Congratulations—or maybe condolences? You just found out you are teaching an Advanced Placement® (AP) English class next year. Whether it’s AP Language and Composition or AP Literature and Composition, the news likely came with a mix of excitement, dread, and the overwhelming question: What do I...
In this lesson, students will choose pages from a scene from an assigned novel (this can be done with a shorter text, too). Students will start by choosing significant dialogue and writing in the middle of a blank page (included in the template). They will reflect on the context of the quote and...
With 45 questions in an hour, four answer choices per question, it’s understandable why the multiple-choice section can be intimidating.
In this lesson(s), students will create “Doodle Notes” to showcase their understanding of one of the free response questions on the AP Language exam or of a text studied in class. "Doodle Notes" are a visual note-taking method designed to increase focus and memory. You can find more information here
While the 2023 AP English Language and Composition exam represents year 4 of assessment using the analytic scoring guide and year 3 of the changes to the multiple choice section, for me personally, it truly felt like the 22-23 school year was the very first “normal” instructional year since the...
This lesson provides strategies for predicting meaning, previewing texts, and making inferences about word meaning and vocabulary. Students will be able to visualize keywords and descriptions in texts and read around words and lines to increase their understanding of new terms. This lesson can be...
In this lesson, students are asked to consider how they are situated within the world around them–locally, nationally, and globally. Students will identify contemporary issues, being sure to define them as controversial contemporary issues, happening locally, nationally, and globally. Students will...
This lesson introduces students to Bansky’s graffiti art, its impact on pop culture, its reflection of different societal, cultural, and political values, and the mystery behind the man who creates the art (and how this anonymity might engage us in his art and his story further). Students are...
One of the benefits and challenges of the AP® Language course is that the skills need to be understood both as a reader and a writer; and, often when we do this, that means that the skills need to be spiraled throughout the curriculum. While that can take careful planning and creativity, it also...
For this activity, a place is considered to be a geographical location, whereas a space might be an abstract state of being. Students will review methods of development and practice using definition, compare-contrast, definition, and description to define their place or space, noting how their...
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