How do you approach writing an AP Essay?

 

Define terms.

      Examples

 

Choose Sides

 

Outline the body

      Reasons

 

Introduction

      Anecdote?

 

Conclusion

      Other book

 

Write it

 

 

Example: Love or Tolerance

A; Love personal love or love of activity

              Is love of activity, love of self?

              Emerson?

              Brett Favre

              BB KING

              George Carlin

              James Brown

 

       Tolerance

              Acceptance of dislikes?  Why?

              Because the greater good is better served with tolerance.

              Curb your Enthusiasm

              Seinfeld

 

       Candidate for a job

              Big group, overall goals

              Work with others

              Office Space

 

 

B Tolerance

 

       Has other goals

              Willing to bury self in exchange

              Office Space

 

       Not personally invested.

              The wire

              Santiago Old Man and the sea

 

       Patient with others

              Accepting of faults and sins

              Moby Dick and Quee ueg

 

C: Intro

       Story from the hypothetical

 

D: Macbeth and Hamlet