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Instructors name: Devin Ayers Week of: 09/30 10/04 Course/Grade: Grade 11 AP Lang. and Comp. Unit Name: AP Exam Multiple Choice Practice

Common Core/ NM Content Standards: SL11-12.1; SL11-12.3; SL11-12.4; RI11-12.1 RI11-12.6 Essential Question(s): What strategies have you employed in the past to be successful on multiple choice exams? What strategies can we employ now to improve your chances for success? What strategies are unique to the AP exam? Other considerations (modifications, accommodations, acceleration, etc.): Students who require it will receive extended deadlines for writing assignments and/or shortened reading. Connections (prior learning/prior knowledge): Students will reference past experience with multiple choice exams and put them to use (as well as augment them).

Resources/Materials Teacher: Students: AP practice exam Norton Reader

Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: direct observation/discussion This Week: direct observation/discussion/multiple choice questions/Socratic dialogue Unit: direct observation/discussion/multiple choice questions/Socratic dialogue

Time allotted MONDAY Learning TargetStudents will increase their skills in successfully answering multiple choice questions on the AP exam. They will show their learning by taking a short practice exam, and by discussing the reasons for their right and wrong answers. Today a short section of a practice exam will be taken in class (timed), followed by discussion and investigation of lines of logic leading to correct and incorrect answers.

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TUESDAY Learning TargetStudents will increase their skills in successfully answering multiple choice questions on the AP exam. They will show their learning by taking a short practice exam, and by discussing the reasons for their right and wrong answers. Today we will complete our analysis/evaluation of the multiple choice items completed in class yesterday. WEDNESDAY Learning TargetStudents will increase their skills in successfully answering multiple choice questions on the AP exam. They will show their learning by taking a short practice exam, and by discussing the reasons for their right and wrong answers. Today a short section of a practice exam will be taken in class (timed), followed by discussion and investigation of lines of logic leading to correct and incorrect answers.

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Assignment(s) DueA Federalist Paper of Your Own essay assignment

THURSDAY Learning TargetStudents will increase their skills in successfully answering multiple choice questions on the AP exam. They will show their learning by taking a short practice exam, and by discussing the reasons for their right and wrong answers. Today we will complete our analysis/evaluation of the multiple choice items completed in class yesterday.

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FRIDAY Learning TargetStudents will increase their abilities at rhetorical analysis of non-fiction work. They will show their learning through Socratic dialogue.

Assignment(s) DueReading: Politics and the English Language by George Orwell in the Norton Reader Socratic dialogue