Introduction to Pre-AP:

Every student deserves classroom opportunities to learn, grow, and succeed. College Board developed Pre-AP to deliver on this simple premise. Pre-AP courses are designed to support all students across varying levels of readiness.


Participation in Pre-AP courses allows students to focus on the most essential and relevant concepts and skills. Students have frequent opportunities to engage deeply with texts, sources, and data as well as compelling higher-order questions and problems. Across Pre-AP courses, students experience shared instructional practices and routines that help them develop and strengthen the important critical thinking they will need to employ in high school, college, and life. Students and parents can see progress and opportunities for growth through varied classroom assessments that provide clear and meaningful feedback at key checkpoints throughout each course.


Texts take center stage in the Pre-AP English I classroom, inspiring and preparing all students for close, critical reading and analytical writing. This course trains the reader to observe the small details in a text to arrive at a deeper understanding of the whole. It also trains the reader to appreciate authors’ sometimes-subtle choices, developing an awareness of how words produce effects and how the conventions of the English language are used for both precision and style. As writers, students focus first on crafting complex sentences, building this foundational skill; they then move on to producing well-organized paragraphs and, as the year progresses, more sophisticated, longer-form analyses.


Pre-AP Shared Principles:


Pre-AP Units:


*Throughout the semester, students will work through the aforementioned units, as well as the main components of the majority of the HMH Curriculum mentioned in the syllabus.