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PDLA AP English Language and 2122 11-12 2 1 Composition
This college-level course prepares students for the AP English Language and Composition Exam while exploring and analyzing a variety of rhetorical contexts. This is a fast-paced, upper level course designed for highly motivated students. Multiple opportunities are provided to enhance test-taking skills through critical reading, writing, classroom assignments, and discussion activities. AP English Language and Composition practice assessments and essays will be given throughout the course as well. This course provides students an opportunity to increase knowledge concerning prose of many styles and genres, including essays, journalistic writing, political writing, science writing, nature writing, autobiographies/biographies, diaries, speeches, history writing, and critical writing. Throughout the course, there is an intense focus on writing and revising expository, analytical, and argumentative essays to prepare students for a broad range of writing purposes.
AP English Literature and 132 11-12 2 1 Composition
This course is designed for student who have demonstrated a high aptitude and proficiency in the language arts and are interested in earning AP credit and/or College in High School through taking the English Literature and Composition Exam and completing the course with a B or higher. Students have an opportunity to study a wide variety of traditional and contemporary works, including novels, plays, poetry and short stories, with emphasis on critical thinking, discussion and analytical writing skills. In order to receive weighted grading credit for the class, students must earn a B or better in the class (click ​here​ for AP policy).
NOTE: ​Each AP course is equivalent to​ one Literature and one Writing course
REQUIRED SUMMER READING: ​Tess of the D’Urbervilles​ by Hardy and ​How to Read Literature Like a Professor b​ y Thomas C. Foster. ​College credit (3 cr) is available for this course through Seton Hill University. Click h​ ere​ for more information on College in High School.
PREREQUISITE: Student must have all of the following:
● A final grade of B or higher in English 10 Honors; A in English 10; B or higher in AP Language and Composition.
● Composite score of Proficient or Advanced on the Keystone Literature Exam. Or
● Teacher recommendation.
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PDLA AP English Literature and 2123 11-12 2 1 Composition
English Literature and Composition is designed to be a college/ university-level course. This course equips students to critically analyze all forms of literature in order to comment insightfully about an author’s or genre’s use of style or literary device. Students will also interpret meaning based on form; examine the trademark characteristics of literary genres and periods; and critique literary works through expository, analytical, and argumentative essays. As students consider styles and devices, they will apply them to their creative writing. In addition to exposing students to college-level English course work, this course prepares them for the AP English Literature and Composition Exam.
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