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Kate Cordes is a National Board-certified English teacher with a BA in English, psychology, and medieval studies; an MEd in curriculum and instruction; more than twenty years of experience in the secondary English Language Arts classroom; and six years of experience working with NBCT candidates through the National Education Association. She currently teaches tenth-grade AP Seminar/>English 2 and AP® English Literature at Skyview High School in Billings, Montana. As part of the College Board’s Instructional Design Team, Kate contributed to the development, review, and dissemination of the 2019 AP® English Literature Course and Exam Description, and she has been an AP® Reader for the AP® English Literature exam for ten years. A co-author of Bedform, Freeman, & Worth's The Language of Composition, Literature & Composition, and American Literature & Rhetoric, she has also authored teacher resource materials for Conversations in American Literature.