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English

AP English Language and AP English Language and
Composition Composition Self-Paced

Grade 11-12 Grade 11-12
Course Number 159 Course Number SP159
Full Year Course - 1 credit Full Year Course - 1 credit
Prerequisite: Recommendation Prerequisite: Recommendation
Estimated Fee: AP test registration Estimated Fee: AP test registration
Recommended For: College Bound Recommended For: College Bound
Career: CORE Career: CORE

With recommendations from and the approval With recommendations from and the approval
of the College Board, the Advanced Placement of the College Board, the Advanced Placement
English Language and Composition course English Language and Composition course
work models a college composition class. work models a college composition class.

The curriculum concentrates on The curriculum concentrates on
argumentation: how to analyze the rhetoric argumentation: how to analyze the rhetoric
employed by writers and speakers, how to employed by writers and speakers, how to
construct successful arguments which construct successful arguments which
synthesize accredited sources, and how to synthesize accredited sources, and how to
compose successful arguments that draw on compose successful arguments that draw on
personal knowledge and experiences. personal knowledge and experiences.
Promoting an awareness of current events and Promoting an awareness of current events and
history, particularly American history, the history, particularly American history, the
coursework places a greater emphasis on non- coursework places a greater emphasis on non-
fiction than fiction and analyzes fiction for fiction than fiction and analyzes fiction for
arguments made by the author. Students arguments made by the author. Students
enrolled in this course are required to take the enrolled in this course are required to take the
A.P. exam in May. A.P. exam in May.

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