Teachers will practice strategies and techniques to promote critical thinking, critical reading, and critical writing with an eye toward the skills needed in AP and college-level courses. We will work with both face-to-face and distance learning strategies. Topics will include the following: • Thematically linked visuals, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction • Strategies for analysis of those texts • Writing prompts from the analysis/topics of the texts • Strategies for writing to the prompts