This workshop invites participants to explore trauma-informed teaching practices that benefit all students and contribute to a "compassionate" teaching environment. It begins with an overview of trauma, its impact on learning, and trauma-informed teaching principles before addressing strategies teachers can use to support trauma-informed teaching. Participants should bring one story of how trauma has impacted their teaching as well as a policy, document, or practice used frequently in their own teaching.   View Recording & Access Slides ... View more

Did you know that ideas are the secret to success on the AP® English Language Exam? It’s not enough just to discuss a topic. To excel, students need to express an idea about that topic. Join John Williamson, Mary Jo Zell, and Elizabeth Davis as they discuss what constitutes an idea, why ideas are important, and how you can encourage your students to become persuasive writers and analytical readers. You will take a look at how the features in their new AP® Language text, Ideas in Argument, align with the course skills and encourage students to conceive of their own ideas. You’ll walk away with a full Unit from the program and an exclusive lesson plan.   View Recording & Access Slides Ideas in Argument  ... View more

Ideas in Argument provides everything a teacher needs for a successful and fully CED-aligned AP® Language course. Each Unit includes brief, approachable skill workshops aligned to each Big Idea in the Course and Exam Description as well as to AP® Classroom.      ... View more

In this webinar Renee Shea, Robin Aufses, Megan Pankiewicz, and Kate Cordes will reflect on the new AP® Language Scoring Guide and the 2021 AP® Exam results and discuss ways to prepare for the 2022 exam. They will also discuss how we can utilize available tools to engage our students beyond preparing for the exam and get them actively reading and analyzing.   View Recording & Access Slides ... View more

In celebration of National Poetry Month, the authors of American Literature & Rhetoric (ALR) and colleagues who contributed to the resources discuss "Contemporary Poets Talk Back: An American Tradition." One way to view our new book  ALR is one big conversation about issues and ideas about our perfect—or imperfect—union. Nowhere is the conversation more dynamic than in our "talk backs": contemporary poets responding to a song, a painting, or another poem from another era. These responses might be an appreciation or a challenge, but they always raise questions that continue to engage us. During this webinar, we will discuss five contemporary poets who are talking back: Ada Limon (to “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key) Natasha Trethewey (to "Veteran in a New Field" by Winslow Homer) Ilya Kaminsky (to "At Lowe's Home Improvement Center" by Brian Turner) Ocean Vuong (to "Facing It" by Yusef Komunyakaa) Eve Ewing (to "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston)   View Recording Here! ACCESS THE WEBINAR ... View more

This slide deck contains a combination of “The College Board Pacing Guide for Flipped Classrooms” for AP English Language and Composition and a modified pacing guide for The Language of Composition, 3e. Feel free to use it for the remainder of the 2021 school year to prepare for the exam in May. ... View more

Renee Shea, Robin Aufses, and Kate Cordes wrote a lesson plan for Amanda Gorman's Superbowl poem "A Call for Captains." Take a look, try it out with your class, and let us know what you think! ... View more

This school year—and our world—looks quite different than ever before. From an upcoming, future-shaping election, to youth-led climate change protests, dynamic social justice movements, and virtual learning as the norm, the 'new normal' that can challenge student attention. However, these realities also offer opportunities to introduce relevant content in your AP English course in ways that encourage students to develop the skills necessary to read and write at the college level. In this webinar, BFW English authors Robin Aufses, Megan Pankiewicz, Larry Scanlon and Renee Shea will present strategies, multi-media content and structured curricular tools to guide teachers in using 'elephants in the room' to engage students in deeper learning. Webinar attendees will: discuss key current events that may present challenges to student engagement and lesson-planning in the current educational landscape explore specific strategies for using current events content to engage students in meaningful ways around themes of Social Justice, Sports, Environment and Community review a classroom-ready instructional approach (e.g., graphic organizer, analytical framework) for each of the strategies shared examine the features of an expertly-constructed AP Language program that provides ready-to-implement tools for engaging students, while also providing flexibility in lesson planning ... View more

For fifteen years, Bedford, Freeman & Worth High School Publishers has focused on delivering top quality resources to support AP® teachers and students, including the soon-to-be released Literature & Composition, 3e and the brand new Ideas in Argument textbooks.   ... View more

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Dive deeper into our AP® Language program for The Language of Composition, Third Edition. Learn more about this program here. The Language of Composition  ... View more

1. Meet the Authors 7. Argument chapter revision 13. Conversations 19.Technology 2. Overview & History 8. Thematic chapter organization 14. Visual arts program 20. Conclusion 3. Course Overview 9. New readings 15. Teacher support program 21. Good luck on the exam! 4. Why Revise 10. Essays & Central texts changes 16. Teacher's Edition   5. Introductory, skill building chapters and the AP exam 11. Central texts 17. Text Talks   6. Close reading chapter revision 12. Classic essays 18. Digital test bank     The Language of Composition  ... View more

Looking for exam prep resources? We've included the CED at a glance, graphic organizer, and rubric below for AP® Lang. You can also check out our webinar dedicated to this topic! In this webinar, author Kate Cordes will discuss how to make the most of the final month leading up to the AP® Literature and Language exams now that teaching and learning must happen from a distance. She will offer suggestions for how to utilize BFW’s online resources, AP® Classroom’s progress checks and questions banks, or your own units and assessments to determine student strengths and weaknesses. The webinar will also offer helpful text suggestions that target the skills most often emphasized in the new CEDs. Finally, we will share ways to support your students as they prepare for the revised online exams. ... View more

Bedford, Freeman & Worth High School Publishers (BFW) is widely considered “the AP® publisher,” and we take that role very seriously. Because of this, we feel it necessary to lay all cards on the table so you know exactly what is being offered for your teachers now – and in the future. View the attached flyer or visit our AP® Updates site to learn more. The Language of Composition  ... View more