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Course Descriptions:
English IIIAP (Advanced Placement Language and Composition)-
This course engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts throughout the history of American literature from the Puritan period to the present. Students read complex texts with understanding and analyze rhetorical strategies utilized by various authors. The course prepares students for both the Advanced Placement Language and Composition Exam in May and the demands of college courses.
English IVAP (Advanced Placement Literature and Composition)- This course is designed to engage students in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students can deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students should consider a work's structure, style, and themes, as well as such smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone (The College Board). Students use the heroic journey as a point of reference, motif, and literary tool throughout both semesters. We discuss heroes, and the heroic journeys found in each of the works we study (Berridge).
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