In AP English Language and Composition, we ask students to enter an ongoing conversation, craft an argument, and make deliberate rhetorical choices. The course and exam description (CED) guarantees that, in each synthesis source set, “[t]wo of the...
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As the school year reaches its midpoint, many AP Literature teachers find themselves asking the same questions: How are my students really doing with...
“The December spiral … prevents us from seeing the slow, meaningful gains our students are actually making.”
Rhetoric really is everything, everywhere, and all at once since every act of communication is spinning in a multiverse of contexts that all shape...
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...
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...
The first days of any AP® English course are less about handing out a syllabus and more about laying a foundation: telling students what is expected...
If you've ever worked with students who struggle with reading—or experienced that struggle yourself—you’ve likely seen it firsthand: the hesitation,...
Congratulations—or maybe condolences? You just found out you are teaching an Advanced Placement® (AP) English class next year. Whether it’s AP...
Ask a teenager how they feel about reading, and you’ll likely get an eye roll, a groan, or a halfhearted, “I don’t like books.”
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