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Brook Bullock "Brook was fantastic!! He really took care to explain everything and gave excellent examples of ways to approach the content. It was a great workshop."
"Brook was amazingly enthusiastic and positive. He is truly adept at using Zoom effectively and engaging the class. " - Marin By the Bay participants |
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Brook Bullock has taught in Oklahoma since 1994, with his first teaching assignment being at rural Blackwell High School where he was a founding member of the school’s first AP English Vertical Team, and he taught both on-level and Pre-AP English I and II, as well as electives in mythology and Shakespeare. In 2001 Mr. Bullock moved to Del City High School where, in addition to starting the AP English Language program, he was the Yearbook and Newspaper sponsor and taught Journalism and English III for 10 years. From 2011 to 2017 he taught AP English Language and on-level American Literature at Putnam City North High School, and he currently teaches at Memorial High School in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Brook is a certified College Board consultant since 1997 and has scored entries for National Board Certification as well as serving as a Reader for both the AP English Language and AP English Literature exams. He has presented at numerous workshops, conferences, and Summer Institutes in the Southwest, Midwestern, Southern, and Western Regions of the College Board, including multiple invitations to present at the College Board’s AP National Conference. His passion, however, continues to be working with students at the secondary level.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Designed for the English instructor seeking to learn or improve teaching strategies pertinent to AP English Language, this course will focus on preparing students for the national exam but have an emphasis on application to the rhetorical situations present in communications “of the real world” so that students may also become critical thinkers beyond the classroom as well. Participants will leave the institute with lessons and strategies they can immediately incorporate into their curriculum.
Probable APSI discussion topics include:
DAY 1: Course and Exam Overview
Building Lessons: Part I (Question & Answers; sharing resources, etc.)
DAY 2: Opening Q&A, Lesson Building Examples & Insights
Rhetorical Analysis
(Curricular Resources, Media beyond the Text, etc. Question & Answers)
DAY 3: Opening Q&A, Lesson Building Examples & Insights
Argument
(“Writing for the Real World”, Principles of Disruptive Texts, etc.)
DAY 4: Opening Q&A, Lesson Building Examples & Insights
Synthesis
Design your own multi-week Research Project incorporating CED skills
Review Course Building and Content
Brook is a certified College Board consultant since 1997 and has scored entries for National Board Certification as well as serving as a Reader for both the AP English Language and AP English Literature exams. He has presented at numerous workshops, conferences, and Summer Institutes in the Southwest, Midwestern, Southern, and Western Regions of the College Board, including multiple invitations to present at the College Board’s AP National Conference. His passion, however, continues to be working with students at the secondary level.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Designed for the English instructor seeking to learn or improve teaching strategies pertinent to AP English Language, this course will focus on preparing students for the national exam but have an emphasis on application to the rhetorical situations present in communications “of the real world” so that students may also become critical thinkers beyond the classroom as well. Participants will leave the institute with lessons and strategies they can immediately incorporate into their curriculum.
Probable APSI discussion topics include:
- An in-depth study of the AP English Language & Composition CED (Course & Exam Description) and the 6 Point Free Response Rubrics.
- Developing an AP English Language course as part of an effective Vertical Team
- Exploring AP Classroom and AP Central for resources and strategies.
- Improving close/ reading, critical thinking, and rhetorical/language analysis
- Improving students’ writing through their ability to read and analyze complex text
- Utilizing multiple genres in the AP English Lang & Comp classroom
- Utilizing high-interest non-fiction (including images and video as rhetorical text)
- Asynchronous time for College Board resources, lesson planning, enrichment, and application
DAY 1: Course and Exam Overview
- CED Skills Page
- Course Design Options (skills alignment/progressions)
- Common Design Approaches
- AP Classroom and AP Daily
- Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Access
- Vertical Teaming; Building Updated AP Eng. Lang Syllabus and Philosophy (studying the “Big Ideas”)
- Intro to Expert Videos
- Test Formats (MC and FRQ)
- MC Composition Passages
- The 6 Point Rubric
- Digital Testing
Building Lessons: Part I (Question & Answers; sharing resources, etc.)
DAY 2: Opening Q&A, Lesson Building Examples & Insights
Rhetorical Analysis
- Reading Rhetorically
- Making Non-Fiction Fun
- Teaching Literary Texts Rhetorically
- Writing Rhetorically
- AP Rhetorical Analysis Essay Question
- Practice Essay Scoring
(Curricular Resources, Media beyond the Text, etc. Question & Answers)
DAY 3: Opening Q&A, Lesson Building Examples & Insights
Argument
- AP Argument Essay Question
- Evaluating Argumentation & Crafting Arguments
- Cross-Curricular Value of AP Lang
- Practice Essay Scoring
- Facts, Facts, Facts, Opinion
- Why should I trust this?
- Creating a “well-informed citizentry”
(“Writing for the Real World”, Principles of Disruptive Texts, etc.)
DAY 4: Opening Q&A, Lesson Building Examples & Insights
Synthesis
- AP Synthesis Essay Question
- Practice Essay Scoring
- The Research Project
Design your own multi-week Research Project incorporating CED skills
Review Course Building and Content
- Creative Projects and Intellectual Rigor
- AP Classroom & Instructional Planning Reports
- Steps to Official CB Syllabus Approval
- Design (or revise) your course description and syllabus.