Advanced Placement English Language and Composition



Advanced Placement English Language and Composition

Drew University, Madison, New Jersey

July 30, 2012 – August 3, 2012

AP Consultant: Denise Hayden

denisehayden@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

3. 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 Guidelines- the Synthesis Prompt (Question 1)

a. Description the AP Reading process

b. Review of the AP reading and scoring processes

c. Analysis of the synthesis prompt

d. Citations in the synthesis essay

e. Synthesis and the document based question (U.S. History)

f. Scoring the synthesis essay

g. Student samples

h. Strategies for writing synthesis questions

i. Review of common strategies for the synthesis prompt

j. Incorporation of synthesis prompts into the curriculum and best methods

3. An Examination of the Free-Response Sections and Related Scoring Guidelines- the 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

4. An Examination of the Free-Response Sections and Related Scoring Guidelines- the Open Argument Prompt (Question 3)

a. Analysis of the open argument question (different types)

b. Using specific and relevant evidence

c. Scoring the open argument essay

d. Student samples

e. Review of common strategies for responding to an open argument prompt

f. Format for writing open argument prompts

g. Incorporation of open argument prompts into the curriculum and best methods

Section 5: Resources for Teaching AP

1. Resources available through AP Central

2. The AP Annual Conference

3. Professional organizations

4. Professional development workshop resources

5. Consultant-generated resources

6. Discipline-specific resources

7. Participant-shared resources

8. 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

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