River Valley School District Curriculum Template

Course name:

Advanced Placement English Language and Composition

Credit(s) or Grade Level:

1 Credit

Grade 12

Academic Standards:

College Board Standards for Advanced Placement English Language and Composition

Prerequisite(s):

Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition or Literature and Composition

Course Description

As provided by the College Board:

An AP English Language and Composition course cultivates the reading and writing skills that students need for college success and for intellectually responsible civic engagement. The course guides students in becoming curious, critical, and responsive readers of diverse texts and becoming flexible, reflective writers of texts addressed to diverse audiences for diverse purposes. The reading and writing the students do in the course should deepen and expand their understanding of how written language functions rhetorically: to communicate writers’ intentions and elicit readers’ responses in particular situations.

As provided by the College Board:

Units:

Duration:

Essential Learning/Outcomes:

Rhetorical Situation - Reading

year

Explain how writers’ choices reflect the components of the rhetorical situation.

Rhetorical Situation- Writing

year

Make strategic choices in a text to address a rhetorical situation.

Claims and Evidence - Reading

year

Identify and describe the claims and evidence of an argument.

Claims and Evidence- Writing

year

Analyze and select evidence to develop and refine a claim.

Reasoning and Organization- Reading

year

Describe the reading, organization, and development of an argument.

Reasoning and Organization - Writing

year

Use organization and commentary to illuminate the line of reasoning in an argument.

Style - Reading

year

Explain how writers’ stylistic choices contribute to the purpose of an argument.

Style - Writing

year

Select words and use elements of composition to advance an argument.