Lesson/Unit PLAN TEMPLATE for AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE

This lesson plan/unit plan template is for the newly redesigned AP English Language and Composition course framework.

Included in this Adobe PDF fill-in template are check boxes to mark which components, or big ideas and enduring understandings, as well as course skills, your unit or lesson will use that serve the goals of this course. There are four big ideas that build conceptual understanding and should spiral throughout the units each teacher creates: rhetorical situations, claims and evidence, reasoning and organization, and style. The enduring understandings are the "long-term takeaways related to the big ideas."

The course skills, or standards, relate to the essential knowledge that the students should be able to demonstrate by the end of the course or after having mastered the skill.

The template also has fill-in boxes for the school year, the teacher's school, contact information, or any other header such as state standard codes, the title of the unit or lesson, the date range, and the rationale and essential questions that guide this unit.

Next, fill in a list of the materials or content (texts or multimedia) that will be used in this lesson, as well as an technology that will be integrated.

The College Board Course-at-a-Glance outlines that the process for creating these units requires the teacher to plan a series of curricular components, teach based on the big ideas and skill categories, and assess the student to ascertain their progress.

Under Instructional Approaches - Method, you should outline the steps you will take in your lesson or how the unit will be structured. You can also check off different instructional strategies including the popular acronym SPACECAT and/or using a One Pager.

Finally, under assessments you can select a formative assessment (including the PPC or Personal Progress Check available on AP Classroom) or write in the summative assessment that your students will use.

If you have any students with IEPs/504/s or RtI, there is a section to add accommodations.

This is an incredibly helpful tool and I hope it serves you well as you design and create meaningful units for your students.