AP Language and Composition for New Teachers

Over the course of the week new AP Language teachers will learn strategies that will allow their students to:

                   Discuss and write about what they read

                   Understand the format of the AP Language Exam

                   Analyze text to ascertain tone, attitude and author’s purpose

                   Write effective arguments

                   Acquire new vocabulary

                   Think critically

Effectively do research and understand the new synthesis question

Cope with the constraints of a timed test

Prepare for the SAT test and the SAT essay

Have some fun along the way

BIOGRAPHY

Ruthie Schultz

Minnesota State College at Moorhead:  BS-English, Speech, Drama

University of Minnesota:  graduate courses

Minnesota State College at Moorhead: graduate courses

AP Strategies Trainer

College Board Consultant

Advanced Placement Summer Institute Presenter

Educational Testing Service AP Language Reader

Ruthie Schultz came to Allen at the beginning of the 2004-2005 school year with experience in the classroom since 1966.  She began teaching in Minnesota, taught a year in Pasadena, Texas, and for the past fourteen years has taught Advanced Placement English III, Honors English III, English 9, and Communication Applications at A&M Consolidated High School in College Station.  In addition to teaching English 8, 10 and 11, Mrs. Schultz teaches teachers throughout the states of Texas and Oklahoma as a College Board consultant.

AP Language and Comp for NEW teachers

This course is designed to give the new teacher strategies and techniques which will help in the AP 11 classroom.  We will begin with by looking at the test: the multiple choice questions and then the essay questions.  We will understand the skills necessary to complete both portions of the test with success.  Then we will discuss procedures and structure for the AP classroom. 

Participants should bring:

Post-it notes

a small scissors

spiral of 4 x 6 index cards

a successful lesson you taught during the 04-05 school year

Updated 1/14/08