AP Language & Composition

This course will focus on developing students’ analytical and writing skills.  Students will analyze the rhetoric of prose passages and will write weekly essays of varying lengths in different rhetorical modes.  The objectives of the class are geared to prepare students for the Advanced Placement Test in English Language and Composition given by the College Board in the spring.

School Competencies
  • Global and Local Citizenship (Awareness - Foundational)
  • Integrity (Awareness - Foundational)
  • Social & Cultural Knowledge (Awareness - Foundational)
  • Literary Understanding (Communication - Foundational)
  • Writing (Communication - Foundational)
  • Critical Thinking (Problem Solving & Analysis - Foundational)
  • Critical Observation (Awareness - Advanced)
  • Critical Literary Analysis (Communication - Advanced)
  • Public Deliberation (Communication - Advanced)
  • Synthesis (Problem Solving & Analysis - Advanced)
Course Competencies
  • Interpret and analyze samples of good writing, identifying and explaining an author’s use of rhetorical strategies and techniques;
  • Employ effective strategies and techniques in their own writing;
  • Create and sustain arguments based on readings, research, and/or personal experience;
  • Demonstrate understanding and mastery of standard written English as well as stylistic maturity in their own writings;
  • Write in a variety of genres and contexts, both formal and informal, employing appropriate conventions;
  • Produce expository and argumentative compositions that introduce a complex central idea and develop it with appropriate, specific evidence, cogent explanations, and clear transitions; and 
  • Move effectively through the stages of the writing process, with careful attention to inquiry and research, drafting, revising, editing, and review.
Credits

1

Grades

9-12