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Education Reform Paper Resources

The Prompt and Due Dates More information to come, but the assignment is located here. The final draft of the paper is due on December 11th, printed in class. The last date for first drafts will be Sunday, December 3. Resources for Writing a Research Paper Sample A Education Reform Paper Purdue Online Writing Lab MLA […]

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AP Language Revisions, Revisions, Revisions

We’ve got a number of revisions floating out there this week in AP Lang. The due dates are as follows: Thursday for any straggling civil disobedience drafts and media sensitivity revisions. Friday for welfare revisions. Plan to spend some time on these. Revisions need to be more than adding one or two sentences in a […]

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AP Language Writing and Revision Policy Reminder

Revision Policy All revisions are at Mr. Pogreba’s discretion. He may decide that you cannot revise a paper because you: did not proofread your paper carefully. did not make substantial revisions of the paper between drafts. fell significantly short of the requirements of the assignment. violated the sacrosanct ten rules of paper writing. failed to incorporate class discussion/notes about the paper. […]

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AP Language: Great Gatsby Exam

The Gatsby exam will be on Wednesday. You’ll be expected to write two brief essays (2-3 paragraphs, plus a thesis) in response to two of these questions: F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said that “there are no second acts in American lives.” Do the life and death of Jay Gatsby demonstrate this claim or refute it? […]

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