Monday: The Course - an Overview

AM 8:00am – 11:45am:

• Nuts and Bolts
• Introductions
• Fill out note cards, expectations/specific concerns
• Go over agenda
• Implementing an A.P. Course
• Implementing the AP U.S. History course
• Other sample syllabi
• Textbooks and supplemental materials

PM 1:00pm – 4:30pm:

• College Board materials – Professional Development Workshop Materials
• Format of the AP Exam
• “Intelligent Re-design”?!
• How they arrive at the Final Score (1-5)
• Multiple Choice Questions - looking at the 2001 released exam
• Model Lesson: Cultural Salmagundi – The Great American West

Tuesday: Reading, Multiple-Choice, & Writing

AM 8:00am – 11:45am:

• Critical Reading Skills
• Critical Reading Skills – sharing of activities
• Multiple-Choice Questions
• Multiple Choice Skills
• Take Part of a practice Multiple-Choice Exam (timed)
• Model Lesson: Immigration

PM 1:00pm – 4:30pm:

• Writing Analysis Skills
• AP Style writing – The Core Structure
• Looking at essay questions, writing essay questions – Vertical Teaming Style
• Introduce In-class Project: Political Cartoon Analysis Activity

Wednesday: Writing for the AP Exam (continued) & Review Exercises

AM 8:00am – 11:45am  

• Writing Analysis Skills
• The DBQ
• Step-by-step process teaching how to write the DBQ in a multi-skill level
  classroom – some writing involved!
• DBQuiz
• Write a DBQ

PM 1:00pm – 4:30pm:

• More on essay writing
• Thesis statements, generalizations, Association Chains
• Sharing of ideas on how to teach writing
• Review
  
• Review activities & share what you do to review!
• Generating Topical Generalizations (in-class exercise)
• Looking at your year – Time to plan your First Quarter
• Touch base/revise Political Cartoon Activity

Thursday: Simulated Reading and More...

AM 8:00am – 11:45am:

• Workings of the AP “Reading” in Louisville
• Reading actual AP essays and scoring them
• Debrief
• What should teachers look for in grading their students’ essays?
  
• More writing strategies & working with documents           

PM 1:00pm – 4:30pm:

• Presentations and Wrap-up
• Final prep
• Presentations of Political Cartoon Activity
• Other “Odds & Ends” – What do you do AFTER the A.P. Exam?
  
• SHARING of more ideas
•  Final Questions and wrap-up 
• Evaluation