<p>Use this one for last minutes ideas, predictions, suggestions, etc. Thanks!</p>
<p>I AM AN IDIOT! This was meant to be a new thread… sorry</p>
<p>So there may be 2 rhetorical analysis essays or 2 argumentative essays?</p>
<p>Alex check the prompts. The analysis will say analyze the…(rhetorical strategies/structure/etc.), the argument will look more like an SAT essay.</p>
<p>Could be Alex. The make no promises save the synthesis will be there (to justify making the test 15 minutes longer).</p>
<p>For the argumentative essay, can’t you just make up stories that support your position? I doubt the AP reader is going to get online and research a fake name you use in order to support your idea in the middle of grading 1,000 papers.</p>
<p>I hope to it’s two analysis actually. How many words do you guys write per essay. I’m usually around 700, working up to and maybe even a few minutes over.</p>
<p>I can’t wait for this test, it’s the only one I have a legitimate chance of getting a 4 or 5 on</p>
<p>I was incontestably sure too until I tried a MC in the Barron’s…</p>
<p>Razad-you could fake it, but if you use a solid historical example it give the impression that you have a more academic voice.</p>
<p>I have seen some where they ask you to analyze a letter and a response for effectiveness or two short essays on the same topic written in contrasting styles and ask why one is more effective.</p>
<p>I agree. History is one of best ways to go on this. My plan is to read some presidential inaugurals and look for universal themes.</p>
<p>Anyone else found some helpful links toward achieving better scores on the MC?</p>
<p>i hate ap english and language, i’m not a good writer or reader ;(, should i even read the passage or answer the question by just refering the the line?</p>
<p>I asked a little while back if anyone had a guess about what the synthesis could be…anyone got a stab?</p>
<p>not really. there hasn’t been enough past prompts to conceive a trend. I do however, believe the analysis will ultilize comedy.</p>
<p>They do love sarcasm and satire. Can students identify it is the question? The flamingo question a few years ago was hidden a bit, so many people didn’t see it. The Onion passage they used stated it was a satire in the intro. I could see them using a Twain to cover the 1800s and the satire together.</p>
<p>MC free ones online anyone?</p>
<p>For synthesis, I could see them doing something like zero tolerance or school steroid testing high schoolers. Something not quite earth shatteringly serious, but relevant nonetheless.</p>
<p>hopefully it’s something on which it’s easy to take a position. the penny one last year seems hard in that sense.</p>
<p>lol. hopefully either the synthesis or argumentative will have something to do with international business, like immigration. I’m always better with global trends and issues…</p>
<p>razad- I guess technically you could, but I think they’d rather you use examples from popular culture, the arts, or literature, rather than a few anecdotes about Bob from Wisconsin.</p>
<p>The way I see it is they wouldn’t give you the prompt unless plenty of people have already addressed the idea. It’s my job to use/blend their ideas with mine to support my thesis. It would be easier to use someone else’s well known idea or story than to come up with my own and explain it thoroughly enough and then explain how it supports my thesis.</p>
<p>Plus they like allusions.</p>