• Course: English Language & Composition
  • Dates: July 19-22
  • Instructor: Mary Jo Potts, The Webb School, Knoxville, TN , email - mjpotts@earthlink.net - Participant Letter

  • Mary Jo has been associated with the AP program since 1977 --as an Advanced Placement English Literature and Language teacher, an AP Exam Reader, Table Leader, and Question Leader, a Test Development Member, and an Advanced Placement summer institute instructor. She is currently a member of the College Board Academic Advisory Committee in English.

  • Included:
    • Materials & Textbooks
    • Lunch & Snacks
  • Emphasis:
    • Rhetorical Strategies: Implications for and approaches to teaching and evaluating rhetorical strategies
    • Argument: How to craft a viable argument, how to evaluate a viable argument and how to take a viable, substantiated position
    • The Researched Argument (the synthesis question): Ways of evaluating viable support and strategies for helping students choose compelling, effective approaches to the researched argument
    • Support Materials for the Workshop: Please bring a recent issue of THE NEW YORKER or the ATLANTIC and a favorite reader or collection of essays to the workshop.