Feb+Vacay

Your assignment is designed to help you develop your FRQ (free response questions) skills.

You should read all articles. Pick three (3) to write solid responses to. **Respond to three articles by crafting a response argument/position about an aspect of the article that connects a minimum of five (5) of the suggested other topics to an aspect of the article.** These responses should be from 3 to 5 paras. They should take a max of 30mins to write, less than that if you are foolish. Remember that you aren't simply including the 5 terms in your response, you are demonstrating that you understand that topic. You will later on respond to five (5) other responses to different peoples' posts by complimenting at least one aspect of that response and suggesting two other thoughts of a relevant nature. You must post on a minimum of three different calendar days, so you may not save this up for Sunday night. The latest point to make your first post is Friday so that your posts will all be done before class on Monday. This entire project can be done entirely before Feb vacay.

Recap: 1. Read all articles. 2. THEN pick 3 to respond to. You will be writing more like a letter to the editor than an actual FRQ, but this is really practice for the FRQ in that you are DEMONSTRATING UNDERSTANDING and CONNECTING THE TERM TO THE QUESTION so whatever the situation is, follow the directions. 3. Please **select 6 terms/issues from the suggested list with each article to be included in your response** to that article. Please bold the vocab terms you use, command or shift b should do the trick. If that is too challenging, ALL CAPS works also. 4. in about 30ish mins, write your frq response to the article and post it with your name on the discussion section for that article. Reading time is not included. 5. Return occasionally to post your minimum of five (5) responses on five (5) separate people's posts. Each response should point out a minimum of one thing well done in the post and a minimum of two suggestions for improvement of a constructive nature. These must be done over time and not all in one sitting... Also, do not follow one person around and comment on all of their posts. That is stalking and creepy. We will all notice. Don't violate our social norms. "Good job, you are smart, I liked it." Doesn't count. 6. **Please no more than 3 comments per post. If you are the 3rd commenter on a post, your comments do not count for points. No one needs to read more than three comments on their frq, that would just be painful, awk, weirdness. (Simultaneous posting will happen, don't sweat that, I can see when that happens, but you can prevent most of it by refreshing before you post.)**

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I'm going to leave these below clarifications from last year because they might be helpful to you? Hopefully not.

PS: you must post online. This is a very typical college level assignment that you might have to do weekly next year. Don't be a Luddite. You can do this and will learn a great deal about FRQ writing in the process. You cannot email this assignment to me.

PPS: I'm confused by the posters who are ignoring the terms to be included. This is how the FRQ works. You don't include the terms, you don't get the points. Do you want to earn points or do you want to just post here for fun? Please don't answer that rhetorical question, and please avoid writing questions in your answers or using the word "you." I've read about my own schizophrenia, drug use, and evolution so far. Do you want to confuse or annoy the AP graders? (hint: no.) Do not use quotes, you won't have time in the FRQ so don't start thinking that it is possible.