1. A guide to sleep, sanity and making it through your junior year.
Surviving AP Language
A guide to sleep, sanity and making it through your junior year.

2. Happiness and Success and AP Language

3. What am I getting myself into?
Weekly Language Terms lists -fallacies, parallelism, lots of grammar and sentence structure, obscure language terms
Challenging multiple choice tests to follow lists
Reading, reading, and more reading (American Literature and non-fiction pieces)
Writing, writing and more writing (we’ll get to this later)
Participation- class discussions, small group discussions

4. The AP Test- Friday, May 9
Argument essay (40 minutes)- we start with this essay
Rhetorical analysis essay (40 minutes)- we’ll begin working with this essay later this fall
Synthesis essay (40 minutes)- we’ll work through the synthesis essay in December and January
Multiple choice (55 minutes)- we’ll hit this up weekly, don’t let it frustrate you
15 minutes of reading time at the start of the test

5. Survival Tips
Quit caring about your grade and start caring about what you are actually learning.
You might have to study!
-Use Quizlet, make flashcards, make some study buddies
Should you choose to procrastinate, do not blame it on me or anyone else. Be honest with yourself about your habits.
Be ok with being wrong.
Advocate for yourself but don’t be a grade-whore.
Be sure you’re taking this class because YOU want to.

6. General Policies
Late work will be lowered one letter grade, regardless of how cool, creative or dramatic the excuse. If you had some legit drama, have your parents me.
Have a question about an answer on a multiple choice test? Disagree with the answer? Be aware, tests require you to choose the best answer, right answers will always be provided but there is also a BEST answer. Should you still disagree, let’s talk. Whine? You will only entertain me.
I’m ok with technology as long as you ask for permission to have it out. Should I find you Snap Chatting about your AP Chem test or who looks ugly today, I will take your ever-so-useful technology. Should I find you using it to cheat, you will have you hands chopped off.
Communicate with me.