AP* Summer Institute

AP* English Literature and Composition

July 20 to July 23, 2009
8:00am - 5:00pm

Rebecca McFarlan has been an educator in southern Ohio/northern Kentucky for nearly 30 years. She is currently English Department Chair at Indian Hill High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. McFarlan received her M.A. from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and her undergraduate degrees from Northern Kentucky University and Eastern Kentucky University. McFarlan is the recipient of the prestigious Martha Holden Jennings Master Teacher Award.

This AP* English Literature and Composition class will focus on teaching literature for college-bound students using representative examples of contemporary and classic fiction and poetry. Participants will discuss and analyze these works as they examine critical and pedagogical assumptions that guide their teaching, explore ways to improve their students’ interpretive skills, and discuss the role of contemporary literary theory in the advanced placement classroom.

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