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What is a Compass?
Why This Matters
Here's Another Helpful Way to Understand This!
What Does This Have to Do With AP?
SOLUTION: Write the answers yourself.
Hard To Keep from Peeking
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Procedure
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Procedure for the Passage
Part One
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Write the Compasses (Compii??)
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What Your Students Will See
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What Compasses Will Look Like
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A Word of Caution
What Students Will Do
Work Individually FIRST
Work in Skeptical Groups
Then, Give the Passage WITH the Distractors (Acorn Book 2014)
Review and Discuss When students are done, review and discuss. You may need to hit certain concepts again. |
Working Through an Example
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Let's Work Through an Example Together
Now a Game of Matchy-Matchy
Why Matchy-Matchy Works Notice how you absolutely had to go back to the passage to figure out the answer? In order for you to develop the compasses, you have to reread the passage -- and that's not only a way to pass the AP, but ultimately, it teaches you to be a better and more careful reader of the text. You also didn't get distracted by worrying about whether it was a metaphoror what other choices meant, although we'll deal with those also. You were looking at the zombies' feet, checking which shoelaces were green. Okay, But Help! All right. One of the problems you might have is whether or not you know the words. Here's what you do if the answer choices more or less look like this at first:
Use Emoji to Help You Let's say you know your compass is "XXXX" but you don't know what any of the answer choice words mean. In that case, assign a specific emoji to the compass you wrote. What kind of emoji would work well to represent the phrase "XXXX"? Maybe the laughing emoji or the eyeroll one, or both. A laughing eyeroll. Look for the Matching Emoji For this exercise, you're going to have to go with your gut. How does a particular word "feel"? Give each word an emoji. Matchy-Matchy Here Too
Why This Works We may not know what a word means specifically, but we can often generate a sense of how it feels through context, word parts, second-language skills, or just unconscious association of where we may have heard it before. |