Congratulations! You've gotten a new class or maybe even a new job as an English teacher! Once the initial euphoria settles, the anxiety usually takes its place. What most non-English teachers don't realize is that ELA teachers often have more grading and even more prep work than other types of ...
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AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Function of Setting
AP® Lit Skill SET 2.B piggy-backs off of 2.A in terms of identifying and analyzing setting. While most students can identify a story's setting (the only task in 2.A), many struggle with analyzing the function of the setting (2.B). The AP® Lit CED asks students to connect the text's setting with ...
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AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Sequence of Events
AP® Lit Skill STR 3.B asks students to explain the function of a particular sequence of events in a plot. This is settled between 3.A (how plot orders events in a narrative) and 3.C (function of structure in a text) and there's clearly some overlap. In thinking about this skill and what it wants ...
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AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Point of View
Point of view is one of those essential understandings that is easy for students to identify, but harder to analyze for function. The key in teaching point of view to AP® Lit is to consider WHY the author employs the point of view, and what is illuminated (or omitted) because of it. *AP® is a ...
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AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Contrasts in Prose
The AP Lit* CED includes the function of contrasts as an essential skill. Specifically, it says, that contrasts can affect a text's "focus; tone; point of view; character, narrator, or speaker perspective; dramatic situation or moment; settings or time; or imagery." Another word you can use in ...
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AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Narrator
NAR 4.A, the first skill in the Narration category, is relatively simple. It asks students to examine the narrator of a text. In poetry students would study the speaker, but this spotlight is examining the narrator in a prose text. The CED lists only 2 suggested questions for 4.A: *AP® is a ...
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