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So You’re Teaching AP English Next Year? Don’t Panic. 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...
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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...
Strategies for Tackling the AP English Multiple Choice Questions
The AP English exam can feel like a high-stakes challenge for students, and for teachers, preparing students to tackle the multiple-choice section...
Strategies for AP English Teachers: Second Semester Success
Most AP English teachers now find themselves well into this critical second half of the school year. With the AP exam quickly approaching in May (I...
The Importance of Including Native and Indigenous Literature in AP English
In AP English Literature classrooms, it is essential to recognize that everyone’s literature matters. The canon of literature has historically been...
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.”...
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: 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.
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...
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...