AP Lang Article Presentation OPTIONS (early Nov 2023):
YOUR assignment/presentation is due on Nov 7. Reserve your article with your partner at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zeRaW3KDG8Gk0Qn2i-eTdgjINMQKJ1QFPnuCdWZ3R_g/edit?usp=sharing
25 pts for the PPT file/Google Slides (share by 830am Nov 7 to [email protected] for Google Slides or [email protected] for Office365). 25 pts for the actual performance.
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for PPT slide 2 - YOU CAN EXPLORE OLD Q3 ARGUMENT AP PROMPTS (last page of each PDF) FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS HERE= The AP Lang Exam 1999-2022 (prompts/sample essays/scoring guidelines)
Note - you can suggest an article to Rohol that you've recently read that isn't from this list
The rubrics we are somewhat using are after end of articles
Also Note - we did these articles in past years and then 2021 Q1 prompt was basically about this issue Mourning the death of handwriting/cursive AND As school standards rise, cursive gets left behind
Note - you can suggest an article to Rohol that you've recently read that isn't from this list
The rubrics we are somewhat using are after end of articles
Also Note - we did these articles in past years and then 2021 Q1 prompt was basically about this issue Mourning the death of handwriting/cursive AND As school standards rise, cursive gets left behind
1 Is it time to kill calculus (for a data science course)? https://www.salon.com/2020/09/26/teaching-data-science-instead-of-calculus-high-schools-math-debate/
1b (2023) California's Math Misadventure is about to Go National
2 I thought at least 50 percent credit for no work was okay. I was wrong. www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/10/23/dc-schools-grading-policy-50-percent-rule/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter OR
2b At NYU, students were failing organic chem so they fired the professor
3 The First Amendment in the age of disinformation https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html?smid=tw-share
4 Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
5 Inside the vast national experiment in test-optional college admissions
5b SAT's new "Adversity Score" Will take Student Hardships into account OR article 2 on this
6 How to Talk to Conspiracy Theorists and Still be Kind https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/15/1004950/how-to-talk-to-conspiracy-theorists-and-still-be-kind/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1595870934 OR about what to do with QAnon https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/
7 The fight to decolonize the museum https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/when-museums-have-ugly-pasts/603133/?utm_content=edit-promo&utm_term=2019-12-15T14%3A00%3A22&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_source=twitter
7b An Ancient Tablet, Stolen Ten Acquired by Hobby Lobby, Will be Returned to Iraq
7c Who Benefits When Western Museums Return Looted Art
8 BBC News - Cave paintings change ideas about the origin of art http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29415716 …
9 Two Genes Linked with Violent Crime
10a Coca-Cola is funding obesity research with a biased message, nutrition experts say
10b How juice companies game science to perpetuate the myth that cranberry prevents UTIs
11 Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes
13a Everyone recommends flossing – but there's hardly any proof it wowww.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/02/dental-floss-proof-works-guidelines-dropped?CMP=share_btn_twrks OR
13b Flossing and the art of scientific investigation
14 Don’t ask us for trigger warnings or safe spaces, the University of Chicago tells freshmen (article PDF at end of list)
15 Florida Senate considers computer coding as a foreign language for high school students or article 2
16 No more student loans? Purdue University proposes selling shares of students’ future income
17 Lumosity Must Pay $2 Million After "Unfounded" Brain Game Claims (consider The Power of Belief (ESPN article on faith in Power Balance bracelets)
18 Computer simulating 13-year-old boy becomes first to pass Turing test
19 Kenya Burns Elephant Ivory Worth $105 Million to Defy Poachers https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/world/africa/kenya-burns-poached-elephant-ivory-uhuru-kenyatta.html?_r=0#ampshare=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/world/africa/kenya-burns-poached-elephant-ivory-uhuru-kenyatta.html
20 Spotify Is Accused Of Creating Fake Artists — But What Is A Fake Artist? http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/07/12/536670493/spotify-is-accused-of-creating-fake-artists-but-what-is-a-fake-artist
21 Could subjects soon be a thing of the past in Finland? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39889523
22 Scientists are predicting that c-sections will lead to bigger babies https://qz.com/858447/scientists-are-predicting-that-c-sections-will-lead-to-bigger-babies/
23 Seizure Inducing Tweet leads to a new kind of prosecution https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/seizure-inducing-tweet-leads-to-a-new-kind-of-prosecution-for-a-new-kind-of-crime/2017/03/18/c5915468-0c10-11e7-b77c-0047d15a24e0_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.8911095e8abd
