Preparing Students for AP Language and Composition AP Literature and Composition

1. Preparing Students for AP Language and Composition AP Literature and Composition

2. What are the goals for an AP program?

3. What are the goals of an AP program? Opportunities for gifted students Challenge students Provide college courses Opportunity to earn college credit

4. BUT they’re still kids College texts don’t provide the rich before, during, and after activities that students still need (albeit, perhaps, less intensely)

5. Strategies to be sure to encourage staff to consider:

6. Strategies to be sure to encourage staff to consider: Reading Journal (note the examples in Reading and Writing from Literature)

7. Text Read My Response Rhetorical/ Effect Literary Device Used

8. Strategies to be sure to encourage staff to consider: Reading Journal (note the examples in Reading and Writing from Literature) Literature Circles

9. More sophisticated Literature Circle Roles: What is the author’s purpose? What is the author’s audience? What strategies does the author use? What points do we need to discuss? What single passage has the most impact?

10. The exams and scoring

11. The AP Language and Composition Exam

12. The AP Language and Composition Exam The Riverside Reader

13. The AP Language and Composition Exam • The Riverside Reader • The goal of the text is to produce writing

14. The AP Language and Composition Exam • The Riverside Reader • The goal of the text is to produce writing • The arrangement is rhetorical

15. The AP Language and Composition Exam • The Riverside Reader • The goal of the text is to produce writing • The arrangement is rhetorical • Readings progress from simple to complex and get longer

16. The AP Language and Composition Exam • The Riverside Reader • The goal of the text is to produce writing • The arrangement is rhetorical • Readings progress from simple to complex and get longer • There are professional and student models

17. The AP Language and Composition Exam • The Riverside Reader • The goal of the text is to produce writing • The arrangement is rhetorical • Readings progress from simple to complex and get longer • There are professional and student models • “Persuasion and Argument” section has paired examples

18. The AP Language and Composition Exam • The Riverside Reader • The goal of the text is to produce writing • The arrangement is rhetorical • Readings progress from simple to complex and get longer • There are professional and student models • “Persuasion and Argument” section has paired examples • Second Table of Contents organizes by theme/issue

19. The AP Language and Composition Exam • The Riverside Reader • The goal of the text is to produce writing • The arrangement is rhetorical • Readings progress from simple to complex and get longer • There are professional and student models • “Persuasion and Argument” section has paired examples • Second Table of Contents organizes by theme/issue • Purpose, Audience, and Strategies form the framework

20. The AP Language and Composition Exam • The Riverside Reader • The goal of the text is to produce writing • The arrangement is rhetorical • Readings progress from simple to complex and get longer • There are professional and student models • “Persuasion and Argument” section has paired examples • Second Table of Contents organizes by theme/issue • Purpose, Audience, and Strategies form the framework • Study questions focus on Purpose, Audience, and Strategies

21. Examine The Riverside Reader Instructor’s Resource Manual for The Riverside Reader

22. The AP Literature and Composition Exam

23. The AP Literature and Composition Exam Reading and Writing from Literature

24. The AP Literature and Composition Exam • Reading and Writing from Literature • Text provides instruction, models, and an anthology

25. The AP Literature and Composition Exam • Reading and Writing from Literature • Text provides instruction, models, and an anthology • Intertextuality is the theoretical basis

26. The AP Literature and Composition Exam • Reading and Writing from Literature • Text provides instruction, models, and an anthology • Intertextuality is the theoretical basis • Provides instruction and models for: • Reading and Writing • Reading Notebooks • Writing Portfolios • Genres • and a Thematic Anthology of Readings

27. The AP Literature and Composition Exam • Reading and Writing from Literature • Text provides instruction, models, and an anthology • Intertextuality is the theoretical basis • Provides instruction and models for: • Reading and Writing • Reading Notebooks • Writing Portfolios • Genres • and a Thematic Anthology of Readings • Interchapters provide practical ideas and models

28. Examine Reading and Writing from Literature Instructor’s Resource Manual for Reading and Writing from Literature