AP Language and Composition

It is my goal and desire for this course to challenge you to become a more critical reader, a concise effective writer, and an insightful and thorough thinker. I want you to leave this course confident that you can “put in your oar” and enter into the conversations that are ever occurring in our world. We will become a COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS! Our classroom will become a comfortable and positive environment, where we learn and grow together! I am looking forward to teaching you this year!

Goals: (from the College Board English Language and Composition Course Description)

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

ü analyze and interpret samples of good writing, identifying and explaining an author’s use of rhetorical strategies and techniques;

ü apply effective strategies and techniques in their own writing;

ü create and sustain arguments based on readings, research and/or personal experience;

ü write for a variety of purposes;

ü produce expository, analytical and argumentative compositions that introduce a complex central idea and develop it with appropriate evidence drawn from primary and/or secondary sources, cogent explanations and clear transitions;

ü demonstrate understanding and mastery of standard written English as well as stylistic maturity;

ü demonstrate understandings of the conventions of citing primary and secondary sources;

ü move effectively through the stages of the writing process, with careful attention to inquiry and research, drafting, revising, editing and review;

ü write thoughtfully about their own process of composition;

ü revise a work to make it suitable for a different audience;

ü analyze image as text; and

ü evaluate and incorporate reference documents into researched papers.