Course Introduction

AP English Language and Composition is an introductory college-level composition course. Students 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.

Course Focus

The AP English Language and Composition course focuses on the development and revision of evidence-based analytic and argumentative writing, the rhetorical analysis of nonfiction texts, and the decisions writers make as they compose and revise. Students evaluate, synthesize, and cite research to support their arguments. Additionally, they read and analyze rhetorical elements and their effects in nonfiction texts—including images as forms of text—from a range of disciplines and historical periods.

AP English Language and Composition

$1,100.00

20节课 $55/1hr

Course Content

The course skills are organized within nine units that scaffold student development of the analysis and composition skills required for college credit. For each unit, the teacher selects a theme or topic and then chooses texts, typically short nonfiction pieces, that enable students to practice and develop the reading and writing skills for that unit. This course framework provides a description of what students should know and be able to do to qualify for college credit or placement. As always, you have the flexibility to organize the course content as you like.

Unit 1

You’ll learn to identify and analyze the claims in a text and determine whether the writer backs up their assertions with reasoning and evidence.

Unit 2

You’ll learn about how writers organize information and evidence to support a specific argument and appeal to a particular audience.

Unit 3

You’ll explore the range of perspectives around a topic and how various arguments can relate and respond to one another.

Unit 4

You’ll examine how a writer makes choices about methods of developing arguments, introductions, and conclusions.

Unit 5

You’ll focus on the very specific and minute choices a writer makes to bring all the parts of an argument together.

Unit 6

You’ll work to understand the difference between position and perspective, how to consider bias, and how to integrate and address multiple perspectives in an argument.

Unit 7

You’ll consider the breadth and complexity of arguments around a topic and what makes each successful or unsuccessful.

Unit 8

You’ll explore the stylistic choices a writer can make and how those choices affect an argument.

Unit 9

You’ll consider a wide range of perspectives as you develop a complex argument.

各单元课时安排由老师依据考试比重及重难点给出相应Syllabus

AP English Language and Composition

Grade: G9-12