AP Lang
For Students and Parents
Use this link to access Google Classroom:
Students will be emailed the Google Classroom codes before school has started in case they want to turn in their summer reading assignments digitally. Otherwise, Chromebook checkout will not occur until Friday, August 20th and no assignments using technology will be assigned until then.
Parents
Once your student has joined a Google Classroom, they can invite you to join as a Guardian. If you are unsure how to do this, email me at chenderson@lps.k12.co.us and I can invite you to as well. Once you've joined for one of your student's classes, you can choose to receive Guardian Summaries daily or weekly (as long as the teacher has turned on that setting). To see the full Google Classroom, you will need to login through your student's account.
Summer Reading
Summer reading assignments are due on the first day of class, which for periods 1, 5, and 7 is Wednesday, August 16. Be prepared for an exam on The Great Gatsby and a summer reading essay within the first few days of school.
AP Lang and Comp Course Overview
AP Lang is a college level course that 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. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among 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. This course emphasizes the expository, analytical, and argumentative writing that forms the basis of academic and professional communication as well as the personal and reflective writing that fosters the development of writing facility in any context. This course recognizes that skill in writing proceeds from students’ awareness of their own composing process: the way they explore ideas, reconsider strategies, and revise their work. As well as engaging in varied writing tasks, students read a wide variety of prose styles from many disciplines and historical periods to gain understanding of the connections between interpretive skill in reading and writing.
The three main focuses of essay writing will be
rhetorical analysis
argument
synthesis