Preparing Students
for
AP Language and Composition
AP Literature and Composition
What are the goals for an AP program?
What are the goals of an AP program?
Opportunities for gifted students
Challenge students
Provide college courses
Opportunity to earn college credit
BUT they’re still kids
College texts don’t provide the
rich before, during, and after
activities that students still need
(albeit, perhaps, less intensely)
Strategies to be sure to encourage staff to consider:
Strategies to be sure to encourage staff to consider:
Reading Journal (note the examples in
Reading and Writing from Literature)
Text Read My Response Rhetorical/ Effect
Literary
Device Used
Strategies to be sure to encourage staff to consider:
Reading Journal (note the examples in
Reading and Writing from Literature)
Literature Circles
More sophisticated Literature Circle Roles:
What is the author’s purpose?
What is the author’s audience?
What strategies does the author use?
What points do we need to discuss?
What single passage has the most impact?
The exams and scoring
The AP Language and Composition Exam
The AP Language and Composition Exam
The Riverside Reader
The AP Language and Composition Exam
The Riverside Reader
• The goal of the text is to produce writing
The AP Language and Composition Exam
The Riverside Reader
• The goal of the text is to produce writing
• The arrangement is rhetorical
The AP Language and Composition Exam
The Riverside Reader
• The goal of the text is to produce writing
• The arrangement is rhetorical
• Readings progress from simple to complex and get longer
The AP Language and Composition Exam
The Riverside Reader
• The goal of the text is to produce writing
• The arrangement is rhetorical
• Readings progress from simple to complex and get longer
• There are professional and student models
The AP Language and Composition Exam
The Riverside Reader
• The goal of the text is to produce writing
• The arrangement is rhetorical
• Readings progress from simple to complex and get longer
• There are professional and student models
• “Persuasion and Argument” section has paired examples
The AP Language and Composition Exam
The Riverside Reader
• The goal of the text is to produce writing
• The arrangement is rhetorical
• Readings progress from simple to complex and get longer
• There are professional and student models
• “Persuasion and Argument” section has paired examples
• Second Table of Contents organizes by theme/issue
The AP Language and Composition Exam
The Riverside Reader
• The goal of the text is to produce writing
• The arrangement is rhetorical
• Readings progress from simple to complex and get longer
• There are professional and student models
• “Persuasion and Argument” section has paired examples
• Second Table of Contents organizes by theme/issue
• Purpose, Audience, and Strategies form the framework
The AP Language and Composition Exam
The Riverside Reader
• The goal of the text is to produce writing
• The arrangement is rhetorical
• Readings progress from simple to complex and get longer
• There are professional and student models
• “Persuasion and Argument” section has paired examples
• Second Table of Contents organizes by theme/issue
• Purpose, Audience, and Strategies form the framework
• Study questions focus on Purpose, Audience, and Strategies
Examine
The Riverside Reader
Instructor’s Resource Manual for The Riverside Reader
The AP Literature and Composition Exam
The AP Literature and Composition Exam
Reading and Writing from Literature
The AP Literature and Composition Exam
Reading and Writing from Literature
• Text provides instruction, models, and an anthology
The AP Literature and Composition Exam
Reading and Writing from Literature
• Text provides instruction, models, and an anthology
• Intertextuality is the theoretical basis
The AP Literature and Composition Exam
Reading and Writing from Literature
• Text provides instruction, models, and an anthology
• Intertextuality is the theoretical basis
• Provides instruction and models for:
• Reading and Writing
• Reading Notebooks
• Writing Portfolios
• Genres
• and a Thematic Anthology of Readings
The AP Literature and Composition Exam
Reading and Writing from Literature
• Text provides instruction, models, and an anthology
• Intertextuality is the theoretical basis
• Provides instruction and models for:
• Reading and Writing
• Reading Notebooks
• Writing Portfolios
• Genres
• and a Thematic Anthology of Readings
• Interchapters provide practical ideas and models
Examine
Reading and Writing from Literature
Instructor’s Resource Manual for Reading and Writing from Literature