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AP English Literature and Composition

Course Features:

• Recommended Grade Level: 9-12
• Course Credits: 1
• Course Price: $299.00

Course Overview:

Read and analyze imaginative literature from various periods and disciplines while sharpening your understanding of how a work's style, figurative language, theme, and other literary elements contribute to its meaning and cultural significance. This course fulfills one required English credit for high school graduation.

Note: This course is not designed for ELL (English Language Learners) students. ELL students may enroll in this course ONLY if they have adequate mentor support at their home school and are able to fulfill all course requirements.

Required Materials:

Segment One

Disillusionment:

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• **Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Love and Hate:

• **Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontё

Segment Two

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

More Than One Way:

• **Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Note: All works have merit for the AP English student; texts may have mature subject matter or contain adult language or situations. If this is a concern for you or your family, we recommend researching the novel choice to determine what is appropriate.

Module 01: Disillusionment

• 01.00 Disillusionment: Checklist
• 01.01 Course Overview
• 01.02 The Power of Literature
• 01.03 Perspective and Voice
• 01.04 The Free Response
• 01.05 The American Theater
• 01.06 The Disillusionment of Character
• 01.07 Literature Through the Lenses
• 01.08 Start at the Beginning
• 01.09 Disillusionment: Discussion-Based Assessment
• 01.10 Practice Essay One

Module 02: The Struggle

• 02.00 The Struggle: Checklist
• 02.01 The Struggle is Real
• 02.02 Romanticism and the Ancient Mariner
• 02.03 Multiple Choice: Prose and Poetry
• 02.04 People and Places
• 02.05 Storyteller and Structure
• 02.06 Frankenstein and Rime
• 02.07 Practice Essay Two
• 02.08 Evaluate Evidence
• 02.09 The Struggle: Discussion-Based Assessment
• 02.10 Practice Essay Three

Module 03: Journey

• 03.00 Journey: Checklist
• 03.01 Multiple Choice: Read Stems First
• 03.02 Practice Essay Four
• 03.03 The Nature of Humanity
• 03.04 Symbols, Motifs, and Themes
• 03.05 The Research Paper
• 03.06 Building Your Paper
• 03.07 Developing Commentary
• 03.08 Using MLA Format
• 03.09 Journey: Discussion-Based Assessment
• 03.10 Research Paper Final Draft

Module 04: Love and Hate

• 04.00 Love and Hate: Checklist
• 04.01 Practice Essay Five
• 04.02 Experience the Heights
• 04.03 Not Another Love Poem
• 04.04 The Pieces and Parts of a Poem
• 04.05 Establishing a Line of Reasoning
• 04.06 Multiple Choice: Predict the Answer
• 04.07 Who Could Tell Such a Story?
• 04.08 Ways of Viewing Wuthering Heights
• 04.09 Love and Hate: Discussion-Based Assessment
• 04.10 Segment One Exam

Module 05: Family

• 05.00 Family: Checklist
• 05.01 Multiple Choice: Find the Focus
• 05.02 How Can Grapes Be Wrathful?
• 05.03 Family Influence
• 05.04 Structurally Sound
• 05.05 Practice Essay Six
• 05.06 Analyze, Evaluate, and Apply
• 05.07 Details and Patterns
• 05.08 Through a Child's Eyes
• 05.09 Practice Essay Seven
• 05.10 The Grapes of Wrath: Analysis
• 05.11 Family: Discussion-Based Assessment

Module 06: More Than One Way

• 06.00 More Than One Way: Checklist
• 06.01 Multiple Choice: Eliminate Answer Choices
• 06.02 Queen, Prince, or Groundling?
• 06.03 To Laugh or Not to Laugh
• 06.04 To Be or Not to Be
• 06.05 Evaluate and Implement: Poetry
• 06.06 Practice Essay Eight
• 06.07 Love Song or Not
• 06.08 More Than One Way: Discussion-Based Assessment
• 06.09 Practice Essay Nine

Module 07: Discovery

• 07.00 Discovery: Checklist
• 07.01 Awakening as Discovery
• 07.02 Discovery Through Strategy
• 07.03 Practice Essay Ten
• 07.04 Multiple Choice: Putting It All Together
• 07.05 Natural Discoveries
• 07.06 Discover for Yourself
• 07.07 Crushing Discoveries
• 07.08 Evaluate and Implement: Literary Argument
• 07.09 Discovery: Discussion-Based Assessment
• 07.10 Practice Essay Eleven

