Performance Task #2
Individual Research-Based Essay and Presentation
This performance task comprises 35% of your total AP Seminar score. The College Board’s AP Program will annually release cross-curricular source material (texts) representing a range of perspectives focused on a single theme. You will use these texts to identify a research question of your own; conduct research; analyze, evaluate, and select evidence to develop an argument; and present and defend your conclusions. The final paper must refer to and incorporate at least one of the provided sources. There are three subcomponents to Performance Task #2: *the Individual Written Argument (IWA) which is 70% of the PT #2 score *the Individual Multimedia Presentation (IMP) with oral defense which is 20% of the PT #2 score *oral defense of the Individual Multimedia Presentation (IMP) which is 10% of the PT #2 score *****INSTRUCTOR FEEDBACK CANNOT BE GIVEN ON PT #2 AS PER COLLEGE BOARD REGULATIONS***** |