Advanced Placement (AP)

Arts
English

AP English Language and Composition

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.

Skills You'll Learn

  • Reading closely, analyzing, and interpreting a piece of writing

  • Evaluating a source of information

  • Gathering and consolidating information from different sources

  • Writing an evidence-based argument

  • Drafting and revising a piece of writing

Equivalency and Prerequisites

College Course Equivalent

An introductory college-level literary analysis course

Recommended Prerequisites

None

AP English Literature and Composition

AP English Literature and Composition is an introductory college-level literary analysis course. Students cultivate their understanding of literature through reading and analyzing texts as they explore concepts like character, setting, structure, perspective, figurative language, and literary analysis in the context of literary works.

Course Content

  • Unit 1: Short Fiction I
  • Unit 2: Poetry I
  • Unit 3: Longer Fiction or Drama I
  • Unit 4: Short Fiction II
  • Unit 5: Poetry II
  • Unit 6: Longer Fiction or Drama II
  • Unit 7: Short Fiction III
  • Unit 8: Poetry III
  • Unit 9: Longer Fiction or Drama III
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