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Day One Agenda

Day One Agenda. 10:15 – 11:30 Intro to AP Testing 11:30—12:45 Lunch 1:00—3:30 Debate Rhetorical Analysis Socratic Seminar. Day One:. What You Need to Know About AP Testing. AP English Language & Composition – 11 th Grade AP English Literature & Composition – 12 th Grade.

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Day One Agenda

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  1. Day One Agenda 10:15 – 11:30Intro to AP Testing 11:30—12:45 Lunch 1:00—3:30 Debate Rhetorical Analysis Socratic Seminar

  2. Day One: What You Need to KnowAbout AP Testing • AP English Language & Composition – 11th Grade • AP English Literature & Composition – 12th Grade

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  4. 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.

  5. Course Overview:

  6. “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:

  7. 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

  8. Released Prompts:

  9. Synthesis Essay:

  10. Prompt 2:

  11. Prompt 3:

  12. Multiple Choice:

  13. Course Overview:

  14. “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.” Course Description:

  15. 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

  16. Released Prompts:

  17. Prompt 1:

  18. Prompt 2:

  19. Prompt 3:

  20. Multiple Choice:

  21. Day Two Agenda 8:30—9:00 English I EOC 9:00—9:15 Literary Adaptation 9:15—10:15 Nicki’s Tools 10:15—10:30 Break 10:30—11:30 Scott’s Tools 11:30—12:45 Lunch 1:00—1:30 Close Reading 1:30—2:30 Lesson Planning 2:30 Sharing

  22. Day Two: What You Need to KnowAbout the English I EOC:

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  24. English I EOC TEA PowerPoint:

  25. Released Tests:

  26. 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

  27. 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?

  28. 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

  29. Selection Three: • “Sheep” by Rob Thomas • Activity: • Iceberg Character Analysis

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. Selection Eight: • The Giver by Lois Lowry • Activity: • Paint Chip Haikus

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