

They expose students to a broad spectrum of literary excerpts and poems that they may not have read otherwise.When we use these past questions in our lesson plans, they help students familiarize themselves with College Board’s style of questioning, which creates comfort heading into the test in May.They provide us a glimpse into the mind of College Board so we can prepare appropriately for the exam each year.Why are these past Free Response Questions valuable? If you haven’t seen the prompts yet, you can find them here. It creates a celebratory atmosphere in the room as the year quickly spirals to an end once the exam is over. This is good news because as soon as those prompts are released, we can discuss them with our students, and our students can discuss them with us. Looking for helpful AP English Literature resources? Check out our Summer Writing Workshops and our AP Lit Lesson Plan Bundles.ĪP Lit teachers impatiently wait for the release of the essay questions that our students were asked to respond to on the AP Lit exam, and thankfully College Board doesn’t make us wait but a few days.
#Apopen prompts series
Our hope is that you will be able to use this four-part series as you begin thinking about planning for your AP Lit course for next year. In this four-part article, Michelle Lindsey and I will walk you through why the released FRQ questions for AP Lit are so valuable for classroom instruction, and we will explore each of the three released essays in a separate article.

The 2022 AP Lit FRQ Questions Were Just Released:
