This blog features free analysis activities for Americanah and Purple Hibiscus.

Tips on how to teach the AP Language & Composition rhetorical analysis essay.

These are free AP Lang & Comp synthesis essay materials. There are handouts with the essay steps, prompts and visual analysis materials.

Free handouts and PowerPoints to help you teach the open essay to your AP Lang & Comp students! Introductory argumentation materials as well

These are materials for a nature unit that I used to do in AP Lang & Comp. There are article and book suggestions and Thoreau handouts.

These are free materials for Thoreau's "On Civil Disobedience." There are discussion questions, vocabulary practice and a socratic seminar.

These are some materials that I used for an AP "Now & Then" civil rights unit.

These are materials that I used with my AP Language & Composition class to teach logical fallacies and ethos, pathos, logos.

Free AP Lang & Comp Unit about the definition of success. Features nonfiction pieces, vocabulary, and analysis activities.

This is a free unit for Into the Wild for AP Language & Composition. The writing portion focuses on the rhetorical analysis essay.

This unit was meant to help students explore gender stereotypes and learn about the rhetorical analysis essay. It was my first (and...

This is a free mini unit about school renaming. I used it at the start of my AP Lang & Comp class one year.

This is a satire lesson that I used to do with my AP Language and Composition students. Satire is hard for them to pinpoint on their own.

These are materials I used to teach a research presentation unit to my AP Language & Composition kids.

These are AP Lang & Comp materials that I used. These materials are organized by topic as opposed to the American literature time periods.

Ideas on how to start the first few weeks of AP Language & Composition. Beginning of year surveys and diagnostics. Intro to rhetoric.

This blog lists a few of my favorite LGBTQ+ reads for young adults.

This blog features free materials that I used for a "teenage experience" choice book unit.

These are poetry materials that I used with my Pre-AP and Pre-IB students. There are timed essays, handouts, and activities.

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