AP Language and Composition Course

Ms. Tran

AP English Language and Composition

(AP English Language and Composition is an introductory college-level composition course)

Classroom Expectations 

Students are expected to assume responsibility for being: 

1. Respectful to themselves and everyone around them.
2. ON time. 
3. Prepared for each class, completing all reading & writing assignments.
4. Participate and cooperate fully in class activities.
5. NO gum, NO tech. devices unless permitted by the teacher 
6. Digital Citizenship should be followed at all times
7. Follow all school rules.   

Consequences

1. Student/teacher conference 
2. Detention/Parent contact
3. Referral to the office.

*NOTE: Dependent on the severity of the misconduct, consequential actions can and will align with the misdeed.

Course Description:

The AP English Language and Composition course is designed to assist students become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts and to become skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. The course supports students’ developing abilities to negotiate a variety of texts that they are likely to encounter in college. Students will cultivate their understanding of writing and rhetorical arguments through reading, analyzing, and writing texts as they explore topics like rhetorical situation, claims and evidence, reasoning and organization, and style. Students will be prepared to become critical readers, writers and communicators that fosters and facilitates their growth as college and career-bound academics.

Per AP English Language and Composition Course and Exam Description, Effective Fall 2019: 

Issues that might, from particular social, historical, or cultural viewpoints, be considered controversial, including references to ethnicities, nationalities, religions, races, dialects, gender, or class, may be addressed in texts that are appropriate for the AP English Language and Composition course. Fair representation of issues and peoples may occasionally include controversial material. Since AP students have chosen a program that directly involves them in college-level work, participation in this course depends on a level of maturity consistent with the age of high school students who have engaged in thoughtful analyses of a variety of texts. The best response to controversial language or ideas in a text might well be a question about the larger meaning, purpose, or overall effect of the language or idea in context. 

Grades: 

A course grade is given by semester. Grades are earned by authentic assessments in a variety of ways described in the course description.  

Academic dishonesty (any trace of AI, plagiarism, discussing questions/answers from assessments, etc.) will result in disciplinary action (zero on assignment, formal report on record, detention, Saturday school, etc.). 

Note:  Extra credit does not exist. No unexcused late work will be accepted.  

45%:  Essays  (Timed essays and processed)

35%:  Exams and quizzes

20%:  Homework/Classwork and participation

 

A: 90% and above

B: 80% and above

C: 70% and above

D: 60% and above

F: below 60%

Contact and communication: Email: [email protected]