24 A diabetic boy’s parents ‘didn’t believe in doctors.’ Now they’re guilty of his murder. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/03/a-diabetic-boys-parents-didnt-believe-in-doctors-now-theyre-guilty-of-his-murder/?utm_term=.b04253f0f3d4
25 Maine Adopts Ranked-Choice Voting. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/us/maine-ranked-choice-voting.html?smid=tw-share or https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2016/9/30/13121346/maine-ranked-choice-voting
26 Why does using a period in a text message make you sound insincere or angry? https://theconversation.com/why-does-using-a-period-in-a-text-message-make-you-sound-insincere-or-angry-61792?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton
27a Yale Will Drop John Calhoun’s Name From Building https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/yale-protests-john-calhoun-grace-murray-hopper.html?smid=tw-share OR
27b Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder's name is REMOVED from top children's literature honor over her 'stereotypical attitudes' to blacks and Native Americans
27c If a Shakespeare play is racist or antisemitic, is it OK to change the ending? OR Mississippi school district removes 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from 8th grade reading list
27d In Defense of Difficult Art at the Guggenheim’s Controversial Exhibition
(can consider https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/hate-sinner-not-book/616066/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
27e Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive
Maybe played out / old or overused by now = 28 Amazon Echo Factors In Murder Investigation http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/28/507230487/as-we-leave-more-digital-tracks-amazon-echo-factors-in-murder-investigation?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2056 OR https://venturebeat.com/2016/12/27/amazon-echo-murder-case-amplifies-the-question-of-what-always-on-really-means/
29 Scientists Needn't Get A Patient's Consent To Study Blood Or DNA http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/18/510442240/scientists-neednt-get-a-patients-consent-to-study-blood-or-dna?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
30 Top Home-School Texts Dismiss Darwin, Evolution – OR Turkish schools to stop teaching evolution, official says https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/23/turkish-schools-to-stop-teaching-evolution-official-says?CMP=fb_gu
31a How to Build a GDP Measure for the Real Economy - The Atlantic
31b Economics focus: A wealth of data | The Economist
32c Murder Rates Don’t Tell Us Everything About Gun Violence
33 The Enigma of Chinese Medicine - NYTimes.com -
34 Traditional Masculinity Can Hurt Boys, Say New A.P.A. Guidelines
35 When Science Gets Demoted: The Case of Vitamins or a similar article HERE
36 The governor of Easter Island asked the British Museum to return a Moai statue: 'You, the British people, have our soul'
38 Say Au Revoir To That Hunk Of Metal In France That Has Defined The Kilogram or https://twitter.com/i/events/1058382410327326721
39 These Cultural Treasures Are Made of Plastic. Now They’re Falling Apart.
39b History Disappeared When MySpace Lost 12 Years of Music ... it will happen again
40 A portrait created by AI just sold for $432,000. But is it really art?
41 A Controversial Restoration That Wipes Away the Past
42 'National Geographic' Reckons With Its Past: 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist' (or with newspapers - https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-27/los-angeles-times-reckoning-with-racism)
43 When It Comes to Some Medical Treatment, Researchers Find Less is More
43b American Cancer Society, in a Shift, Recommends Fewer Mammograms
44 The Selfless Gene
45 New biometric tests invade the NBA: The next battle between players and owners will be waged inside players' bodies OR Biometrics and the Future of Identification — NOVA Next | PBS
46 Mind vs. Machine (the competition to be the most human human)
47 The Brain on Trial (neuroscience and the courts)
48 The Ethics of Autonomous Cars - Patrick Lin - The Atlantic OR All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines - Nicholas Carr - The Atlantic
49 The Memory Hacker (on computer chips for brain therapy)
50 The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains OR The Guilt Free Soldier https://www.villagevoice.com/2003/01/21/the-guilt-free-soldier/
51 The Robot Will See You Now (technology and medicine)
52 The Coddling of the American Mind http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive
OR The New Activism of Liberal Arts Colleges http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/the-new-activism-of-liberal-arts-colleges
53 Broad Institute Wins Big Battle Over CRISPR Gene-Editing Patent OR Chinese Scientists Are Outraged by Reports of Gene-Edited Babies OR The Gene Hackers
53b CRISPR babies 3 years on
54 Re-engineering the Earth (about geoengineering approaches to climate issues)
perhaps consider Pleistocene Park
55 Kill all the mosquitos? http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/kill-all-mosquitos-180959069/
