginning and ending.

10. STEP 5: SELF REFLECT
In order to do better on this type of question, I need to…
Things to consider:
Did you read and understand the story?
What is “this type”?
Is there any phrasing in the question you don’t understand? If so, why: new vocabulary, didn’t pay attention to detail, forgot story?
Are there any terms or other vocabulary in the answer choices you don’t recognize?

11. YOUR TURN! Steinbeck is using a cause-effect pattern of development.
Steinbeck is using a comparison/contrast pattern of development.
DISTRACTOR OR CORRECT? WHY?
Steinbeck is using a circular pattern of development.
Steinbeck is using a narrative pattern of development.
Steinbeck is using an expository pattern of development.