Day One Agenda 10:15 – 11:30Intro to AP Testing 11:30—12:45 Lunch 1:00—3:30 Debate Rhetorical Analysis Socratic Seminar

What You Need to Know About AP Testing AP English Language & Composition – 11 th Grade AP English Literature & Composition – 12 th Grade Day One:

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For your convenience, I have provided hyperlinks on my webpage to the AP-related websites that I will be using during this Pre-AP Institute.

Course Overview:

“An AP course in English Language and Composition engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts, and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects, as well as the way the genre conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing.” Course Description:

AP Language & Composition Exam Format: Total Time: 3 hours & 15 minutes Section One: Multiple Choice – 60 mins. 55 Questions 45% of Total Score Section Two: Free Response mins. 3 Essays (Includes Synthesis) 55% of Total Score

Released Prompts:

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Multiple Choice:

Course Overview:

Course Description: “An AP course in English Literature and Composition engages students in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students deepen their understanding of they ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students consider a work’s structure, style and themes, as well as such smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone.”

AP Literature & Composition Exam Format: Total Time: 3 hours Section One: Multiple Choice – 60 mins. 55 Questions 45% of Total Score Section Two: Free Response mins. 3 Essays 55% of Total Score

Released Prompts:

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Day Two Agenda 8:30—9:00English I EOC 9:00—9:15 Literary Adaptation 9:15—10:15Nicki’s Tools 10:15—10:30 Break 10:30—11:30 Scott’s Tools 11:30—12:45 Lunch 1:00—1:30Close Reading 1:30—2:30Lesson Planning 2:30Sharing

What You Need to Know About the English I EOC: Day Two:

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English I EOC TEA PowerPoint:

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Day Two: Places I Never Meant to Be: Sample Selections and Activities to Illustrate Pre-AP Strategies Selections: “Ashes” “Mine on Thursdays” “Sheep” “Visit” “Certain Choices” “Migrant Mother” Time Article The Giver

Selection One: “Ashes” by Susan Beth Pfeffer Activities: Adaptation of AP Free Response Prompts Adaptation of AP M/C Stems Fill in the Blanks Paragraph What does it say? What does it mean? What does it matter?

Selection Two: “Mine on Thursdays” by Robert Cormier Activities: From Inspiration to Creation: An Analysis of Author’s Purpose Figurative Language: An Author’s Paintbrush “Q Is for Duck” Character Analysis

Selection Three: “Sheep” by Rob Thomas Activity: Iceberg Character Analysis

Selections Four Through Six: “Visit” by Walter Dean Myers “Certain Choices” by Richard Shelton Migrant Mother, 1936 by Dorothea Lange Activity: Three Formats, One Connection

Selection Seven: “More Innocent People on Death Row Than Estimated: Study” by David Von Drehle, Time Magazine Article Activity: Kelly Gallagher Article of the Week – Rhetorical Analysis of Non-Fiction

Selection Eight: The Giver by Lois Lowry Activity: Paint Chip Haikus