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AP English Language & Composition – 217016 English 12 CP – 210810
10 Credits Grade(s) 11 10 Credits Grade(s) 12
1 Year Course 1 Year Course
UC Requirement b UC Requirement b
CSU Requirement English CSU Requirement English
School Site(s) BCHS, LHS, THS, MHS School Site(s) BCHS, MCHS, THS, LHS,
Description: This AP course in English language and MHS
composition engages students in becoming skilled Description: Students study representative works of
readers of prose written in a variety of periods, world literature to broaden their global and cultural
disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and in becoming perspectives. This course prepares students for college
skilled writers who compose for a variety of forms - level reading and writing. It is a literature-based
narrative, exploratory, expository, argumentative—and course which will emphasize higher order thinking
on a variety of subjects from personal experience to skills, intensive narrative, expository and analytical
writing. This English curriculum is based on the
public policy, from imaginative literature to popular California Common Core Standards for English-
culture. The course requires expository, analytical, and Language Arts
argumentative writing assignments. As in the college
course for which the AP Language and Composition English 12 Support Class – 216830 – students must be
course substitutes, its purpose is to enable students to enrolled in English 12
read complex texts with understanding and to write 10 Credits Grade(s) 12
prose of sufficient richness and complexity to 1 Year Course
communicate effectively with readers. Students are School Site(s) IHS
strongly encouraged to take the AP exam. Summer Description: This course is designed to support the
reading and accompanying assignments are required. English learner in successful completion of English 12.
Students are provided with specific instruction in
CSU Expository Reading & Writing – 217410 vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension skills,
10 Credits Grade(s) 12 and writing. The emphasis is previewing the
1 Year Course instruction in English 12 class so students can
UC Requirement b successfully complete the requirements of the class.
CSU Requirement English
School Site(s) LHS, BCHS, MHS AP English Literature & Composition – 217116
10 Credits Grade(s) 12
The goal of the Expository Reading and Writing Course 1 Year Course
is to prepare college-bound seniors for the literacy UC Requirement b
demands of higher education. Through a sequence of CSU Requirement English
fourteen rigorous instructional modules, students in School Site(s) BCHS, LHS, THS, MHS
this yearlong, rhetoric-based course develop advanced Description: This course is designed to prepare college
proficiency in expository, analytical and argumentative bound seniors for English Literature 12, AP test. The
reading and writing. class will be based on the study of literature with
extensive assignments in critical reading, preparing
English 12 – 210800 them for college-level critical reading and literary
10 Credits Grade(s) 12 analysis. Students write intensively, primarily critical,
1 Year Course analytical essays related to the literature they are
School Site(s) BCHS, MHS, MCHS, studying. They write frequently in class, sharpening
THS, LHS, IHS their abilities to respond to the kinds of essay questions
Description: Students study representative works of they will face on the AP exam and as college students in
world literature to broaden their global and cultural timed writing situations. Note: This course is designed
perspectives. This course prepares students for college for the highly motivated student who is responsible
level reading and writing. It is a literature-based enough to handle rigorous reading and writing
course which will emphasize higher order thinking assignments on a daily basis, and to complete summer
skills, intensive narrative, expository and analytical reading and/or between sessions reading as well.
writing. This English curriculum is based on the Students are strongly encouraged to take the AP exam.
California Common Core Standards for English- Summer reading and accompanying assignments are
Language Arts. This course meets the District required. Recommended pathway: complete honors
graduation requirements, but not the UC/CSU a-g process.
entrance requirements.

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