If you read closely in the new AP Government and Politics revision, there is a new form of written assessment. It is the argumentation FRQ (essay?), one that I am assuming will be similar in format to essays found in AP courses. I am pretty excited about it, as I think one of the missing links in my own instruction of AP Government is the incorporation of written assessments more rigorous than the standard FRQ. As educators, you and I know essays replace multiple choice exams in college studies of political science. While the AP Gov multiple choice questions are rigorous, nothing shows mastery of concept like having to formulate an argument that requires the incorporation of multiple variables in order to successfully persuade the reader. As it stands in AP Government, there was no great incentive to educators to work on argumentation, or even long form essays requiring a thesis. So good bye to that with the new rewrite. And I am excited. In order to get ready for this new essay, I stuck with the tried and true debate structure in order to keep student engagement high. The structure for this assignment is as follows:
The Argumentation FRQ is a big change for the course. You will find two FRQs at the back of the resources provided here. College Board has given us ideas of what the FRQ should look like. I am teaching my kids to overwrite the FRQ by just a smidge to guarantee that my kids get the point. I have spent a lot of time talking about how to write the FRQ and how to tackle its pesky thesis elsewhere on this site, and will pull together a discussion about how my kids did in the not so distant future. If you are looking for support, you have it here.
Walk aways? Students were engaged, and really had show their understanding of how parties used election and voter law to be able to manipulate the outcome of elections, while taking a nice review through the 10th Amendment and the various suffrage amendments in a relevant and interesting format.
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