Part A: Compare speeches
As you become comfortable with the skill of synthesis, you will find it easier to make connections between texts and companion readings or viewings. In this essay, you will compare the Gettysburg Address to a clip from a modern movie.
Completing this assignment involves the following:
Reading the Gettysburg Address
Listening to the audio of Coach Boone's speech from Remember the Titans
( http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/movi... )
Drawing parallels between Lincoln's speech and Coach Herman Boone's speech in the audio clip
Writing a developed essay in which you analyze the two speeches, pointing out similarities and differences in content, tone, rhetorical strategies, purpose, etc.
Incorporating textual evidence from each speech to support your analysis
Essay is 5 paragraphs.
Part B: Evaluate Student Responses
Review a passage with many similarities to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and evaluate student responses to a previous year’s AP Language and Composition Exam question.
Take a look at a previous year's exam question.
Review Question 2 from the 2003 Exam ( https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/apc/ap03_frq... ) . You may wish to print and annotate as you read.
Now, review the student responses ( https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/apc/ap03_eng... ) , and their scores.
Finally, review the scoring commentary( https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/apc/ap03_com... ) .
Observe and Reflect: Respond to the following questions using complete sentences: