Vocabulary and strategy for analyzing the AP Seminar Performance Task stimulus packet and identifying connections across sources. Front: the term or strategy. Back: a plain-language definition.
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- Stimulus packet
- The set of six to seven short texts, images, or data sources provided for Performance Task 1, used to spark a research question.
- Synthesis
- Combining ideas or evidence from multiple sources into a single, original line of reasoning.
- Thematic connection
- A shared idea or issue that links two or more stimulus sources even though the sources differ in form or origin.
- Cross-textual analysis
- Comparing how different sources treat the same topic to find agreement, tension, or gaps.
- Perspective
- The particular point of view, values, or interests that shape how a source presents information.
- Bias identification
- Recognizing where a source's wording, selection of facts, or framing favors one side of an issue.
- Context clues
- Details in a source, such as its date, author, or publication, that help explain why it was created.
- Source triangulation
- Checking a claim against at least two other independent sources before treating it as reliable.
- Claim mapping
- Charting each source's main claim so overlaps and disagreements between sources become visible.
- Counterclaim
- A claim that opposes or complicates the writer's main argument, used to show fair consideration of other views.
- Convergence of evidence
- The point where separate sources independently support the same conclusion.
- Divergence of evidence
- The point where sources disagree or point toward different conclusions on the same issue.
- Annotating
- Marking a text while reading to record questions, connections, and reactions for later use.
- Close reading
- A careful, detailed reading of a short passage to understand its precise meaning and implications.
- Central question
- The open-ended research question a team develops after analyzing the stimulus packet's shared issue.
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