AP English 11 Language A

Course Overview:

An AP course in English Language and Composition engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts, and in becoming 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, as well as the way genre conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing.

Upon completing the AP English Language and Composition course, students should be able to: analyze and interpret samples of good writing; be able to identify and explain an author’s use of rhetorical strategies and techniques; apply effective strategies and techniques in their own writing; create and sustain arguments based on readings, research and/or personal experience; write for a variety of purposes; 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; demonstrate understanding and mastery of standard written English as well as stylistic maturity in their own writings; demonstrate understanding of the conventions of citing primary and secondary sources; move effectively through the stages of the writing process, with careful attention to inquiry and research, drafting, revising, editing and review; write thoughtfully about their own process of composition; revise a work to make it suitable for a different audience; analyze image as text; and evaluate and incorporate reference documents into researched papers

Using this website:

You can navigate to unit sub-pages from this main page or by clicking the triangle next to the page name on the navigation bar on the left. Each sub-page provides information relevant to the unit with links to curricular material and other extras. In addition to this, the course page provides a course-specific calendar and other important links. Helpful links:

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Course Sub-pages:  

Document Sharing 

Unit 1: Critical Reading and Summary Writing 

Unit 2: Immigration Stories 

Unit 3: James McBride, The Color of Water 

Unit 4: Writing a Memoir 

Unit 5: Language and Identity 

Unit 6: Understanding Rhetoric Part 1 

Unit 7: Understanding Rhetoric Part 2 

Unit 8: Revision and Rewriting

Course Calendar:

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