Remote Learning Week 5 Assignment

Before you do anything else, STOP! Go to File>Make a copy. This is a

read-only document, and the only way you will be able to complete the
steps of this assignment is to make your own copy, which you should then
rename and complete.

Submit to Canvas by Friday, 5/11 at 10AM. You may delete these instructions once you have
made a copy and clean up the formatting of the document however you would like, as long as
you make it super clear to me in your layout that you have done all of the steps. You must
complete ALL steps on your own to receive completion credit for this third week of Q4. Any
evidence of collaboration with classmates, plagiarism, or other forms of academic dishonesty
will result in an incomplete for the week and further disciplinary action.

AP Exam- End of Year (EOY) Survey and Make a Review Sheet!

Part 1: After the exam next week, we are still going to have something close to a month of
school left, I think. Please fill out this survey to help me determine where your interests lie for
what you would like to do in the weeks left following the exam. DOING NOTHING IS NOT AN
OPTION. Please take the survey seriously. I am open to a lot of different paths to take us to the
end of the year.

Part 2: I want you to create your own one-page review/notes sheet that you can have out in
front of you during our AP exam. You can put anything on it that you would like, as long as it is
relevant to our class and this style of essay prompt.
● Feel free to consult the AP Exam Prep Materials Module (on Canvas) as needed to help
you create your notes page. You can also use any handouts I have given you or any
content that is in your spiral notebooks that you might find helpful. The goal is for you to
print the notes page and use it on exam day.
● Make sure you download your own copies of any documents/GoogleSlides
Presentations/PowerPoints/PDFs, etc. Remember that none of them can be shared
documents accessed on test day, or else you could trigger a security response from the
College Board.
● You can create your review sheet/notes page using a computer or by hand. If you create
by hand, you need to take a clear picture of it with a smartphone or tablet and upload
that image in the space below. If you choose to use a word processor, just copy and
paste the content below, or give me a screenshot. You can add images, colors,
whatever. This part of the assignment is about you doing what you need to do to put
yourself in a position to be successful.
● In addition to showing me your review sheet somehow below, make sure you print a
copy of it to use on test day if you used a computer to create it!
● IF YOU ARE NOT TAKING THE EXAM, PRETEND YOU ARE. :) SHOW ME WHAT
YOU HAVE LEARNED ABOUT RHETORICAL ANALYSIS ON YOUR NOTES PAGE.
English Language Review Sheet
Common Rhetorical Choices
● Allusion - Brief reference to a person, event, place, or work of art
● Analogy - A comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. Often, uses something
simple and familiar to explain something complex
● Anaphora - Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases,
clauses, or lines
● Anecdote - A brief story used to illustrate a point or claim
● Asyndeton - Omission of conjunctions between phrases, clauses, or words
● Complex Sentence - Independent and dependent clause
● Compound Sentence - Two independent clauses
● Cumulative Sentence - Completes main idea at beginning of sentence and then builds
● Diction - Word choice
● First-Hand Evidence - Evidence based on something writer knows from personal
experience
● Hortative Sentence - Exhorts, urges, entreats, calls to action
● Juxtaposition - Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or
differences
● Metaphor - Compares two things without like or as
● Periodic Sentence - Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end
● Personification - Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea
● Polysyndeton - Deliberate use of multiple conjunctions between clauses or words
● Rhetorical Question - question posed for rhetorical effect rather than getting an answer
● Simile - Compares two things using like or as

Sophistication Point Ideas

● Weave components of SPACE into analysis (audience, context, exigence)
● Address relationships between various rhetorical choices
● Considers complexities of a text - what would be different if another rhetorical choice
had been made

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS PRACTICE: (45 minutes of writing time)

Part 1: If you still haven’t tried out the AP Exam Demo from the College Board, do so here:
interactive College Board Exam demo.
Part 2: (Same as last week’s assignment) Review this brief information regarding the stable
wording of the prompt on our exam. If you didn’t do last week’s assignment, and you choose not
to look at this really fast presentation, there’s a pretty good chance you are going to screw up
your thesis. :)

Part 3: Have a timer handy. Put yourself into a situation as close as possible to what you will
have on test day.
● Write in one sitting. Find a quiet place in your house where you can write with minimal
interruptions.
● Practice like you will perform! Use the same word processor you are planning on using
on test day. Just make sure you eventually put your essay into this document for me to
review.
● Program your timer for 45 minutes, unless you have a 50% extra time accommodation,
approved by the College Board, in which case you would have an extra 22 minutes to
add to your time.

Part 4: Access the practice prompt (2020 Practice Exam #2) in the Remote Learning Week 4
Module on Canvas. Type your response into the space below or copy/paste it in after you have
finished the practice test.

Note: I had two options left from 2020 newly released practice exams. I chose this one because
the reading is, well, different, from a lot of what we have seen this year. The process stays the
same. I didn’t want you to be caught unawares if the reading passage on your exam is like this
one. It’s a little more narrative-feeling than what we are used to. Some of you might find it more
challenging to analyze. Don’t be dismayed either way. This prompt is NOT a reason to throw up
your hands and decide you aren’t doing the exam. We are in preparation mode. That’s all I’m
doing in giving this one to you--preparing you.

● Record the time you started and stopped the practice essay. Stop yourself after 45
minutes...if you don’t finish, think about why and how you could move faster next week
on the exam.
● If you plan on printing out the question on exam day, do that, but you must start your
timer first. Printing will take a small bit of your testing time away.
● Use whatever word processor you are planning on using on test day (GoogleDocs,
Microsoft Word, Notes, Pages, etc.)
● Split your screen so you can look at the reading in one window and your response in
another (not tabbed...separate windows!).
● Single-space is fine.
● Disable Grammarly if you have it as an extension on GoogleDocs. It won’t work with the
test. We discussed that during our Google Meet session last week.
● If you are planning on hand-writing, you can do that now, but upload/insert the images of
your hand-written pages into the space below.

