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Dr. Brandon Abdon
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AP® English Students and Teachers Share Strategies Before Exams
These two AP English webinars offer practical strategies to help both teachers and students make the most of the final month before exams, so...
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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...
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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...
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AP English Multiple Choice—Preparing for the Test without Teaching to the Test
Most AP English teachers recognize that the multiple-choice questions assess skills and essential knowledge in composition and reading, but students...
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AP English Literature and Composition Exam Review Tips
As we near the AP English and Composition Exam, it is a temptation to rush through material we had hoped to cover, but didn’t. To give into that...
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What AP® English Teachers Must Know about Their Students on Day One
The first days of any AP® English course are less about handing out a syllabus and more about laying a foundation: telling students what is expected...
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AP English at the Middle of Year: Where are you at? Where are you going?
“The December spiral … prevents us from seeing the slow, meaningful gains our students are actually making.”
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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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Helping Students Earn the Sophistication Point in AP® English
Every May, AP readers hear the same refrain: “The sophistication point is a unicorn.” But that’s not quite right. Unicorns don’t exist. The...
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Reasoning and Commentary in AP English: Building Stronger Arguments
It’s a comment I hear from teachers everywhere I go. No matter what size of school or district or the AP “passing” rates of the students, it’s the...
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Building Confidence and Diminishing Anxiety For the AP® Lang Exam
As educators, we face a lot of criticism for “teaching to the test.” While our goal as AP Lang teachers is to help our students become great writers,...
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Now What? Some Ideas for After the AP® Exam
The AP exams end, the proctors tell students to log out, and for a brief moment, the room exhales. That one day in May has really come and gone. Then...