What is AP?

An AP course in Literature and Composition should engage students in careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students should deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students should consider a work’s structure, style, and themes as well as such smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone. Parents can always access their child’s grade via Power School and class information will be found here and on Schoology.com

The most AMAZING thing about AP is the opportunity to earn college credit. 

My promise is that if students do their part, I will do my best to make sure they are on the track towards earning that passing score which guarantees college credit!

Essential Learnings

1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

3. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.

4. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

5. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

6. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

7. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

8. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

9. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings.