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School
House Books Multiple-Choice Solutions
for
the English Honors and Language and Composition Classrooms
This spiral notebook has been
designed to meet the needs of the NEW English AP Language and Composition
Class. These multiple-choice questions address the rhetoric of the
passage more than before. The Teacher's edition includes both answers
and explanations for every test in this spiral notebook.
Chapter
One: Making Multiple-Choice Tests
for English
AP Language and Composition
The best way to learn is to teach.
This chapter teaches the students how to make multiple-choice tests. Click
here for a sneak preview of the 25 stems with answers and distracters that
are a part of this chapter.
Collaborative
Multiple-Choice Assignment
Direction are given here for writing
an multiple-choice test as a class. Individual and collaborative
assignments are detailed.
How
to Make Multiple-Choice Tests for
English
AP Language and Composition
Typical phrasings used in AP Language
multiple-choice tests are included. Headings name the type of questions
that need to be asked. The four types of questions are SOAP, LOGOS, PATHOS,
and ETHOS. These are brand new categories, reflecting the dominance
of rhetoric that is typical of the new Language and Composition examination.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the maximum number of questions that should
be asked out of 50 for that particular heading.
Chapter
Two: Writing Multiple-Choice Tests
for English
AP Language and Composition
This chapter has six full-length
tests with thirty passages from several works of literary merit.
Authors include Mark Twain, Robert F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, George Washington,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Addison, Daniel DeFoe, Ida B. Wells-Barnett,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lewis Thomas, Lou Gehrig, William Lloyd Harrison,
Winston Churchill, Frederick Douglass, Queen Elizabeth I of England, William
Faulkner, Gerald Ford, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln, and Nelson Mandela.
Each speech or excerpt is followed by a space to write multiple-choice
questions.
Chapter
Three: Multiple-Choice Test-Taking Hints
The multiple-choice section of the
English AP exam consists of 50 to 60 questions on five passages which have
to be answered in one hour. Twelve full-length tests are available
in this spiral notebook. These tests could be taken as a whole (one
sixty minute period) or separately (12-15 minute segments). This
chapter has some suggestions to help complete the test more successfully.
After reading the suggested strategies, students can take the tests,
applying each of these strategies. As they continue to take more
of the exams in this book, they should adopt those strategies which work.
Plenty of space is provided to add more strategies that work.
Chapter
Four - Nine: Six Full-Length Practice Tests
This chapter has six full-length
tests with thirty passages from several works of literary merit.
Authors include James Baldwin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Sir George
Savile, George Orwell, John F. Kennedy, Francis Parkman, Mark Twain, Henry
David Thoreau, Lord Chesterfield, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass,
Thomas Jefferson, Ghandi, H. L. Mencken, and Richard Nixon, Thomas Carlyle,
Governor Adlai Stevenson, and Joseph Conrad.
Chapter
Ten: The Essay--Rhetorical Analysis--
Evaluating
Argumentation/Persuasion
After taking the multiple-choice
test (which guides the close reading of the passage), students should be
able to write better essays on the same passage. Therefore, several
passages are included in this chapter for that reason. This booklet,
in fact, could be used for a boot camp approach for getting them in shape
for all aspects of the test.
Chapter
Eleven
Students can practice the new type
of essay here--synthesis. Each passage on the multiple-choice
test in Practice Test One deals with some aspect of self. Document
1 of this chapter starts the argument that our personality has two parts:
an inner and an outer self. Each of the other documents make some
conclusions about which part of our character is most important.
Included are two cartoons that deal visually with the same subject.
After studying these documents carefully, students should then write a
well-organized essay that synthesizes the information in 3 or more of these
documents in assembling a purposefully argued essay about the importance
of character.
Chapter
Twelve
A rubric is included here for writing
the type of open-ended argumentation/persuasion essay written in the 2004
AP Language and Composition exam. The prompt asked the students to
select a "controversial local, national, or global issue with which you
are familiar. Then, using appropriate evidence, write an essay that
carefully considers the opposing positions on this controversy and propose
a solution or compromise." Students can write on several topics at
different times of the year, always using this rubric to guide them. |