Module 08: The Irony

• 08.00 The Irony: Checklist
• 08.01 Multiple Choice: Practice
• 08.02 The Irony of Survival
• 08.03 The Irony of Revenge
• 08.04 The Irony of Appearances
• 08.05 The Irony of Truth
• 08.06 The Irony of Madness
• 08.07 The Irony of the End
• 08.08 Evaluate and Implement: Prose
• 08.09 Practice Essay Twelve
• 08.10 The Irony: Discussion-Based Assessment

Module 09: Review and Exam

• 09.00 Review and Exam: Checklist
• 09.01 Exam Review Part 1
• 09.02 Exam Review Part 2
• 09.03 Exam Review Part 3
• 09.04 Segment Two Exam

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A variation of the argument essay, the synthesis essay, debuted in 2007. For this essay, you're given six or seven passages. Each passage is approximately 200 to 350 words in length; however, one of the passages is likely to be a visual document, such as a picture, an editorial cartoon, a graph or chart, and so on. Because of the increased amount of reading, the test development committee has added 15 minutes to the essay section. You will be instructed to read the passages for this essay first, and then open your test booklet to read the essay questions. In other words, you get 15 additional minutes to do the estra reading that the synthesis essay presents, then, when you open your test book, you still have 2 hours to read the other essay prompts and write all three essays. In the synthesis essay, your task is to present an argument that synthesizes information from at least half of the given sources and explores your position on the issues, using appropriate evidence to back up your ideas. In the second argument essay you have only one source to analyze.

A second essay type gives you just a single passage and ask you to form an argument on the validity of the passage's ideas. This topic is similar to the synthesis essay in that it asks you to present an argument, but it differs by having only one source to read, instead of the multiple passages in the synthesis essay. Therefore, these two essays are classified as "argument" essays. You'll want to support your position with examples and ideas from the passage, and add appropriate evidence from your education and knowledge of the world's events.

The third essay type requires you to analyze the rhetoric of a passage and understand an author's rhetorical purpose. You'll want to discuss both the author's point and what the author intends the reader to do with it. Although style analysis is indeed one component of this rhetorical analysis, this essay requires that you go beyond style alone and explore the author's ideas in greater depth. You'll want to analyze the breadth of rhetorical strategies the author uses.

Ability Tested

This section tests your ability to demonstrate an understanding of how language works while simultaneously demonstrating your ability to communicate intelligent ideas in essay form. You should read the prose passages very carefully and then quickly articulate ideas, because each essay should be written in approximately 40 minutes. Your discussion of such literary aspects as tone, attitude, and persuasion is essential to earning a good score.

Basic Skills Necessary

The basic skill you need for the essay section is the ability to articulate and prove a thesis through concrete examples. You must be able to write on any assigned subject. Your paragraphs should be well developed, your overall essay organization should make sense, and your writing should demonstrate college-level thinking and style. The basic writing format of presenting an introduction, body, and conclusion is helpful, but to achieve a high score, you must demonstrate depth of thought. Overall, you must show that you can read the question (and any subsequent passages) carefully, plan an intelligent thesis, organize and present valid and sufficient evidence while connecting such evidence to the thesis, and demonstrate college-level skill with your own language.

Each essay topic has its own wording and, therefore, its own directions, but general instructions are printed on the cover of the essay booklet. Although each essay topic has its own specific requirements, use these general suggestions for all of your essays:

Use the test booklet to plan your essay. A poorly planned or an unplanned essay frequently reveals problems in organization and development.

Practice frequently so that you're comfortable with the timing.

Become familiar with the types of topics and comfortable with writing in a variety of modes.

Organize your ideas logically, and be careful to stay on the topic.

Write as legibly as possible; the readers want to be able to read your essay.

Remember the following as you practice writing the essay:

Use the standard format with an introduction, body, and conclusion, but do not force a formulaic and overly predictable five-paragraph essay.

Clearly divide ideas into separate paragraphs; clearly indent the paragraphs.

Stay on topic; avoid irrelevant comments or ideas.

Use sophisticated diction and sentences with syntactic variety.

Be organized and logical in your presentation.

Be sure to address all of the tasks the essay question requires.

Which of the following could be a description of how to begin solving the following system of equations using the substitution method?

replace x with 5 y + 8 in equation I and solve for y

Replace x with 5 y + 8 in equation ii and solve for y, replace y with 4 x – 2 in equation ii and solve for x.