Ap In English
English III AP - AP( English Language and Composition
Course Overview
The English III AP (or AP( English Language and Composition) course objectives are to help students become “skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts” and to help students become “skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes” (The College Board, AP( English Course Description, May 2007, May 2008, p. 6). Students are expected to read critically, think analytically, and communicate clearly both in writing and speech, which form the “basis for academic and professional communication.” The purpose of this course is to emphasize “expository, analytical, and argumentative writing” based on selected readings …show more content…
Students will balance generalizations with specific illustrative details. Students will demonstrate an effective use of rhetoric including controlling tone, establishing and maintaining voice, and achieving appropriate emphasis through diction and sentence structure (College Board AP( English Course Description, May 2007, May 2008, p. …show more content…
Student essays include argumentation, classification, personal reflection (narrative), AP( timed writings, and the research paper.
Students receive instruction in the SOAPSTone strategy developed by Tommy Boley and included in the College Board works shop “Pre-AP(: Interdisciplinary Strategies for English and Social Studies” for use in analyzing prose and visual texts. In addition, students study rhetorical strategies and methods from selected chapters in The Bedford Reader (X. J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy, and Jane E. Aaron. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000).
On going classroom activities are mini-lessons in grammar, focus activities on rhetorical strategies, writing tasks for fluency, and vocabulary writing for enrichment. Sources for these activities are the SAT( Vocabulary Hit List, The Official SAT( Study Guide: For the New SAT(, Glencoe Grammar Workbook, and SOAPStone
Course Overview
The English III AP (or AP( English Language and Composition) course objectives are to help students become “skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts” and to help students become “skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes” (The College Board, AP( English Course Description, May 2007, May 2008, p. 6). Students are expected to read critically, think analytically, and communicate clearly both in writing and speech, which form the “basis for academic and professional communication.” The purpose of this course is to emphasize “expository, analytical, and argumentative writing” based on selected readings …show more content…
Students will balance generalizations with specific illustrative details. Students will demonstrate an effective use of rhetoric including controlling tone, establishing and maintaining voice, and achieving appropriate emphasis through diction and sentence structure (College Board AP( English Course Description, May 2007, May 2008, p. …show more content…
Student essays include argumentation, classification, personal reflection (narrative), AP( timed writings, and the research paper.
Students receive instruction in the SOAPSTone strategy developed by Tommy Boley and included in the College Board works shop “Pre-AP(: Interdisciplinary Strategies for English and Social Studies” for use in analyzing prose and visual texts. In addition, students study rhetorical strategies and methods from selected chapters in The Bedford Reader (X. J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy, and Jane E. Aaron. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000).
On going classroom activities are mini-lessons in grammar, focus activities on rhetorical strategies, writing tasks for fluency, and vocabulary writing for enrichment. Sources for these activities are the SAT( Vocabulary Hit List, The Official SAT( Study Guide: For the New SAT(, Glencoe Grammar Workbook, and SOAPStone