AP Lang/Comp

Fulfills the English requirement for graduation and the UC/CSU English requirement.

This junior level course is designed to train students to become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of historical periods, academic disciplines, and rhetorical contexts. Using American Literature as its focus, the course gives students the practice and helpful criticism necessary to become flexible writers who can compose in a variety of modes for a variety of purposes. All writing assignments (expository, analytical, and argumentative) in the course contribute to making students more mature writers, and these writing assignments allow the student to see the connections between reading and writing prose of many kinds. Upon culmination of course, students will be prepared not only for the AP English Language and Composition exam, but they also will be prepared for the type of reading and writing that is required in courses at the college level.