RA & Critical Reading
This is the approximate time given for students to complete a rhetorical analysis on the AP Language and Composition exam.
What is 40 minutes?
This popular Thanksgiving parade is held annually in New York City.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
This ship brought the Pilgrims to North America in 1620.
What is The Mayflower?
This type of bread is derived from Native American cooking methods using ground corn.
What is corn bread?
This utensil was not used by the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving.
What is a fork?
Last year, this was the one major change to the critical reading component of the AP Language exam.
What is the critical reading changed from 5 answer choices to 4 answer choices?
This state produces the most cranberries commercially.
What is Wisconsin or Massachusetts?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This is what most Americans typically call the day after Thanksgiving.
This food was not served at the first Thanksgiving due to the lack of sugar.
What is cranberry sauce?
When doing a rhetorical analysis, this skill includes having a conversation with the text.
What is annotate?
This is the name of the Pilgrim's settlement in Massachusetts.
What is Plymouth Colony?
This European country had the largest influence on Pilgrim culture before they sailed to America.
What is the Netherlands?
This U.S. President first officially pardoned a turkey.
Who was George H.W. Bush?
This key spice, central to modern pumpkin pie flavoring, was not accessible to the Pilgrims in 1621.
What is cinnamon?
This strategy is great for time management when taking a timed critical reading assessment, i.e., AP multiple-choice. It is not LOTD.
What is the two-pass system?
This balloon has appeared the most times in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
What is Snoopy?
This Native interpreter helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter in America.
Who was Squanto (Tisquantum)?
This NFL team has played the most Thanksgiving Day football games.
What is the Detroit Lions?
This state produces the most turkeys each year.
What is Minnesota?
What is strategy-driven?
This U.S. state was the first to celebrate Thanksgiving annually in 1817.
What is New York?
This Wampanoag leader formed an early alliance with the Pilgrims.
Who was Massasoit (Ousamequin)?
Green bean casserole was invented by an employee in 1955 in a test kitchen for this company.
What is the Campbell's Soup Company?
This is approximately the number of turkeys eaten in the United States each Thanksgiving. Is it 27 million, 30 million, 45 million, 46 million, or 50 million?
What is 46 million?