I'm preparing to teach The Death of Ivan Ilyich again in #APLit and as I'm rereading, I'm remembering what a joy it is to teach . . . a piece that seems dry at first glance gets deeper and richer as we keep reading and talking.
Follows The Metamorphosis + fits our current Siberian weather🥶
Artwork and annotation are a big part of why I won’t mind grading these poetry collection projects from #aplit this weekend 🤩
#iteachenglish #EduSky #NCTEchar
I love how different two classes can be from each other, even within the same course.
In #APLit today one class wanted to listen to the end of The Importance of Being Earnest with the @latheatreworks.bsky.social recording.
The other wanted to perform it.
Both had reasons, and both worked well!
Shoutout to my student who told me I should have a Clint Smith stamp. I had one made. A good idea is a good idea! #APLit @clintsmithiii.bsky.social
The English teacher thrill of watching #APLit students discover Fences never disappoints. Bless Viola Davis and Denzel Washington for bringing such fierce life into August Wilson’s words! #edusky #teachersky #Englishteachers
Some #APLit projects, reading and interpreting “Very Old Texts” and presenting reading and research to each other science fair style.
I love seeing the variety of books they selected!
Reading Oedipus Rex and Othello back-to-back in #APLit makes for such fascinating conversations about tragedy, literature, and life.
My #APLit quickwrite today:
Retell part of this myth, showing the timelessness of the ideas. Give every character a smartphone.
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Me in a Hemingway T shirt
Air Max sneakers that match my shirt
I’m kind of proud of my Friday English teacher outfit today…just as we finish The Old Man and the Sea in #APLit 🤩
Picture of whiteboard with brainstorm
Always a favorite activity. The title seems simple…until we start mapping the connotations of each word, unlocking meaning and anticipation.
#TheOldManabdndtheSea #APLit
A text pairing of 1930 short stories that are great to discuss early in #APLit
“A Rose for Emily” Faulkner
“A Telephone Call” Parker
1. How does each author use first person POV differently?
2. How does the style differ?
3. How does each comment on the costs of society’s expectations?
![A slide that says:
Let me show you how to do it with brat [picture of album cover].
Charli XCX reveals her tense personality and familial backstory in her hit song, "Apple." She is a person who prefers to escape rather than deal with conflicts or negative feelings. This is clear in her lines that she wants to drive or fly away from her family because they make her angry or scared. Furthermore, she has a hateful self-perception, rooted in her family lineage because she notes that she is an apple that
"doesn't fall far from the tree" and is "rotted right to the core." The metaphor of the apple tree demonstrates her psychological state: she believes she is a ruined fruit that is very similar to her family, embodying many of their generational scars ("things from before").](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:63q53cve32vgr2wvtzab4puk/bafkreign4qzvtpalrvsnnd3dnm7phn4m5qnibhphzus6wqfazjeux3gjpq)
A slide that says: Let me show you how to do it with brat [picture of album cover]. Charli XCX reveals her tense personality and familial backstory in her hit song, "Apple." She is a person who prefers to escape rather than deal with conflicts or negative feelings. This is clear in her lines that she wants to drive or fly away from her family because they make her angry or scared. Furthermore, she has a hateful self-perception, rooted in her family lineage because she notes that she is an apple that "doesn't fall far from the tree" and is "rotted right to the core." The metaphor of the apple tree demonstrates her psychological state: she believes she is a ruined fruit that is very similar to her family, embodying many of their generational scars ("things from before").
Let’s see if the kids still think brat is cool lol
Reusing this example of character perspective from last year for #aplit because *I* still love charli xcx 🤪
Our seniors haven’t graduated in their home stadium in yrs. We outgrew that field/school by leaps & bounds. I’ve always wanted to take my #aplit class to the stadium to write about their hopes and goals in the place where they will walk across the stage for graduation & here we are! New school Day1!
Concludes with a reading of every #APLit teacher's favourite Heaney poem, yes the one about the berries --
Thank you @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social for joining us for AP Literature Professional Night! You were engaging, entertaining, thought-provoking, and energizing. Just what a room full of English teachers needed! #APLit #2025APLitReading
Anyone else here at the #APSeminar and #APLit reading in SLC? Would love to meet up with cool people!
Finishing up sample selection for #aplit reading in SLC. Excited to welcome table leaders tomorrow and readers on Saturday!
I’m leading 3 #aplit workshops this summer
👩🏼🏫 APAC one-day workshop (in person) in Boston 7/19 eventreg.collegeboard.org/event/29cea9...
👩💻UNCCharlotte online APSI July 21-25 cstem.charlotte.edu/pk-20-educat...
👩🏼🏫 Silver State APSI (in person) in Las Vegas July 28-31 sites.google.com/a/nv.ccsd.ne...
Even though I had to explain my shirt to coworkers, my #APLit students understood; some even laughed.
Here’s hoping they weren’t seduced by MCQ distractors filled with ornamental phrasing.😆
This week my students are reviewing our major texts before their AP Lit exam. This is my last year teaching- my 30th. So far their favorites have been A Thousand Splendid Suns and Our Missing Hearts, though they responded positively to them all. 💕 #aplit #teacherlife #literature #booklove
In Alice Cary's poem, ""Autumn," the speaker laments the end of summer and thinks about what the onset of autumn means. The author's depiction of death and dying, the replacement of beauty with colder and lesser things, and the conclusion that the most beautiful parts of spring can always be felt in some capacity reveals that although the passage of time is inevitable, the beauty of nature can be preserved in word and in memory. In the beginning of Cary's poem, speaker's description of plants dying reflects their negative perception of the coming of autumn. Not only does summer leave with a moan and tries, deceptively, to stick around, the beautiful plants of summer are shown to become progressively less beautiful, eventually dying. Stanza 4 states that "the rose has taken off her tire of red/ the mullein-stalk its yellow stars have lost, and the proud meadow-pink hangs down her head." The use of imagery here shows us that the brilliance of spring, found in the colors, buds, and vivacity of the flowers produced, inevitably fades to images that are not as beautiful and not as lively. The onset of autumn brings death and creates a void where the exuberance and beauty of spring once lived. The personification of the rose taking off her clothes, however, shows that, while the death is inevitable, it's also something that happens often and can be remedied by the new spring. The depiction of autumn in and of itself makes the speaker sad, but also brings with it new hope and something to look forward to. In stanza 5, the speaker talks about the animals and how they are replaced by less beautiful and less endearing animals. The imagery of the robin, whose presence is seen as a kiss and a delight, has caught our attention (and hearts) all summer long with its beautiful, bright colors, is replaced by the imagery of a "brown cricket." The cricket is less exciting and less pleasant, reinforcing the idea that the coming of autumn means less beautiful and less joy. The tunes are …
#APLit folks:
My students and I doubted that I could cold-read, annotate, analyze, and write about a poem in 45 minutes. It’s not good, but I showed them how I’d move through FRQ1 and they appreciate that I can appreciate how hard it is.
(This took 37 minutes! And this test is stupid!) #EduSky
Looking at posters for Their Eyes Were Watching God and collecting peer reaction post-its they left on each other’s work. My #APLit heart is full 😊
DM if interested: Teen Lit Circles 📚 this summer - 1 hr a day 5 students max via Discord. $100. Will provide writing feedback 💻via Google docs individually each day, too. Help avoid summer reading loss & prep for next grade! #teens #literacy #bookclubs #tutoring #discord #APLIT #APexams
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Recently a change was made giving upcoming juniors (class #APlang #APlit #classof2027
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