AP Language & Composition

Course Description

Following the College Board’s suggested curriculum designed to parallel college-level English courses, AP English Language and Composition courses expose students to prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts.  These courses emphasize the interaction of authorial purpose, intended audience, and the subject at hand, and through them, students learn to develop stylistic flexibility as they write compositions covering a variety of subjects that are intended for various purposes.  Students are strongly encouraged to take the AP Exam.  Summer reading may be required.  Students may be required to purchase texts.  College credit varies by post-secondary institution. 

Textbook

The Language of Composition (2018)