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Clair Antoon-Newton

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    Student-Generated Questions: How to Teach 3 Levels of Questioning

    There is no shortage of professional development on teaching educators how to write questions. We add them to our lesson plans, we spin manual or digital wheels with Bloom’s stems, and we rework our final assessments to explore different depths of...

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    AP® Literature: 3 Steps to Expanded Commentary

    Teaching AP Literature seems like an endless juggle between the forest and the trees. We want to guide students to enduring understandings, essential...

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    AP® Lit: Beat the Senior Slump with Q3 Review

    think of teaching an AP Course, especially AP Literature, as similar to training for an endurance sporting event. The first several months you are...

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    AP® Literature: Line of Reasoning Activity

    A clear, defensible line of reasoning is what turns scattered insights into a cohesive, high‑scoring AP Lit essay. This worksheet helps students...

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    Exploring "The All of It" from the 2025 AP Lit Exam

    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...

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    AP® Literature: Short Story Activities

    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...

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    Break out of an Essay Rut with Literary Graphs

    Read. Annotate. Discuss. Write an essay. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes the most direct path is the best path. My classroom is often “un-instagramable.”...

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    Reflections from the 2023 AP Literature Reading

    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...

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    AP Literature: Character Layers Analysis Activity

    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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