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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...
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AP® English: Sophistication & Complexity Webinar
The sophistication point on the essay rubrics often meets with much weeping and gnashing of teeth. Students want to know how to write it. Teachers...
Pole Vaulting Your Way Through the DBQ
Teaching a young, eager, and naive student how to write a sophisticated DBQ is like teaching a similarly inexperienced athlete how to successfully...
Architecture, Design & Structure in Literature
Ernest Hemingway once famously said that “Prose is architecture. It’s not interior design.” Well-known for the sparsity and tight structure of his...
AP® Literature at The Middle of the Year
It’s December. You’re tired. You are fairly certain that you cannot lead another discussion about—or design another activity around—something like...
Balancing Skill & Content in AP® World
Do you struggle with teaching over 800 years of content and building college-level skill proficiency to AP® World History students? Does teaching AP®...
“Where in the…?" — A Conversation on Literature & Setting
Everything happens somewhere. Hester and Pearl live on the outskirts of town; George and Lennie start off in the wilderness but then live on a farm;...
What if we taught composition like Bob Ross teaches painting?
Back in my hometown, it was a rite of passage at the age of twelve to get a paper route. There was no status associated with it, nor did it come with...
Current Events & Your AP® Government Classroom
Around 2005, I started a more regular and purposeful current events routine in my AP® Government and Politics class. I would supply three articles on...
Organizing Your AP® European History Course
Do you need some ideas and/or extra support to organize your AP® European History course? Join Lou Gallo as he shares ideas on organizing your course...