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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...
AP English: Getting Poetry—and Getting Better at It
As the school year reaches its midpoint, many AP Literature teachers find themselves asking the same questions: How are my students really doing with...
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.”
Situation and Context in AP English Language and Composition
Rhetoric really is everything, everywhere, and all at once since every act of communication is spinning in a multiverse of contexts that all shape...
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...
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...
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...
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...
25(ish) days Until the AP Lit Exam: What to do and not to do
Dr. Brandon Abdon and special guest Timm Freitas (The Garden of English) discuss last-minute strategies for the 2025 AP Language and Composition...