Category: APSem

UNIT 5:

Team, Transform, & Transmit: How Do I Effectively Contribute As a Member of a Team?

BIG IDEA 3: Evaluate Multiple Perspectives

LO 3.2A Evaluating objections, implications, and limitations of alternate, opposing, or competing perspectives or arguments.

BIG IDEA 5: Team, Transform, and Transmit

LO 5.1D Adapting an argument for context, purpose, and/or audience.

LO 5.2B Fostering constructive team climate, resolving conflicts, and facilitating the contributions of all team members to address complex, open-ended problems.

LO 5.3B Reflecting on experiences of collaborative effort.

ASSESSMENTS:

Group Assessment – Hot Topic Team Debate

*Teacher will put students into teams of four (4) to five (5) students. These teams will work together to conduct research of credible sources concerning their assigned research topic. They will then prepare and participate in a debate during class. This debate will be scored per the given College Board suggested rubric. *IWA Practice*

Group Assessment – Team Debate Research/Debate Outline

*Student teams will be expected to conduct research of credible sources concerning their assigned research topic. Each team member is responsible for a minimum of one (1) credible source. Each member must annotate the source by creating an annotated bibliography with their team members. This document is a shared team document via Google Classroom. Teams will work together using their annotated bibliography to create a debate outline before the in-class debate.

UNIT 3:

Synthesize Ideas: What Larger Connection Can I Present From the Works I Have Analyzed?

BIG IDEA 2: Understand and Analyze Arguments

LO 2.3A Connecting an argument to broader issues by examining the implications of the author’s claim.

BIG IDEA 4: Synthesize Ideas

LO 4.2A Interpreting, using, and synthesizing qualitative and/or quantitative data/information from various perspectives and sources (e.g., primary, secondary, print, nonprint) to develop and support an argument.

BIG IDEA 5: Team, Transform, and Transmit

LO 5.1B Adhering to established conventions of grammar, usage, style, and mechanics.

ASSESSMENTS:

Individual Assessment – End-of-Course Exam Practice

*Student completes a same End-of-Course Exam Part B. This is a timed (90 minute), written test. (S)He will be expected to analyze new sources and complete the essay exam within the parameters of the May 2022 End-of-Course Exam. *Prep for Exam*

UNIT 2:

Understand & Analyze Arguments: How Do I Assess Reasoning in Regards to the Larger Discussion?

BIG IDEA 2: Understand and Analyze Arguments

LO 2.1A Employing appropriate reading strategies and reading critically for a specific purpose

LO 2.1B Summarizing and explaining a text’s main idea or aim while avoiding faulty generalizations and oversimplification.

LO 2.2A Explaining and analyzing the logic and line of reasoning of an argument.

LO 2.2B Evaluating the relevance and credibility of evidence used to support an argument, taking context into consideration.

BIG IDEA 4: Synthesize Ideas

LO 4.2B Providing insightful and cogent commentary that links evidence with claims.

LO 4.3A Attributing knowledge and ideas accurately and ethically, using an appropriate citation style.

ASSESSMENTS:

Individual Assessment – Independent Research Analysis

*Student will conduct his/her own brief research to find a text, a piece of artwork, and a media source on his/her individual topic concerning identity. (S)He will analyze each of the three (3) sources through the following three (3) questions: 1) Identify the author’s argument, main idea, or thesis. 2) Explain the author’s line of reasoning by identifying the claims used to build the argument and the connections between them. 3) Evaluate the effectiveness of the evidence the author uses to support the claims made in the argument. *Prep for IRR, IWA, & Exam*

Individual Assessment – Independent Annotated Bibliography

*Student will use work from the previously completed Independent Research Analysis to create an annotated bibliography of his/her three (3) sources. *Prep for IRR*

UNIT 1:

Evaluating Multiple Perspectives: What Is My Identity and How Do I Understand Others’ Perspectives Through Their Identity

BIG IDEA 1: Question and Explore

LO 1.1A Contextualizing and Identifying the complexities of a problem or issue.

LO 1.1B Posing questions and seeking out answers that reflect multiple, divergent, or contradictory perspectives

LO 1.2A Retrieving, questioning, organizing, and using prior knowledge about a topic.

LO 1.3A Accessing and managing information using effective strategies,

BIG IDEA 2: Understand and Analyze Arguments

LO 2.1A Employing appropriate reading strategies and reading critically for a specific purpose

LO 2.1B Summarizing and explaining a text’s main idea or aim while avoiding faulty generalizations and oversimplification.

BIG IDEA 3: Evaluate Multiple Perspectives

LO 3.1A Identifying, comparing, and interpreting multiple perspectives on or argument about an issue.

LO 3.2A Evaluating objections, implications, and limitations of alternate, opposing, or competing perspectives or arguments.

BIG IDEA 4: Synthesize Ideas

LO 4.1A Formulating a well-reasoned argument, taking the complexities of the problem or issues into consideration.

BIG IDEA 5: Team, Transform, Transmit

LO 5.1A Planning and producing a cohesive academic paper, considering audience, context, and purpose.

LO 5.1C Communicating information through appropriate media using effective techniques of design.

LO 5.1E Engaging an audience by employing effective techniques of delivery or performance.

LO 5.2A Providing individual contributions to overall collaborative effort to accomplish a task or goal.

LO 5.3A Reflecting on and revising their own writing, thinking, and creative processes.

ASSESSMENTS:

Individual Assessment – Exploring My Identity Through Lenses Essay

*Independently, students will explore their own identity through three teacher assigned lenses and one lens of their choice. Students are expected to communicate the definition of their individual identity through formal essay format. *Prep for IWA*

Group Assessment – Anticipating Others’ Perspectives Through Lenses -Group Analysis and Presentation

*In groups, students will work together through a source packet of various texts to determine each speakers’ perspective on an assigned, given issue. As a group, they must find a common lens through all given multiple perspectives, gather additional resources, and come up with a solution to the assigned, given issue. Team members will create a combined team presentation that summarizes their findings and solution. *Prep for TMPD*

Individual Assessment – Artwork Analysis Presentation

Independently, students will analyze a student chosen piece of artwork through a lens from their previous essay, “Exploring My Identity Through Lenses”. (S)He will discuss how that lens applies to her/him specifically, and then apply that same lens to the artists’ perspective through the artwork. This 1-2 minute presentation is to be completed using one Google Slide and animation. *Prep for IMP*