AP Semester One Final Review

1. AP Semester One Final Review

2. Reminder: Your final will be based on ALL your journals: • Style • Grammar • Methods of Persuasion Your notebook with all these journals will be due on Final day!

3. PRACTICE QUIZ • Answer the following questions to get an idea of the kind of questions on the final. • The answers appear at the end of the this PowerPoint

4. 1. Which is correct? • Since elephants are larger than lions, they are unlikely to see them as a threat. • Since elephants are larger than lions, they are unlikely to see them, as a threat. • Since elephants are larger than lions they are unlikely to see them as a threat.

5. 2. Which is correct? • Barry and Steven bought applesauce, and opened cabinets, but Oswaldo and Gary delivered postcards and folded blankets. • Barry and Steven bought applesauce and opened cabinets, but Oswaldo, and Gary delivered postcards and folded blankets. • Barry and Steven bought applesauce and opened cabinets, but Oswaldo and Gary delivered postcards and folded blankets.

6. 3. Which is correct? • Reaching for a tissue, I could feel a cold coming on. • Standing and applauding, the stadium roared with the crowd’s reaction. • Cold and inhospitable to human life, it would be no easy task to make a home on Mars.

7. 4. Which is incorrect? • I guess you could say that we un-cleaned all of the dishes after she was done. • The fancy-historical photographs were on display. • The forty-five dollars could not be found.

8. 5. Review the following: VERSION A: We built feeders, studied feathers and even learned birdcalls in our effort to get to know everything about pigeons. VERSION B: We built feeders, studied feathers and birdcalls were even studied in our effort to get to know everything about pigeons. VERSION C: We built feeders, studied feathers and birdcalls were even studied as pigeons became our topic to study. VERSION D: We built feeders, studied feathers and even learned birdcalls as pigeons became our topic to study. Which version is best in terms of parallelism and ending with the strongest word last? • Version A • Version B • Version C • Version D

9. 6. Review the following: VERSION A: It is a bad idea to bring a ferocious animal into the home. VERSION B: It is a bad idea to bring a very dangerous animal into the home. VERSION C: It is not the best idea to bring very dangerous animal into the home. VERSION D: It is not the best idea to bring a ferocious animal into the home. WHICH IS TRUE? • Version A avoids an adverb that appears in the others and uses the positive voice • Version B avoids an adverb that appears in the others but does not use the positive voice • Version C uses an adverb and uses the positive voice • Version D uses an adverb and avoids the positive voice

10. 7. Review the following WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING DOES NOT USE PASSIVE VOICE? A: I’m an expert at carving a turkey. B: The references to his life before the presidency are greatly condensed in this biography. C: There is nothing more interesting than a potato that is carved to look like your favorite celebrity. D: Even the smells of the farm seemed pleasant to me after a time.

11. 8. “This is not to say that anti-Semitism or other paranoid worldviews are a new problem on the left, or that the Democratic Party has always handled them effectively. The permanent prominence of Al Sharpton and the eternal return of Michael Moore testify to certain unsuccessful reckonings, and the grass-roots left can be as amenable to conspiracy theories as the grass-roots right. But the fact that Trump is in the White House while the Democratic National Committee bails on the Women’s March illustrates a fundamental difference; if the Democrats struggle with the tiger, the Republicans have let it leap the cage” (Ross Douthat, The New York Times) The above quote probably best represents which method of persuasion? • Hypothetical • Rebuttal • Anecdotes • Qualification

12. 9. The fundamental problem with the Chinese economy is that it’s highly unbalanced: It has extremely high levels of investment, seemingly without enough domestic consumption to justify that investment. You might be tempted to say this doesn’t matter, that China can just export its surplus production to other countries. But while there was a period from the mid-2000s to the early 2010s when China ran huge trade surpluses, those days are past” (Paul Krugman, The New York Times). Which method of persuasion appears here? • Appeal to emotion • Appeal to authority • Appeal to patriotism • Rebuttal

