Evidence vs. Commentary (AP Lang)

What is a claim?

• the central argument

• quotes and paraphrases you pull directly from the text in order to support your argument

• explains to the reader why and how the quotes and paraphrases that were used helps prove the claim to be true

What is evidence?

• the central argument

• quotes and paraphrases you pull directly from the text in order to support your argument

• explains to the reader why and how the quotes and paraphrases that were used helps prove the claim to be true

What is commentary?

• the central argument

• quotes and paraphrases you pull directly from the text in order to support your argument

• explains to the reader why and how the quotes and paraphrases that were used helps prove the claim to be true

One sentence can include both evidence and commentary.

• True

• False

The speech states, “... one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers” (King).

This sentence is:

• Evidence

• Commentary

• Neither

• Both

The statement “black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as brothers and sisters” means that he wants them to be able to work together without the judgement of skin color (King).

This sentence is:

• Evidence

• Commentary

• Neither

• Both

King uses the allusion to the Emancipation Proclamation to emphasize his point that even though slavery was outlawed, racism still existed.

This sentence is:

• Evidence

• Commentary

• Neither

• Both

Dr. King uses imagery to make people see a picture inside their head.

This sentence is:

• Evidence

• Commentary

• Neither

• Both

At the beginning of the speech, Dr. King directly alludes to the Emancipation Proclamation "in whose symbolic shadow we stand today" to describe the current moment as more similar to the past and place it in contrast with the ideal vision he later describes.

This sentence is:

• Evidence

• Commentary

• Neither

• Both

The correct ratio of evidence to commentary is:

• 1 evidence : 1 commentary

• 1 evidence : 2 commentary

• 2 evidence : 1 commentary

• 2 evidence : 2 commentary