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Title: Language & Composition. Cierra Prince, Lauren Snyder & Nikk


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English Language and Composition

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What in the is AP Lang ?
  • world
  • An alternative to English 11
  • A course focused on writing and interpretation
  • A class that welcomes different opinions and
    views (your ideas are never wrongif you can
    support them)
  • Preparation for college-level writing
  • A review and continuation of previous grammar, at
    a higher level

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Goals Objectives of APLANG
  • Help students become skilled readers of a variety
    of written works
  • Provide students with opportunities to
    demonstrate an awareness of audience and purpose
  • Enable students to write effectively and
    confidently in college and personal life
  • Prepare students for the AP exam

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  • Primarily juniors, but it is open to seniors
  • Students who want to challenge themselves with a
    rigorous course curriculum
  • Students looking to improve their persuasion and
    writing skills
  • Students who want to expose themselves to
    different views and opinions

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Weighing the pros cons
  • Very good college preparatory course
  • Not a lot of long-term reading
  • No (well-supported) answer is ever wrong
  • Encourages group discussion and activity
  • Improves SAT Writing and Reading scores
  • Can pass out of first-year college composition
    class
  • Explores the use of language in multiple forms
  • A lot of writing
  • Can require a lot of time for homework/
    assignments
  • Multiple assignments due at one time

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The students perspective
  • AP Lang is definitely a step up from English 10
    but Mrs. Simmons has become one of my favorite
    teachers she made the transition a smooth one. I
    look forward to the class because I know its a
    place where I can share my ideas and opinions.
  • - Elizabeth Garvey
  • AP Lang is just one of those classes where you
    actually talk about what you read and that just
    makes the class all the more interesting and a
    lot of what we do relates to whats going on in
    the world today.
  • -Luke Stuller

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  • Learn how to identify lies and misconceptions
  • Learn to use language to get what you want
  • Truly dissect media
  • If youre REALLY COOL you can write an
    eleven-page paper to your teacher persuading her
    to let you watch your favorite movie in class!

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Weighing the Workload
  • Preparation for the Course
  • Summer Assignment
  • -Reading two books
  • During the Course
  • Average Nights Homework (1 Hour)
  • -On-going reading of fiction and nonfiction
  • -Vocabulary
  • Average Project/Long-term Assignments
  • -Rhetorical Terms and Literary Terms
  • -Game Board Research Project
  • - -Frequent writing assignments, timed writes

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A l k into books
  • Catcher in the Rye
  • Bird by Bird
  • Frankenstein
  • 1984
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • The Great Gatsby
  • A book of choice!

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Some Short Stories Essays
  • Letter from Birmingham Jail
  • Dropping the F-Bomb
  • The Yellow Wallpaper
  • The Female Body
  • Get a Knife, Get a Dog, But Get Rid of Guns
  • I Stand here Ironing

The purpose of examining short stories and essays
is to extract the authors purpose, or argument,
as well as their methods of supporting their
claims.
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The Layout SECTION 1 Multiple Choice - 1 hour -
50-55 Nonfiction Reading-Based Questions 45 of
exam grade SECTION 2 Free Response - 2 hours and
15 minutes - 3 essays to demonstrate rhetorical
and writing skills - 55 of exam grade
  • Generally, over 60 percent of Maryland testers
    passed the AP Lang exam
  • In 2010, 75 percent of BHS AP Lang students
    passed with a score of 3 or higher

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CONCLUSION
  • AP Lang is one of the most fun, yet beneficial,
  • classes you will ever take!
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