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Dr. Brandon Abdon
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...
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...
"But That's What I Wrote..." — Argument and Line of Reasoning
The concept of a "Line of Reasoning" is not unfamiliar to students, but the terminology and various approaches to developing a line of reasoning may...
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 ...
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® 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: Vocab Acquisition Template
This lesson provides strategies for predicting meaning, previewing texts, and making inferences about word meaning and vocabulary. Students will be...
AP Language: Teaching the MCQ
With 45 questions in an hour, four answer choices per question, it’s understandable why the multiple-choice section can be intimidating.
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...