Reading Like a Professor Book Clubs for AP Literature
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This bundle has everything that an AP Literature teacher needs to teach a full year of poetry, short stories and full length texts plus much more. The units are designed to meet the Essential Skills outlined in the 2019 CED and help new and seasoned teachers to begin their AP Literature and ComposiPrice $324.99Original Price $481.19Save $156.20
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Literature Circles are a great way to involve your AP Literature students in deep analysis while providing them with choice. These Reading Like a Professor Book Clubs allow students to select their own text while applying the skills they learn from studying How to Read Literature Like a Professor. The Choice Board in this unit focuses on the AP Lit Essential skills for Character, Setting and Structure while pulling from the Professor Chapters: "Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion," "Never Stand Next to the Hero," "Acts of Violence" and "It's More than Just Rain." Use with any full length text. Could be used for independent book study as well.
This Book Club Unit is for Print or Google Slides™️
Included--over 95 slides/pages:
- Book selection activity
- Choice Board (Hyperlinked in Google Slides™️ version)
- 8 triple entry journal prompts
- 6 double entry journal prompts
- 3 options for book club meetings
- 4 AP Lit. Style Literary Argument Prompts (Use AP Lit Rubric, not included)
- Student Models for every prompt
- Ready to assign in Google Classroom™️ or to print (11x8.5--two choices of background)
AP Literature Essential Skills--the activities in this unit are intended to hit the skills in Unit 3 (Long Fiction 1):
CHR-1.A Identify and describe what specific textual details reveal about a character, that character’s perspective, and that character’s motives.
CHR-1 .B Explain the function of a character changing or remaining unchanged.
CHR-1.C Explain the function of contrasting characters.
CHR-1.D Describe how textual details reveal nuances and complexities in characters’ relationships with one another.
SET-2.A Identify and describe specific textual details that convey or reveal a setting.
SET-2.B Explain the function of setting in a narrative.
SET-2.C Describe the relationship between a character and a setting.
STR-3.E Explain the function of a significant event or related set of significant events in a plot.
STR-3.F Explain the function of conflict in a text.
LAN-7.A Develop a paragraph that includes 1) a claim that requires defense with evidence from the text and 2) the evidence itself.
LAN-7.B Develop a thesis statement that conveys a defensible claim about an interpretation of literature and that may establish a line of reasoning.
LAN-7.C Develop commentary that establishes and explains relationships among textual evidence, the line of reasoning, and the thesis.
LAN-7.D Select and use relevant and sufficient evidence to both develop and support a line of reasoning.
Included in the How to Read Literature Like a Professor Big Bundle.
