English Language & Composition, AP

The Advanced Placement English Language and Composition course is designed to help students become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of American periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and to become skilled writers who can compose for a variety of purposes. Students will become aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes and rhetorical choices, audience expectations, and subjects, as well as the way literary conventions and the resources of language contribute to effective writing. Class assessments will prepare students for the College Board's two-part culminating exam, which consists of multiple choice and free response essays.