AP Language and Composition
"An AP English Language and Composition course cultivates the reading and writing skills that students need for college success and for intellectually responsible civic engagement. The course guides students in becoming curious, critical, and responsive readers of diverse texts and becoming flexible, reflective writers of texts addressed to diverse audiences for diverse purposes. The reading and writing students do in the course should deepen and expand their understanding of how written language functions rhetorically: to communicate writers’ intentions and elicit readers’ responses in particular situations” (Collegeboard).
Course Objectives:
Develop the skills of rhetorical analysis and composition by repeated practice analyzing other’s arguments, then composing one’s own argument.
Analyze the relationships among the author's style, literary form, and intended impact on the reader.
Understand the subtleties of rhetorical devices and technique in the comprehension and creation of communication: written, visual, and oral.
Analyze cartoons, audio speeches, film clips for persuasive techniques, satire, main idea, etc.
Utilize and understand the Modern Language Association (MLA) format.
Produce final documents that have been edited for correct spelling, correct punctuation, correct capitalization, correct sentence formation, correct format and style, and that demonstrates college level vocabulary.
Analyze peer essays as well as self-evaluate on a regular basis.
Prepare to take the AP Language and Composition Exam which may afford the opportunity to earn equivalent college course credit based on the score.