Generic AP Language And Composition Rubric

ESSAYS ARE DUE ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19. Submit an electronic version to Turnitin.com via WebCT by 10:00 AM. Bring a paper copy of your essay to class.The essay is worth 100 points. The Prompt criterion is graded on a scale of 30 to 50 points according to the grading scale below; the remaining five criteria—Organization, Evidence, Development and Analysis, Style and Voice, and Grammar and Mechanics—are graded on a scale of 6 to 10.

The most difficult part of taking the Ap English Literature test was the essay section. Discerning a conversation between both characters in the test and formating a helpful prewrite made it difficult to write the essay with a paragraph per prompt given the 40 minute time limit that should be spent on each essay.

The media is powerful. It shapes the minds of millions of Americans. Our position in the world allows our media to not only shape the perceptions of Americans, but the world at large. Whether listening to the radio, going to the movies or turning on your television, your brain is being feed a diet of what to wear, what to buy and more importantly, how to think, how to think about others. Media shapes our perceptions of different races, sex and religions.

Malcolm X said “The media is the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” The media is powerful. The world is full of lies. People have to be able to tell what is the lie and what is the truth. People get their news from websites and newspapers, often from only one source. People should read multiple news sources, because again, the world is full of lies. If a person always gets their news from one source, they will be brainwashed by it and believe it.

In the past few years, I have noticed that the news talks about some pretty touchy subjects, and it causes an up-roar in society. For example: the shootings that have been taking place all around America is an affect of television. Because television allows news about shootings become mainstream, it causes people to choose a side about if cops are rightfully doing their job or abusing their power. If television only allowed

An essay had to be typed from the information found. The essay could not be longer than three-fourths of a page long. I used text from the Iliad to find similarities and differences between the Trojan and Greek values and support my evidence. Overall I have an understanding of the standard. I felt was close to mastering it, but had errors.

As discussed in class, one of the most influential agencies of socialization is the media. The way we see ourselves or the way other people see us come from what we are told by others and what we tell ourselves. In the Better world handbook, the chapter on media states that “the way we think and act in our daily lives is inextricably linked to the information we receive about the world” (Jones, Haenfler and Johnson). The chapter continues to discus how information delivered to us can be bias and this raises the issue on who controls the media and what we see through it. The problem with this could be that that whoever controls the media does not necessary have our best interest in mind and the content that is transmitted through the media is profit driven. . In the article “Lies my teacher told me: Everything your American history textbook got wrong” gives a perfect accept of how easy it is for information to get omitted based on what people what you to know and what they don’t want you to know. From a young age, people decide what they want you to know, so that they can decide on what they want you to think about certain topics whether its American history or something else, its like the

Essays that earn a score of 7 bring all the features of a 6 to the

There is a notion held by many people that the media has the power to

     The media provides the public political issues, which sets the agenda for political discussion. In theory the media tries to attune themselves to the interest of the public, but “in most instances the media severs as conduits for agenda-setting efforts by competing groups and forces” (Ginsberg, Lowi & Weir, 1999, p. 298). To gain public support, groups and forces need media coverage to promote their ideas. However, the media has great control over which issues they televise. The issues must have media appeal or be considered newsworthy.

In order to write better essay items: communicate your desired response (maybe show students a model of what you expect), precisely describe the task at hand, show students how to pace themselves through their test, avoid choice boards and menus as it allows for a mix-and-match measurement procedure, and mentally answer the item as your students may answer it to help you detect flaws in your assessment items. Scoring essays can be done holistically or analytically. A holistic approach is when you take the entire writing composition into consideration as a whole. An analytical approach is when individual skills/strategies are observed and a students’ strengths and weaknesses are assessed. Scoring keys and the weight of items should be decided upon before assessment begins. When grading papers, score one item at a time instead of one paper at a time and have students write their names on the backs of their paper so anonymity will be increased. This way scoring is more reliable and more

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." This quote by A.J. Liebling illustrates the reality of where the media stands in today's society. Over the past twenty years there has been an increase in power throughout the media with regard to politics. The media's original purpose was to inform the public of the relevant events that occurred around the world. The job of the media is to search out the truth and relay that news to the people. The media has the power to inform the people but often times the stories given to the public are distorted for one reason or another. Using slant and sensationalism, the media has begun to shape our views in society and the process by which

Take this for example, the Medias post presence of two of the major hurricanes to hit the United States in the past 10 years. Hurricanes Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The media show with people on top of their homes. People trapped in their cars and homes. The city of New Orleans were trapped. The streets were flooded. Repeats of looting and starvation flooded two airway. People lost their homes, family, and actually everything and media pushed these stories through the roof. These stories scared us and caused people across the nation, affected people to stop living. Following these disasters, the United States established clear evacuation routes and reestablished local shelters. For example, New Orleans used the Superdome as a place of shelter during Katrina and after Katrina just in case of another emergency. Every hurricane season supermarkets sales skyrockets, people stock their homes for days and at times fill up there gas tanks just in case they need to get away quickly or use the car for heat.

     The mass media prevents us as human beings to be fully human. Propaganda unconsciously causes the public to act in ways they may not

Too often, people do not question or challenge the views media presents to us and simply accept the views at face value. Politicians rely on this during campaign elections. The popularity of negative advertisements depreciating opposition parties has grown tremendously over the years because they are often successful. The public embraces the negative media messages, then votes accordingly. Oftentimes, people do not even know they have been acted-upon by the media.