AP Lang The Madoff Affair

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1. 1 - Freestyle

2. 2 - Ranking Before we watch the documentary, read these five promises an “investment expert” might make. Which of these sounds like the biggest red flag to you? Rank them from MOST to LEAST suspicious, then be ready to defend your top choice.

3. 3 - Youtube The First 15 Minutes

4. 4 - Pick Answer What is the documentary’s most immediate purpose in this opening section?

   1. Praise Bernie Madoff highly

   2. Explain how the fraud worked

   3. Entertain the viewers now

   4. Defend the Wall Street firms

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6. 6 - Pick Answer Match each rhetorical situation term to its definition.

   1. Context - Post–2008 financial crisis, public anger and fear about Wall Street, and growing scrutiny of regulators’ failures.

   2. Exigence - The collapse of Madoff’s investment firm and the revelation of a massive Ponzi scheme that shocked investors and regulators.

   3. Audience - General PBS / Frontline viewers who may not fully understand Wall Street but care about how financial fraud affects ordinary people.

   4. Purpose - To explain how Madoff’s scheme worked and to argue that both individual deception and institutional failures let it continue.

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8. 8 - Open Ended In one sentence, what claim is the documentary beginning to build about Madoff?

9. 9 - Youtube The Next 15 Minutes

10. 10 - Pick Answer

11. 11 - Leaderboard

12. 12 - Pick Answer Put the documentary’s reasoning in sequence.

    1. Build trust in Madoff

    2. Reveal warning signs

    3. Show ignored warnings

    4. Expose systemic failure

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14. 14 - Ideas What kinds of evidence does the film use most effectively?

    1. expert testimony/ interviews

    2. Testimonies and Data and Footage.

    3. The film uses expert testimony as great evidence to most effectly describe what was happening.

    4. The kind of evidence the film uses most effectively such as people

    5. Other people testimony

    6. Personal testimonies of victims

    7. Interviews from people who were investors

    8. Numbers and people's experience

    9. It shows how quickly madoff become money led

    10. Numerous testimonies and interviews where people share their opinions and experiences.

    11. personal testimony´s

    12. It uses testimony of witnesses to tell the story.

    13. Expert commentary and uses people who worked with him show what was going on in the inside

    14. It shows how Madoff uses people to make money

15. 15 - Spinner Wheel Team Lens Focus

16. 16 - Idea Board Post one strong observation from your assigned lens

17. 17 - Ranking Which kind of evidence was most persuasive in the film?

18. 18 - Question Submit one challenge question to another team.

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