Activity Pack
Pre-AP® English 1: Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs—Why?
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Activities
What is a passage-aligned activity?
Quill and the College Board® have worked together to create a series of sentence combining activities aligned to texts from each Pre-AP English 1 unit. This activity is aligned to "Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs—Why?" by Derek Thompson, an article covered in the Unit 3 Lesson Set of Pre-AP English 1. Each prompt in the activity explores ideas from the text, modeling for students an analysis of key elements such as historical and authorial context, plot, characterization, and author style.
When should students complete this passage-aligned activity?
This activity is best used to reinforce learning after students have already read and discussed the text in class as it includes details about the text and an analysis of key elements, including the plot. However, the activity can be used at any time, even if students have not read the passage.
What skills will students be practicing?
While students are free to combine the sentences using any grammatically correct method they choose, this activity provides the opportunity for students to practice skills from the Pre-AP English High School Course Framework, including the following:
- Constructing compound and complex sentences
- Constructing sentences with relative clauses
- Constructing sentences with appositive, participial, and prepositional phrases
- Identifying time order, opposition, and cause and effect relationships
Where can I find more Pre-AP resources on Quill?
Visit Quill's Pre-AP landing page to view all the resources that have been custom-built for Pre-AP English.
