The 3 AP Lang Essay Questions

If you are like Forky, these essays sound completely new and mysterious. The goal of this assignment is to help you see a little further down the road to the kinds of essays you will be writing in this class, and in May on the AP Lang exam.

We are going to head on over to AP Classroom, where you have an assignment that is essentially a 2020 AP Lang Practice Exam--but only the free response questions.

Your job is to read each of the prompts. Reading the synthesis prompt and sources will take about 15 minutes. Reading the rhetorical analysis will take about 5. Reading the argument will take about 2.

Then, choose one of the essay prompts to begin responding to with a one-paragraph introduction. Please don't spend any longer than 10 minutes on this introduction. The idea is just to give you a chance to check out the prompts and see what it feels like to start writing about one.

Before we go to AP Classroom, take a minute and read over these brief explanations about each essay question:

After reading 6–7 texts about a topic (including visual and quantitative sources), students will compose an argument that combines and cites at least 3 of the sources to support their thesis.

During the typical testing situation, you will be given 15-minutes to read the sources and 40-minutes to write your essay.

Students will read a nonfiction text and analyze how the writer’s language choices contribute to the intended meaning and purpose of the text.

You are given 40 minutes to write this essay.

Students will create an evidence-based argument that responds to a given topic.

You are given 40 minutes to write this essay.