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Additional Resources for AP English Literature and Composition

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CED Free-Response Question 2 (Prose Fiction Analysis)

Free Response Question 2 (Prose Fiction Analysis) from the sample exam in the Course and Exam Description (CED)

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AP English Literature and Composition Conceptual Framework

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Quill.org: Official AP Writing Practice

College Board and Quill have partnered to provide students with meaningful practice of their sentence-level writing skills. Explore Quill’s Official AP Writing Practice with comprehensive progress reports for you and immediate feedback for students that guides them toward mastery of sentence-level skills.

Together, College Board and Quill have been running a series of experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of the Quill Connect learning tool on students’ sentence combining skills. Preliminary results are promising and suggest that students who practice sentence combining in Quill outperform students who focus on unrelated practice (e.g., grammar), especially in their use of appositive phrases, complex sentences, and relative clauses, just to name a few.

Quill is a free resource for teachers and students. Account creation is required to monitor student progress and access performance reporting.

From Your AP Colleagues

Pedagogy

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Test-Taking Strategies for the Digital AP Exam

Watch this presentation from an AP English teacher to learn how you can support students taking digital AP Exams and see the features available in the Bluebook testing app.

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Course Perspective: English Literature and Composition

A teacher’s ideas for new AP English Literature teachers.

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Calling Forth Joy: A Poet's Ideas About Teaching Poetry

The former Poet Laureate of Montana discusses how she introduces her students to poetry.

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Implicit and Explicit Documentation: Teaching Students to Write from Literature

This article shows how the author uses student examples as models for discussions about incorporating sources into essays.

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Why Students Plagiarize and What We Should Do: Part I

A discussion of the reasons students plagiarize and how to teach students to avoid it, along with a list of steps and strategies to help students resist plagiarism.

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Anticipating and Previewing Difficult Texts such as The Bluest Eye

A teacher shares guides she uses to help students understand and begin to analyze Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.

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The Art of Teaching AP English Literature

A teacher discusses the idea of “justified confidence” and how to foster it in students.

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Teaching "Offensive" Literature

A teacher relates his approach to speaking with parents about controversial texts in his classes.

Related Articles

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“Looking Underneath” History: An Approach to Teaching Rita Dove’s Poetry

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Reading Like a Tourist and Other Activities: Billy Collins in the AP Classroom

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Broadening the Curriculum: Israeli Author Amos Oz

A teacher discusses her experience teaching The Same Sea.

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Islamic Women's Voices

This article discusses the potential of the novel So Long a Letter to broaden students’ perspective on Islamic culture and the legacy of colonialism as seen through women’s eyes.

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How to Handle the Paper Load

A teacher explains her strategy to reduce time spent reading and grading student papers.

Web Resources

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Online Resources Recommended by AP Teachers

A list of online resources recommended by your fellow AP English Literature and Composition teachers.