Open Microsoft PowerPoint and create a new presentation.
Create a title for your presentation, such as, "An Approach to the U.S. History Free Response Essay Question," or something specific to your essay topic.
Look at the scoring guidelines for the AP essay on the College Board website (see Resources) and list the requirements and recommendations, along with a brief explanation, of the information there. This is where you should explain exactly what the AP examiners are looking for in a top-scoring essay.
Look at past examples of essay topics (also available on the College Board website) and choose a few examples or even an entire essay to introduce and explain. You can use multiple slides for this part of your presentation, as it might be necessary to detail specific attributes, techniques and characteristics of the example essay(s) to drive home the specifics. Make sure to look at the essay prompt and its relation to the sample essay, and explain the different ways the prompt could have been interpreted.
If your teacher has already presented her preferred method or technique for approaching the AP essay, be sure to include the technique in your presentation. It might be useful to take a new essay prompt and apply the technique in your presentation to give a more specific example and to demonstrate that you understand and can apply the concept.
Go over specific do's and don'ts for essay writing that you have found in your own experience, that you have heard from your teachers, or that have been mentioned by other testing preparation materials or the College Board itself. For example, you might explain the problem with "waffling" by presenting contradictions of evidence and agreeing with two different conclusions.