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To help you plan for this approach, we’ve drafted Pre-Built Units that can be
found in the Planning Pages of each chapter. You can also find editable pacing
guides in the Teacher’s Resource Materials that convert the Pre-Built Units into
flexible, customizable jumping-off points. Let it be said: there is no “right” way of
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teaching AP English Language and Composition, and your curriculum planning
will depend on numerous factors, some of which we can predict and many, we
humbly acknowledge, we cannot. Our aim is to provide you with the tools,
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resources, and materials you might need to take an informed and successful
approach.
6. Get to know the Table of Contents. Decide what you will cover as a class and
what students might do on their own as homework or over school breaks. The
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Text Overview and Pacing table in the Planning Pages at the beginning of each
thematic chapter in this Teacher’s Edition provides information on each reading,
including a summary of the subjects, rhetorical and argumentative highlights,
level of difficulty, Lexile text complexity measures, and suggested pacing.
7. Give some thought to formative and summative assessments. Chapters 1–3
provide foundational reading and writing skills for the course, and the ensuing
chapters provide opportunities to practice and build complexity.
To specify, each Central Essay, Classic Essay, and Other Voices reading offers
Topics for Composing prompts that can be used to help your students develop
their writing skills. These sets always start off with at least one Rhetorical Analysis
and one Argument free-response question that use the stable prompt wording of
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the AP Exam. From there, the prompts branch out to other tasks, including multi-
modal and research prompts, speaking and listening opportunities, and more.
Each chapter’s Conversation is centered on a Synthesis free-response question.
Finally, Suggestions for Writing at the end of the thematic chapters give students
the chance to dive into the overarching chapter themes. As with Topics for
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Composing, they begin with an AP -style free-response question and branch out
from there.
The Teacher’s Resource Materials contain editable rubrics for each type of
prompt in the book, giving you a ready-made starting point for evaluating student
progress and performance.
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8. Make use of AP® Classroom. AP Classroom will offer your students valuable
practice and information on each of the skills taught in this course. Here, students
can find information about the course objectives, tips on the content and format of
the exam, and instructional videos for each skill, which can be used for remediation
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or extra practice. Additionally, after teaching the skills for each unit, AP Classroom
provides Personal Progress Checks (PPCs) for each unit, using both multiple-choice
and free-response questions to help you gauge your students’ progress.

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 rhetoric and argument
is no exception. Whether your students are learning in person or remotely, they will
have to read the words of others, write about them, talk about them, and listen to
others talk about them. To that end, we suggest taking full advantage of the questions

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