Brief Description:
AP English Literature Course Outline for Experienced Teachers
Objectives
This AP Literature Institute will focus on the skills and insights targeted by the College Board. Teachers will learn (and share) strategies that effectively develop those skills in students. Specific topics include analyzing the exam; apportioning time for targeted skill development through the year; reading the play, novel, and poetry; and writing to understand as well as writing of analysis and/or interpretation. By the end of the week participants should feel refreshed and inspired to try new ideas and techniques grounded in an understanding of why they are effective. They should also feel a sense of community with successful professionals like themselves concerned with delivering a most rigorous curriculum.
Overview
Each day we will analyze a portion of the 2002 exam then we will discuss and experiment with especially effective lessons for challenging students to engaged responses to quality literature.
Tentative Daily Schedule:
Day 1, Monday, August 5
- Introductions
- Philosophy of the AP Program
- Course goals (the four teachers)
- Summer Reading Assignments
- Essay Question 1, scoring, and skills
- Appropriate poetry for this question.
- TP CASTT/Opposition
- Read Around
- Physicalizing Shakespeare
- Line - technique- effect
Day 2, Tuesday, August 6
- Connections
- Exam Essay Question 2- Style Analysis
- Rubric, Scoring, Skills
- Style Analysis- Language terms and effect
- Card trick
- Matinee: Macbeth, Oregon Shakespeare Festival
- Evening: A Winter's Tale, Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Day 3, Wednesday, August 7
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Afternoon-Meet with Shakespeare Professor from university to discuss plays.
Day 4, Thursday, August 8
- Style Analysis Presentations
- Improving student writing - considerations
- Reading Log: Choose the 5 books you would most like to teach in AP English. Explain why. Discussion
- Exam Essay Question 3: Rubric, test responses, skills
- RJ and letters
- Criteria for effective introduction
- Markers for good literary analysis?
- Big idea: manipulating to fit question. Choosing details.
- AP notes
- The Heroic Cycle
- Discussion of the texts that students choose for the open topic.
- Class management: What Did I Miss?
Day 5, Friday, August 9
- Multiple Choice test - 45%
- Group writing MC questions
- Reflection and Discussion
- Socratic seminar for MC text
- Grammar- the formal study???
- After the exam: making the end of the year educational, and meaningful.