2. I won’t teach you anything.

3. Teaching and learning begins and ends with you.

5. AP Language and Composition The language of rhetoric Authorial choice Writing well, finding a voice Close reading Rhetorical arrangement Rhetorical strategies Rhetorical fallacies Visual rhetoric Rhetorical grammar Documentation and use of sources Satire and humor Cultural literacy – context Vocabulary Taking tests – ACT, AP and otherwise

9. AP Language Materials: Three-inch binder for handouts, returned work, and regular class stuff One of those bags that hold your pens all together in your binder Four different color highlighters Dry erase marker(s) and clean sock Colored pencils Three hundred index cards Text flags or tiny post-it notes for annotating texts without writing in them Composition book – writing journal Spiral notebook or another composition book for taking notes Due Monday, August 13th – 50 points

10. Grades: Writing, Projects, Tests, Quizzes70% Homework and Classwork 30%

11. AP English Saturday Study Sessions: Saturday, November 3 rd at Shelby County High School – 9am-3pm Saturday, February ? – Mock exam at WHHS, 9am – 1pm Saturday, April ? – Mock exam deconstruction, 9am – 3pm Prizes, Extra Credit, Knowledge

12. AP Language Exam – Friday, May 10th Quality point English 101/104 credit $100 and half the exam fee Actual reading and writing skills So what?

13. Class website http://franklin.kyschools.us/whhs/english/lhill/default.asp x