Chapter 1: Teaching AP English (running time 48 minutes)
getting started
designing an AP course
setting the environment
reading strategies
writing strategies
Chapter 2: Teaching AP Language (running time 56 minutes)
rhetoric and argumentation
style analysis
synthesizing sources
designing an AP Language syllabus
AP Language texts
Chapter 3: Teaching AP Literature (running time 52 minutes)
literary analysis
comparison and contrast
the open essay
designing an AP Literature syllabus
AP Literature texts
Chapter 4: The AP Exams (running time 32 minutes)
preparing for the test
reflecting on scores
Resources for Teachers
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Video Glossary
*Analysis
*Anaphora
AP Audit
*Connotation and Denotation
*Ethos, Logos, Pathos
Evidence in Argumentation
*Imagery
*Incongruity
Inference
*Juxtaposition
*Paradox
Rhetorical triangle
Significance
*Syntax
Theme
*Tone
Browse by Activity
Analyzing prompts
Annotation
AP Rubrics
*Choral Reading
*Cloze technique
Comparison and Contrast
Dialectical Journal
Dictation
Editorial Cartoons
Essay revision
*Figurative Language
Key Passages
Levels of Questions
Mock AP Exam
*Museum Project
Purpose for Reading
*Short Story Boot Camp
SOAPS
*Socratic Seminar and Related Activities
Style Imitation
*Summer Reading
Synthesis Panel
*Toulmin Model
Using Art
Visualization
Browse by Text
4 Little Girls, Spike Lee (director)
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
AP Language and American Literature
Fences, August Wilson
*Hamlet, William Shakespeare
*In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Alice Walker
On Self Respect, Joan Didion
Once More to the Lake, E. B. White
Passing, Nella Larson
Philosophy of Reading
*Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Jonathan Edwards
The Pupil, Henry James
To His Coy Mistress, Adrew Marvell
*Women’s Brains, Stephen Jay Gould
Document Library
American Literature and AP Language Syllabus
Annotation Rubric
Scoring Guide Rubric
Sliding Scale Scoring Guide
Creating a Mock AP Exam – Handout and Student Sample
Parental Notification Letter
Graphic Organizer Template
Columnist assignment and grade sheet
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