AP English Language and Composition

Required Materials:

You will need the following items to complete this course:

• Disk space on your computer, as well as an external device to back up your files (flash drive, external hard drive, CD-Rom, etc.)
• Word processing and presentation software
• It is recommended that students purchase a test preparation book to work on independently. Speak to your instructor about which test prep book might be most appropriate.
• Students will need to obtain the following texts, either from a library or a bookseller:

Segment One:

• Civil War Edition: Choose one of the following:
• Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser

Segment Two:

Contemporary Edition: See the lesson entitled The Memoir for an overview of text choices and choose one of the following:

• **Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
• *A Work in Progress: A Memoir by Connor Franta
• The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida
• *The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
• *The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
• *I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafza
• *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
• ***Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
• **The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Student Edition: See the Checklist lesson for an overview of text choices and choose one of the following:

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
• *Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
• *The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
• **Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Warmth of Other Suns by Isabell Wilkerson
• Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

* All works have rhetorical merit for the AP English student; texts marked with asterisks deal with mature subject matter or contain adult language or situations. If this is a concern for you or your family, please choose a different text from the list.

** This text can be read online.

Syllabus:

Segment 1:

Early Edition

• 01.00 Early Edition: Checklist
• 01.01 AP English Language and Composition Overview
• 01.02 Analyzing Texts
• 01.03 Claims and Evidence
• 01.04 Introduction to Rhetorical Strategies
• 01.05 Critical Reading and Rhetorical Analysis
• 01.06 The Free Response
• 01.07 Evaluating Student Responses
• 01.08 Early Edition: Discussion-Based Assessment

Revolutionary Edition

• 02.00 Revolutionary Edition: Checklist
• 02.01 Historical Context: Writers React
• 02.02 Introduction to Argument
• 02.03 Structure as Rhetorical Strategy
• 02.04 Supporting the Argument
• 02.05 Evaluating Arguments
• 02.06 Aphorisms
• 02.07 Tone and Argument
• 02.08 AP Practice Essay One
• 02.09 Crafting Compound and Complex Sentences
• 02.10 Revolutionary Edition: Discussion-Based Assessment
• 02.11 AP Practice Essay Two

Romantic Edition

• 03.00 Romantic Edition: Checklist
• 03.01 Multiple Choice: Reader and Writer
• 03.02 Figurative Language in Argument
• 03.03 The Power of Diction
• 03.04 Taking a Position
• 03.05 Establishing a Line of Reasoning
• 03.06 Analyzing Syntax
• 03.07 AP Practice Essay Three
• 03.08 Crafting Periodic and Loose Sentences
• 03.09 Developing Commentary
• 03.10 Romantic Edition: Discussion-Based Assessment

Civil War Edition

• 04.00 Civil War Edition: Checklist
• 04.01 Multiple Choice: Read Stems First
• 04.02 Reading About Writing
• 04.03 Elements of Style
• 04.04 AP Practice Essay Four
• 04.05 Speech Analysis
• 04.06 Multiple Choice: Predict the Answer
• 04.07 Analyzing Style
• 04.08 Civil War Edition: Discussion-Based Assessment
• 04.09 Crafting Periodic and Balanced Sentences
• 04.10 AP Practice Essay Five
• 04.11 Reading and Synthesis
• 04.12 Nonfiction Book Journal
• 04.13 Segment One Exam

Segment 2:

Realism Edition

• 05.00 Realism Edition: Checklist
• 05.01 Understanding Satire
• 05.02 Political Cartoons
• 05.03 "A Modest Proposal"
• 05.04 That's So Ironic
• 05.05 Irony to Ignite
• 05.06 Analyzing Satire
• 05.07 Exploring the Satirical Prompt
• 05.08 Multiple Choice: Find the Focus
• 05.09 AP Practice Essay Six
• 05.10 Crafting Chiasmus and Anaphora
• 05.11 AP Practice Essay Seven
• 05.12 Realism Edition: Discussion-Based Assessment

Modern Edition

• 06.00 Modern Edition: Checklist
• 06.01 Multiple Choice: Eliminate Answer Choices
• 06.02 Meet the Synthesis Essay
• 06.03 Conversations and Claims
• 06.04 Synthesizing the Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
• 06.05 Cultivating Commentary Using Sources
• 06.06 An Image is Worth 1,000 Words
• 06.07 Evaluating Student Responses
• 06.08 Planning a Response
• 06.09 Modern Edition: Discussion-Based Assessment
• 06.10 Crafting Purposeful Structure
• 06.11 AP Practice Essay Eight

Contemporary Edition

• 07.00 Contemporary Edition: Checklist
• 07.01 Multiple Choice: Putting It All Together
• 07.02 The Memoir
• 07.03 Appeals in Argument
• 07.04 AP Practice Essay Nine
• 07.05 Rhetoric in Action
• 07.06 AP Practice Essay Ten
• 07.07 Evaluate and Implement
• 07.08 AP Practice Essay Eleven
• 07.09 Crafting Sentence Variety
• 07.10 Memoir Journal
• 07.11 Contemporary Edition: Discussion-Based Assessment

Student Edition

• 08.00 Student Edition: Checklist
• 08.01 Research the Context
• 08.02 Analyze the Author's Choices
• 08.03 Argue an Issue
• 08.04 Pick a Perspective
• 08.05 Create a Connection
• 08.06 Interpret Rhetorical Strategies
• 08.07 Student Edition: Discussion-Based Assessment
• 08.08 Segment Two Exam