This isn’t true, though. Quality of thought and writing do matter on the exam. Sure, “timed writes” are narrowly constrained, but that doesn’t make the exam an exercise in brainless template-plugging. Just because the practice falls short of ideal doesn’t mean the experience is pointless or useless. By the way, my AP Lit. sections typica…
This isn’t true, though. Quality of thought and writing do matter on the exam. Sure, “timed writes” are narrowly constrained, but that doesn’t make the exam an exercise in brainless template-plugging. Just because the practice falls short of ideal doesn’t mean the experience is pointless or useless. By the way, my AP Lit. sections typically seat 40 students per class period (that’s just how it goes in Southern California), and I’ve never taught a canned template.
There's a difference between what happens in an AP classroom where the instruction is often excellent, and what kind of writing performance is incentivized by something like the AP exam, and I promise you that students are being coached with templates and even being told it does not matter if what they are saying is accurate, as long as it "sounds good" because of the way the exam is scored, and because credit on the exam is so meaningful to them. Every good thing you do in your class can exist without the existence of an AP exam.
This isn’t true, though. Quality of thought and writing do matter on the exam. Sure, “timed writes” are narrowly constrained, but that doesn’t make the exam an exercise in brainless template-plugging. Just because the practice falls short of ideal doesn’t mean the experience is pointless or useless. By the way, my AP Lit. sections typically seat 40 students per class period (that’s just how it goes in Southern California), and I’ve never taught a canned template.
There's a difference between what happens in an AP classroom where the instruction is often excellent, and what kind of writing performance is incentivized by something like the AP exam, and I promise you that students are being coached with templates and even being told it does not matter if what they are saying is accurate, as long as it "sounds good" because of the way the exam is scored, and because credit on the exam is so meaningful to them. Every good thing you do in your class can exist without the existence of an AP exam.