My answers are kinda different from people around here. Can someone give me some feedback please?
On the honor code thing, I wrote that that honor codes are community driven and cited an example of a feudal knight. If a knight broke the code of chivalry, the king wouldn’t punish him. His peers would because they follow the code. The moment that a figure of authority “establishes” an honor code, it ceases to become honor-driven and becomes a mere law, which is more easily broken.
On the Cesar Chavez thing, I wrote that he was polarizing the growers as evil. I mean he saying that the nonviolent protest of farmers would appeal to “the American people and free people around the world”. In that sense, he was alienating the growers as non-American, non-freedom loving people. I also wrote he was using dichotomous logic because he was like violence brings one of two things, where in fact violence does sometimes solve problems. See the American revolution or the LA riots. By using dichotomous logic, he was basing his argument on a flimsy premise. Lastly, he was inflaming his audience by saying stuff like “the farmers are seething” with “frustration” and a whole bunch of other words.
For the polite thing, I just wrote it is a sign of respect and yada yada yada.
@mygello your synthesis essay (based on what you wrote) seems like you didn’t accomplish what they asked you to. you have to use the sources to help support your point, and the whole chivalry thing isn’t very relevant. your synthesis seems fine, seeing that you have nice rhetorical devices (you couldve just said diction tho…) and for your argument, it wouldve been nice to use examples from outside of stuff, not just explaining why.
Did anyone take form Z (exempt)? I’m just wondering…I felt as if the last passage on form z was mind blowingly difficult…anyone else feel this way?? The essays were easy, passages 1 and 2 were easy, passage 3 was eh…but passage 4…wtf!!!
My argument was that honor codes won’t work because honor codes are community driven. Students at my high school don’t care about cheating, so the community obviously wouldn’t work to fulfill the code. The chivalry thing just served to strengthen my argument.
AP Eng Lang students scored best on Q1, the synthesis question on honor codes. AP Eng Lang students performed slightly less well, but not poorly, on the analysis of Chavez’s rhetoric & the argument on polite speech.
Now does anyone want to try and guess what they got from these numbers lol. I think I got a 3, amazed if its a 4.
I probably got a 3. Really wanted a 4, but my synthesis wasn’t too great and I had trouble thinking of examples to use in the argumentative essay, so it was kind of shaky
Synthesis was the one I felt weakest about. I felt strongest about my rhetorical analysis. I’m hoping for at least a 4, but I really want that 5. I worked so hard in the class and loved it so much. I’m hoping my multiple choice did me justice.
So just because I haven’t looked at this… Two of my AP tests ended up being Monday and Tuesday of the week of this test, so I was like forget it I’m not skipping classes three days in a row (plus we were filming a music video but that’s another story.) That ended up being a blessing in disguise as the proctors forgot to give test takers the reading time before the essays and 15 minutes was lost. I make good choices sometimes.
correction to my comment: scores come out starting the sixth based on your location. Regardless, good luck to the east coasters because they have to bite the bullet :3
All of you guys are going to do great ok