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Instructors name: Devin Ayers Week of: 03/03 03/07 Course/Grade: Grade 12 AP Language and Composition Unit Name: AP Multiple Choice Preparation

Common Core/ NM Content Standards: SL.11-12.1; SL11.12-3; SL11-12.4-6; RI.11-12.1; RI11.12-4 Essential Question(s): How do we improve our multiple choice test taking skills? 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 access previous experiences and skills completing multiple choice tests. Resources/Materials Teacher: Students: Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain from The Norton Reader AP multiple choice question stems

Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: direct observation This Week: direct observation/large group discussion/small group discussion/written notes/extended response questions/Socratic dialogue Unit: direct observation/large group discussion/small group discussion/written notes/extended response questions/Socratic dialogue

Time allotted MONDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their multiple choice testtaking skills. They will show their learning by completing five original multiple choice items based on Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain. They will create these items using the AP question stem list. They will be due Wednesday. TUESDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their multiple choice testtaking skills. They will show their learning through whole class

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discussion of items 25-38 on the AP practice exam. WEDNESDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their understanding of rhetorical devices, voice, figurative language, personification, and writing type. They will show their learning by identifying one example of each of the items listed above, and generating a written explanation of how the author used each to her advantage in Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain. These extended response answers will be due Friday. Assignment(s) DueFive original multiple choice items based on Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain.

THURSDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their multiple choice testtaking skills. They will show their learning through small group discussion of items 39-54 of the practice AP exam, and through written notes on this subject that will function as an exit ticket. FRIDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their speaking and listening skills. They will show their learning through Socratic dialogue.

Assignment(s) DueExit ticket: multiple choice notes.

Assignment(s) DueSocratic dialogue: Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain. Extended response questions.