{"id":505,"date":"2017-09-27T08:10:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T12:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/alaouie\/?p=505"},"modified":"2017-09-27T08:10:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T12:10:51","slug":"exploring-student-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/alaouie\/2017\/09\/27\/exploring-student-samples\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Student Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you wrote on the relationship between\u00a0<strong>certainty and doubt<\/strong>, please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/secure-media.collegeboard.org\/apc\/ap12_english_language_q3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>\u00a0to access your scoring guide and student samples.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who wrote about the relationship between\u00a0<strong>ownership and self<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/secure-media.collegeboard.org\/digitalServices\/pdf\/ap\/apcentral\/ap13_english_lang_q3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scoring Guidelines and Student Samples<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Step 1: Read the scoring guidelines for your essay:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Identify all the adjectives and adverbs. Note how they differ with the scores.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em><strong>Step 2: Please read only the first student sample. This is the highest-scoring of the three samples, and it is always an eight or a nine. As you read, please answer the following:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How does the writer make her position clear? Can you find her claim?<\/li>\n<li>How does the writer support her claim? Find the evidence.<\/li>\n<li>Is most of the evidence she uses fact or opinion? What is her most compelling piece of evidence?<\/li>\n<li>How does the writer reason out her evidence (i.e., explain how the evidence supports her claim)?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em><strong>Step 3: Finally, read the overview and scoring commentary (for the highest-scoring essay only).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In your own words, describe the intent behind the prompt. Essentially, what did the writers of the question want students to do (hint: focus on verbs)?<\/li>\n<li>Why did the top essay score an eight or a nine? According to the scorers, what did the writer do well?<\/li>\n<li>What is your overall impression of this student\u2019s writing? As an AP writer-in-training, what did you gain from examining a peer\u2019s successful work?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wrote on the relationship between\u00a0certainty and doubt, please\u00a0click here\u00a0to access your scoring guide and student samples. For those of you who wrote about the relationship between\u00a0ownership and self,\u00a0click here. Scoring Guidelines and Student Samples Step 1: Read the scoring guidelines for your essay: Identify all the adjectives and adverbs. Note how they differ&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/alaouie\/2017\/09\/27\/exploring-student-samples\/\">&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/alaouie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/alaouie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/alaouie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/alaouie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/alaouie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/alaouie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/alaouie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/alaouie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/alaouie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}