Advanced Placement Language and Composition
Introduction to Course
Welcome to A.P. Lang with Mrs. Whetstone! An AP course in English Language and Composition engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions between a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing.
This course often allows students to write in a variety of forms – narrative, exploratory, expository, argumentative – and on a variety of subjects from personal experiences to public policies, from imaginative literature to popular culture. We will focus on the expository, analytical, and argumentative writing that forms the basis of academic and professional communications as well as the personal and reflective writing that fosters the development of writing facility in any context.
An overall goal of this course is to prepare the student for the National A.P. Language exam that takes place in the spring. Doing well on this exam could allow the student to earn college credit in an English course. This not only saves a lot of time, but also a lot of money as the student will not be paying for those college credits (a pretty strong incentive!). For more information regarding the National A.P. Exam, visit the College Board website by clicking on the button to the below.
This course often allows students to write in a variety of forms – narrative, exploratory, expository, argumentative – and on a variety of subjects from personal experiences to public policies, from imaginative literature to popular culture. We will focus on the expository, analytical, and argumentative writing that forms the basis of academic and professional communications as well as the personal and reflective writing that fosters the development of writing facility in any context.
An overall goal of this course is to prepare the student for the National A.P. Language exam that takes place in the spring. Doing well on this exam could allow the student to earn college credit in an English course. This not only saves a lot of time, but also a lot of money as the student will not be paying for those college credits (a pretty strong incentive!). For more information regarding the National A.P. Exam, visit the College Board website by clicking on the button to the below.