AP English
AP Language & Composition (11th Grade)
The AP English Language and Composition course requires a tremendous time commitment from all students. The class engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Using rhetorical analysis, students will become aware of the interaction between a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects, as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing. Other requirements include a research term paper and completion of the Advanced Placement test. Students who choose not to take the AP test will take a cumulative final exam at the end of the year. (AP Fee waivers are available for those who qualify.) A “C” or better in both semesters earns the student a unit for the “B” requirement on the UC/CSU A-G list.
AP Literature & Composition (12th Grade)
This course is designed to enable qualified seniors to achieve to the best of their ability on the Advanced Placement examination in English Literature. This one-year course (offered in lieu of a student's fourth year of Honors English) will stress extensive reading and the analysis of required reading under the demands of time limitation. Given that this class is the equivalent of credit for two semesters of college credit in English, the works of such authors as Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Conrad, and others of similar stature will be examined in detail. Regardless of the genre or author, close textual analysis and the effective expression of such analysis will be stressed. A “C” or better in both semesters earns the student a unit for the “B” requirement on the UC/CSU A-G list.
Got Questions? Email Ms. goodwin: vgoodwin@hartdistrict.org (Eng lang and eng lit)
Ms. Wilken: cwilken@hartdistrict.org (eng lang)