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7 Give some thought to formative and summative assessments. Each reading
offers Topics for Composing prompts that can be used to help your students develop
their writing skills. Chapters 1–3 provide foundational writing skills, and the ensuing
chapters provide opportunities to practice and build complexity. Writing prompts
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often mirror the AP Exam essays, and the Teacher’s Resource Materials contain
editable rubrics for each type of prompt in the book.

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8 Make use of AP Classroom. AP Classroom will offer your students valuable
practice on each of the skills taught in this course. Additionally, after teaching the skills
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for each unit, AP Classroom provides unit Progress Checks, using both multiple-
choice and free-response questions to help you gauge your students’ progress. There
are instructional videos for each skill, which can be used for either remediation or
additional practice.

Delivering Your Course

All English courses exist in the realms of reading and writing, speaking and listening: all are
essential to the development of critical thinking. The study of English literature and
composition is no exception. Whether your students are learning in person or remotely, they
will have to read the literature, write about it, talk about it, and listen to others talk about it.
To that end, we suggest taking full advantage of the questions that accompany each
reading selection. They serve many functions, but can best be thought of as lesson plans.
You might assign them for homework, or you might assign them as discussion questions for
small-group work or in remote “breakout rooms.” You might use them to guide full-class
discussions or even assign them to student leaders to run class discussions.
The first three chapters offer Key Questions, which begin to provide the foundation
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for all of the Big Ideas and skills that are embedded in the AP English Literature and
Composition course. Students will encounter questions that are labeled with the Big
Idea, so they can begin to make connections between skills and the ideas they support.
By assigning these questions, teachers can be assured that their students are receiving
valuable practice and instruction for all skills of the course. It is important to assign the
Activities in these chapters as well, which require the students to apply the skills they
are learning. Once the initial chapters are taught, Chapters 4–9 offer Understanding
and Interpreting questions, which require that students comprehend the text they have
read and respond to questions that foster an increasing understanding of the Big Ideas
in the course and the skills that support them. Students will also encounter questions
for Analyzing Language, Style, and Structure, which look at the details of each work
and the tools the authors use to shape meaning. Culminating each work is Topics for
Composing, which offers varied writing assignments that can be used to help students
develop their writing skills and learn to express their analysis in writing.
Finally, take advantage of the visual elements of the book, for students often
improve their ability to analyze by practicing on visual texts. These Extending beyond
the Text features, too, are accompanied by questions — open-ended, provocative, and
lively questions that stir interest and prompt engagement.

Differentiation in Your Classroom

With a variety of students in mind, we have included multiple avenues for differentiation
throughout this book to help you support all learners.

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