University of Louisiana Lafayette 2018 APSI
2018 Sample Student Responses – AP English Literature and Composition
A Day No Pigs Would Die – Pre-AP Novel Unit Example
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University of Houston 2016 San Angelo APSI 2018 UT Austin 2018
Links and Materials
University of Houston APSI 2016
San Angelo APSI Language 2018
301 Prompts for Argumentative Writing Link
2016 Sample Student Responses – AP English Language and Composition
UT Austin Materials 2018
Student Samples 2017
2018 AP English Language and Composition Samples and Scoring
2018 AP English Literature and Composition Samples and Scoring
Strange Fruit Sonnet Project
Essay Ratiocination A revising and editing strategy
Oedipus-Trilogy-2013
Quiet The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Visible Thinking Link
Visible Thinking
Creativity Map – find it- use it
Figuring out Fair Map
Circles of Truth Map
Understanding Map
Options Diamond – Exploring the tension of decision making
Reporters Notebook – Separating fact and feeling
Visible Thinking – Teacher Organization
Me, You, Space, Time: “MYST”
Visible Thinking – Student Activities
3, 2, 1 Bridge
Connect/Extend/Challenge
Circle of Viewpoints
Claim Support Question
Compass Points
Creative Hunt – Looking at parts, purposes, and audiences
Creative Questions
CSI – Color, Symbol, Image
Does it Fit
Explanation Game
Headlines
Here/Now There/Then
Options Diamond
Question Sorts
Question Starts
Red Light,Yellow Light for Truth
Reporters Notebook – Separating fact and feeling
See/Think/Wonder – exploring works of art and other interesting things
Step Inside: Perceive,Know about, Care about
Stop Look Listen – clarifying claims and sources
Think Puzzle Explore
Tug of War – the complexity of fairness dilemmas
Used to think – But now, I think
What Makes You Say That?
Teacher Shares
11X17 body-1
body biography revised
body biography revised-1
Poetry Lesson Teagie Brance
These are the notes from poetry presentation
Project Zero’s Thinking Routine Toolbox
Used to be “Visible Thinking,” but is now is Project Zero’s Thinking Routine Toolbox.
Harvard has added even more that I have listed here. Make sure you check their website.
Creativity Map – find it- use it
Figuring out Fair Map
Circles of Truth Map
Understanding Map
Options Diamond – Exploring the tension of decision making
Reporters Notebook – Separating fact and feeling
Visible Thinking – Teacher Organization
Me, You, Space, Time: “MYST”
Visible Thinking – Student Activities
3, 2, 1 Bridge
Connect/Extend/Challenge
Circle of Viewpoints
Claim Support Question
Compass Points
Creative Hunt – Looking at parts, purposes, and audiences
Creative Questions
CSI – Color, Symbol, Image
Does it Fit
Explanation Game
Headlines
Here/Now There/Then
Options Diamond
Question Sorts
Question Starts
Red Light,Yellow Light for Truth
Reporters Notebook – Separating fact and feeling
See/Think/Wonder – exploring works of art and other interesting things
Step Inside: Perceive,Know about, Care about
Stop Look Listen – clarifying claims and sources
Think Puzzle Explore
Tug of War – the complexity of fairness dilemmas
Used to think – But now, I think
What Makes You Say That?
Alabama A+
Day one handout
Speed Dating Prompts
speed-dating-directions
Day two handout 1
Day two handout 2
The above material is from October 2017
October 1-2, 2018
Fractured Fairy Tales
www.brownielocks.com/fracturedfairytales
http://www.marilynkinsella.org/study_guide_for_fractured_fairy
http://www.marilynkinsella.org/Workshop/Fractured_Fairy_Tales
http://www.marilynkinsella.org/Workshop/Fractured_Thoughts_workshop
The Simpsons
https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
https://www.fox.com/the-simpsons/clips/
Short Stories Handouts
Short Story Final
Final copy Satire 2018 2019
APSI University of Alabama 2017
APSI UT at TYLER 2017
UTEP APSI 2017, 2019
Albert Account Set-up for APSI
January 24 2011 Attention Grabber example
Unfortunately, I cannot post the Binder for 2019, but if you contact me, I will be happy to send it to you. Thanks for your understanding.
