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Who would you invite to your dinner table if you could invite anyone?
Who would you invite to your dinner table if you could invite anyone?
How do we balance each of our guests perspectives, give them a chance to voice their views, and talk together?
How do we balance each of our guests perspectives, give them a chance to voice their views, and talk together?
Whose arguments do we need to point out as valid or in-valid in order to come to a decision?
Whose arguments do we need to point out as valid or in-valid in order to come to a decision?
What are the conclusions, resolutions or solutions we can use to develop our own unique argument?
What are the conclusions, resolutions or solutions we can use to develop our own unique argument?
PT1 is the chance to explore a problem or issue in the world and get everyone sitting together at a table to discuss the issue. Students do this through writing an individual paper and then will work with their teammates to take each of these "dinner conversations" together into a synthesis of evidence to argue towards a conclusion, resolution or solution. Read below for more details in the AP Handout, rubrics and a step by step approach.
Initial Brainstorming.
Initial Brainstorming.
Group stimulus materials
Group stimulus materials
Your team must work from at least 2-3 sources that will serve as the documents that will establish the context of your research question.
They should address the complexity of the problem which your research question is attempting to address.
1 source must be an academic journal article.
1 source can be a government/non-governmental organization publication or website.
1 source can be a fom a vlog/blog/news/popular magazine/etc. that provides some of the more informal context.
All team members should be familiar with all 3 sources and may include them in their final IRRs or they should be considered for setting the context for the team's final argument presentation.
STEP 1 .
STEP 1 .
Group Formation and Team Roles
Group Formation and Team Roles
Identify each team member’s role title and the description of their role during team meetings. You may use the guidance slides provided during your Mock, reference Belbin Team Roles, or come up with your own based on your understanding of PT1.
STEP 2-3.
STEP 2-3.
Develop Team Research Question
Develop Team Research Question
Go through the steps provided in the Team Brainstorming document.
STEP 2 QUESTION FORMULATION
STEP 3 QUESTION DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY
Remember to evaluate your RQ.
Good Research Questions:
Require a judgment to be made-not just description or summary
Are researchable
must be about something you don’t already have a complete answer to
must be able to find credible sources for
must be able to provide qualitative sources and/or quantitative data for
Involve genuine points of ongoing debate
Invite engagement with alternative perspectives
Are simple, and do not contain multiple, nested questions
Must be appropriate in scope
neither vague, nor broad
Very rarely can be answered with a simple “yes” or “no”
STEP 4
STEP 4
Research question development activity.
STEP 5-7
STEP 5-7
Beginning the IRR
Beginning the IRR
STEP 5: Establishing your Lens [25 points] STEP 6: Establishing the Context [18 points] STEP 7: Searching and Documentation
PT 1 TRACKING SOURCES make a copy of this document.
STEP 8
Before beginning to write your IRR, make sure to do an outline following step 8 guidelines.STEP 8
Read through a sample IRR, and also look at the feedback on your Mock IRR in Turnitin for making choices while you plan your writing.
Solutions
Solutions
Follow these questions and suggestions to move owards a solution:
Follow these questions and suggestions to move owards a solution:
What solutions have been tried already?
What was effective (or not) about those solutions?
How would those solutions work in other contexts (be seen in other contexts)?
Could some be improved? If yes, how?
Are there other options?
RESEARCH AGAIN to support what your team establishes for the team argument.
Evaluation of Solutions
Evaluation of Solutions
Since you must present multiple solutions and then argue for ONE, it is necessary to highlight the reasons why you have chosen this particular solution. You will do this by discussing the implications and limitations of both the final solution and the alternatives.
The glossary in AP Seminar Course Exam Description defines implications and limitations as below:
Implication- A possible future effect or result
Limitation- A boundary or point at which an argument or generalization is no longer valid
(p. 119 -120)
Be sure to present about implications and limitations to reveal to your audience that you have considered all possibilities, but still you have decided to stick with your final solution.
Reminders about Oral Defense Questions:
Reminders about Oral Defense Questions:
Take a breath before answering. Pausing is okay to think about your response.
Quality is more important than quantity.
Always provide a specific reference to teammate's work.
Explain the example you gave and how it answers the question.
Some useful links...
Some useful links...
Preliminary Steps for Performance Task 1 - How-to Step by Step Guide
IRR Writing and Checking
Use the Individual Research Report (IRR) Checklist - and Rubric with Scoring Notes to help you check all the details as you write your first draft, revise a second draft, and prepare for final submission.
Creating the Team Argument - How-to Step by Step Guide
How am I doing? Where can I improve?
How am I doing? Where can I improve?
Start with strong research
Start with strong research
This is the IRR rubric simplified, focused on the single item for each row that will achieve them the highest. You will use this for peer review, and use the "demonstrating to transferring" slides on the right to find out how to get to the highest level.
Put together a clear argument that represents everyone's work.
Put together a clear argument that represents everyone's work.
The Team Multimedia Presentation is not a "march through the lenses". Make sure that the argument is clearly made for your conclusion/resolution/solution, with clear references to why it is better than other possibilities.
Use this quick checklist to help you.
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