AP-Language-and-Composition

=Course Description:= Grade: 12 5 Credits Year Prerequisite: A minimum grade of 83 in English 3 Advanced or a minimum grade of 92 in English 3 Honors and teacher recommendation, and a score of 600 or better on verbal section of the PSAT or SAT. The course in Advanced Placement English 4 is designed to provide academically superior students with the experience of studying a college level course in high school. The students will study and practice writing on a challenging level. Additionally, students will learn how to read works of literature perceptively and how to express their responses to those works on the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Evaluation instruments in the course will also be at the cognitive thinking levels of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. As a graduation requirement students must complete a documented research paper. PLEASE NOTE: The Advanced Placement test for college credit is optional. If the student chooses to take the test he/she will be responsible for the payment of the testing fee.

=Assignment Resources:= Independent Reading/Composition -- December 2008