How+to+FRQ

We don't have the time to FRQ in class. So you do them at home. We also do this because I trust you. Sometimes the question will be from an old AP test, sometimes it is from the bowels of my imagination, regardless of where it is from, your instructions are to NOT read it ahead of time and to NOT google around for answers. To do so will only bump your grade by .0something and it will prevent you from learning how to do this thing. Which will prevent you from getting a good score in the AP test. So ultimately you would lose your integrity and fail to acquire the skill that you need to learn while spending way more time on the FRQ than I'm requiring. A lose/lose situation if I've ever heard one.

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To write an FRQ sit in a quiet spot and start to write. Warn your lovely but inquisitive family members and turn off snapchat, instagrams, whatever notifications you recieve or anyone who will bother you. No, you may not type it unless you have a 504 federal accommodation plan or IEP accepted by the College Board which allows for this accommodation. Sorry and yes I know about hands getting tired. I'm from before computers. You have only 25 minutes. You may not stop, eat dinner and go back to it, so plan accordingly. Yes, pee first.
 * Writing.**


 * Format:** You must write in complete sentences in paragraph format, bullet points in incomplete sentences will not be scored. College Board's rule. Follow it or don't get points. (For example what I just did there? Yoda like, but wouldn't score.)

1. They either got the point or they didn't. No halvsies. 2. Explain fully why they did or did not get the point so that you learn what scores and they understand what to do in the future. 3. You underline the specific vocab terms that are part of the question not some random words that you think got you points. The reader is going to spend like a minute or two on your efforts, help them out please! Some of you underline everything, some nothing. Just underline the 7 or so vocab terms in the question.
 * Scoring yours or someone else's**


 * You can do this!!! Stay calm, keep breathing, and keep practicing! Like all things, this gets easier and you get better!**