AP practice prompt

Alright, since the fine folks at the College Board have decided to offer a version of the AP exam this year, we need to make sure that we get in some guided practice so that you're ready. 

Please give yourself no more than 45 minutes to write your essay, and publish it on your blog by noon on Friday, March 27.

Since I want to make sure we are getting specific feedback and learning from each other, without mucking up your blogs with teacher-y comments, I'm thinking about a few ways to do this:

• I can muck up your blogs with teacher-y comments
• You can email me and I can reply with specific comments
• You can copy/paste your essay into a Google doc, which I can edit (and also use kaizena to provide voice feedback)
• We can discuss each other's work in an online meeting on Friday at 2:00 (this will be different than our noon meeting, which is starting to look more like a book club :)

Please let me know what you think in a comment to this post.  I'm sensitive to the strangeness of this moment for all of us, and I'm here for you, so if you want to connect individually send me an email.

Here is the prompt (I picked one from the year I graduated high school):

Pretend to contribute to a magazine or newspaper; write an article describing a place you know well that might be of interest to readers. Define the significance, and use descriptive detail to make attitude clear.

I once wrote an essay about my childhood backyard-- I'll see if I can dig that up to share. If I can't find it, I'll write something new for the occasion.

Onward!