Ms Nelson Is Not Missing

09/29/2026

AP Language and Composition resources by Ms Nelson Is Not Missing on TPT

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09/29/2026

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09/29/2026

“The purpose of punctuation is to make writing easier to read,” Louis Menand writes, “and making writing easier to read means giving greater and greater numbers of people access to the written word.” A new book by Florence Hazrat, celebrating punctuation in all its forms, makes the striking claim that the history of punctuation is the history of humanity itself. It has entered into a class of books about the mechanics of writing—to which Sarah L. Kaufman’s “Verb Your Enthusiasm” belongs. But how do we think about these sentences, words, and marks amid a current evolution in the phenomenology of reading? Authors like Hazrat and Kaufman want us to understand reading as a bodily experience, one which can transmit an author’s state of mind, or set of emotions, to our own. Menand considers the strange power of, among other things, punctuation: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/UVJBIr

09/29/2026

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09/28/2026

🍎Give your 9th and 10th graders a meaningful, standards-aligned experience with *are you okay?* — an 8-minute animated short film about bullying, cyberbullying, bystander intervention, and the power of human connection.

This complete movie guide is ready to use from day one and works beautifully as a standalone unit, a mentor text for argument or narrative writing, or a thematic complement to any unit on identity, empathy, or social justice.🐾

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09/27/2026

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09/27/2026

Does your class need a text that actually demands their full attention? Kendrick Lamar's lyrics are among the most lyrically sophisticated in contemporary music — layered with allusion, allegory, extended metaphor, and paradox — and this unit treats them exactly the way they deserve: as literature.

This modular Kendrick Lamar ELA unit gives grades 11–12 students a rigorous, culturally relevant pathway into college-preparatory literary analysis and original creative writing. Use all five modules as a 3–4 week unit, or pick and choose to complement existing work in poetry, rhetoric, or social justice literature.

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09/26/2026

Yesterday's sunset was awesome. My picture doesn't even begin to capture what I saw.

09/25/2026

Made it through another week. Happy Friday! Hope you enjoy a peaceful weekend...

09/25/2026