1. AP Language
Overview

2. 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.

3. 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

4. Procedures Testing Reading Academic Integrity AP Tutorials Partners
Table Roles
Roles
Partners
Phones
Absent/Late Work
Reading
AP Tutorials
Monday Afternoon
Thursday Morning
Testing
Practice Tests
Reading Inventories
Six Weeks
AP Exam
Attitude/Behavior
Academic Integrity