AP Language and Comp MS. PELANCONI

Course Description The AP English Language and Composition course requires students to become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts and skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. At the heart of an AP English Language and Composition course is the reading of various texts. Reading facilitates informed citizenship and thus increases students’ capacity to enter into consequential conversations with others about meaningful issues.

What does that mean? What is being said? To whom is it being said? How is it being said? Why is it being said? “To read like writers and write like readers.”

Valuable skills Rhetorical analysis – speaker, tone, purpose, audience Argument – pathos, ethos, logos Synthesis – multiple source, connectivity

Academic Expectations Reading difficult texts which may need scaffolding, teacher direction Reading and writing 8 hours a week (inside and outside of class) Reading and writing at college level Reading and writing on a regular basis – once a week essay or response Use readings to convey their own responses – analysis, insight

Learning outcomes Read from a variety of historical periods and disciplines Identify audience, purpose, and strategies in texts Analyze the types of arguments that writers use Write formally and informally for a variety of audiences Write expository, analytical, and argumentative essays Understand their own writing process and the importance of revision Recognize techniques in visual as well as verbal arguments Synthesize ideas and information from various sources Know how to interpret information presented in notes and citations Use the conventions of standard written English

Required writings Narrative Descriptive Argument Definition Rhetorical Analysis Analysis Compare/Contrast Cause/Effect Synthesis - required on the test

Required readings The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Crucible - Arthur Miller Macbeth/Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare 1984 - George Orwell Beowulf

The Test Part 1 - Multiple Choice about 4-5 passages, 55 questions in 60 minutes. It’s about 45% of the score. Part 2 - Free Response 15 minute reading period, then 120 minutes to write 3 essays. It is 55% of the score.

2014 Scores 5 - 9.5% 4 - 18% 3 - 28.5% 2 - 30.1% 1 - 13.9%

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