Teaching AP Literature seems like an endless juggle between the forest and the trees. We want to guide students to enduring understandings, essential skills, universal themes, the wide view of the forest as everything works in concert to create...
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think of teaching an AP Course, especially AP Literature, as similar to training for an endurance sporting event. The first several months you are...
There are occasionally released items on the AP Exam that cause a teacher to immediately think, Well I did all that I could. This thought is often...
In my district, every nine weeks we ask our students at all grade levels to read a work independently and then demonstrate their knowledge of that...
Read. Annotate. Discuss. Write an essay. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes the most direct path is the best path. My classroom is often “un-instagramable.”...
This summer, I had the privilege of scoring Question 2 at the AP Literature Reading. I had not been to the reading in a few years, taking off the...
We are all constantly practicing the skill of character analysis. I remind my often insecure students of this fact before we dive into a difficult...
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