AP+Synthesis

AP Synthesis Assignment: You have written 4 AP synthesis questions on a variety of topics (and examined one more, for a total of 5). It is now your group’s job to structure your own question, supplementing with the necessary sources. Steps: Remember, you probably will want to use **an excerpt** from a longer source, the portion MOST relevant to your topic. Also remember, you want to make this as comprehensible and fluid as possible – you will be getting one of your classmates’ topics, so extend to them the same courtesy you expect. **PLEASE**, check the website for how these questions and sources are supposed to look and be structured.
 * 1) You need to decide on your essential question.
 * 2) It needs to be broad enough that every person, regardless of experience, can formulate an opinion.
 * 3) It needs to have a debatable nature; in essence, there cannot be one concrete, correct answer.
 * 1) Write an introduction to you question. Set up some background information about the issue
 * 1) Structure the question the same way the AP board does – refer to the website for ideas, structure and source samples - []
 * 1) You must find **SEVEN** sources that relate to your topic, that students would be able to use to supplement and synthesize with their own opinions. Sources can include but are not limited to:
 * 1) Visuals (photos, graphs, statistics, advertisements, posters, etc) – **you MUST have at least TWO of this type**
 * 2) Newspaper and magazine articles
 * 3) Websites
 * 4) Scholarly Journals
 * 5) Letters to editor
 * 6) Op-ed articles
 * 7) Excerpts from book
 * 8) Radio or podcast transcriptions
 * 9) Overviews or press releases
 * Due: Wednesday, April 21 at the end of the period. **
 * Worth: 50 Points **