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DIRECTIONS: Create a summary, in your own words, of significant news going on in the world each week. Follow stories as they develop or continue, as well as other stories that may last only 1 day in the news. Turn this in each week on Friday. The long term takeaway is this: try to inform your compositions (essays, etc.) with relevant connections or support from the news sources. Be sure to identify your sources. Follow some of the stories (national/international) from different perspectives (example: political stories & compare/contrast how CNN, FOX, ABC, PBS, and KPFK frame their coverage of that story.
Be sure to
1) Follow at least 3 - 4 NATIONAL stories;
2) Follow at least 1 - 3 INTERNATIONAL stories;
3) Follow at least 1 - 3 LOCAL stories
4) Follow additional stories from areas including specific interests, such as: science, politics, arts, social science, literature, technology.
5) Identify rhetoric [4-5] (including the rhetorical situation, claims & evidence, and rhetorical devices. Use quotes to cite these (paraphrasing or etc. is acceptable as long as it is clear and careful to keep to the intended meaning).
6) Analyze the rhetoric and argument (agree? disagree? faulty logic?)
See this DOC as a TEMPLATE or EXAMPLE of how to complete your own
(Note: it's tacky, so make a better one if you can!)
Media bias charts are a useful tool to aid in understanding the perspectives [and biases] of the content so as to be aware of & avoid our own filter bubbles. However, how accurate are they and what bias do those charts have themselves? They have sources, too!
This is a weekly news source that covers a broad range of events happening in the world (perhaps favoring the United States in terms of content [& maybe other ways as well?]). Keep an ITEM BANK in your "wheelhouse" so as to have LOTS of things to reference and use - as they may come up to be relevant on essay question(s) on the exam.
PBS has GREAT resources on news around the world - and also does a decent job [at least sometimes, right?] challenging common US biases.
Don't forget about science! Science topics can be used and relevant on the AP Language & Composition exam! Include them in your wheelhouse (or Item Bank).
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