High AP English Language and Composition
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Number of Credits
1
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Estimated Completion Time
2 Semesters
Pre Requisites
English 1 and 2
Description
This course provides high school students with college-level instruction in analyzing and writing various texts. The course covers topics in language and rhetoric as well as expository and persuasive writing. Students become skilled readers of prose written in various periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts. The study of texts from both the reader and writer perspectives develops an understanding of the function, effect, and purpose behind the choices writers make, leading students to improve their own composition skills. This course will effectively prepare students for the AP Exam and learning beyond the exam by enabling them to read, analyze, and write about complex texts.
Access the site link below to view the standards from the Florida Department of Education:
Course description: http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewCourse/Preview/3162
Follow the link below for the College Board description of this course:
https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse
Note: This course meets one required English credit for high school graduation.
Segment 1:
- AP Course and Exam Overview
- Claims, Evidence, and Commentary
- Rhetorical Strategies
- Critical Reading
- Rhetorical Analysis
- The Free Response
- Evaluating Student Responses
- Context, Audience, Purpose
- Structure
- Tone
- Argument
- Logical Fallacies
- Syntax
- Diction
- Line of Reasoning
- Evidence and Commentary
- Style Analysis
Segment 2:
- Satire
- Irony
- Political Cartoons
- Style Analysis
- Context and Purpose
- Rhetorical Strategies
- Visual Literacy/Image Analysis
- Synthesis
- Rhetorical Analysis
- Argumentation
- Claims, Evidence, and Commentary
- Line of Reasoning
- Structure
- Style
Students will choose several full-length works from a list of options provided in the course.
Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.***
***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When taking the exam to assess a student’s integrity, the exam must be passed with at least a 59.5% in order to earn credit for the course.
Advanced Placement Policy
Students entering high school grades 9-12 have access to Advanced Placement courses that may result in earning college credit for high school coursework. These courses are used to calculate overall Grade Point Average (GPA) and typically count extra in the calculation. These courses are also available at no charge to Florida public school students, whereas they may have a tuition cost if taken in college. (S. 1003.02, F.S.)
A passing grade in the course will be accepted for high school credit. Postsecondary institutions determine college credit awarded, based on the AP Exam score earned. FLVS strongly encourages students who take AP courses to sit for the course AP Exam in May. Florida students shall be exempt from payment of any fees associated with AP Exam participation, with the exception of late test registration fees incurred by the student.
Courses subject to availability.
Pursuant to s. 1002.20, F.S.; A public school student whose parent makes written request to the school principal shall be exempted from the teaching of reproductive health or any disease, including HIV/AIDS, in accordance with the provisions of s. 1003.42(3). Learn more about the process and which courses contain subject matter where an exemption request can be made.
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