AP Language & Composition

Students: for details about our class, visit our Google Classroom. Questions? Email me at sinman@msad51.org.

Course Description

This full year course focuses on three skills: analysis (with a concentration on rhetoric), argument, and synthesis, and prepares students to sit for the Advanced Placement examination in May. Students will practice close reading of a variety of nonfiction genres (essays, biographies, speeches, newspaper and magazine articles, etc.) from multiple historical periods and on multiple topics, from art to politics to science. Students will also consider the use of rhetoric in visual media. Students will write both formally and informally, in both long-term assignments and on-demand essays, and the writing will be primarily non-fiction and analytical. As this is a college level course, students will experience a rigorous work load and there are high expectations for written work and participation. All students in this course are required to take the AP Language and Composition Exam in May.