- 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.