Week 26 Assignments



Week 26 Assignments

1. What’s due this week

2. The TE

3. MYOMC

4. Looking ahead

5. The real AP exam—DID YOU REGISTER?

1. Here’s what’s due this week, Week 26--March 20

•        Division/Classification Peer Review due Wednesday--CANCELLED

•        Timed Essay (from old AP exam) due Friday

•        Grade This Timed Essay due Friday

•        Make Your Own Multiple Choice due Friday

•        DQ: Initial response due Wednesday, student response due Friday

•        Voice Lessons—Syntax Lessons 11-15

2. You will find the TE for the week the same place as last week, on the website. Click the link to read the TE. Feel free to print it and take it with you to write up your essay by hand. I decided to also paste the essay to the end of this assignment sheet. It’s Question One from the 2005 AP exam.

3. It’s MYOMC time again! Please go to the “Student Quiz” section and write three more questions. Also, answer a few questions that your fellow students wrote. Feel free to give them feedback and encouragement in the handy new link on —MYOMC—Fun for you and me! For those who actually try some student MC questions and have a few things to say (hopefully positive things), there will be some bonus points waiting!

4. In a month (April 17th week), you are scheduled to take the second practice exam, the 2001 exam. Do you have a copy in your possession? If not, why not get one today?

Next week, you are to read Thoreau’s essay Civil Disobedience. Why not track this down now? You can read it online at (just one of many places). But, if you like a paper copy, reserve yours at the library today!

5. If you have not yet contacted your local school district about registering for the AP exam on May 1, do it ASAP! In our district, the deadline for requests was Friday. If they gave you an exam date of any other day than May 1, you are registered for the wrong exam!

Funny true story—

Someone recently said to me, “Hey, I never realized all the vowels were in alphabetical order!” (And yes, the person did have pale yellow hair.)

The Timed Essay for Week 26

The passage below is from “Training for Statesmanship” (1953), an article written by George F. Kennan, one of the principal architects of United States foreign policy during the period following the end of the Second World War Read the passage carefully and select what you believe is Kennan’s most compelling observation. Then write an essay in which you consider the extent to which that observation holds true for the United States or for any other country. Support your argument with appropriate evidence.

In our country, the element of power is peculiarly diffused. It is not concentrated, as it is in other countries, in what we might call the “pure form” of a national uniformed police establishment functioning as the vehicle of a central political will. Power with us does exist to some extent in courts of law and in American institutions. It exists in our economic system, though not nearly to the degree the Marxists claim. Sometimes, unfortunately, it exists in irregular forces—in underworld groups, criminal gangs, or informal associations of a vigilante nature—capable of terrorizing their fellow citizens in one degree or another. Above all, it exists in the delicate compulsions of our social life, the force of community opinion within our country—in the respect we have for the good opinion of our neighbors. For reasons highly complex, we Americans place upon ourselves quite extraordinary obligations of conformity to the group in utterance and behavior, and this feature of our national life seems to be growing rather than declining. All these things can bring us to put restraints upon ourselves which in other parts of the world would be imposed upon people only by the straightforward exercise of the central police authority.

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