Day One Agenda

10:15 – 11:30 Intro to AP Testing

11:30—12:45 Lunch

1:00—3:30 DebateRhetorical AnalysisSocratic Seminar

What You Need to KnowAbout AP Testing

• AP English Language & Composition – 11th Grade• AP English Literature &

Composition – 12th Grade

Day One:

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For your convenience, I have provided hyperlinks on my webpage to the AP-related websites that I will be using during this Pre-AP Institute.

Course Overview:

“An AP course in English Language and Composition engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts, and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects, as well as the way the genre conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing.”

Course Description:

AP Language & Composition Exam Format:

Total Time: 3 hours & 15 minutes

Section One: Multiple Choice – 60 mins.• 55 Questions• 45% of Total Score

Section Two: Free Response - 135 mins.• 3 Essays (Includes Synthesis)• 55% of Total Score

Released Prompts:

Synthesis Essay:

Prompt 2:

Prompt 3:

Multiple Choice:

Course Overview:

Course Description:

“An AP course in English Literature and Composition engages students in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students deepen their understanding of they ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students consider a work’s structure, style and themes, as well as such smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone.”

AP Literature & Composition Exam Format:

Total Time: 3 hours

Section One: Multiple Choice – 60 mins.• 55 Questions• 45% of Total Score

Section Two: Free Response - 120 mins.• 3 Essays • 55% of Total Score

Released Prompts:

Prompt 1:

Prompt 2:

Prompt 3:

Multiple Choice:

Day Two Agenda

8:30—9:00 English I EOC 9:00—9:15 Literary Adaptation9:15—10:15 Nicki’s Tools10:15—10:30 Break10:30—11:30 Scott’s Tools11:30—12:45 Lunch1:00—1:30 Close Reading1:30—2:30 Lesson Planning2:30 Sharing

What You Need to KnowAbout the English I EOC:

Day Two:

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English I EOCTEA PowerPoint:

Released Tests:

Day Two:

Places I Never Meant to Be:• Sample Selections and Activities

to Illustrate Pre-AP Strategies

Selections:• “Ashes”• “Mine on Thursdays”• “Sheep”• “Visit”• “Certain Choices”• “Migrant Mother”• Time Article• The Giver

Selection One:• “Ashes” by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Activities:• Adaptation of AP Free Response Prompts• Adaptation of AP M/C Stems• Fill in the Blanks Paragraph• What does it say? What does it mean?

What does it matter?

Selection Two: • “Mine on Thursdays” by Robert Cormier

Activities:• From Inspiration to Creation:

An Analysis of Author’s Purpose• Figurative Language:

An Author’s Paintbrush• “Q Is for Duck” Character Analysis

Selection Three: • “Sheep” by Rob Thomas

Activity:• Iceberg Character Analysis

Selections Four Through Six: • “Visit” by Walter Dean Myers• “Certain Choices” by Richard Shelton• Migrant Mother, 1936 by Dorothea Lange

Activity:• Three Formats, One Connection

Selection Seven: • “More Innocent People on Death Row Than

Estimated: Study” by David Von Drehle, Time Magazine Article

Activity:• Kelly Gallagher Article of the Week –

Rhetorical Analysis of Non-Fiction

Selection Eight: • The Giver by Lois Lowry

Activity:• Paint Chip Haikus