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Dr. Brandon Abdon
AP® English: Sophistication & Complexity Webinar
The sophistication point on the essay rubrics often meets with much weeping and gnashing of teeth. Students want to know how to write it. Teachers...
So You’re Teaching AP English Next Year? Start Here.
Congratulations—or maybe condolences? You just found out you are teaching an Advanced Placement® (AP) English class next year. Whether it’s AP...
Preparing Your Students for the AP Literature Exam
It’s a month before the AP exam and you’re freaking out. You're trying to think about what you need to review with your students, what you should...
Preparing Your Students for the AP Lang Exam
It’s a month before the AP exam and you’re freaking out. You're trying to think about what you need to review with your students, what you should ask...
#APLangTop5 Session 2: Writing for Sophistication
Over the course of three sessions, Lauren and I use the language from the College Board released exam rubrics to inspire strategies that will...
Prepping Your Students for the AP® English Exams
It’s a month before the AP exam and you’re freaking out- You're trying to think about what you need to review with your students, what you should ask...
Top 5 Takeaways From the 2023 AP® Language Exam
While the 2023 AP English Language and Composition exam represents year 4 of assessment using the analytic scoring guide and year 3 of the changes to...
AP® Lang: Understanding a Line of Reasoning
Guide students through an engaging activity that stresses the importance of the thesis & topic sentences to structure the line of reasoning. Students...
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...
AP® Lang: Word of the Year
It's almost the end of the school year! With the exam behind you and your students, take a moment in class to reflect on this past year (while giving...
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...
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 ...