2nd Qtr Exam

The test is a combo of matching, multiple choice and short answer.  Some questions will be answered right on the test while others will be scantron.

1. Terms--know the textbook terms from this quarter including Toulmin logic, fallacies, humor, etc.
2. Course content--in addition to terms, you'll need to understand the key concepts in the chapters on Toulmin logic, fallacies, the "research chapters," and humor.
3. AP Multiple-Choice section--you'll read one nonfiction passage and answer the questions following which focus on critical reading and rhetoric we have covered thus far in the course.

To Prepare:  Your best strategy is a well-done and organized journal.  If you use your journal well, take notes over your own reading and supplement them with class discussion notes, you probably have the answer to every question on the test.  We have made what is important very clear in class.  

However, if you haven't done a lot of great preparation in your journal, we would HIGHLY SUGGEST you go back and read all of the assigned chapters, hopefully remembering/looking at the notes and discussion from class, to be sure you understand all of the important rhetorical concepts.

Web Assessment Activity

This will be an in-class activity on Friday.  If you are absent for any reason, be sure to complete this on your own before your journal is due on Monday.

1. Choose a topic, any topic.  Choose something easy and fun.

2. Find two internet sites that deal with your topic: one that you know will be a credible and reliable source and one that you know will not be credible or reliable. 

3. For each site, complete a write-up in your journal that includes the URL and the answers to the credibility check questions on p. 415 of your textbook.  Then reflect briefly on the differences between the two.

Porfolio How-To

Once your pieces are completed, edited and polished, and totally ready to be turned in:

1. Create a new document called 1st Semester Portfolio or something like it.
2. Copy and paste all of your pieces into that one file.
3. You MUST have your Nabokov essay.
4. You MUST have your final draft of your definition argument.
5. You MUST have at least two NEW arguments you wrote this quarter.
6. You MAY have include other items if necessary to prove your understanding/use of ALL of the skills on the 1st semester portfolio checklist
7. If you have a piece that uses Power Point, convert it to a PDF.  Then try to copy and paste it from there into your portfolio document.  If that doesn't work, please email your teacher and we will come up with a plan B.
8. To show your revisions based on feedback:  pick one piece that has undergone multiple drafts with significant change.  Put those drafts (properly labeled and in order) in your portfolio document to show the change.  You might also consider a screenshot of feedback that prompted those changes, though this part is not required.  If you don't know how to take a screenshot on your particular type of computer, google it.  It is different depending on what type of system you're using (Mac, Vista, Windows XP).
9. You do not have to put anything in your portfolio to show the helpful feedback you provided your peers.  Your teacher will assess that based on your completion and appropriate participation in the peer reviews this semester.
10. Once everything is in your portfolio document, add page numbers to the document.
11. Create a Table of Contents page for the beginning of your portfolio document.  Include the title of each piece and page number it BEGINS on.
12. Save.
13. Upload to Turnitin