AP English Language and Composition Summer Reading Assignment Welcome to APE! You are about to begin a course unlike any other English class you have taken. Before beginning your summer reading assignment, you must revisit your ideas about critical reading. Follow the link below to the site “Critical Reading of an Essay’s Argument.” While this site focuses on finding the central argument of an essay, the strategies suggested will benefit your reading of any text. Please annotate the article
SCHOOL SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT 2012-2013 High School English 9th – 12th grade OSNAS students are required to read two novels if placed in an English Regular’s or Honor’s class and three novels if placed in an AP English class: Several grades will be given for the summer reading. Dialectical response journals for each book (rubric attached). Exams on the assigned novels within the first days of school. In class essay questions on each of the novels. 9th Grade Regulars and Honors - Reading Assignment:
help me pronounce a word and explain what each word meant in the book we were reading that day. This was very helpful because it allowed me to learn faster than if I was reading on my own. The day I started first grade, I went to the library and picked out two books. The books I mostly read were Clifford or Dr. Seuss. My teacher would have me read them over and over again until I understood each word. Once I accomplished reading each book, I was sent to the kindergarten classrooms to read to them like
classes I received mostly A’s for my writing assignment. The teachers concentrated on whether the students understood the concept, not on the essay clarity. So, I knew I lacked the proper writing tools for the exam. It was surprising I failed my exam and needed to take the College Writing R1A class I was a bit upset but knew it would be greatly beneficial at the end. Before I could take the College Writing R1A, I had to take the College Writing N2 during the summer. The College Writing N2 helped me focus
classes I received mostly A’s for my writing assignment. The teachers concentrated on whether the students understood the concept, not on the essay clarity. So, I knew I lacked the proper writing tools for the exam. Once I received the results that I failed my exam and needed to take a remedial class I was upset. However, it would be greatly beneficial for me.Before I could take the College Writing R1A, I had to take the College Writing N2 during the summer. The College Writing N2 helped me focus on
wrote, but I had to use a computer for the assignments in this class. By taking this class, I discovered the advantages of using a computer, and now I am use it more. I loved writing about my thoughts or feelings about things that happened to me. But I had a good involvement various kinds of writing from this class: descriptive writing, visual analysis, problem-solution essay, wide repertoire of read and respond etc. I enjoyed the writing assignments the most of . Especially when I wrote the descriptive
Summer Reading Assignment Name: ____ __________________ 10th Grade The House on Mango Street Before returning to school next school year, you will need to read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and complete this assignment. This organizer is intended to guide your reading and focus your thoughts in preparation for the discussions, summer reading quiz and writing assignments you will engage in when you return in September. By carefully completing this assignment over
It’s hard to imagine that just ten short months ago I was sitting in a classroom building a spaghetti tower with no idea what a rhetorical analysis essay was or what the word anaphora meant. Now, just a couple of months later, I have read and analyzed six different novels, learned to write an argument, synthesis, and rhetorical analysis essay, expanded my lexicon of literary terms, and sat through a three hour AP exam. This class has not only given me the skills to master the AP exam, but it has
pool studies, you have to send an email to the course coordinator (bizlaugt@nus.edu.sg) by 31 August 2012 (end of third week) to request to be excused from subject pool and to complete an alternative assignment instead. You will then be given an assignment on 10 September 2012 (week 5) and that assignment will be due 21 September (week 6). If you have not informed the course coordinator by 31 August 2011 that
school and my first semester of college I have been exposed to more different styles of writing both through the given writing assignments and the books I have read. One of my biggest struggles when writing essays is making them compact, concise, and on topic.