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year to year,so you and your students know what to expecton exam day.  \n# Section I:Multiple Choice\n\n≈45 Questions|1 hour |45%of Exam Score  \n·Includes 5 sets of questions:  \n● 23-25 Reading questions that ask students to read and analyze nonfictiontexts.  \n·20-22 Writing questions that ask students to \"read like a writer\"andconsider revisions to stimulus texts.  \n tedd o wie y,  \n# Section II:Free Response\n\n3 Questions|2 hours 15 minutes(includes a 15-minute reading period|55%ofExam Score  \n·Students write essays that respond to 3 free-response prompts from thefollowing categories:aHached,+o be SPACE-CAT+ed  \n·Synthesis Question:After reading I texts about a topic(including visualand literary sources),students will compose an argument thatcombines and cites at least 3 of the sources to support their thesis.  \n·Rhetorical Analysis:Students will read a nonfiction text and analyze howthe writer's language choices contribute to the intended meaning andpurpose of the text.  \n·Argument:Students will create an evidence-based argument that respondsto a given topic.  \n\n| Dvlan.Bob\"The Times They Are A-Changin':The Official Bob Dylan Site.\"The Times They  \u003Cbr>Are A-Changin'|The Official Bob Dylan Site,www.bobdylan.com/songs/times-they-are-  \u003Cbr>changin/.   |\n| --- |\n\nBob Dylan-The Times They Are A-Changin'(1962)  \nCome gather'round peopleWherever you roamAnd admit that the watersAround you have grownAnd accept it that soonYou'lI hc drenched to the boneIf your fime to youIs wort!savin'  \nThen vou better start swimmin'Or you'l sink like a stoneFor the times they are a-changin'.  \nCome writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd kecp your eyes wideThe chance won't come againAnd don't speak too soonFor the wheel's still in spinAnd there's no tellin'whoThat it's namin'For the loser nowWill be later to winFor the times they are a-changin'.  \nCome senators,congressmenPlease heed the callDon't stand in the doorwayDon't block up the hallFor he that gets hurtWill be he who has stalled  \nThere's a battle outsideAnd it is ragin'  \nIt'1l soon shake your windowsAnd rattle your wallsFor the times they are a-changin'.  \nCome mothers and fathersThroughout the landAnd don't criticizeWhat you can't understandYour sons and your daughtersAre beyond your commandYour old road isRapidly agin'  \nPlease get out of the new oneIf you can't lend your handFor the times they are a-changin'.  \nThe line it is drawnThe curse it is castThe slow one nowWill later be fastAs the present nowWill later be pastThe order isRapidly fadin'And the first one nowWill later be lastFor the times they are a-changin'.  \n\"Open Call for Art:Art as Protest.\"SparkoC.com-The Happening Place for Arts Happenings in the  \n0.C.,www.sparkoc.com/classified/open-call-for-art-art-as-protest/.Art reproduced here by Banksy.  \nA poster for a call for protest for an upcoming exhibit.Banksy is an anonymous England-basedstreet artist,vandal,political activist,and film director,active since the 1990s.Hissatirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with grafitiexecuted in adistinctive stenciling technique.His works ofpolitical and social commentary have been featuredon streets,walls,and bridges of cities throughout the world.(wikipedia)  \n| Khazan,Olga.\"What Makes a Protest Effective.\"The Atlantic,Atlantic Media Company,27  \u003Cbr>Feb.2017.www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/the-psychology-of-effective-  \u003Cbr>protest/517749/.   |\n| --- |\n\n# The Psychology of Effective Protest\n\nThese splashier protests do draw lots of media coverage,research shows,because ofjournalists'appetite for anything novel or unusual.But several new studies on the psychology behindprotests show that,perversely,\"extreme”protests like that at Berkeley also undermine activists'overarching goal of attracting more people to their movement.What's worse,activists don'trealize they are 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