Plot Summary to Insight in just 10 minutes a day!

Stop spending hours hunting for the perfect excerpt.

Get curated, high-yield prose passages, 5-day scaffolded bell-ringer prompts, and line-of-reasoning tools delivered every month.

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Does this sound like your classroom during FRQ2 prep?

  • You assign a prose excerpt, but when students write about it, they just retell what happened instead of analyzing how the author built the scene.
  • You waste precious prep time digging through anthologies and past exams looking for passages with rich characterization, setting dynamics, or tone shifts.
  • You want students to practice prose analysis weekly, but you don't have the time or energy to grade 30 full-length FRQ 2 essays every Friday.

Students don't need longer essays to master prose analysis

  • They need consistent, bite-sized exposure to complex characters and regular exposure to AP-style prompts
  • They need need a system for engaging with the texts and prompts
  • They need regular practice with thesis statements and analysis paragraphs

Meet Prose Passage of the Week

A streamlined, low-prep micro-membership designed to turn complex prose analysis into an easy 10-minute daily routine for AP Literature (FRQ 2), AP Language, and Upper-Level ELA.

Instead of overwhelm, you get a predictable, high-yield routine that builds student confidence week after week.

Your Subscription Gets You

Daily Prompts

Four daily prompts tied to one poem that encourages rereading for deeper analysis. Prompts build on each other as the week progresses.

Weekly Writing Prompts

Weekly writing prompts are modeled after the AP®️ Lit FRQ2 (the AP®️ Lit Prose Essay). Choose to have your students write just a thesis, a body paragraph or a full essay.

What teachers are saying

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Solid Gold Find!

I've been using this resource for two years now, and I love it. I use this as daily warm-ups in my AP Lit 12th class. It's a super excellent way to get kids to focus on a piece in several ways over the course of a week. It is excellent exam prep, but it is also just good reading prep. I highly recommend this resource and this seller. This is a solid-gold find!

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Low-prep Bell Ringers

These are low-prep bellringers that get the kids thinking.

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Dream Resource

As a new AP teacher, this resource is a dream. It provides practice with the skills but also gives me a jumping point on which works I should be focusing on.

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  • Immediate Access to 4 Passages of the Week
  • Curated content added each monthly
  • Introduction to Close Reading Video & Workbook
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  • Immediate Access to 12 Passages of the Week
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Frequently Asked Questions

You will have immediate access to the first month (4) or first quarter (12) AP®️ English bell ringers, Introduction to Close Reading Video & Workbook and Quick Start Masterclass.  Then, each month (or quarter) you will get access to a new carefully curated bell ringer.

The great thing about your “Of the Week” subscription is that they can be used in a variety of ways:  they can be exit tickets, formative assessments, filler activities or even sub plans.

With a subscription, you begin with access to 10 bell ringers and each subsequent week, you get a new one.  The longer you stay the more you have in your archive.  In the Pencils and Prologues Membership, you get immediate access to everything that is in the library which includes the same bell ringers in the subscription plus theme based unit plans, anchor charts, task cards and much, much more.

No, everything that is included the subscription is also included in Pencils and Prologues.

You will find most materials in the form of PDFs and Google Slides.  (If you are not a Google School, you can download at PowerPoint or PNGs.)

TPT gives you a finite product.  The subscription gives you access to exclusive carefully curated materials designed specifically for AP®️ English students delivered to you weekly.

Materials in this subscription are designed specifically for AP®️ English students.  They may work for your students if you are not teaching AP, download a sample to find out.

It is easy to cancel.  With just a few clicks you will be able to stop payment.

I want you to be happy, so if you decide the membership is not right for you, it should be easy to leave and it should be easy to come back.

On Day One you begin with:

  • 4-12 Bell Ringers
  • Bonus Masterclass
  • Introduction to Close Reading Video (for students)

In the future you get:

  • 4 additional bell ringer added each month (or 12 added quarterly)
  • Quarterly Bonuses

No, at $5 a month, this subscription is already super low cost.  You immediately get access to a full month or quarter of content.  It is just like making a purchase on TPT.  Sometimes you make a purchase and it is perfect and sometimes it is not quite what you are looking for.

We certainly hope the Passage of the Week is perfect.  If you are not sure, grab a sample first.