AP English Language and Composition

AP English Language and Composition course cultivates the reading and writing skills that students need for college success and for intellectually responsible civic engagement. The course guides students in becoming curious, critical, and responsive readers of diverse texts and becoming flexible, reflective writers of texts addressed to diverse audiences for diverse purposes. The reading and writing students do in the course should deepen and expand their understanding of how written language functions rhetorically: to communicate writers' intentions and elicit readers' responses in particular situations. This course includes nonfiction readings to give students opportunities to identify, explain, and emulate an author's use of rhetorical strategies and techniques. Fiction and poetry may also be assigned to help students understand how various effects are achieved by writers' rhetorical choices. This course satisfies all the objectives for English 11. In May, the students take an exam to qualify for advanced standing in college and/or college credit.