End of Course Exam
The day of the End of Course Exam for AP Seminar.
Monday at noon!
Name one verb that provides a strong transition into a quotation or reference.
What is Claims, States, Believes, Argues, Suggests, Urges, Agrees, Observes, Proves, Provides, Reminds, Demonstrates, Concedes, Explores?
Anything but says/said?
I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.
What is the letter "s"?
The suggested amount of time you have to take Part A.
What is 30 minutes?
The type of response or essay for Part B.
What is an argument?
The amount of parts there are to the End of Course Exam.
Part A & Part B
The connections between the IRR and Part A.
What is finding the argument in other's research, discovering and proving line of reasoning, and deciding whether evidence/authors are reliable/credible?
This five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it.
What is the word "short"?
The type of answer you provide for Question 1
What is an Argument OR Main Point OR Thesis OR All?
The suggested amount of time you have to take Part B.
What is 90 minutes OR 1 hour and 30 minutes?
How you will be taking the End of Course Exam.
On your laptop through Blue Book
Cynthia's Thesis for Part B is Student Loans should be lowered. Potential Claims to support Cynthia's thesis.
What is payback length?
What is lower paying jobs?
What is no money to left to further education required by some jobs?
What is limits consumer spending/boost the economy?
A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. The reason the dog did not get wet.
What is the river was frozen?
Question 2 asks for you to do this with the ideas, line of reasoning, examples, evidence that the author provides.
What is connect?
The amount of stimulus sources you need to pull your theme from.
What is 4?
The classroom you will be going to for the end of course exam.
Haynes' Room
Stimulus 1: "The consequences of climate change, including sea-level rise, extreme weather events, and biodiversity loss, pose severe risks to ecosystems, human health, and socio-economic stability."
Stimulus 2: Carl Sagan, after commenting on a picture of earth from 3.7 billion miles away..."Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives".
All of the 4 stimulus sources have an Environmental Theme. Greg chose these two sources for his topic. The topic he chose was...
What is climate change's impact on human health?
What is why humans should care about climate change?
What is risks of avoiding climate change?
Or something in these categories.
Forrest left home running. He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home, there were two masked men. __________ are the men.
Who are the umpire and the catcher?
Question 3 asks for you to evaluate the credibility two things.
What is evidence and people/researchers/sources?
The amount of stimulus sources you need to use for your argument.
What is at least 2?
The time you need to be in the classroom to take the End of Course Exam.
11:45 am OR ELSE
The possible theme of the following two sources:
Stimulus 1: "According to psychologist Dr. Jane Smith...she argues that the constant exposure to carefully curated highlight reels of others' lives can create unrealistic expectations and foster a negative self-comparison mindset".
Stimulus 2: "In the novel, 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald Despite his material wealth, Gatsby remains emotionally empty and unable to truly attain the happiness he seeks. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby's story to critique the shallow pursuit of the American Dream and to explore themes of disillusionment, social class, and the corrupting influence of wealth".
The words job and polish have something in common.
What is they are pronounced differently when the first letter is capitalized?
This is how you get yourself in the 3,6,6 category.
What you could add into your essay to show multiple perspectives of your argument.
What is a counterargument?