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AP English

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Kathleen LaClair added 2 discussionsyesterday

Tracy Lux replied to Ginny Hoke's discussion 'New to AP Lit... Help!' in the group New AP Teachers Uniteon Friday

This was so useful! Thanks for sharing! This year I don't really have the time or the money to switch up the texts, but I might throw out one or two as the year goes on. I haven't read all of our assigned ones yet, but I'm hoping they all have con...

Ginny Hoke replied to Ginny Hoke's discussion 'New to AP Lit... Help!' in the group New AP Teachers Uniteon Friday

Tracy, Thank you for the wonderful advice. I've thought about using the same texts as the teacher I'll eventually replace. I wish you luck in preparing for your new role, exciting and daunting all at once. I just spoke (via e-mail) with a close f...

Tracy Lux replied to Ginny Hoke's discussion 'New to AP Lit... Help!' in the group New AP Teachers Uniteon Thursday

Ginny, My teaching experience is very similar to yours, although I've never even taught an honors class. I am entering my third year and am teaching AP Lit next year for the 1st time on a 2 out of 3 trimesters schedule (24 weeks total, 70 minute c...

Ginny Hoke added a discussion to the group New AP Teachers Uniteon Thursday

New to AP Lit... Help!

I found out last week that I would be teaching a year-long AP Lit course during the 2009-2010 school year. Previously having taught at a school that did not offer AP courses, my teaching experience has involved mostly freshmen and sophomore litera...

Brian Read replied to Robin's discussion 'AP Multiple Choice Questions'on Thursday

YES! Great idea. I was just introduced to think-alouds this past year, and love the idea. I had thought about applying it to the reading of literature, but had not thought about using it to help students work through MC problems.

Brian Read replied to Paula McLeland's discussion 'AP Essay prompts'on Thursday

Letting them choose the question from the list is a very good idea. Not only does it get them familiar with the range of questions, but it also gives you a variety of responses to read.

Brian Read replied to Monica Wagner's discussion 'Using a Ning in your AP Class'on Thursday

Actually, that is what I am considering myself. I found my way to this site by doing one of the tasks for a summer on-line workshop dealing with web 2.0. Ironically, there is no mention of "nings" in the course. I will have to look more at the str...

Forum

Teaching Song of Solomon

One of the previous AP teachers used to teach this, and I just read it for the first time to see whether I'd be interested in teaching it. I noticed a lot of motifs (flight, names, etc) that I woul...

Started by Kathleen LaClair 1 day ago.

Best things to do to prep for first year teaching AP Lit 2 Replies

Next year will be my first year teaching AP Lit. I've brought home materials from the previous teachers and lots of books to read and re-read to decide what to teach, but I was wondering what peopl...

Tagged: prep, year, first

Started by Kathleen LaClair. Last reply by Margi Jul 1.

Standards for AP English

Are there any standards for aligned for AP English? My department chair tells me there are in California, but I am unable to find any.

Tagged: standards, English, AP

Started by teacherho Jun 30.

Using a Ning in your AP Class 1 Reply

I am toying with the idea of creating a Ning for my AP lit classes. Has anyone out there done so and how do you use it with your students? Edit: I have looked over Classroom 2.0 and other resource...

Started by Monica Wagner. Last reply by Brian Read Jul 2.

Blog Posts

Curriculum planning and standards alignment

I am writing the plans for junior year english - American lit. And working on Stuff for AP english as well this summer - I enjoy working at school with peers without students.

Posted by teacherho on June 29, 2009 at 9:30pm

The Jeopardy! Tryout Experience, or How I Narrowly Escaped Death TWICE!

On June 1, 2009 I set out on I-65 from Indianapolis. Destination: Chicago and my tryout for Jeopardy! I left town at 4 PM Indy time, hoping to avoid rush hour on both ends. My cousin Charlie was gracious enough (5 days before his wedding) to let me stay at his and Kate's place for the night. My scheduled appointment time was 11:30 AM Chicago time.

The drive was uneventful until I reached Lafayette, about an hour and a half later. It started to rain. No problem. I've driven in rain before. The s… Continue

Posted by Monica Wagner on June 27, 2009 at 11:44am

Figuring out what would be best online support for the following year.

Currently have a EDU 2.0 website class, a Edmodo site, and a page using both Wetpaint and Weebly. I think the simplest would be the best - but both Weebly and Edmodo seem to do the trick. I'm not too much a fan of wikis and some blogs since they are blocked on our campus.

Posted by teacherho on May 25, 2009 at 5:23pm

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