AP Take-Home MC Practice Test Assignment
Directions:
· Set timer for 10 minutes: Take assigned multiple-choice test.
· Create maps for every incorrect answer, using “distractor types” terminology in the “causes” boxes. The distractor types and a map template are listed below.
· Maps are due on Thursday when you arrive in class. If you are absent on a Thursday, your maps are due the day you return to class. Because this is a long-term assignment, absent students do not get extra time on the maps once they return to class.
Assignment Schedule:
DUE DATE / MC TEST PASSAGE TITLE / PASSAGE # / PAGE #09/21 / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / 1b / 5
09/28 / On Heroes, Heroic Worship, and the Heroic in History / 2b / 22
10/06 / NO ASSIGNMENT – FALL BREAK
10/13 / NO ASSIGNMENT – FALL BREAK
10/19 / Of the Pathetic Fallacy / 3e / 49
10/26 / Of Marriage and Single Life / 4b / 56
11/02 / On the Origin of Species / 5c / 74
11/9 / A Vindication on the Rights of Woman / 6e / 98
11/16 / Utopia / 7b / 106
11/18 / A Modest Proposal / 8d / 130
11/25 / NO ASSIGNMENT – THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
11/30 / Civil Disobedience / 9d / 148
12/07 / The Souls of Black Folk / 10b / 158
Distractor Types:
• Too specific
• Too general
• Violates tone of the passage
• Half right/half wrong
• Irrelevancy and/or common assumption
• Opposite of example or detail in the passage
• Generally true but distorts the specific section:
– feature is not mentioned in the passage
– goes beyond scope of passage
– is true but doesn’t focus on the specific question
• Absolutes, overstated (e.g. always, never, only)
• Only echoes background language of the passage
• Clearly wrong answers
Map Template:
· You may create 2 maps per side of your paper and write on the back of your papers (so 4 maps per sheet of paper). Make sure your name, period number, and passage title are on the first map.