Analyzing Different Genres

Online

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 […]

$25.00

Analyzing Figurative Language and Allusion

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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 […]

$25.00

Reading for Meaning

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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 […]

$25.00

Teacher Talk - Using Complex Short Stories in the Classroom

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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 […]

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Teacher Talk: Increasing Access with Preexisting Literacies

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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, […]

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Teacher Talk: A Superhero Mini Unit

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“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 […]

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Teacher Talk: Improving Commentary

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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 […]

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