This last year I developed a unit that presented students with one of the most genuinely difficult challenges I’ve ever presented in 17 years of teaching AP Lang: we studied the ten songs that Kendrick Lamar and Drake wrote in a furious and fast-paced public battle in 2023-2024. I began the unit with some background … Continue reading Why the Kendrick/Drake Beef is Great for AP Lang – One Line as Proof of Concept