MONDAY:
Morning Session -
* The "Nuts and Bolts" of the AP* English Language Exam. Recent changes in format, question patterns for essays, methods of evaluation and grading, characteristics of successful free response essays.
* Available College Board* and additional resources (Publications), and skills required: i.e. knowledge of terminology, analytical voice, style, close reading skills, multiple choice reasoning, organizational skills for timed writes, and most importantly, development of a mature perspective.
Afternoon session -
* Curriculum development focusing on developing analytical voice, style, and mature perspective in student essays, introduction into Rhetorical modes, i.e. definition, classification, description. compare and contrast, cause and effect, argument and persuasion.
TUESDAY:
Morning Session-
* Focus on rhetorical strategies: Language, diction, concrete detail, tone in achieving author's purpose using student writing and non fiction analysis. Close reading skill development, and hoe to use AP* English language prompts (College Board* handout) as teaching tools.
Afternoon Session-
* Detailed focus on compare and contrast and cause and effect strategies, rhetorical terminology and how these terms apply to AP* essay requirements, grading of 2006 question. Sharing of successful participant lessons.
WEDNESDAY:
Morning Session -
* Development of argumentative skills and related persuasion techniques. Classroom strategies to develop argumentative maturity. Classroom activities that develop oral argumentative and evaluative skills.
Afternoon Session-
* Continuation of Argumentative techniques focusing on methods for evaluating effectiveness of arguments and persuasions. Grading of 2008 argument question. Discussion of recommended readings and suggested College Board* syllabi.
THURSDAY:
Morning Session-
* Practice scoring 2010 'deconstruction/argument rhetorical analysis question" and past prompts of similar nature. Focus on both formulaic and personalized response techniques. Scoring of historical document questions with emphasis on pre 20th Century non-fiction, letters, and journals.
How to combine literature and (particularly American Literature) with language curriculum and broader school requirements and state standards.
Afternoon Session -
Discussion of multiple-choice section of the exam and developing related reading skills. Writing multiple choice questions from reading. First "Nuts and Bolts" discussion, summary of ongoing group discussions on issues that have developed during the week. Sharing of promising practices and individual curriculum development.
Chris may be reached by email at: cebaldwin@cox.net if you have further questions regarding the content of this session.
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AP* ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CHRISTOPHER BALDWIN. PRESENTER
Christopher Baldwin has been a teacher in public schools in California for thirty years, in varied economic, racial and ethnic communities. He has taught AP* Language for twenty five years, and has been a reader, table leader and question leader for over ten years for the College Board*. Chris has given over thirty week-long workshops at institutions such as Stanford, University of San Diego, University of California, San Diego and California State Universities in Sacramento and San Marcos as well as in such states as Hawaii, Oregon, Colorado, Utah and in Shanghai, China. Chris has a Masters degree in Public Policy in Cultural and Ethnic Studies as well as teaching experience at the university level.
