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AP English Language and Composition

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This 11th or 12th grade course provides high school students with college-level instruction in analyzing and writing various texts.

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This 11th or 12th grade course provides high school students with college-level instruction in analyzing and writing various texts. Students learn about the elements of argument and composition as they develop their critical-reading and writing skills. Students read and analyze nonfiction works from various periods and write essays with different aims: for example, to explain an idea, argue a point, or persuade the reader of something. This course will effectively prepare students for the AP English exam.Notes: (1) Increased cost for course. (2) Requires purchase of a full year. (3) Course is for 11th or 12th grade students.

Prerequisites: English I and II

Customer-Provided Required Physical Materials: (All works have rhetorical merit for the AP English student.)Segment One: Choose one of the following:Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray BradburyOn Writing Well by William ZinsserSegment Two: Choose one of the following:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (Note: This text can be read online.)The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki HigashidaDust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale HurstonThe Story of My Life by Helen Keller (Note: This text can be read online.)Note: The following text deals with mature subject matter or contains adult language or situations. Students are told, “If this is a concern for you or your family, please choose a different text from the list.”A Work in Progress: A Memoir by Connor FrantaThe Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBrideThe Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette WallsI am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala YousafzaI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (Note: This text can be read online.)Segment Two: Choose one of the following:Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie DillardMountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy KidderUp from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington (Note: This text can be read online.)Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootWarmth of Other Suns by Isabell WilkersonBury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown (Note: This text can be read online.)The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James BrownNote: The following deals with mature subject matter or contains adult language or situations. Students are told, “If this is a concern for you or your family, please choose a different text from the list.”Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara EhrenreichThe Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

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