Course Selection GUIDE
Course Selection GUIDE
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AP English Language and Composition focuses on the development and revision of evidence-based analytic and argumentative writing, the rhetorical analysis of nonfiction texts, and the decisions writers make as they compose and revise. Most texts used throughout the year will be nonfiction and will come from a variety of sources and genres (e.g., academic journals, scientific arguments, letters, critical essays, charts and graphs, political cartoons, advertisements, podcasts, etc.). In addition to reading and analyzing these selections, students will also compose a variety of formal and informal writings to assert and defend claims related to the texts. Students will read beyond general comprehension and think critically about the rhetorical choices that authors make and how social context(s), target audience(s), rhetorical mode(s), and overall purpose impact a text and the message(s) conveyed to readers. [Students do NOT need to take AP Language in order to take AP Literature senior year.]