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Welcome to AP Seminar 10! We’re excited to kick off our first ever 10th grade AP English course–starting with you!
Course Description
Course Description
AP Seminar 10 is a college-level English course for 10th graders in the AP Capstone program. This course introduces the core skills of research, academic writing, and public speaking through real-world inquiry and cross-curricular analysis, which are essential in all content areas, majors, and careers.
Students are expected to register for the AP exam, submit performance tasks to College Board, and sit for the end-of-course exam. In AP Seminar, the coursework is the exam; students complete and submit tasks for their score throughout the year, not just on a single test day.
Using the QUEST framework, students learn to analyze sources, synthesize ideas, construct evidence-based arguments, and communicate effectively through academic writing and presentations, both independently and as part of a team.
Course Goals
Course Goals
Students explore the complexities of one or more themes by making connections within, between, and/or among multiple cross-curricular areas and by exploring multiple perspectives and lenses (e.g., cultural and social, artistic and philosophical, political and historical, environmental, economic, scientific, futuristic, ethical) related to those themes.
Students develop and apply discrete skills identified in the learning objectives of the enduring understandings within the following five big ideas:
Question and Explore
Understand and Analyze
Evaluate Multiple Perspectives
Synthesize Ideas
Team, Transform, and Transmit.
Students gain a rich appreciation and understanding of issues through the following activities:
reading articles and research studies;
reading foundational, literary, and philosophical texts;
viewing and listening to speeches, broadcasts, and/or personal accounts;
and experiencing artistic works and performances.
Students work collaboratively with a team to identify, investigate, analyze, and evaluate a real-world or academic problem or issue; consider and evaluate alternatives or options; propose one or more solutions or resolutions; and present and defend the argument for their solutions through a multimedia presentation.
Students work independently to identify a research question based on provided stimulus material; research the issue; analyze, evaluate, and select evidence to develop an argument; present and defend a conclusion; and produce a multimedia presentation to be delivered to their peers.
AP Seminar Performance Assessments
AP Seminar Performance Assessments
Students are assessed with two through-course performance tasks and one end-of-course exam. All three assessments are summative and will be used to calculate a final AP score (using the 1–5 scale) for AP Seminar.
Team Placement for Performance Task 1 (PT1)
Team Placement for Performance Task 1 (PT1)
Students will be placed on teams for the official Team Multimedia Presentation (TMP) in the spring only if they demonstrate academic and collaborative readiness by Winter Break. This includes consistent completion of assignments, active class participation, and productive group behavior. Students who do not meet these expectations will not be placed on a team, which makes them ineligible to complete PT1 and earn full credit for the course and AP exam.
AP Exam Registration Requirement
AP Exam Registration Requirement
Additionally, students who do not register for the AP Seminar exam by our school’s deadline (typically at the end of October) will not be placed on a PT1 team. Students who are not registered for the AP exam will be assigned alternate research tasks for partial credit in place of completing PT1 and PT2. These alternative assignments will not be eligible for College Board final submission which may impact a student’s final course grade. Students who complete official AP tasks will have a much more authentic and supported experience.
Textbooks and Materials
Textbooks and Materials
Students will primarily access course materials digitally via Google Classroom. Readings and assignments will be provided as PDFs or links to selected academic articles, multimedia sources, and skill-building texts.
As part of the 10th grade English curriculum, students will also use the Collections eBook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and will check out a physical copy of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee from the school bookstore.
Students will be provided access to academic databases including EBSCO, Gale, and ProQuest to support research assignments.
All students will be issued a school Chromebook, which must be brought to class charged and ready each day.
From AP Seminar Course and Exam Description
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