Lesson Overview This assignment is designed to help students think critically about how we use rhetoric in everyday communication—specifically through text messaging. Students will examine a (real or hypothetical) text message exchange and analyze...
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Before students begin writing full rhetorical analysis essays, they need to understand the kinds of texts they will encounter on the AP Language and...
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...
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...
This lesson provides strategies for predicting meaning, previewing texts, and making inferences about word meaning and vocabulary. Students will be...
In this lesson, students are asked to consider how they are situated within the world around them–locally, nationally, and globally. Students will...
This lesson introduces students to Bansky’s graffiti art, its impact on pop culture, its reflection of different societal, cultural, and political...
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...
Students will map a setting specific to a text, most likely a longer work of fiction, and specifically as that setting (or place/location) might...
One of the benefits and challenges of the AP® Language course is that the skills need to be understood both as a reader and a writer; and, often when...
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