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    AP® English (7)

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    Q&A With an AP Lit Reader (2024)

    Brandon Abdon is joined by AP Literature and Composition exam reader Roy Smith to discuss the 2024 AP exam.

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    Q&A with an AP Lang Reader (2024)

    Dr. Brandon Abdon is joined by an AP® Language Exam Reader Christopher Judson to discuss the 2024 AP Exam.

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    Break out of an Essay Rut with Literary Graphs

    Read. Annotate. Discuss. Write an essay. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes the most direct path is the best path. My classroom is often “un-instagramable.”...

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    Reviewing for the AP Lang and AP Lit Exams

    Join Dr. Brandon Abdon for top review tips for the last month of preparation leading up to the AP English exams.

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    Top 5 Tips to Getting Poetry

    Join Dr. Brandon Abdon and special guest Celine Gomez as they walk through some tried and true strategies for helping students understand and...

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    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...

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    Top 3 Tips For AP Lang

    Join Dr. Brandon Abdon and partners in AP Lang Timm Freitas (Garden Of English) and Beth Hall (‪Coach Hall Writes‬) to discuss their top tips for...

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    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.

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    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...

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    Reflections from the 2023 AP Literature Reading

    This summer, I had the privilege of scoring Question 2 at the AP Literature Reading. I had not been to the reading in a few years, taking off the...

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