- Course: English Literature and Composition
- Dates: June 7-10
- Instructor: Danny Lawrence, Winston-Salem, NC, email - Dlawr3419@aol.com - Participant Letter
Danny taught English for 30 years in North Carolina—for 16
years AP English at the Career Center. During his career he taught
every grade level and English class from seventh grade to
sophomore-college English. He has been a reader of the AP English
Literature exams for thirteen years, a table leader five years, and an
AP English consultant for fourteen. He is a National Board Certified
Teacher with both an undergraduate degree and a master’s degree in English. He
has conducted numerous one-day AP English workshops for the Southern
Regional Office of the College Board as well as a number of weeklong AP
Summer Institutes. He has also presented at the Equity Colloquium
and the AP Annual Conference. He served as the School Advisor
for the ten 2005 high schools who received the AP Start-Up Grant.
- Included:
- Materials (Textbooks, Assessment Resources)
- Lunch & Snacks
- Emphasis:
- Setting up an AP English: Literature and Composition class for
beginning AP teachers or refining one already in place
- Deciding what to teach in an AP English Literature course
- Creating a syllabus
- Examining the many resources available to the AP English Lit.
teacher
- Exploring a variety of approaches to address the amount of
writing and reading necessary for success in this course
- Sharing classroom activities that will provide students with
higher order thinking skills and that will move from teacher-centered
to a student-centered class
- Exploring both the multiple-choice and free-response sections
of previous AP English Literature exams
- Preparing students for the AP English Literature Exam
- Finding ways to implement vertical teaming within an English
department to prepare students for AP English