My Top Five Posts for New Seminar Teachers

I spent all summer ramping up to go fully analog, take my Sem kids all the way back to pencil and paper and now... now in addition to the four sections of AP Seminar that I'll be teaching this year, my district (one of the largest in the country) has enlisted me (because I'm the best) to write the Seminar curriculum for our virtual high school and be the teacher.

What does this mean for my mailing list of AP Seminar teachers? It means that you're going to be getting a variety of content coming your way. I plan to post lessons and materials for traditional as well as virtual implementation, for newbies as well as returning teachers.

If you're new to Write All Along (and I noticed a sharp uptick in subscribers as the school year approaches), you should know that sometimes I blog about other things. I'm a writer (mostly science fiction) but I also like to review the occasional book or video game. I will also post lessons for general Language Arts usage (English teacher by trade, Seminar teacher by circumstance) and Creative Writing (my first love). But I'm fully aware that literally everyone who has signed up for my e-mail list so far has done so through a post about AP Seminar, so I'll only send those posts out to inboxes.

If you're a new AP Seminar teacher here looking for help, I think these are the best posts to start with:

1. My approach to curriculum week 1
2. A first writing assignment you won't find anywhere else targeting perspectives and conversation between sources
3. A Write All Along original: a simple means of focusing student inquiry
4. The first graphic organizer I invented for Seminar, a staple for real or digital notebooks
5. For all of you still wrapping your heads around what makes for a good Seminar research question, here's my expert breakdown of proposed student research questions

Next week I'm going to have up a text set with lessons that you can start the year with or do following my Talking Points assignment (and if all goes as planned, I'll have a digital and traditional version of those lessons).

But I would really love to hear from my members, new and old. Comment below with your questions, needs, and anxieties for the coming year of AP Seminar. I might have just what you need.