The Road by Cormac McCarthy: The AP Literature Novel That Does Everything
We didn’t choose it. Our students did. Our first year teaching AP Lit, way back before we were officially Kate-and-Steph…
Novels
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Reading in Class: How to Teach Elie Wiesel’s Night When Students Won’t Read at Home
Reading in class used to be an occasional treat—something English teachers did to introduce a new novel or to fill…
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Teaching Literature Effectively: A Pride and Prejudice Case Study in Making Classics Accessible
You know what’s not the best way to make Pride and Prejudice appealing to teenagers? A 102-slide PowerPoint. Yep, you…
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Skip the Essay: 7 Book Project Ideas That Make Assessment More Fun (and Just as Rigorous)
Tired of reading the same five-paragraph essays over and over? You know the ones—60 students have selected the same three…
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Game On: A Hunger Games Novel Unit Designed for Student Engagement
What if your next novel unit didn’t just keep students reading, but had them thinking, strategizing, and, best of all,…
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8 Modern AP Lit Books That Diversify the “Canon”
Our most popular blog post, by far, is our list of 10 Contemporary Novels for AP Literature. Initially, we found…