56 How China killed essential reefs and built military bases on top. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-22/coverup-in-the-south-china-sea
57 Can ‘predictive policing’ prevent crime before it happens? http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/can-predictive-policing-prevent-crime-it-happens
58 Thousands of Men to be Pardoned for Gay Sex, Once a Crime in Britain https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/world/europe/britain-will-posthumously-pardon-thousands-of-gay-and-bisexual-men.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&mtrref=undefined&gwh=BC70E62614B2137BDD066DE3CF8D361C&gwt=pay
59 NFL Doctors’ Conflicts of Interest May Endanger Players https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nfl-doctors-rsquo-conflicts-of-interest-may-endanger-players/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_MB_NEWS
60 Torching the Modern Day Library of Alexandria https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/?utm_content=bufferb2887&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
61 When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using AI https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memorial-roman-mazurenko-bot?hootPostID=d08f9611b46049f1838fdccfdf3504d8 OR https://qz.com/896207/death-technology-will-allow-grieving-people-to-bring-back-their-loved-ones-from-the-dead-digitally/
62 Technology Is Biased Too. How Do We Fix It? https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/technology-is-biased-too-how-do-we-fix-it/?ex_cid=538twitter OR Is it dangerous to recreate flawed human morality in machines? http://www.wired.co.uk/article/algorithms-self-driving-virtual-reality-ethics
64 College is Dead. Long Live College! (online universities/megacourses) OR The Order of Things (college rankings)
64b Should College Rankings Be Abolished
65 A World Without Work (about the coming robot economy) HERE FOR PDF or ( http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/world-without-work/395294/ …
66 High Powered Treatment (on electro-shock therapy)
67 Google’s Deep Mind / Alpha Zero shining new light on old games https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphazero-shedding-new-light-grand-games-chess-shogi-and-go
68 A beauty contest was judged by AI and the robots didn't like dark skin
69 Science is inching closer to bringing species back from extinction — but the rise of necrofauna has risks
71 College Board restores 250 years to AP World History course after outcry over plan to cut 9,000 years
72a Family of Henrietta Lacks Settles With Biotech Company That Used Her Cells
72b Johns Hopkins names building to honor Henrietta Lacks and her ‘immortal’ cells
73 Dakar’s Museum of Black Civilizations is a vital step for a people reclaiming their history OR A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.
74 The ‘super’ banana that fights for truth, justice and healthy levels of vitamin A - The Washington Post
75 The patent system should reward fresh ideas. Instead, it holds them back. Here's how to fix it http://econ.st/1OSPkL7
76a Computers are stupid compared to humans, Google says. That's why scientists want to ban thinking drones: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/07/27/elon-musk-stephen-hawking-fight-to-ban-autonomous-weapons …
76b Meet the machine that could one day replace anesthesiologists http://wapo.st/1JEBRo1
76c The da Vinci surgical robot: A medical breakthrough with risks for patients
77 Everyday Words that have racist histories or connotations https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/us/racism-words-phrases-slavery-trnd/index.html
78 Facebook Knows that Instagram is Toxic For Teen Girls
79 The Last Children of Down Syndrome (the ethics of what science we should do)
80 The Rise of NFTs - Why an Animated Flying Cat With a Pop Tart Body Sold for Almost $600,000
81 EDITORIAL - A profoundly unfair bill would withhold Bright Futures aid based on college majors
81b In a time of COVID and climate change, social sciences are vital, but they're on university chopping blocks (mostly about Australia)
82 Why Do American Grocery Stores Still Have an Ethnic Aisle?
83 Is it OK to.... : the bot that gives you an instant moral judgment
84 American Psychological Association says it's sorry for perpetuating systemic racism
85 Should disposable vapes be banned?
86 Universal Basic Income in Stockton, CA - article overview ..... specific article
87 Should we outlaw generational labels + dividing lines?
88 The Promises - and perils- of editing what we say online
NEW
89 The true story of the fake unboxed aliens is wilder than actual aliens
90 An AI hit of fake "Drake" and "The Weeknd" Rattles the Music World
90b How AI reduces the world to stereotypes
91 Irish President calls for homework to be banned
92 2023 Academic Fraud scandal of Gino and Ariely - article 1 OR article 2
89 The true story of the fake unboxed aliens is wilder than actual aliens
90 An AI hit of fake "Drake" and "The Weeknd" Rattles the Music World
90b How AI reduces the world to stereotypes
91 Irish President calls for homework to be banned
92 2023 Academic Fraud scandal of Gino and Ariely - article 1 OR article 2
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