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University of Texas at San Antonio 
APSI Summer 2017

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:
  • 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.
Only through a commitment to equitable preparation and access can true equity and excellence be achieved.

AP Summer Institute Objectives

  • Participants will gain a thorough understanding of goals of the AP English Literature and Composition course.
  • Participants will examine the skills and knowledge that the exam will assess, analyzing the tasks asked of our students. 
  • Participants will craft and practice strategies for making equitable access a guiding principle in designing instruction.

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​WEBSITES of Interest

Sign up for AP Mentor Program

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The AP Literature Exam Questions at AP Central

AP English Literature Classroom Resources Page

AP Teacher Community

AP Audit

Score Report for Educators

 College Board Standards for College Success
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Ms. Selfie
 
Titles for Open Response Questions
 
Open Response Prompts-Q3
 
Poetry Prompts
 
Prose Prompts


Jerry Brown’s Website
 
Merrian-Webster Language Usage Videos
 
Button Poetry Youtube

Twitter: Trevlor Packer@AP_Trevor; 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






Resources for Multiple Choice

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--Dry Erase Protectors
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
Fox Converter

Author Group Cards

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Poetry
​Resources


*"One Art" and clip from In Her Shoes
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*"I carry your heart" and clip from In Her Shoes
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*"Self-pity" and clip from GI Jane
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*"Nothing Gold Can Stay" and clip from The Outsiders
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​*"The Hollow Men" and clip from Apocalypse No​w

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*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"
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*Langston Hughes "Let America Be America Again"
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*Mental Floss--A Quick Video Analysis

*A Guide to Film Analysis from ACMI

*"Elements of Art" from the Getty

My Favorite Poetry Project
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*"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
Powerpoint for "
Musee des Beaux Art"
My Favorite Poetry Project for "Musee des Beaux Art"

Asian American Writers' Workshop--Visual Art

​Poetry Foundation
Teach this Poem--Poets.org

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Resources for
​Prose 

Past Prose Prompts

Sample Debrief on "Lenina"
Lenina Prompt
Lenina 7
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Debrief Packet for Lenina Prompt
Debrief for The Stranger Timed Write

New Yorker​ Comma Queen Series

​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

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50 Word Stories

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Question 3

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
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More Cowbell Skit from SLN

​Sample COWs

COW Rubric

Schools of Criticism

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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.

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  • Home
  • Discussions for Novels using TED Talks and Crash Course
  • The One Day for AP Lit Fall 2019
  • New English Rubrics 2019
  • AP Community and Websites
  • APSI 2019
  • AP Language for 2019
  • APSI 2018
  • AP Language for Teachers 2017
  • Literary Criticism
  • AP Literature and Language Prompts
  • Bogota, Colombia
  • Teacher Comments on Papers
  • Teacher's Notes
  • English IV AP Fall 2016
  • AP Lit Spring 2017
  • AP Literature for Beginning Teachers
  • AP Literature Conference Workshops
  • AP English Literature for Experienced Teachers
  • College Entrance Essays
  • Review for AP Exam for Students