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Gr 11 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
Gr 11 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
Advanced Placement Language and Composition is designed for motivated students who enjoy studying the complexities of language and mirrors the instruction of an introductory college composition course. Successful AP Language and Composition students will work independently and consistently inside and outside of class, learning to recognize, appreciate, and use the tools of rhetoric. Students will read and write essays, examining and demonstrating the skills needed for rhetorical analysis, argumentation, and synthesis. Students will regularly engage in timed, in-class writing. Readings for the course will be selected from a variety of nonfiction essays and articles and may include titles such as Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue,” Frederick Douglass’s “Learning to Read and Write,” and George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant.” This course will prepare students for the AP Language and Composition exam in the spring.
Essential Skills:
Reading
Students will be able to identify the rhetorical situation in texts written and visual, as well as the rhetorical techniques the creators of those texts employ.
Writing
Students will be able to write timed essays analyzing rhetorical situations.
Students will be able to write timed essays synthesizing resources to make and support a claim.
Students will be able to write timed essays arguing a stance in response to a prompt.
Speaking & Listening
Students will be able to engage in seminar style discussions of rhetorical techniques in texts, and they will practice those techniques in their own speaking.
Students will be able to provide oral feedback to their peers.
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