The 2010 information will be available shortly but here is an idea of what the course looked like in the past
Daily Schedule (Likely to Change)
Monday, July 13 � Introduction and community building (The Things They Carried) � Scope and purpose of summer homework � Equity in AP � Basic AP Language Test format � Writing the course syllabus � Deconstructing the prompt � Textual evidence and embedding quotations � Daily debrief/Exit slips/Q & A Tuesday, July 14 � Community building � Deconstructing the 9-point scoring rubric � Analysis of analysis free responses � Teaching satire � More scoring practice with released free response items � Personal Spelling � Timed Write strategies � Daily debriefing/Exit slips/Q & A
Wednesday, July 15 � Close reading strategies � Independent reading/Book reports � Multiple Choice on the AP Test � Vocabulary study in AP � Documentation and the multiple choice test � AP Language terminology � The synthesis question � Correcting writing faults � Daily debriefing/Exit slips/Q/A
Thursday, July 16 � The place of grammar in AP � Multiple Choice strategies � Continue scoring practice � Analyzing syntax/Socratic seminar � Argument and persuasion (Dead Man Walking) � Daily debriefing/Exit slips/Q & A
Friday, July 17 � Possible texts � Plagiarism and documentation � Student-led parent conferences � Student and parental expectations � Question and answer � Wrap-up and evaluation
If you would like to read The Things They Carried (O�Brien) and Dead Man Walking (Prejean) before the session, feel free, but doing so is not required. Also, if you have a syllabus you�re willing to share, bring it along.
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Instructor
Elizabeth Duffey will be the 2010 English Language and Composition for New Teachers instructor.
