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Now What? Some Ideas for After the AP® Exam
The AP exams end, the proctors tell students to log out, and for a brief moment, the room exhales. That one day in May has really come and gone. Then comes the question: Now what?
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AP® English Students and Teachers Share Strategies Before Exams
These two AP English webinars offer practical strategies to help both teachers and students make the most of the final month before exams, so...
Webinar: Balancing Literacy Skills and Sustained Reading
Dr. Brandon Abdon and Jennifer Abramson name the core tension secondary ELA teachers feel: the pressure to “cover” standards and test-prep skills...
Balancing Literacy Skills and Sustained Reading
If you teach grades 6–12 ELA, you know the squeeze. You are expected to move students toward sophisticated analysis of theme, rhetoric, structure,...
Teaching Students to Think Rhetorically About Statistics
In AP English Language and Composition, we ask students to enter an ongoing conversation, craft an argument, and make deliberate rhetorical choices....
AP English: Getting Poetry—and Getting Better at It
As the school year reaches its midpoint, many AP Literature teachers find themselves asking the same questions: How are my students really doing with...
AP English at the Middle of Year: Where are you at? Where are you going?
“The December spiral … prevents us from seeing the slow, meaningful gains our students are actually making.”
Situation and Context in AP English Language and Composition
Rhetoric really is everything, everywhere, and all at once since every act of communication is spinning in a multiverse of contexts that all shape...
Helping Students Earn the Sophistication Point in AP® English
Every May, AP readers hear the same refrain: “The sophistication point is a unicorn.” But that’s not quite right. Unicorns don’t exist. The...
Reasoning and Commentary in AP English: Building Stronger Arguments
It’s a comment I hear from teachers everywhere I go. No matter what size of school or district or the AP “passing” rates of the students, it’s the...