AP Language Overview

The Test Although we are ultimately getting ready for college, we do have to get ready for the AP Exam, too. Multiple Choice: There will be approximately 55 questions over 5-6 passages. You will have one hour. Free Response Questions (Essays): There will be 3 essays. You will have two hours plus a 15 minute reading period. FRQs include Synthesis, Rhetorical Analysis, and Argument.

Our Year Overarching Question: Thematic Ideas for the Year: Who are we, and where are we going? Thematic Ideas for the Year: Community – Speeches, Ads, Images, Cartoons Nature/Environment – Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Food/Economy – Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Education – I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai Pop Culture/Technology – Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson Justice/Politics – 1984 by George Orwell Summer Novel – Choice: The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, OR Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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