College Board's Equity and Access Policy Statement
The College Board strongly encourages educators to make equitable access a guiding principle for their AP programs by giving all willing and academically prepared students the opportunity to participate in AP. We encourage educators to:
The College Board strongly encourages educators to make equitable access a guiding principle for their AP programs by giving all willing and academically prepared students the opportunity to participate in AP. We encourage educators to:
- Eliminate barriers that restrict access to AP for students from ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups that have been traditionally underserved.
- Make every effort to ensure their AP classes reflect the diversity of their student population.
- Provide all students with access to academically challenging coursework before they enroll in AP classes.

WEBSITES of Interest
Sign up for AP Mentor Program
The AP Literature Exam Questions
AP English Literature Classroom Resources Page
AP Teacher Community
AP Audit
Score Report for Educators
College Board Standards for College Success
Ms. Selfie
Titles for Open Response Questions
Open Response Prompts-Q3
Poetry Prompts
Jerry Brown’s Website
Merrian-Webster Language Usage Videos
Button Poetry Youtube
Twitter: Brandon Abdon @AP_EngLangLit; Talks with Teachers@TalksWTeachers; David Miller @Miller_DG; @aplitchat (Sunday Nights); Button Poetry @buttonpoetry; Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster; Grammarly @Grammarly; Turnitin @Turnitin
Applied Practice
PARCC Exam
Rewordify
Released AP MC Accessible to Public
*Course Description
*AP Student Page
ZipGrade https://www.zipgrade.com/
Gradecam https://gradecam.com/
Socrative http://www.socrative.com/
Classroom Activities
Think/Pair/Share
Communicators
Eliminate one answer choice
Four-corners (5 corners?)
Test Corrections
Lead4ward Instructional Strategies Playlist
Reading Strategies—Acronyms
PAINTT-- Purpose, audience, irony, narrator, tone, theme
SAINT—Setting, attitude, irony, narrator, theme
OCR Software: Optical Character Recognition Software
AP Poetry Prompts from Ms. Effie
*Article from Poetry.org entitled "Watch a Poetry Movie"
*"Poetry in Movies" from Poetry. org
*"One Art" and clip from In Her Shoes
*"I carry your heart" and clip from In Her Shoes
*"Self-pity" and clip from GI Jane
*"Nothing Gold Can Stay" and clip from The Outsiders
*"The Hollow Men" and clip from Apocalypse Now
*Article from New York Times "Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize"
*bobdylan.com
*Don't Look Back--video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
*Jeff Daniels from Newsroom "America is Not the Greatest Country Anymore"
*Langston Hughes "Let America Be America Again"
*Mental Floss--A Quick Video Analysis
*A Guide to Film Analysis from ACMI
*"Elements of Art" from the Getty
My Favorite Poetry Project
*"My Last Dutchess" read by Mike Wallace
*"We Real Cool"
From My Class:
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
"Mirror"
Sample Paper
"I'm All About That Bass"-- EFFECT and Fat paragraphs
Ekphrastic Poetry from the Getty
Ekphrastic Poetry from Poetry.org
Asian American Writers' Workshop--Visual Art
Poetry Foundation
Teach this Poem--Poets.org
Past Prose Prompts
Sample Debrief on "Lenina"
Lenina Prompt
Lenina 7
Debrief Packet for Lenina Prompt
Debrief for The Stranger Timed Write
Ridge Point High School Department Rubric
List Rubric for Prose
List Rubric for Poetry
List Rubric for Q3
Ms. Effie's Rubrics
New Yorker Flash Fiction Issue
50 Word Stories
Sample Debrief on "Lenina"
Lenina Prompt
Lenina 7
Debrief Packet for Lenina Prompt
Debrief for The Stranger Timed Write
Ridge Point High School Department Rubric
List Rubric for Prose
List Rubric for Poetry
List Rubric for Q3
Ms. Effie's Rubrics
New Yorker Flash Fiction Issue
50 Word Stories
Question 3 and the Novel
Novels used on the AP Literature Exam on the Open-ended Response
List of Past Q3 Prompts
John Green's Crash Course on Frankenstein
Wordle
Wordle for Frankenstein Part I
Novel Groupings
Summer Readings: All the Light We Cannot See, The Goldfinch, or The Sympathizer
Science Fiction Readings: Brave New World, The Handmaid's Tale, Pym, or Slaughterhouse Five
Social Issues Unit-- Invisible Man, The Color Purple, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, or The Poisonwood Bible
Plays: Wit, Proof, Doubt or Disgraced
Contemporary Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Middlesex, Delicious Foods, or The Round House
More Cowbell Skit from SLN
Sample COWs
Schools of Criticism
Professional Discussion: If all students are reading the same novel, organize students by profession. Consider careers such as detective, psychologist, scientist, journalist, financial consultant, lawyer, doctor, housekeeper, or novelist. You may want to include a novelist, poet, or character with whom the students are familiar. Pose questions to the groups such as 1. What is the protagonist's biggest problem? 2. Why is the protagonist attracted to another character? 3. Why is the protagonist angry or annoyed with another character? 4. Will the protagonist achieve his or her goal by the end of the novel? Why or why not? After the students have discussed three or four questions, organize students in groups where each profession is represented: one detective, one psychologist, one scientist, etc. Discuss questions again. End class with a whole group discussion/debate. If students are reading different titles (in lit circles), organize students by novel. Then assign a profession to each member in the group. Discuss questions. Next, organize the students by profession so that all the lawyers are in one group and all the psychologists are in one group. Each novel should be represented in the group if possible. Discuss questions again. Whole group share before leaving.