1. AGENDA Hasta luego Warm-Up sheets! Finish Rhetorical Vocab
Intro to Synthesis Essay
Choice reading
14 December 2015 – Monday

2. The Synthesis Essay
The synthesis conversation would involve the kind of calm, considerate regard that comes with listening to and thinking about many voices before making up and speaking one’s own mind.

3. Reminds me of this board game…

4. What is the Synthesis Essay?
First of the three free-response AP essays –
(2 hours 15 minutes total for the three essays)
55 minutes - 15 minutes to read sources, approximately 40 minutes to write
Prompt, plus six to eight relatively brief sources - texts of no more than a page, plus at least one graphic, visual, picture, or cartoon (pro/con)
“Synthesize” info from a variety of sources to create your own argument on the topic

5. In CN: [Synthesis Essay Notes]
IMPORTANT:
Requires a persuasive argument
Presenting your argument in response to the prompt
Must use facts/ideas provided in the sources to support your argument – but DO NOT summarize sources
Synthesize/Incorporate info from at least 3 of the provided sources
May also draw upon own knowledge of the subject, but must use at least three of the provided sources.

6. Synthesis Essay Prompt
First Task: Deconstruct the prompt – notice and identify the differences and similarities in the following prompts
What is the writer being asked to do?
Directions
Introduction
Assignment
Sources Listed

7. In CN: [Synthesis Essay Notes]
Consider a topic
Steroids in sports, effects of video games, effects of media on adolescent girls, etc.)
List at least FIVE different types of sources you would use to consider before actually taking a position on this argument (One has to be a visual source).