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    Real-Life Connections to AP® Free Response Questions

    To reinforce essential AP Free Response skills (argumentation, rhetorical analysis, synthesis) by having students connect question types and strategies to things they already know—such as pop culture, current events, personal experience, or other...

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    Six Word Memoir Activity

    In this creative and reflective assignment, you’ll explore the art of powerful storytelling through just six words. You’ll examine examples of 6-word...

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    Creating Text Messages to Reflect Rhetorical Situation Activity

    Lesson Overview This assignment is designed to help students think critically about how we use rhetoric in everyday communication—specifically...

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    Analyzing Rhetorical Analysis FRQs by Medium & Genre

    Before students begin writing full rhetorical analysis essays, they need to understand the kinds of texts they will encounter on the AP Language and...

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    AP Language: Quote Displacement Activity

    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...

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    AP Language: Doodle Notes

    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...

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    AP® Language: Vocab Acquisition Template

    This lesson provides strategies for predicting meaning, previewing texts, and making inferences about word meaning and vocabulary. Students will be...

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    AP® Language: Exploring Contemporary Issues

    In this lesson, students are asked to consider how they are situated within the world around them–locally, nationally, and globally. Students will...

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    AP® Language: Connect an Anchor Text to the Art of Banksy

    This lesson introduces students to Bansky’s graffiti art, its impact on pop culture, its reflection of different societal, cultural, and political...

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    AP Language: Analyzing Anti-War Protest Songs

    This lesson is designed to be a supplement for fiction or nonfiction anchor texts used in the classroom. This lesson would be appropriate for any...

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