National Math and Science Initiative Advanced Placement Summer Institute 2016 AP Literature ...

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National Math and Science Initiative

Advanced Placement
Summer Institute 2016

AP Literature and Composition

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AP Literature APSI 2016
Day One

NMSI Belief Statement and Overviews .............................................................................................7
NMSI Philosophy and Training Cycle ...............................................................................................12
Course Overview, Syllabus, and Exam Expectations ........................................................................16
AP Literature Classroom Resources and Strategies...........................................................................35
AP Literature Multiple Choice Overview, Strategies, and Lessons ..................................................45
Poetry Analysis Free Response Question: Overview, Prompts, and Strategies ................................68
Poetry Analysis Teacher Implementation: Scoring Student Essays .................................................78
Prose Analysis Free Response Question: Overview, Prompts, and Strategies .................................82
Prose Analysis Teacher Implementation: Scoring Student Essays ....................................................99
Open Free Response Question: Overview, Prompts, and Strategies ................................................103
Open Free Response Teacher Implementation: Scoring Student Essays ..........................................114

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AP Literature APSI 2016
Day Two

Creating a Unit for AP Literature and Composition ..........................................................................118
Othello Unit Overview, Pacing Calendar, and Teacher Overview ....................................................120
Defining a Shakespearean Tragedy Introductory Exercise ................................................................129
Othello Act One Lessons ...................................................................................................................139
Othello Act Two Lessons...................................................................................................................167
Othello Act Three Lessons.................................................................................................................202
Othello Act Four Lessons ..................................................................................................................242
Othello Act Five Lessons ...................................................................................................................283

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AP Literature APSI 2016
Day Three

Creating a Unit for AP Literature and Composition ..........................................................................302
The Round House Unit Overview, Pacing Calendar, and Teacher Overview ...................................304
Beginning a Novel Activities
Introducing Character ............................................................................................................316
Paraphrasing to Understanding Meaning ...............................................................................323
Illuminating Incident Activity—Chapter One .......................................................................329
Using Metaphor to Examine Thematic Ideas.........................................................................335
Using Discussion to Define a Concept ..................................................................................342
Determining Shifts in Poetry .................................................................................................348
Building Understanding of Character, Tone, and Theme
Illuminating Incident Activity—Chapter Four ......................................................................361
Uncovering Values through Passage Analysis ......................................................................366
Using Poetry Techniques to Compare/Contrast .....................................................................373
Recognizing Conflict Activities .............................................................................................385
Analyzing Images to Understand Tone ..................................................................................415
Uncovering Development of a Character ..............................................................................426
Culminating Project
Addition to an English Language Arts Classroom Assignment ................................447

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AP Literature APSI 2016
Day Four

Creating an AP Literature Unit and Implementing Multiple Texts Simultaneously .........................465
Dystopian Unit Overview, Pacing Calendar, and Teacher Overview ...............................................467
Implementing Small Group Work Effectively in the AP English Classroom ..................................473
Introducing Dystopian Exercise .........................................................................................................482
Beginning Activities for Multiple Texts in the AP Literature Classroom
R.E.M. Exercise .....................................................................................................................493
Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go Close Reading Exercises ............................................499
Dystopian Poetry ....................................................................................................................510
The Road Close Reading Exercise .........................................................................................413
Visual Texts: Apocalyptic Images .........................................................................................519
Nonfiction: “Psychology Reveals the Comforts of the Apocalypse” ...................................528
Multiple Choice: “The Albuquerque Graveyard” .................................................................534
Building Student Understanding of Character, Tone, and Theme
Analyzing Tone in 1984 Exercise ..........................................................................................542
Newspeak and Free Speech Exercises ...................................................................................551
Free Speech Teacher Training Activities ...............................................................................564
Oryx and Crake Close Reading .............................................................................................566
“The Second Coming” Exercise ............................................................................................575
Open Question Writing Workshop ........................................................................................590
Infographic Exercise ..............................................................................................................596
Multiple Choice Exercise: “A Brief History of Time” .........................................................602

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NMSI Belief Statement

Accomplished, dynamic teachers are knowledgeable in their content and confident in their
abilities to prepare students for higher education. They create classrooms in which students

 engage intellectually to develop conceptual understanding
 generate their own ideas, questions, and propositions
 interact collegially with one another to solve problems
 employ appropriate resources for inquiry-based learning