Midwestern Region March 16, 2017
Midwestern Region, March 16, 2017
Literature
2016 Lit Ques 1 (Juggler by Richard Wilbur) Sample Essays copy
2016 Lit Ques 2 Hardy Excerpt Student Sample Essays
2016 Lit Ques 3 Intentional Deception Student Sample Essays
Language
2016 Question 1 Language Student Samples typed
2016 Question 3 Samples with prompt
Additional Materials and Thank You
Answer Key to “Grandmother” Prose Selection
Excerpts from Books for AP Literature
Book Excerpt Links
Fredrik Backman opening of Bear Town
Ceremony Materials
Leslie Marmon Silko Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony – the Effects of White Contact on Pueblo Myth and Ritual
Ceremony – A timeline of Tayo’s journey and Myth time in Ceremony
Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying
Anthony Doerr All the Light We cannot See
Henrik Ibsen adapted by Arthur Miller An Enemy of the People
Exit West Materials
A Novel About Refugees That Feels Instantly Canonical Exit West
Mohsin Hamid Exit West
Exit West annotation by the author
Lesson Plan For Teaching Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
Jane Eyre Materials
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre chapters 1 and 2
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre chapter 26
Jane Eyre_Setting_Dialectics_
Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea Selections
Station Eleven Materials
Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven excerpt chapter 1
Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven additional excerpts
Watership Down Materials
Richard Adams Watership Down Chapter One
Why Watership Down Should Be On Every Students Reading List
What Richard Adams’ Watership Down Taught Me About Death
When the Emperor was Divine Materials
Julie Otsuka When The Emperor was Divine
When the Emperor Was Divine 2
Reader-Resources-When The Emperor was Divine
A Day No Pigs Would Die (Example of a complete Unit on a Novel)
Robert Newton Peck A Day No Pigs Would Die
Andrew Sean Greer excerpt from Less “It’s a Summer Day” published in the New Yorker 2017
Barbara Kingsolver Poisonwood Bible and interview with Kingsolver
The Nickel Boys Materials
Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys
“A Good Read: Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead”
Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys – Prologue
The Underground Railroad Materials
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad
Lesson Plan for teaching The Underground Railroad ….
Interview with Colson Whitehead NPR Fresh Air
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Water Dancer
Helena MarÍa Viramontes Under the Feet of Jesus
William Faulkner Light in August
Maggie O’Farrell Hamnet “chapter one”
Homegoing Materials
Yaa Gyasi Homegoing
How Homegoing Has Changed My Teaching
Eugene Ionesco The Bald Soprano (Theatre of the Absurd)
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest “chapter one selections”
Questioning the Text for understanding
Henry Fielding Tom Jones understanding the passage
Understanding the Passage Vocabulary Study
Alan Paton Cry the Beloved Country
Douglas Adams Hitch Hiker’s Guide To the Galaxy
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man Passages (note: this has appeared as a choice on Question 3 more often than any other book.)
Charles Dickens Tale of Two Cities
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird “Maycomb”
T.S. Eliot Murder in the Cathedral – The individual’s opposition to authority
Americanah Materials
New York Times: Realities of Race
The Novel That Made Me and Many Black People Feel Understood
npr.org-lt Americanah Author Explains Learning To Be Black In The US
glencoepubliclibrary.org-Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie excerpt from Chapter 36 of AMERICANAH
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah
The Danger of a Single Story Transcript
The Book Thief Materials
Markus Zusak The Book Thief – longer excerpt
Markus Zusak The Book Thief – teaching ideas
Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones
The Warmth of Other Suns Materials
Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns – nonfiction (video reading of the opening to chapter “The Great Migration, 1915–1970)
Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns – nonfiction (transcript to above video)
Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns – nonfiction (excerpts chapter 1)
Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns – nonfiction (“Chicago”)
Octavia E. Butler Audio recording of Kindred
Octavia E. Butler Kindred – entire book online
Past Workshop (TCU 2013) on 11 Post-apocalyptic novels and one short story – far too broad a concept for one workshop! What was I thinking? However, the excepts from one or more of the novels might work with your students. Each grouping of novels has suggestions, including reading and activities.
Amor Towles A Gentleman in Moscow
Amy Tan The Bone Setter’s Daughter
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half a Yellow Sun
David Grann Killers of the Flower Moon
Delia Owens Where the Crawdads Sing
Donna Tartt The Goldfinch
Hillary Jordan Mudbound
John Searles Strange But True
Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Madeline Miller Circe
Madeline Miller The Song Of Achilles: A Novel
Manil Suri The Death Vishnu: A Novel
Neil Gaiman The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Sara Gruen Water for Elephants: A Novel
Tara Westover Educated: A Memoir
Yann Martel Life of Pi
Various lists of possible novel choices.
All AP Literature Exam Referenced Novels (Updated 2022)
Non-White Authors to Diversify Your AP Lit Curriculum
Annotated AP Novel List
10 Reasons You Should Encourage Graphic Novel Reading
The Great American Novels – The Atlantic
50 greatest works of immigration Literature
100 Books about Nature
50 classic novels under 200 pages
100 Great Works of Dystopian Fiction
60 years of post-apocalyptic fiction
americanliterature.com