can anyone answer my question?
@BryceBJ that happend to alot of people too tbh i dont know if it would since so many of us missed that part of literaly adding a certain culture
That’s what I put
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Also what did yall get for what the final paragraph of the (snail, mom, writer) passage meant? I said something like the writer wanted to write as well as the mother lived
@aplangq I answered could not be put into words for torrential, to downplay a significant point for passive voice, multiple authors for et al, and also issues instead of volumes
@Broncaholic9 I said the same for the moon question
@zigzag7 Yeah I clearly wrote the number of the prompt each new page, so I hope they get the gist x__X
And I wrote 4 pages for each of my essays, most of the space taken up were scribbles lol. I thought the problematic prompt asked for polite speech & using evidence from cultures or communities, therefore I wrote about school, workplace, and Asian culture.
Yea I think the community thing should’ve been answered to get above a 5 on that essay. By stating a community, I was restricted to examples and reasons based on that. I guess you could’ve used outside examples and then explain how those examples relate to your specified community, which would’ve probably been smart; however, since I selected high school as my community, I was restricted to personal anecdotes and hypothetical examples 
@Spurs2014 I said something along the lines of the writer wanted to write as well as the mom lived as well, the last few lines of the passage were, pardon the vague translation: “my moms story must arise from this ink”
Hahaha that passage was such a crap shoot I can barely remember it.
I read through a couple of posts and worried I had misread what some of the FRQ were asking, but it seems like there were different questions asked for all three essays. For example, My synthesis essay revolved around Fair Trade, not Honor Code
@RamenUniversity that’s funny i wrote about the exact same thing
PLEASE SOMEONE EASE MY MIND. If i forgot to label an essay, will it be graded
So, in sum, how much do you guys think an essay with no explicit mention of a community/culture will be downgraded?
I feel like the culture part wasn’t actually a real part to the prompt but it was merely how it was worded that made people think it was necessary. I’m sure you won’t be docked for having it, but I doubt that the College Board would make the culture part a necessity seeing as it would require a person to write from a certain point of view that they may or may not have had exposure to. I’ve never seenthe College Board enforce a certain viewpoint in a prompt. I’m not saying it’s impossible that the culture part was necessary, but seeing as so many students here didn’t catch it I feel like it was just the way it was worded rather than exactly what they were asking. If this many people are opposing on both sides, there was obviously some confusion from the College Board’s end.
By all means, I still feel like even if you didn’t include the culture aspect even if it’s required you could still get a 6 on that essay. With how many awful essays the graders must read, as long as you wrote well and made good points while vaguely referencing the idea of community (Which for that prompt you pretty much had to anyway) you should be fine. Totally could be wrong though 
I doubt you really need a specific community. I felt communities in general was sufficient. That’s just me tho. Maybe I just failed? Tho I doubt it.
@theatregirl445 did you label the other two? If so, I think you will be fine. Might want to double check with a teacher or guidance counselor though just in case!
@theatregirl445 yeah you should be fine even if you didn’t label your essays at all the ap readers will be able to figure out what prompt your responding to i think numbering your essay on each page is really just for their convenience
Mutual feelings on that passage
When I first read it I thought the author was being passive-aggressive towards her mom and saying that while her mom was energetic, the authors words were much stronger because they could “raise cities”
LOL I guess that was totally off base
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Was the usage of passive voice in lines 1-5 to be ambivalent about the issue??
And what was the meaning of the metaphor of the snails trail??
@MileSwimmerDude not sure about the passive voice, but for the metaphor i believe it was that she was working herself away or something along those lines