AP English Literature And Composition Essay
AP English Literature and Composition
“Only connect!....Live in fragments no longer!”
General Course Information
1.0 Credits (.5 per semester)
Prerequisites: Accelerated English is recommended
Course Overview
• This class will prepare students for AP English Literature and Composition Exam, as well as the AP English Language and Composition Exam. When registering for exams in the Spring, students will choose which exam to take.
• This course is set according to the requirements listed in the AP English Course Description.
• The reading in the course will cover a wide variety of genres. You will be introduced to everything from formal literary theory to creative writing. Deep reading, the kind that poses as …show more content…
(SOAPSTone, Dialectical Journal explanation, AP terms list, DIDLS, etc.) Our first reading will be Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” Plato tells us that ideas, not necessarily our experiences, are reality. This argument will encourage us to look deeper into the ideas behind what we are reading and writing. Essays from Didion and Nabokov will give us specific tips on how to begin our journey as accomplished readers and writers. Then, we will switch gears to a short segment on narrative writing where will read 3 excellent examples of narrative in time for us to write our own narrative essay. While studying narrative writing, we will focus on specific examples of excellence in sentence structure, form, organization, and conventions. Finally, we will spend two weeks studying the text Everything’s an Argument, which we will continue to refer to throughout the year. We will learn how to identify successful rhetorical structures and use them in our own writing. During this examination of rhetorical analysis, we will use current New York Times editorials. Our writer’s workshop will for this unit will focus on varying our sentence structure for emphasis and
“Only connect!....Live in fragments no longer!”
General Course Information
1.0 Credits (.5 per semester)
Prerequisites: Accelerated English is recommended
Course Overview
• This class will prepare students for AP English Literature and Composition Exam, as well as the AP English Language and Composition Exam. When registering for exams in the Spring, students will choose which exam to take.
• This course is set according to the requirements listed in the AP English Course Description.
• The reading in the course will cover a wide variety of genres. You will be introduced to everything from formal literary theory to creative writing. Deep reading, the kind that poses as …show more content…
(SOAPSTone, Dialectical Journal explanation, AP terms list, DIDLS, etc.) Our first reading will be Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” Plato tells us that ideas, not necessarily our experiences, are reality. This argument will encourage us to look deeper into the ideas behind what we are reading and writing. Essays from Didion and Nabokov will give us specific tips on how to begin our journey as accomplished readers and writers. Then, we will switch gears to a short segment on narrative writing where will read 3 excellent examples of narrative in time for us to write our own narrative essay. While studying narrative writing, we will focus on specific examples of excellence in sentence structure, form, organization, and conventions. Finally, we will spend two weeks studying the text Everything’s an Argument, which we will continue to refer to throughout the year. We will learn how to identify successful rhetorical structures and use them in our own writing. During this examination of rhetorical analysis, we will use current New York Times editorials. Our writer’s workshop will for this unit will focus on varying our sentence structure for emphasis and