AP Language
COURSE OVERVIEW
AP English Language and Composition is an introductory college-level composition course. Students cultivate their understanding of writing and rhetorical arguments through reading, analyzing, and writing texts as they explore topics like rhetorical situation, claims and evidence, reasoning and organization, and style.
College credit can be attained through passing the AP exam in May.
UNITS OF STUDY
The overarching theme for the course is that of knowledge and its role in providing equity and stability towards the individual, society, and environment. Each thematic unit provides a variety of nonfiction texts to explore each theme and answer key questions as to how knowledge is important to each theme and on the reverse side, how the lack of knowledge creates barriers and conflicts.
Unit 1: Analyzing Rhetoric & Close Reading
Unit 2: Analyzing Argument
Unit 3: Overview - Synthesizing Sources
Unit 4: Building united communities of diverse cultures & faiths
Unit 5: Developing positive identities
Unit 6: Caring for nature and the environment
Unit 7: Providing equal educational opportunities
Unit 8: Distributing wealth equitably
Unit 9: Overcoming oppression and ensuring justice
CLASS BOOKS
Read from the lens of a Muslim.
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Silent Spring by Racheal Carson
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
COLLEGE BOARD LINK
SUMMER READING
This course focuses on nonfiction; therefore, reading nonfiction over the summer can prove very helpful--aim for a variety of topics and themes. Research the content of any book before reading it.
https://www.husd.org/cms/lib/AZ01001450/Centricity/Domain/2891/AP%20Reading%20List.pdf