AP Language and Composition

The AP English Language and Composition course focuses on the development and revision of evidence-based analytic and argumentative writing, the rhetorical analysis of nonfiction texts, and the decisions writers make as they compose and revise. Students evaluate, synthesize, and cite research to support their arguments. Additionally, they read and analyze rhetorical elements and their effects in nonfiction texts—including images as forms of text— from a range of disciplines and historical periods.

FIRST SEMESTER

Diagnostic Assessment: AP Language exam

Summer Assignment

Introduction to AP Language:    Includes focus on nonfiction, essay writing, argument analysis, synthesizing sources and close readings.

Grammar Refresher

Argument Essay

Synthesis Essay

Analysis Essay

Socratic Seminar

Practice exams

Winter Assignment TBD

SECOND SEMESTER

Focus on argument, analysis, synthesizing sources and practicing the exam

Fishbowl & Dialectical Journal

Spring Break Assignment TBD

Novel Assignment

AP Language Exam: May

Novel and/or Commercial Project

Year Long Assignments

Journal Responses, Timed-Writes & Timed-Write Workshops, Novels (still to be announced but likely The Great Gatsby, and possibly Catcher in the Rye, The Crucible, The Scarlett Letter)