Head over to Google Classroom, click on the “About” tab at the top of the page, and find these links1:
These folders will open for you in Google Drive only if you are using your Brewster account. They are otherwise locked to protect the copyrighted materials within. We are permitted to use these materials within our classroom under the doctrine of “fair use” — read about it here, if you’re curious — and that includes our digital classroom, so long as only students can access it.
Anyway, with AP exam week slithering toward us like so many eldritch terrors, what you care about at this moment are the resources available to you, not the law. As you’d guess, you have a folder of practice materials and one of guides and other readings, all centered around the exam you’ll take on May 10. I’ve compiled some of it; other materials are taken directly from the College Board; a few textbook selections have been scanned; and there are links buried in most documents that you’ll want to click on. You have most, but not all, of this in hard copy already.
Your job over the next two days, after you’ve completed the data-driven and metacognitive work for Monday, April 24, is to delve into these folders to see what they offer you. I’ll post suggested reading assignments and a kind of order-of-operation breakdown on Monday or Tuesday; you don’t need me, though, to make sense of clearly labeled resources. What you need me to do, I think, is to remind you that
- we’ve been prepping for this all year, so the next two weeks are only the act of focusing your inculcated strengths on a bit of high-stakes gamesmanship;
- if you focus on efficacy and efficiency, you’ll figure out what resources you need and which ones are redundant.
Expect to have a focused writing prompt toward the end of the week that will ask you to account for your efforts and choices with these two folders. I’ll keep updating things as I can, including another shot at rewriting the more class-specific feedback in that “Press Your Luck” essay. Use the resources stacked around Room 210, as well, including your peers. Remember that we’re all trying our best to be fine, and it helps to reach out for help.
Ask questions below.
You’ll also notice that I got rid of everything except these exam prep folders and a link to Sisyphean High. I realized that everything you could possibly want, from the syllabus to the most recent GAP guides and scores, is on that main page. ↩