The NMSI teacher-training program offers meaningful support to teachers as they construct these
effective classrooms. Through tested content materials and research-based instructional
strategies, NMSI enables and encourages them to

 choose significant and worthwhile content and connect it to other knowledge
 use appropriate questioning strategies to develop conceptual understanding
 clarify to students the importance of abstract concepts and “big questions”
 use formative assessments to improve instruction and achieve higher goals
 guarantee equitable access for all students to information and achievement

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Day 1
AP Literature and Composition
Course Overview, Multiple Choice, and Free Response Questions

Overview
Teachers are introduced to the AP English Literature and Composition exam, National Math and
Science Initiative (NMSI) English lessons, and other valuable resources. Participants will work
through lessons designed to prepare students for the rigors of advanced coursework. These NMSI
lessons are designed to guide students through a continuum of increasingly complex thinking
skills, including those outlined in taxonomies such as the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy and
Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Levels. Teachers will become familiar with the AP Literature and
Composition exam format and examine materials that scaffold critical thinking skills.
Participants will examine and discuss different methodological approaches for teaching skills
associated with the multiple-choice questions and close reading techniques. Participants will
examine and discuss, in depth, all three free response questions on the AP Literature exam. This
discussion will include an examination of trends in free response questions and student
responses. Participants will examine NMSI model lessons and released student samples to
understand how to appropriately score and respond to student writing.

Objectives

Participants will:

 discuss how to apply strategies that offer an introduction to the AP Literature course.
 apply annotation strategies for reading complex texts.
 apply strategies for answering multiple-choice questions, including guided questions.
 complete multiple choice activities for improving critical thinking/close reading.
 discuss how to apply strategies when using multiple choice questions as a teaching tool.
 examine and discuss each of the free response questions on the AP Literature exam.
 apply strategies and model lessons to improve students’ written responses.
 discuss and address scoring expectations for AP English free response questions.

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Day 2
AP Literature and Composition
Partnering Pre-Twentieth Century Texts:
Shakespeare and Current Events

Overview
Participants will review and apply methods for teaching students how to read closely, and
examine text for style, theme, characterization, and tone. Participants will work through a model
unit that focuses on how to make the best use of partner texts for pre-twentieth century works.
Teachers will examine a complete model unit that partners Othello with several modern day
counterparts including TED Talks about envy and lying, the podcast Serial, and jealousy and
envy within the world of professional sports. This model unit offers opportunities for research,
close reading, multiple choice practice, and free response practice for all elements of the AP
Literature and Composition classroom. Teachers will work through lessons designed to improve
student writing and close reading skills. Participants will leave the training day with lessons,
strategies that are classroom-ready to use with their own students, and a complete unit that can
be implemented completely or used as a series of stand-alone lessons.

Objectives

Participants will:

 discuss how to use strategies and model lessons to improve students’ close reading.
 examine strategies for teaching students to move into deeper commentary writing.
 examine strategies for selecting engaging and rigorous partner texts.
 examine and discuss best practices for developing AP Literature classroom units.
 analyze classroom lessons that supplement thematic unit development.
 complete activities in model lessons and apply strategies to their own classrooms.
 collaborate with colleagues and identify high areas of classroom need.

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Day 3
AP Literature and Composition
Implementing Modern Works of Literary Merit

Overview
The activities for Day Three begin by focusing on how to implement modern works of literary
merit effectively in the AP Literature and Composition classroom. Participants will examine how
to choose appropriate modern texts for classroom use that are both rigorous and engaging.
Participants will begin their study of a unit focused on an anchor text and discuss supplements
that help to improve anchor text units. Teachers will examine a complete model unit focused on
the work The Round House by Louise Erdrich and discuss lessons that examine a range of topics
such as adolescence, revenge, the journey from childhood to adulthood, and the role of family
and culture. Participants will discuss how to spiral all AP Literature and Composition skills
within a unit to best meet the expectations of the AP exam. Participants will leave the training
day with lessons, strategies that are classroom-ready to use with their own students, and a
complete novel unit that can be implemented completely or used as a series of stand-alone
lessons.

Objectives

Participants will:

 examine and discuss best practices for developing AP Literature classroom units.
 analyze strategies that supplement a unit focused on a novel.
 discuss reading assignments, sequencing skills, and organization for classroom units.
 discuss the strategies for developing meaningful assignments and assessments.
 examine the use of technology and supplemental reading exercises to build student skills.
 examine strategies for selecting engaging and rigorous modern works of fiction.
 collaborate with colleagues and identify high areas of classroom need.

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