• Dedication/expectation as an AP student

All-in, Do your best, Be engaged, Ask for support, Self-advocating

• Time management

Planner, Budgeting time, Procrastination 

• Test taking

Time management within the test (metacognitive testing)

Essays (40 minutes – read, annotate, plan, write, revise)

Question stems, Question analysis

Studying (repetition, engagement, Quizlet, Cornell, making connections, questioning)

• Academic integrity

Plagiarism (Trump/Obama video)

Cheating

Grade vs. Learning

• Emotional well-being: stress/nutrition

Sleep, Stress, Health, Balance

• Universal study habits/Note taking

prompt sample – Alexander: Fractured Identity

• Active Reading
• Annotation

Curve of Forgetting

• Cornell (multi-step process)
• Questioning

The Jungle Upton Sinclair

Historical Background

• Chicago stockyards 1900’s
• Industrialization
• Immigrant experience
• Roots of labor unions
• Capitalism v. Socialism v. Communism

Themes

• Individual v. society
• The disadvantages of a capitalistic society

Literary Elements

• naïf character (Jurgis) - starts naive, then blinders are removed
• In media res = in the middle (because that's where the novel begins
• muckraking - "the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way"