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AP LANGUAGE and COMPOSITION COURSE DESCRIPTION and SYLLABUS Lakeside High School English Department COURSE DESCRIPTION The purpose of this course is to provide competent, motivated students an opportunity to do collegelevel work in high school. The course organization is aligned with the requirements and guidelines of the current AP English Course Description and “engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among writer's purposes, audience expectations, and subjects as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to the effectiveness in writing” (AP English Language and Composition: 20052006 Workshop Materials, 49). LEARNING OBJECTIVES Upon completing the AP Language and Composition course, students should be able to: analyze and interpret samples of good writing, identifying and explaining an author's use of rhetorical strategies and techniques; apply effective strategies and techniques in their own writing; create and sustain arguments based on readings, research, and/or personal experience; demonstrate understanding and mastery of standard written English as well as stylistic maturity in their own writings; write in a variety of genres and contexts, both formal and informal, employing appropriate conventions; produce expository, analytical, and argumentative compositions that introduce a complex central idea and develop it with appropriate evidence drawn from source material, cogent explanations, and clear transitions; demonstrate an understanding of the conventions of citing primary and secondary source material; move effectively through the stages of the writing process with careful attention to inquiry and research, drafting, revising, editing, and review; analyze images as text; and evaluate and incorporate reference documents into research papers (AP English Language and Composition: 20052006 Workshop Materials
- ap language and composition course description and syllabus lakeside high school english department course description the purpose of this course is to provide competent
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