1. AP Language and Comp
MS. PELANCONI

2. Course Description
The AP English Language and Composition course requires students to become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts and skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. At the heart of an AP English Language and Composition course is the reading of various texts. Reading facilitates informed citizenship and thus increases students’ capacity to enter into consequential conversations with others about meaningful issues.

3. What does that mean? What is being said? To whom is it being said?
How is it being said?
Why is it being said?
“To read like writers and write like readers.”

4. Valuable skills Rhetorical analysis – speaker, tone, purpose, audience
Argument – pathos, ethos, logos
Synthesis – multiple source, connectivity

5. Academic Expectations
Reading difficult texts which may need scaffolding, teacher direction
Reading and writing 8 hours a week (inside and outside of class)
Reading and writing at college level
Reading and writing on a regular basis – once a week essay or response
Use readings to convey their own responses – analysis, insight

6. Learning outcomes
Read from a variety of historical periods and disciplines
Identify audience, purpose, and strategies in texts
Analyze the types of arguments that writers use
Write formally and informally for a variety of audiences
Write expository, analytical, and argumentative essays
Understand their own writing process and the importance of revision
Recognize techniques in visual as well as verbal arguments
Synthesize ideas and information from various sources
Know how to interpret information presented in notes and citations
Use the conventions of standard written English

7. Required writings Narrative Descriptive Argument Definition
Rhetorical Analysis
Analysis
Compare/Contrast
Cause/Effect
Synthesis - required on the test

8. Required readings The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Macbeth/Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
George Orwell
Beowulf

9. The Test Part 1 - Multiple Choice
about 4-5 passages, 55 questions in 60 minutes. It’s about 45% of the score.
Part 2 - Free Response
15 minute reading period, then 120 minutes to write 3 essays. It is 55% of the score.

10. 2014 Scores %
4 - 18% % % %

11. Your teacher...

12. My Life - The Pug Life

13. Bluffer

14. Work - I like it.