Advanced Placement English Language and Composition
Drew University, Madison, New Jersey
July 30, 2012 – August 3, 2012
AP Consultant: Denise Hayden
denisehayden@juno.com/dhayden@sewanhaka.k12.ny.us
516-536-4937 or 516-815-7143
AGENDA
Section 1: Introduction
1. Welcome and introduction
2. Breaks and bathroom locations
3. Philosophy and purpose of AP
a. Equity and access
b. AP course audit
c. Exam security
d. College Board regional offices
4. Purpose and methodology of workshop
Section 2: Establishing Your Course
1. Starting a new AP program
a. Establishing levels of expectations
b. Choosing appropriate texts
c. Creating a syllabus
d. Reviewing sample syllabi
2. Stepping into an established program
e. Establishing levels of expectations
f. Assessing appropriate core texts
g. Modifying a syllabus
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Teaching an AP course
h. Using the course description
i. Using the sample syllabi
Section 3: An Examination of the Multiple-Choice Section of the AP Exam
1. An Examination of the Multiple-Choice Section
a. Breakdown of multiple-choice questions on the exam
b. Analysis of part I questions
c. Strategies for answering the multiple-choice questions
d. Writing multiple-choice questions
e. Strategies for developing multiple-choice questions
Section 4: An Examination of the Free-Response Sections and Related Scoring
Guidelines
2. An Examination of the Free-Response Sections and Related Scoring GuidelinesSynthesis Prompt (Question 1)
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Description the AP Reading process
Review of the AP reading and scoring processes
Analysis of the synthesis prompt
Citations in the synthesis essay
Synthesis and the document based question (U.S. History)
Scoring the synthesis essay
Student samples
Strategies for writing synthesis questions
Review of common strategies for the synthesis prompt
Incorporation of synthesis prompts into the curriculum and best methods
3. An Examination of the Free-Response Sections and Related Scoring Guidelinesthe Rhetorical Analysis Prompt (Question 2)
a. Analysis of the rhetorical analysis prompt
b. Annotations
c. Scoring the rhetorical analysis essay
d. Student samples
e. Review of common strategies for writing responses to the rhetorical
analysis prompt
f. Format for writing rhetorical analysis prompts
g. Incorporation of rhetorical analysis prompts into the curriculum and best
methods
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4. An Examination of the Free-Response Sections and Related Scoring Guidelines- the
Open Argument Prompt (Question 3)
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Analysis of the open argument question (different types)
Using specific and relevant evidence
Scoring the open argument essay
Student samples
Review of common strategies for responding to an open argument prompt
Format for writing open argument prompts
Incorporation of open argument prompts into the curriculum and best methods
Section 5: Resources for Teaching AP
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Resources available through AP Central
The AP Annual Conference
Professional organizations
Professional development workshop resources
Consultant-generated resources
Discipline-specific resources
Participant-shared resources
Vertical Teaming
Section 6: Effective Instructional Practices
1. Public Statement by Eight Alabama Clergymen and Letter from Birmingham Jail by
Martin Luther King Jr.
2. “How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words” – proofreading and editing activity
3. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien - approaches, lessons, activities, writing
assignments and assessments
4. Rhetorical analysis sheets (John Brassil)
5. Vocabulary Notebook
6. Packet of interdisciplinary lessons, writing assignments, scoring guides
7. Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks lesson (reading visual texts)
8. Theme charts (Renee Shea)
9. Eulogy writing assignment-historical figure
10. The Barrio by Robert Ramirez with writing assignment and scoring rubric
11. The Gettysburg Address with writing assignment and student samples
12. Valentine’s Day diction lesson
13. "On the Same Page" activity
14. Documentary film in the AP Language class (Renee Shea)
15. Silence of the Lambs writing assignment
16. Shared lessons, activities, writing assignments, scoring guides and assessments
17. Using poetry - "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke
18. Advertisement assignment
19. Summer reading
20. Public Service Announcement assignment
21. Using film in an AP class
22. SOAPStone
23. Analysis of Test Data
24. Using model essays and sharing corrections
25. Research Paper
Section 7: An Interdisciplinary Approach to AP English Language and Composition and AP
United States History
1. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
a. Approaches to the novel
b. Lessons and activities
c. Incorporation of the novel into the curriculum
2. Free-response examination analysis
3. Conference materials
Section 8: Using Film in the AP Language and Composition Class
1. Analysis of Film
a. Platoon and The Things They Carried
2. Documentary Film and Argument
a. Analysis of Michael Moore’s SICKO
b. Documentary Film and the Research Paper
Section 9: Where Do We Go From here? Next Steps and Closure
1. Ways to use the information and knowledge from the workshop in specific school
settings
2. Review of the list of essentials for starting an AP course
3. Using the specifics of the workshop
4. Specific activities that can be used in any classroom
5. Review of the equity and access statement and issues concerning equity and access
6. Resources available
7. Questions, concerns, and feedback