13. 10. “In some cases it is clear that minority voters are disproportionately affected by the purges. One reason is the method used. The report found that 28 states now submit data to the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, the purpose of which ‘is to identify possible “double voters” — an imprecise term that could be used to refer to people who have registrations in two states or who actually voted in an election in multiple states.’But many people have the same name, which poses a problem for the database. That problem is heightened for minority voters because, as the report says, ‘African-American, Asian-American, and Latino voters are much more likely than Caucasians to have one of the most common 100 last names in the United States.’” (Charles M. Blow, The New York Times). Which best describes the method of persuasion used in this piece? • Appeal to authority • Appeal to patriotism • Appeal to logic • Appeal to emotion

15. Did you write down your best guess for each question? Ok, here are the answers...

16. 1. Which is correct? • Since elephants are larger than lions, they are unlikely to see them as a threat.

17. 2. Which is correct? C. Barry and Steven bought applesauce and opened cabinets, but Oswaldo and Gary delivered postcards and folded blankets.

18. 3. Which is correct? • Reaching for a tissue, I could feel a cold coming on.

19. 4. Which is incorrect? B. The fancy-historical photographs were on display.

20. 5. Review the following: VERSION A: We built feeders, studied feathers and even learned birdcalls in our effort to get to know everything about pigeons. VERSION B: We built feeders, studied feathers and birdcalls were even studied in our effort to get to know everything about pigeons. VERSION C: We built feeders, studied feathers and birdcalls were even studied as pigeons became our topic to study. VERSION D: We built feeders, studied feathers and even learned birdcalls as pigeons became our topic to study. Which version is best in terms of parallelism and ending with the strongest word last? • Version A

21. 6. Review the following: VERSION A: It is a bad idea to bring a ferocious animal into the home. VERSION B: It is a bad idea to bring a very dangerous animal into the home. VERSION C: It is not the best idea to bring very dangerous animal into the home. VERSION D: It is not the best idea to bring a ferocious animal into the home. WHICH IS TRUE? • Version A avoids an adverb that appears in the others and uses the positive voice

22. 7. Review the following WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING DOES NOT USE PASSIVE VOICE? D: Even the smells of the farm seemed pleasant to me after a time.

23. 8. “This is not to say that anti-Semitism or other paranoid worldviews are a new problem on the left, or that the Democratic Party has always handled them effectively. The permanent prominence of Al Sharpton and the eternal return of Michael Moore testify to certain unsuccessful reckonings, and the grass-roots left can be as amenable to conspiracy theories as the grass-roots right. But the fact that Trump is in the White House while the Democratic National Committee bails on the Women’s March illustrates a fundamental difference; if the Democrats struggle with the tiger, the Republicans have let it leap the cage” (Ross Douthat, The New York Times) The above quote probably best represents which method of persuasion? D. Qualification

24. 9. The fundamental problem with the Chinese economy is that it’s highly unbalanced: It has extremely high levels of investment, seemingly without enough domestic consumption to justify that investment. You might be tempted to say this doesn’t matter, that China can just export its surplus production to other countries. But while there was a period from the mid-2000s to the early 2010s when China ran huge trade surpluses, those days are past” (Paul Krugman, The New York Times). Which method of persuasion appears here? D. Rebuttal

25. 10. “In some cases it is clear that minority voters are disproportionately affected by the purges. One reason is the method used. The report found that 28 states now submit data to the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, the purpose of which ‘is to identify possible “double voters” — an imprecise term that could be used to refer to people who have registrations in two states or who actually voted in an election in multiple states.’But many people have the same name, which poses a problem for the database. That problem is heightened for minority voters because, as the report says, ‘African-American, Asian-American, and Latino voters are much more likely than Caucasians to have one of the most common 100 last names in the United States.’” (Charles M. Blow, The New York Times). Which best describes the method of persuasion used in this piece? C. Appeal to logic