AP Seminar Task 1 Introduction and Skill Activities

Materials created by Joni Jameson. Four years experience teaching AP Seminar and 25 years teaching Advanced Placement with a >90% pass rate.

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This resource provides an introduction to the skills required for success selecting a theme, differentiating between theme and lens, and researching an argument. Students read and analyze an article by Sherry Turkle identifying lens and perspective. They also identify and analyze the author's use of evidence.

There are ten individual lessons. Each lesson works in a face to face or digital learning format.

Three power points are included to provide an overview of main idea, perspective, and research.

All activities in word for easy adaptations.

Table of Contents

Task 1 Overview

Teacher Notes

Introduction to Task 1

Lesson 1: Main Idea

Lesson 2: Reading Critically

Lesson 3 Perspective and Lens

Lesson 4 Author Perspective

Lesson 5: Analyze Author’s Perspective in a Text

Lesson 6 Perspectives and Stakeholders

Lesson 7 Reading a Scholarly Article

Lesson 8: Locating Scholarly Articles

Lesson 9 Evaluating a Source

Lesson 10 Researching a Theme

Appendix A Turkle Article

Appendix B

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