AP English Language and Composition

OVERVIEW

Read and analyze prose written in various periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts while gaining an understanding of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects.

MAJOR CONCEPTS

Early Edition

  • Analyzing Texts
  • Claims and Evidence
  • Introduction to Rhetorical Strategies
  • Critical Reading and Rhetorical Analysis

Revolutionary Edition

  • Historical Context
  • Introduction to Argument
  • Structure as Rhetorical Strategy
  • Supporting and Evaluating the Argument
  • Aphorisms
  • Tone and Argument
  • Crafting Compound and Complex Sentences

Romantic Edition

  • Figurative Language in Argument
  • The Power of Diction
  • Taking a Position
  • Establishing a Line of Reasoning
  • Analyzing Syntax
  • Crafting Periodic and Loose Sentences
  • Developing Commentary

Civil War Edition

  • Reading About Writing
  • Elements of Style
  • Sppech Analysis
  • Analyzing Style
  • Crafting Periodic and Balanced Sentences
  • Reading and Synthesis
  • Nonfiction Book Journal

Realism Edition

  • Understanding and Analyzing Satire
  • Political Cartoons
  • A Modest Proposal
  • That’s So Ironic
  • Irony to Ignite
  • Exploring the Satirical Prompt
  • Crafting Chiasmus and Anaphora

Modern Edition

  • Conversations and Claims
  • Synthesizing the Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
  • Cultivating Commentary Using Sources
  • Crafting Purposeful Structure

Contemporary Edition

  • The Memoir
  • Appeals in Argument
  • Rhetoric in Action
  • Evaluate and Implement
  • Crafting Sentence Variety
  • Memoir Journal

Student Edition

  • Research the Context
  • Analyze the Author’s Choices
  • Argue an Issue
  • Pick a Perspective
  • Create a Connection
  • Interpret Rhetorical Strategies

Fee Details

Progam Advanced Placement
Fee Component  Course Fee
Amount (USD)  $ 608
Description To be paid by the student at the time of Enrollment.

Grade Level

Grade 11, 12

Duration

Annual

Requirements

Students will need to obtain the following texts, either from a library or a bookseller:

Civil War Edition: Choose one of the following:

  • Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
  • On Writing Well by William Zinsser

Contemporary Edition: See the lesson entitled The Memoir for an overview of text choices and choose one of the following:

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
  • A Work in Progress: A Memoir by Connor Franta
  • The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida
  • The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
  • The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
  • I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafza
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  • Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
  • The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Student Edition: See the Checklist lesson for an overview of text choices and choose one of the following:

  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
  • Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
  • The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
  • Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • Warmth of Other Suns by Isabell Wilkerson
  • Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
  • The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

Prerequisites

English 1 and 2; this course is for students in 11th grade or above.

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