Build Bold, Thesis-Driven Literary Arguments in 10 Minutes a Day.

Stop letting your students get paralyzed by the open-ended essay.

Get CED-aligned Literary Argument bell ringers, thematic organizers, and analysis tools that turn FRQ 3 into a confident, automatic routine.

Join MTE Literary Argument of the Week

Does this sound like your classroom during FRQ3 prep?

  • The "Plot Summary Dump": Your students choose a great book, but their essays read like a Wikipedia synopsis instead of a thesis-driven literary argument.
  • The FRQ 3 Blank-Out: When faced with an open prompt on theme, ambition, or isolation, students freeze up trying to remember what books actually fit the task.
  • The "Work as a Whole" Struggle: Students can identify a theme, but they fail to answer the crucial "So What?"—how that concept functions across the entire work.

The truth? Masterful FRQ 3 essays aren't written by students who memorized every detail of a novel; they are written by students who know how to apply universal thematic frameworks to texts they've actually read.

Meet Literary Argument of the Week

A targeted micro-membership designed to demystify Question 3 and build student text-recall and argument skills in a low-stakes, 10-minute daily routine.

Instead of waiting until April to panic about the open prompt, you give students a predictable framework to practice thematic synthesis all year long.

Students will

  • learn how to approach the prompt
  • practice selecting texts
  • work to develop complex thesis statements
  •  focus on analysis that includes the work as a whole

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Daily Prompts

Each prompt includes an AP®️ Lit-style Literary Argument prompt and guiding questions to help students approach the prompt.

Weekly Writing Prompts

Students can write thesis statements, prepare evidence, write body paragraphs or all of the above.

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Frequently Asked Questions

You will have immediate access to 4 AP®️ English bell ringers, Thesis Cheat Sheet and Quick Start Masterclass.  Then, each Monday 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.

Maybe?  This is the only place where you can get Literary Argument of the Week.  It is not included in Pencils & Prologues.

You will find most materials in the form of PDFs.

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.

But an even BETTER reason is because you cannot get Literary Argument of the Week on TPT or anyplace else for that matter.

Materials in this subscription are designed specifically for AP®️ English students.

But, I want you to know what you are getting, so grab a free sample.

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 Bell Ringers (12 if you choose the quarterly option)
  • Bonus Masterclass
  • Bonus Anchor Charts

In the future you get:

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

Because you will get full access to the first month on day 1, unfortunately, there is no trial period.

If you would like, you can get three weeks of bell ringers for free here.