AP Language and Composition
"Keep Calm" and Synthesize!
Welcome to AP Language and Composition! This course is intended to prepare students for college level reading, writing, and thinking skills that are applicable to every subject matter, English or not. Students in this class are treated like those who are entering their first year in college and are encouraged to rise to this conception of themselves. In this class, students will work together to explore the plethora of ways in which authors (of both fiction and non-fiction) control the written word. Through close reading, the use of rhetorical analysis, the process of synthesis, and the creation of arguments this course is aimed at increasing audience awareness of the many texts that they are all accosted with every day.
AP Language and Composition Course Syllabus can be found here.
Link to Google Drive acount for the course: Shared Drive Folder.
Link to Google Drive acount for the course: Shared Drive Folder.
Supplementary Course Materials
Helpful Websites:
Helpful Websites:
- The Forest of Rhetoric -- this is an extensive "guide to to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric" designed by Dr. Gideon Burton. It is an amazing and reliable tool that can be consulted at any time.
- More are on the way!
Unit #1: This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff and an Introduction to Close Reading and Rhetoric
Resources:
Resources:
- This Boy's Life -- outline of sections and first writing assignment
- First three pages of This Boy's Life to use for annotation purposes
- Slideshow introduction to Close Reading
- YouTube clip of MLK Jr. presenting his "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- Second YouTube clip of MLK Jr.'s speech -- "How MLK Jr. went of script in I have a dream"
- Copy of "The Chase" by Annie Dillard
Unit #2: Visual Argument and Photography
Resources and materials:
Resources and materials: