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Advanced Placement English Language and Composition
Alisha Vasché
avasche@sjcoe.net
Course Overview
This college-level course is designed to meet the requirements of the College Board and its AP Language and Composition description, which states “the AP English Language and Composition course is designed to help students become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts and to become 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 in writing” (AP College Board)
This Course is the equivalent to an undergraduate English course at a university. Upon its successful completion and passage of the AP exam, students may qualify for college credit.
In order to be successful in AP Language, students should be prepared to dedicate approximately 1-2 hours outside of the classroom for every hour in the classroom towards work and readings for AP Language. Students will be required to attend 2 Ripon High School Board Meeting a semester (at least spending 1 1/2 hours each time) in order to write a report in regards to the arguments presented at those meetings. These meetings occur on the 2nd Wednesday of every month from 7pm until they have discussed all items on the agenda. The board meeting are held at the Ripon City Hall Building. Feel free to attend the August meeting, which actually occurs two days before school starts. I will have the requirements for the Board Meeting Assignment on my webpage prior to the first meeting in August. Also, I will require my students to perform 5 hours of Community Service each semester in order to gain new and interesting real world experiences that they may be able to write about on the AP Exam.
Plagiarism: The school’s plagiarism policy will be applied to any plagiarism for the summer assignment. You will not receive credit for plagiarism because you did not do the work. Furthermore, you may not make up the assignment. You may not use materials from another student. Do not work collaboratively on this assignment (Collaboration has its place; however, we are working to prepare you for the AP Exam where no collaboration is allowed).