Teacher Talk: Improving Commentary

This session will examine some released student samples from the 2021 AP exam. We will workshop how to help our students revise drafts to add in commentary and evidence to improve scores in Row B of the rubric.

Facilitator: Celine Gomez

Celine Gomez teaches at Plano West Senior High School in Plano, TX. For the past 21 years, she has taught various levels of 11^th and 12^th grade English including AP® Literature for the past 19 years. For the past 17 summers, Celine has served as an AP® national grader as well as a table leader/ocho for the past 9 years, and she has been on the sample selection committee for the past 4 years. This summer Celine served as a distributed Question Leader for one of the prose prompts. She is an endorsed College Board consultant for AP® Literature presenting APSIs and one day workshops.