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AP® Literature: 3 Steps to Expanded Commentary
Teaching AP Literature seems like an endless juggle between the forest and the trees. We want to guide students to enduring understandings, essential...
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AP® Lit: Beat the Senior Slump with Q3 Review
think of teaching an AP Course, especially AP Literature, as similar to training for an endurance sporting event. The first several months you are...
Real-Life Connections to AP® Free Response Questions
To reinforce essential AP Free Response skills (argumentation, rhetorical analysis, synthesis) by having students connect question types and...
AP® English Students and Teachers Share Strategies Before Exams
These two AP English webinars offer practical strategies to help both teachers and students make the most of the final month before exams, so...
AP® Literature: Line of Reasoning Activity
A clear, defensible line of reasoning is what turns scattered insights into a cohesive, high‑scoring AP Lit essay. This worksheet helps students...
Exploring "The All of It" from the 2025 AP Lit Exam
There are occasionally released items on the AP Exam that cause a teacher to immediately think, Well I did all that I could. This thought is often...
AP® Literature: Short Story Activities
In my district, every nine weeks we ask our students at all grade levels to read a work independently and then demonstrate their knowledge of that...
Six Word Memoir Activity
In this creative and reflective assignment, you’ll explore the art of powerful storytelling through just six words. You’ll examine examples of 6-word...
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.”