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"Becky was an excellent instructor. She brought a wealth of expertise--strategies, course knowledge, etc. Perhaps more importantly, she was continually responsive to our needs and adjusted accordingly."
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Becky McFarlan
Rebecca McFarlan is a National Board Certified teacher who for 39 years has taught English on both the high school and college levels. She has 33 years of experience teaching both the AP English Literature, AP English Language courses, and both AP Capstone courses. For the past 17 years she has been a reader and more recently a table leader for the AP English Literature Exam. Currently she teaches at Indian Hill High School in Cincinnati, OH. In addition to full-time teaching duties, she serves as district Instructional Leader for grades 9-12 and ELA Program Leader for K-12. She is a College Board Consultant for AP English Literature, AP English Language, and AP Research.
Over the past 20 years she has facilitated workshops both nationally and internationally. Rebecca has conducted several workshops in China focusing on both AP and Pre-AP English curriculum for Chinese students. For the past eight years she has served as a coach and mentor to other College Board consultants. She was recently appointed to College Board’s Instructional Development Committee to help develop instructional materials for teachers of AP Literature. Rebecca co-authored the article “Bridging the Grammar Gap: An Interdisciplinary Approach” which appeared in English Journal in January 2003. In 2004 she received the Martha Holden Jennings Master Teacher award. She developed three online workshops for AP Central, contributed to the AP Literature Mentor materials, and has worked on the development of several workshops.
Becky can be reached at Rebecca.McFarlan@indianhillschools.org
Rebecca McFarlan is a National Board Certified teacher who for 39 years has taught English on both the high school and college levels. She has 33 years of experience teaching both the AP English Literature, AP English Language courses, and both AP Capstone courses. For the past 17 years she has been a reader and more recently a table leader for the AP English Literature Exam. Currently she teaches at Indian Hill High School in Cincinnati, OH. In addition to full-time teaching duties, she serves as district Instructional Leader for grades 9-12 and ELA Program Leader for K-12. She is a College Board Consultant for AP English Literature, AP English Language, and AP Research.
Over the past 20 years she has facilitated workshops both nationally and internationally. Rebecca has conducted several workshops in China focusing on both AP and Pre-AP English curriculum for Chinese students. For the past eight years she has served as a coach and mentor to other College Board consultants. She was recently appointed to College Board’s Instructional Development Committee to help develop instructional materials for teachers of AP Literature. Rebecca co-authored the article “Bridging the Grammar Gap: An Interdisciplinary Approach” which appeared in English Journal in January 2003. In 2004 she received the Martha Holden Jennings Master Teacher award. She developed three online workshops for AP Central, contributed to the AP Literature Mentor materials, and has worked on the development of several workshops.
Becky can be reached at Rebecca.McFarlan@indianhillschools.org
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Overview: Welcome! This week we will explore the Advanced Placement Literature course and exam in depth. We will share our passion for imaginative prose and poetry with each other and discuss ways to best share that passion with our young students. We will participate in a mock essay scoring experience using the most recent AP Lit exam and discuss methods for helping our students achieve the scores they desire. This course focuses on adapting lessons for our various learning communities as we encourage our students to grow in their close reading and critical analysis of texts. We will cover a range of genres and time periods and share our best practices in meeting the needs of students… and NEW! AP Curriculum Changes! We will thoroughly explain the new changes to the AP English Literature course and exam that will take effect in 2020, including the minor adjustments to multiple-choice questions and the new analytic rubric for the free response essays. Throughout the week, we’ll explore the many resources the College Board has added, such as the new Unit Guides, expanded AP Question Bank, and Progress Dashboard. By the end of the week, you will understand how you and your students can use these resources throughout the year.
Day One
Day Two
Day Three
Day Four
Overview: Welcome! This week we will explore the Advanced Placement Literature course and exam in depth. We will share our passion for imaginative prose and poetry with each other and discuss ways to best share that passion with our young students. We will participate in a mock essay scoring experience using the most recent AP Lit exam and discuss methods for helping our students achieve the scores they desire. This course focuses on adapting lessons for our various learning communities as we encourage our students to grow in their close reading and critical analysis of texts. We will cover a range of genres and time periods and share our best practices in meeting the needs of students… and NEW! AP Curriculum Changes! We will thoroughly explain the new changes to the AP English Literature course and exam that will take effect in 2020, including the minor adjustments to multiple-choice questions and the new analytic rubric for the free response essays. Throughout the week, we’ll explore the many resources the College Board has added, such as the new Unit Guides, expanded AP Question Bank, and Progress Dashboard. By the end of the week, you will understand how you and your students can use these resources throughout the year.
Day One
- Course overview
- The AP Audit
- Crafting a syllabus
- Building an AP program
- What did the poet say and how did the poet say it?
- Sonnets and sonnets on sonnets
Day Two
- Poetry is the way of the walk
- Icarus poetry
- Poetry with a sense of humor
- Pairing poems with a purpose
- Evaluating the recently released poetry question
Day Three
- What we talk about when we talk about fiction
- The paper load! The paper load!
- Annotation for life
- Are you being sarcastic? Teaching humor in a humorless world
- A prose scavenger hunt
- Evaluating the recently released prose question
Day Four
- Building units from the ground up
- Hamlet as a major unit
- Invisible Man as a major unit
- Preparing students for the open question
- Multiple choice for multiple people; or, you guess is as good as mine
- Evaluating the recently released open question