To be ready for high school English, including advanced and college prep courses, students must have extensive experience with complex texts. These texts should come from nineteenth century to contemporary […]
Literary and rhetorical analysis involves determining not only what an author is saying but how an author is saying it. This session focuses on strategies (including templates, frames, and sentence […]
In this session, participants will first understand how to help students build background knowledge by providing students informational and visual texts. Participants will also explore how the concrete elements of […]
SOLD OUT- Contact info@appliedpractice.com to be added to the Wait List. Over the last decades -- and certainly more recently -- the concept of ethnic identity in times of protest […]
From the AP Literature CED: "The highest performing essays on the exam typically recognize and account for contradictions and complexities in the text being analyzed. Students who reduce a complex […]
Many works, like Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer prize winning play, "A Streetcar Named Desire" have been banned, censored, or otherwise restricted at times from high school classrooms. Join us for a discussion of […]
Students are smart. Students make great observations. Students say things that cause us to see ideas or texts differently. Too often, they try to put these things in writing and miss […]
If literature as a field of study is going to survive, then it falls on us as teachers of it to make it matter. Not for us, but for the […]
Many, if not most, students struggle with reading and writing at grade-level. As teachers, it's our responsibility not only to teach grade-level content, but also provide scaffolds to make up […]
Description: There is no reason why everything, especially in the English classroom, needs to be new for students. In fact, most students already have a strong understanding of rhetoric, argumentation, research, […]
“You’re much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.” – Superman Recent events have taken a toll on our students and have revealed not only academic but emotional and psychological […]
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 […]
