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Overview

AP language and Composition, in compliance with the College Board’s AP English Course Description, “engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts, and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of reasons.”

The AP Language and Composition course is a rigorous course that requires students to read and write about a variety of high-level topics. The primary focus of the course is on critical reading of nonfiction literature and the writing of several kinds of essays:  Narration, description, example, compare and contrast, process analysis, classification and division, cause and effect, definition, argument and persuasion, mixing methods, and synthesis. Students will revise their papers after consultation with their peers and instructor. Students will also write 2 research papers citing primary and secondary sources.

Students will be required to keep a Reading Response Journal and write weekly practice essays that will be peer and teacher reviewed and revised.

Students will also be required to complete outside reading assignments.

Texts used in the course include:

Kennedy, X.J, Dorothy M. Kennedy, and Jane E. Aaron, eds. The Bedford Reader. 9^th ed.           Boston: Bedford

Kizner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell, eds. Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide. 10^th ed. New York: Bedford, 2007.

The Atlantic Monthly will be delivered once a month and will be used as text material for the study of nonfiction and graphics.

One outside reading book will also be assigned per quarter: Walden (first quarter), The Scarlet Letter (second quarter), Lincoln’s Greatest Speech (third quarter).

Multiple Choice tests and quizzes will be graded by percentage points.

There will be ongoing vocabulary study and quizzes (SAT words and AP Language words).

Grammar will be addressed using class readings.

Students will take a number of practice AP tests throughout the year.

Grading will be as follows:

Essays will be graded on the AP rubric (1-9).  Scores will be converted into letter grades.

9=A, 8=A-, 7=B+, 6=B, 5=B-, 4=C+, 3=C, 2=C-, 1=D, 0=F  (Reading Response Journals and Essays will be counted as test grades)

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