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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 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...
Top 5 Takeaways From the 2023 AP® Language Exam
While the 2023 AP English Language and Composition exam represents year 4 of assessment using the analytic scoring guide and year 3 of the changes to...
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: Exploring Contemporary Issues
In this lesson, students are asked to consider how they are situated within the world around them–locally, nationally, and globally. Students will...
AP® Language: Connect an Anchor Text to the Art of Banksy
This lesson introduces students to Bansky’s graffiti art, its impact on pop culture, its reflection of different societal, cultural, and political...
AP® Lang: Formative Revisions Activity
One of the benefits and challenges of the AP® Language course is that the skills need to be understood both as a reader and a writer; and, often when...
AP® Lang: Places & Spaces
For this activity, a place is considered to be a geographical location, whereas a space might be an abstract state of being. Students will review...