AP English Language and Composition
Presenter – Hephzibah Roskelly

Day 1, Monday, July 10

Introductions: What are the Issues?

The Issue is Reading
Analysis Question 2017
Responses to 2016 Analysis
Reading and analysis: definitions and strategies
Practice with analysis
Reading Out; Reading In
Practice with speeches; texts
Creating Analysis Prompts

Reading Old Literature
–Handout
Examples: Montaigne, Emerson, Montague, other
The Importance of Reading Aloud

HW:  bring a visual reading in/reading out

Day 2, Tuesday, July 11

The Issue is Evaluating
Synthesis Question 2017
Responses to 2016 Synthesis
Definitions and strategies
Practice with synthesizing

Rhetoric for evaluation
Use of appeals, fallacies
The Importance of LOGOS
Examples:  Steinem, Kerouac, Munro, Trudeau
Uses of the visual in synthesis
Logos in narrative; writing processes
Practice with in-class writing

HW: Good assignment using logos, reading

Day 3, Wednesday, July 12

The Issue is Process

Genres of writing; forms of writing
Rhetoric and reading as Processes
Practice with Exam Writing
Use of forms to stimulate process
Juxtaposition, comparison, narrative, cause and consequence, visual
Examples: Harper Lee, Zitkala Sa, Joy Kogawa
 

HW: TBA
 
Day 4, Thursday, July 13

The Issue is Voice
Argument Question 2017
Responses to Argument Question, 2016
Definitions and Strategies of argument
The uses of sound
How to declaim
Practice with voice
Practice with argument

Uses of Journalist questions for building context
How to develop sound arguments

Plans for the fall
The Danger of a Single Story: Adiche and AP Language
Practice with analysis, synthesis, argument

Present:

1 new book
1 new assignment
1 new strategy
1 new design

Hephzibah Roskelly – Biography

Hephzibah Roskelly is professor of English at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she teaches courses in literature and composition, including Introduction to Narrative and Women’s Writing. She is a long-time reader at AP Readings, and has been Chief Reader for the Language and Composition Exam, as well as a leader at the AP Literature and Composition reading. She serves on the Advisory Committee for the College Board. Her latest book, with David Jolliffe, is a rhetoric and reader for AP students, Writing America.