Advanced Placement English Courses By close of Advanced Placement Language and Composition the student will achieve all benchmarks listed previously and in addition: *The teacher has read the most recent AP English Course Description. Reading ➢ Read a wide variety of prose styles from many disciplines and historical periods applying interpretive skill to reading and writing. ➢ Analyze how diction affects a writer’s style. ➢ Evaluate connections between ideas at differing levels of specificity, including the adequacy of evidence. ➢ Analyze major devices that control tone and structure and their relation to rhetorical purpose. ➢ Discern and articulate in appropriate vocabulary how stylistic devices result in voice. ➢ Recognize and be conversant with a wide variety of writers who represent ethnic, religious , gender, and age diversity. ➢ Place a reading in historical context for works whose complexity, length, level of abstraction, vocabulary and context are at college level. ➢ Apply known conventions of genres and time periods to identify authors, time periods, and assumptions authors have made about their audiences. ➢ Apply reading strategies to learn from literature and informational texts to evaluate theme against personal beliefs and biblical principles. ➢ Compare personal response to critical evaluation of texts. ➢ Access texts, research, primary and secondary sources, and media via online and digital technology, cite properly using a style manual and MLA citation style and incorporate passages and synthesizing one's own ideas with the presented arguments in various ways integrated with personal evaluation. Writing ➢ Write in informal as well as formal contexts to gain authority and learn to take risks in writing. ➢ Demonstrate in writing, discussion, and oral presentation an understanding of the defining features of a wide variety of literary genres. ➢ Achieve stylistic maturity in prose, marked by the following: wide-ranging vocabulary used appropriately and effectively; varying sentence structures, including appropriate use of subordination and coordination; logical organization, enhanced by specific techniques to increase coherence, such as repetition, transitions, and emphasis; balanced generalization and specific illustrative detail; effective use of rhetoric by controlling tone, maintaining voice, achieving emphasis through diction and syntax. ➢ Create and sustain arguments based on readings, research, and personal experience. ➢ Move effectively through the writing process using inquiry, research, drafting, revising, edit ing, and review to produce a final, polished product. ➢ Develop clear, focused responses to writing prompts both within time constraints and outside the classroom. ➢ Produce a written piece with few or no significant errors in grammatical, mechanical, and usage conventions of Standard Edited American English in timed writing settings and for out of class assignments.
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