AP Summer Institute

AP Language & Composition

July 21-24, 2008
8:00am - 5:00pm

Julian Freund currently teaches First Year Writing Programs at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Freund has a diverse background including teaching positions at the university, community college, and high school levels. Julian earned his BA in English and History at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo) and his MA in English from Chicago State University. Freund has been a College Board* consultant and AP* English Language & Composition reader for more than 14 years.

Workshop participants will learn how to improve their students' research skills to synthesize, evaluate, cite and utilize source material. Learn strategies that will enable students to write effectively in their college courses across the curriculum and in their professional and personal lives. Experienced and beginning AP* teachers will become familiar with techniques to help students learn to write and read with increasing complexity and sophistication. Focus areas will include enhancing students' ability to:

• do close reading in an era where visual literacy has replaced verbal literacy;
• develop argumentative essays with an inclusive rhetorical stance;
• prepare for the new synthesis question in the AP* exam;
• understand and converse about "rhetorical strategies" as they apply to the written document and oral discussion;
• enter the conversation" in the world of rhetorical discourse to quote Chief Reader David Jolliffe;
• grasp the nature and value of studying "reductive" objective questions as part of the AP* exam.

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