Course ID: 84
The Advanced Placement Literature and Composition course challenges students to read and analyze complex texts with insight into what constitutes significant literature, literature as part of world culture, and an appreciation for a variety of literature. Students will write several short and longer text analysis, expository, and argumentative papers and essays. Students will unite in a variety of forms on a variety of literature including but not limited to: Macbeth, The Scarlet Letter, 1984, The Awakening, The Canterbury Tales, Death of a Salesman, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men, Tuesdays with Morrie, and Dead Poets Society and a variety of short stories, poetry, and essays from but not limited to: Hemingway, Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., Walt Whitman, to name a few. Students will take the AP Exam in May and the Common Core English Regents examination in June.
1 high school credit
Cost: $94 exam fee