Whether you're a newbie or a veteran to AP* Lit instruction, the biggest question always lies in what titles to teach. Unfortunately, an AP® Lit teacher cannot just teach books all year long (as much as we want to), as poetry and writing need equal time and instruction. With the new CED's emphasis ...
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A Day-by-Day Look at My Craziest Year of AP Lit
Several new and incoming AP* Lit teachers have wondered what really happens day-by-day in AP® Lit. Therefore, I set out to write everything down to give a detailed overview of what we cover in my own class, both for curious teachers and for those have have purchased my AP® Lit Full Course on TpT. As ...
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This Bookshelf Hack Will Eliminate Content Challenges
As a teacher in a parochial school, I've constantly had to walk the tightrope in book recommendations. It seems there's a war between books that are rigorous and books that are parent-approved. Most of the books published in the past 40 years contain strong language, violence, drug abuse, or sexual ...
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3 Successful Strategies for Distance Learning (and 2 that Failed)
I've now been teaching online for a full month, due to COVID-19 closures in my state. Because of our spring break schedule we were able to make the switch to distance learning fairly quickly. Since then, I've tried (and failed at) several different strategies for teaching my sophomores and AP®* Lit ...
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Tips And Strategies For Converting To Digital Teaching
As I'm writing this, I'm getting bombarded with communication regarding COVID-19. Teachers that I follow virtually and some that I know personally were just notified that their classes are being moved to online-only, and some have been given almost no time to prepare. In general, teachers in America ...
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Reclaiming Your Time – How I Stick to a 40 Hour Workweek
This school year marks my 14th straight year teaching of AP® English Literature. While I've learned quite a few strategies in that time, when I first started out in the profession I demonstrated all of typical first year teacher traits: I was usually only planned one day ahead (if that). I took ...
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