advanced placement english information for sophomores which course is for me?
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Advanced Placement EnglishInformation for Sophomores
Which course is for me?
Which Do I Choose?English 11 Honors AP Language & Composition
GPA: 0.5 bump GPA: 1.0 bump
Credit: HS credit only (no opportunity for college credit)
Credit: opportunity for college credit or courses exemption
Focus:• American Literature• Argumentative writing• Some prep for SOL• Read and write frequently• Some independent learning
Focus:• Nonfiction• Argumentative & analysis writing• Develop writing & critical
thinking skills• Read and write frequently• Independent learning
Rigor: • Honors Common Assessment • English 11 Writing SOL• English 11 Reading SOL
Rigor:• College-level syllabus• AP exam-style assessments• English 11 Writing SOL• English 11 Reading SOL
Cost: none Cost: $86 per AP exam
Other ConsiderationsEnglish 11 Honors AP Language & Composition
• demonstrate strong performance for “A” grade
• balance extra-curricular with Honors course load
• absences somewhat impact content retention
• demonstrate superior performance for “A” grade
• balance extra-curricular with AP course load
• absences impact content retention
What about my long term plan?
Long Term Planning: AP Track
AP Literature & Composition AP Language & Composition
Skills:• careful reading and critical
analysis of imaginative literature• close reading of selected texts• explore how writers use language
to provide both meaning & pleasure for their readers
• consider a work's structure, style, and themes
Skills:• examine writer's purposes and
subjects• consider audience expectations• explore how generic conventions
and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing
• analyze the integration of multiple texts
• examine current events and historical impacts
Focus:• Fiction• Analytical writing
Focus:• Nonfiction• Rhetoric
Equivalent: College Introductory Literature Course
Equivalent: College Introductory Composition Course
Long Term Planning: AP Track
AP Literature & Composition AP Language & Composition
Read 1 novel each month outside of class Read 2 novels and 1 novella
Many short stories and poems read in class and outside of class
Many nonfiction articles (magazine articles from Time, Newsweek, Esquire, Shape,
Men’s Health, New Yorker, etc.) with emphasis on nonfiction analysis
Extensive practice in test-taking and writing
Analyze and interpret samples of good writing, identifying and explaining an
author’s use of rhetorical strategies and techniques
At least 5 major essays per semester At least 8 major essays per semester
Many quizzes and projects Many quizzes and projects
College-level expectations (literature selection, independent work, analysis and
work product)
College-level expectations (article selection, independent work, analysis and
work product)
Nightly homework in addition to the novels Textbook readings nightly
Develop a wide-ranging vocabulary to appropriately and effectively write prose
Develop a wide-ranging vocabulary to appropriately and effectively write prose
Long Term Planning: AP Track
AP Literature & Composition AP Language & Composition
Reading Sample:
• Othello (William Shakespare)• Atonement (Ian McEwan)• Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen)• Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)• Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)• Life of Pi (Yann Martel)• A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)• Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)• The Stranger (Albert Camus)• Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
(Tom Stoppard)• Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)• Billy Budd (Herman Melville)• Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Reading Sample:
• “No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch” (Ann Hodgman)
• “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat” (Winston Churchill)
• “Learning to Read” (Malcolm X)• “Barbie Doll” (Marge Piercy)• “Being A Man” (Paul Theroux)• “High School Confidential: Notes on
Teen Movies” (David Denby)• “The Death of the Moth” (Virginia
Woolf)• “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain”
(Jessica Mitford)• Into the Wild (John Krakauer)• Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)• In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)