Grade II
1 Credit Graduation Requirement

The Advanced Placement course in English Language and Composition engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose and poetry written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. This course emphasizes the expository, analytical and argumentative writing that forms the basis of academic and professional communication as well as personal and reflective writing.

The course is organized around a chronological examination of American literature from its beginnings to the present. In addition, for each class:

1. Summer reading - two novels with a reading journal
2. A minimum of five major works read during the school year
3. Homework - approximately 4-5 hours each week
4. Students' grades are weighted at the end of the each nine weeks' grading period