Mrs. McKnight and Mrs. Fall welcome you to AP Language and Composition! Here’s a little bit about the course as described by the College Board:

“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.”

AP Language Summer Reading Assignment:

In order to prepare you for the type of work that we’ll be doing together throughout the school year, we have TWO tasks for you to complete over the summer. All the materials can be found in the Senior High Library on a cart in the front of the library.

First task: Read ONE nonfiction text from the selections on the cart and consult the accompanying packet for the directions and assignment.

Second task: Read and annotate James Baldwin’s essay “Notes of a Native Son.” The text and the directions are included in the same packet.

Have a great summer!

Mrs Fall welcomes you to AP Literature and Composition! Throughout the upcoming school year, we’ll read challenging works that introduce you to various writing styles, literary movements, and genres; the assumption is that you are already an interested, active, and fluent reader. 

AP Literature Summer Reading Assignment:

You will be reading two novels this summer. The first is one that everyone is reading: Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a fictionalized account of the author’s experiences as a soldier in Vietnam. Please go to the Senior High Library to check out your copy and pick up the accompanying gold-colored packet, which is also linked here. If you do not make it to the library before the end of the school year, you can pick up a book and a packet in the main office of the Senior High School.

The second novel is one you will select from the list linked here (there is a hard copy of this packet also in the library). The Senior High Library has multiple copies of some of these novels, but if you choose to read a novel that is not owned by our library, you’ll need to check it out of the public library or even purchase a copy for yourself. Make sure you pick up the accompanying white-colored packet; the instructions for reading are included in it.

Have a great summer!