AP Material and APSI Material

AP Material and APSI Material
APSI LINKS (General for AP English Literature and Composition)
What follows is one arrangement of many possible approaches to an APSI.

Please understand that the instructor will strive to maintain the material and the order of presentations listed below; however, at times, it may be necessary to deviate from the printed schedule due to changes essential to meeting the needs of most of the participants, time considerations, new ideas, new approaches, or new information.

Course Description and Purpose

In this four-day online APSI, new teachers can anticipate sessions in which to learn and practice the basics essential for maintaining a successful AP English Literature course. The four days will offer teachers a range of practical strategies for inspiring students to develop their voices as writers and critical thinkers. The workshop is designed as a summer conversation among colleagues to foster a community of learners. In AP classrooms, students have an array of experiences and understandings. During this workshop, we will explore and create meaningful experiences designed to move students from what they know about literature to what they do not know to help them create insightful understandings of literature. During the workshop, teachers will explore critical techniques to help students move beyond summary and engage in the complexities of short and long fiction and poetry with more confidence and understanding.

Teachers will be offered an array of approaches for assessing student writing and methods for assuring that students are held accountable for content/skills while fostering a healthy work culture for both students and instructor. We will work with strategies for both the FRQ and MC questions.

In addition, we will explore how to best utilize the Analytic Rubric, CED, and AP Classroom so that students can benefit from the content and instructors can make targeted adjustments to their lessons. Our focus on writing will involve evidence-based writing, problem-solving, collaborative learning, and helping students recognize what has previously been invisible to them in complex texts.
DID I MISS ANYTHING

Pre-APSI reading
AP Literature Exam Revisions
Big Ideas and Lit Devices

Day One
AP Literature Activity
Daily schedule for the week
Tour of Canvas and website
The Psychological Comforts of Storytelling
The Last Battle
The Culture Tree (link to the image)
Culturally Responsive Teaching in the AP Classroom Brandon
The PowerPoint is sometimes difficult to download; therefore, I have also included a .pdf of the presentation.
Culturally Responsive Teaching in the AP Classroom Brandon
(possible breakout rooms and whole group discussion)
Watch the following two videos. Take brief notes and be ready to discuss their contents and why they are important in your classroom.
The Danger of a Single Story
The Danger of a Single Story – transcript
Spectacular Danai Gurira
CB Topic: Diversity & Inclusion and Equity & Access in AP^®PowerPoint converted to .pdf from College Board plus Handout
breakout rooms and whole group discussion
CB Topic: Course and Exam Description & Course Planning
Discuss “AP Lit Course/Exam Revisions” and “Big Ideas and Literary Devices.”
Introduction to the CED
AP Course Audit
Course Audit Video
Syllabus design: CED unit, theme, literature survey, chronological, author studies, and/or other organizational approach (see page 115 in CED)
CB Topic
College Board Sample Syllabus
College Board Syllabus Development Guide
The changing role of longer fiction and drama in AP Lit: Examine/discuss
ap22 Q3 Literary Analysis Question
Short Story Resources
Unit Guides CED
AP Literature Scoring Rubrics
Of the 36 to 42 literary works on the list
Official Fifty-Five Word Short Story Rules
55 word story samples
Writing and sharing your own short stories via Canvas
Micro Fiction
Homework: Write a reflection on how the use of the CED may be useful in your planning and teaching. Be prepared to share tomorrow.

Day Two
The-Sun-Goes-Down-on-Summer-by-Steve-Lawhead
One Pager sun goes down on summer
Lesson Plan for Ray Bradbury Rains
There Will Come Soft Rains -Bradbury, Ray
There-will-come-soft-rains
AP English Literature and Composition Key Questions by Course Skill
Key Questions
There will only be time to examine the student samples from 2024; however, you will also get the student samples for revised 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023, but I cannot post them.
Review; converting past prompts to new prompts Language
Examples: AP Prose Prompts FRQ 2 Rewritten with Stable Wording, as PDF (Thanks to Tia Miller).
Read/take notes on 2024 AP Poetry FRQ 1
Read 2024 FRQ 1 Student Samples
Read 2024 FRQ1 CB Commentary
CB Topic: Strategies and Pedagogical Tools
Discuss 2024 AP Poetry FRQ1
Discuss Analytical Rubric
Discuss Thesis Development as reflected in the student samples
Discuss Developing Commentary as reflected in the student samples
Analyses of Scores of 1 and 2
Instructional Strategies
Make it Stick (youtube link)
Make_It_Stick .pdf
The Missing Piece (YouTube link) Video story with questions
MIssing piece and student sample
Additional Short Story lesson plan activity: A Vendetta-Guy de Maupassant
Close Reading Strategies for Short Fiction_A Vendetta Lesson Plan
Powerpoint presentation converted to . PDF
CB Topic: Choose a short story either from Short Story resources or one you already know and would like to teach. Begin work on a lesson plan to teach the story. This can also be the beginning of a Unit on Short Stories if you wish. Be sure to consult the CED Unit Guides and CED Key Questions to help pick the level of difficulty you want. Please label the skill categories you use.
Discuss 2024 AP Prose FRQ 2
Discuss FRQ 2 student samples
Discuss FRQ 2 CB Commentary
Examine Lists of Past Poetry, Prose, and Open Questions
Questions? Clarifications?
(Note: You will have access to the student samples when they are obtained.)
What is meant by “line of reasoning.”
A brief discussion of the “Sophistication Point.”
“The Scoring Bump of 2022” and why it is important. Behind the Scenes
Questions? Clarifications?
Day Three
CB Topic: AP Classroom and AP Daily
Overview of AP Classroom and AP Daily
AP Classroom Resources and Description
Course
Unit Guides
Topic Questions
End of Unit Personal Progress Checks (PPC).
You CANNOT use PPC for a letter grade in your class.
Progress Dashboard
Question Bank
AP Daily
Poetry
I am offering this Poem-Jimmy Santiago Bace
Carol Jago Goldilocks Assignment
illustrating the Complex through Evidences MIST
Most Dangerous Air-Margarita Engle
Pop music in sonnet form
AP Lit Poetry Prompts with Poems
21 poems for AP Literature
Harlem-Renaissance-Poems
One pager for poetry
AP Lit Analysis -Alternative Questions for Poetry