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Big Idea 4: Synthesize Ideas 

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Explore the first big idea of AP Seminar! These resources will help you understand the importance of questioning and exploring. Here you can learn how to ask the right questions, and ways this relates to your exam and how to properly study and prepare so you can fully understand big idea one!

Big Idea 1: Question and Explore 

The second big idea of AP Seminar focuses on understanding and analyzing. These resources will cover essential questions you must understand, as well as the Raven template and how it plays a role within your exam. These resources all explain how this big idea will appear within your performance tasks for your exam.

Big Idea 2: Understand and Analyze 

The third of AP Seminar's big ideas is evaluating multiple perspectives. We cover how to identify perspectives, and how understanding a perspective will show up on your performance tasks. These resources will make sure you understand perspectives and this big idea!

Big Idea 3: Evaluate Multiple Perspectives 

Learn all about big idea number four of AP Seminar: synthesizing ideas. These resources cover the important, essential questions and how to understand and connect evidence to form ideas. We also cover plagiarism and how to make sure you avoid it, along with this big idea's importance on the exam.

Finally, review the last big idea of AP Seminar: team, transform, and transmit. These resources cover how to engage your audience, how to effectively present your ideas and the importance of being a good team member. Finally, we cover how this will show up in your performance tasks so you are ready for your exam!

Big Idea 5: Team, Transform, and Transmit

These resources will help prepare you for your AP Seminar exam. With detailed descriptions and explanations of the first performance task, involving the team project, as well as the second performance task involving the individual research project. There are also helpful tips for your essay responses to ensure that you are ready for the exam!

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📢 Overview of Big Idea 1

The Big Ideas of Big Idea 1

How to Ask the Right Questions

🧐 How Big Idea 1 Relates to the Exam

Performance Task

Performance Task 2

End of Course Exam

✍️ Ways to "Study" Big Idea 1

🌍 In Conclusion

Big Idea 1: Question and Explore

🌍 Overview of Big Idea 2

👀 Essential Question 1

🤨 Essential Question 2

🤩 Essential Questions 3 and 4

😎 Essential Question 5

🤔Essential Question 6

👉 Essential Questions 7 and 8

✍️ How Big Idea 2 Relates to the Exam

Performance Task 1

Big Idea 2: Understand and Analyze

🌍Big Idea Overview

🧐 What is Perspective?

🧐 The Essential Questions of Big Idea 3

Essential Questions Overview

👀 Using the Essential Questions to Understand Perspective

✍️How BI 3 Relates to the Exam

👉 In Conclusion...

Big Idea 3: Evaluate Multiple Perspectives

🤜 🤛 Overview of Big Idea 4

🤔 Essential Questions of Big Idea 4

👉 👈 Connecting and Analyzing Evidence

What is evidence? 🔎

Finding "Good" Evidence 💯

Where to Look for Evidence 👀

How to Analyze Evidence 🤔

How to Connect Evidence 🤝

🤥 Avoiding Plagiarism

What is Plagiarism?

How to Avoid Plagiarism 

👨‍🎓 How Big Idea 4 Relates to the Exam

In Conclusion

Overview of Big Idea 5

Essential Questions of Big Idea 5

How to Engage Your Audience

Getting Your Audience to Understand

How to Be a Good Presenter

How to Appeal to Your Audience

Being a Good Teammate

COMMUNICATION!!! 🗣️

Self Reflection

How Big Idea 5 Relates to the Exam

Overview of the End of Course Exam

Short Answer Questions

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3

Long Essay Question

In Conclusion...

End of Course Exam: Short Answer and Long Essay

Performance Task 1 Overview

Picking a Topic

Individual Research Report

Team Multimedia Presentation

Exam: Performance Task 1: Team Project and Presentation

Performance Task 2 Overview

Stimulus Packet

Picking your Topic

Individual Written Argument

Individual Multimedia Presentation

Exam: Performance Task 2: Individual Research-Based Essay and Presentation

Your guide to the 2021 AP Seminar Exam

Format of the 2021 AP Seminar exam

Scoring Rubric for the 2021 AP Seminar exam

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AP Seminar 2021 Study Plan

🤨 Big Idea 1: Question and Explore

🧐 Big Idea 2: Understand and Analyze

👥 Big Idea 3: Evaluate Multiple Perspectives

💡 Big Idea 4: Synthesize Ideas

🗣 Big Idea 5: Team, Transform, and Transmit

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may 11, 2021

, may 26, 2021

, june 7, 2021

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