Time Started: Sorry, I forgot to keep track, but Time Finished:

I used a timer to time myself and I was within
the time constraint.

Put essay below:

 The Earth is home to over 3 trillion trees that grow on every continent. Trees play such an
important role in the worldwide ecosystem by creating clean, breathable air, from carbon
dioxide. As such, one would imagine that humans would work tirelessly to protect these essential
resources. However, humans have begun to destroy forests all around the world with billions of
trees cut down every year. In her prologue, Hope Jahren works to convince the reader of the
importance of her work of protecting trees. Jahren uses many rhetorical choices, such as a
balance sentence , quantitative evidence, and an analogy in order to convey her message that her
work is vital to the health of the globe because it works to save trees: Earth’s most vital resource.
To begin, Jahren uses a balanced sentence and a list of rhetorical questions that illuminate
the blatant lack of care and empathy that humans give to the Earth. In line 42, Jahren says,
“People don’t know how to make a leaf, but they know how to destroy one.” Here, Jahren is
pointing out that, even though humans have made great strides in technology and can build
multistory buildings, they are still unable to create resources such as trees, yet still cut down
trees. This balanced sentence helps to convey Jahren’s message because it displays how essential
trees are. She is elucidating the fact that humans would be helpless without trees. While humans
consider themselves to be the rulers of the Earth, Jaren wants to help the audience to understand
that humans would be nothing without the help of trees that give them the resources they need to
survive. This sentence also helps to explain the lack of empathy people have towards the Earth.
Even though humans are unable to supply themselves with breathable air, humans still only
know how to destroy the source of air. By having this sentence be a balanced sentence, it gives
equal emphasis to the fact that humans do not know how to make trees, and yet they still destroy
them. By using this balanced sentence, the author hopes to accentuate these points to the reader.
This supports her message by displaying to the audience that humans must do better if they want
to be sustainable for years to come. She wants to show the reader that her work in environmental
conservation is important because trees cannot be replaced, and once humans lose trees, there is
no going back.
Furthermore, Jahren utilizes quantitative evidence in order to convey her message of the
importance of trees. She states facts, such as that in the last 10 years, over 50 billion trees have
been cut down, or that every ten years, 1% of the total forest on the Earth is cut down and will
not be regrown. These facts are used to demonstrate the negative impact human actions on the
Earth. The numbers that Jahren chose to tell the audience are staggering. At this point, the
audience will realize that this is not sustainable. They will learn that their actions have negative
consequences on the Earth. They will understand that they must do better in the future if they
want future generations to be able to live on this Earth. The use of quantitative evidence really
puts human impact into perspective. Previously in her essay, Jahren states that there are 80
billion trees in the western United States. By saying later that in the last 10 years, over 50 billion
trees have been cut down, the audience will be able to comprehend the size of the negative
impact deforestation has. They will imagine what the united States would look like if over half of
its trees were cut down. America would turn into a brown wasteland. By showing these facts to
the audience and displaying the enormous impact humans have on the Earth, Jahren supports her
message that trees must be conserved because they are vital to the health of the planet.
 Finally, Jahren uses an analogy. At the end of her piece, Jahren compares how one does
not need to know how to knit to be a housewife, or that one does not need to know latin to study
the bible to not needing to know complex science in order to be a scientist. Instead, she suggests
that just by asking simple questions can a person become a scientist because they are working
towards learning about the world around them. This analogy helps to reach out to the audience.
When the audience is reading this prologue, they are most likely thinking about how much of an
impact they can really have on the Earth. They will think that because they do not know complex
science that they are not able to have a significant impact. However Jahren uses this analogy to
wash away these misconceptions held by the audience. She wants to show to the audience that
even if they are not totally educated on every topic in environmental conservation, they can have
a positive impact, just by asking simple questions. This analogy supports Jahren’s argument
because it fosters a deeper connection between author and reader. The reader will be more
sympathetic towards Jahren’s cause of helping the Earth when they know that they are able to
make a difference in the world.
To conclude, Jahren makes many rhetorical choices in her prologue in order to support
her message that her work in environmental conservation is important because trees are essential
to the health of the Earth and all the humans that live there. By emphasizing the importance of
the environment, maybe one day humans will change their actions in order to live a more
sustainable life style.

Part 5: Now that you are done writing, assess yourself in the space below. How do you feel?
What would you say are your strengths and weaknesses? What do you want me to look for
while I am reading? (Note: like last week, time constraints are heavy on me this week with full
essays coming in, so please give me something you want me to focus my comments on.)

I do not think that this is some of my best work. I tried at first to do an idea-device thesis,
but I had to scrap that and do only a device thesis because the idea paragraph I had just wasn’t
coming together and I didn’t have enough time to work it out. I think overall it is a fine essay,
maybe a 1-3-0 because I do not think that my analysis is totally thorough and could use some
more improvement. Also obviously I was running out of time at the end because my conclusion
is very bad. I do not know exactly what I want you to look for. I think that what I need to work on
is just having a clearer string of ideas. Sometimes I know what I am trying to write, but I have a
hard time putting it into words and then making it a very clear, easy to read thought process, so
I think working on being able to make my writing flow more between ideas is the next step in
order to improve my writing.

SUBMIT THIS ENTIRE DOCUMENT TO CANVAS! LOOK FOR THE WEEK 5 ASSIGNMENT.

NEXT WEEK! I will likely hold a few extra (OPTIONAL) Google Meet sessions before the
exam--more details to come. I'm going to go easy on you next week. You all have been working
so hard, and I want you to devote most of your energy into studying for our exam and any
others you might have left.