AP English Language and Composition
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*AP Letter Home 2009-2010 Students enrolled in the AP English Language and Composition are expected to strive to be sensitive, wise, mature, and scholarly. The College Board’s AP Program promotes college-level instruction at the high school level to facilitate student transition from secondary school to college. Students will read and carefully analyze a broad and challenging range of nonfiction prose selections, deepening their awareness of rhetoric. Through close reading and frequent writing, students develop their ability to work with language and text with a greater awareness of purpose and strategy, while strengthening their own composing abilities. Course readings feature expository, analytical, personal and argumentative texts from a variety of authors and historical contexts. Students will examine and work with articles, letters, essays, speeches, images, and literature. As this is a college level course, performance expectations are appropriately high, and the workload is challenging. Students are expected to commit a minimum of five hours of course work per week outside of class. Often, work involves long-term writing and reading assignments, so effective time management is important. Because of the demanding curriculum, students must bring to the course sufficient command of mechanical conventions and an ability to read and discuss prose. The primary texts will be Everyday Use: Rhetoric at Work in Reading and Writing, ISBN: 0321093259 (2005), and Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide, 10e. ISBN: 0312445865 (2006). This course is constructed in accordance with the guidelines described in the AP English Course Description. Click on the links below for more information about the following: |