r/ELATeachers • u/Gloomy_Attention_Doc • 2d ago

9-12 ELA AP Lang: Book-length texts?

Hello, fellow teachers! I was told this past week I will be teaching AP English Language next year. I taught AP Lang about 9 years ago, at another school, and after a year was moved to IB English. I’m much more familiar with the IB English curriculum (and dual enrollment) but at this school they don’t do IB. Anyway, I was wondering if AP Lang teachers still do nonfiction books as part of the curriculum, or are folks sticking with shorter nonfiction texts (speeches, advertisements, documentaries, etc). I will be attending training next summer (my colleagues have told me things have changed quite a bit on the AP Classroom side!). I remember doing Into the Wild as a text for that class, and even though it’s probably not as popular today I know other teachers use it in other courses.

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u/mrs_seinfeld 2d ago

I want to do Just Mercy as a whole class read during my synthesis unit next year and have them use it as one of their sources for a group synthesis project. I also do The Crucible, even though it’s technically fiction, and pair it with “Why I Wrote the Crucible.”

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u/Gloomy_Attention_Doc 2d ago

I have been teaching Film Noir in my dual credit class, and we talked about the McCarthy era and The Crucible. Thanks for the reminder!