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Advanced Placement English Language and Composition is essentially a course in critical reading and effective writing.  Students will grow more proficient in reading, understanding, and discussing literary texts written in a variety of periods and styles, with particular attention to nonfiction.  Students will also become increasingly skillful in writing three types of papers: an essay of close textual analysis, which will determine a given selection's purpose and use of rhetorical devices; an open-ended argument, which will support, challenge, or qualify a given assertion; and a documented essay, which will synthesize and identify outside sources used to strengthen one's own case. 

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Richard Lederer begins his book The Miracle of Language with this claim:  "It is only through the gift of language that the child acquires reason, the complexity of thought that sets him or her apart from the other creatures who share this planet.  The birth of language is the dawn of humanity; in our beginning was the word."  This gift of language in its many forms is the heart and soul of this course.

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Welcome to your POST-AP-TEST  Edgate page.  It contains most of what you need to know for the remainder of the school year.

                 

Vocabulary

 

"The Top 66 Words on College Admissions Tests":  The listed words are defined.  Your assignment is to (1) find and copy a "professional" sentence with each word and then (2) write an original sentence with it.  Assignments and quizzes will be announced in class.  You will have a test (or double-quiz) on words 34 - 66 at the end of the unit.

 

 

Catch-22 Essay due 5/27.  Possible topics:

 

 

*Various Manifestations of Catch-22 in Catch-22 

*Catch-22:  The Nightmare of Bureaucracy

*Milo, the Material Man

*Major Major: Truth through Absurdity

*Catch-22:  Characters in Isolation

*Yossarian:  Hero or Antihero

*The Chaplain:  A Hero in the Making

*Orr as a Pivotal Character

*Heller's Use of Name in Catch-22

*Catch-22:  A Novel of Atheism or Belief

*Disconnectedness as a Theme in Catch-22

*Catch-22 and Hypocrisy

*Catch-22 and the Treatment of Women 

 

An Enemy of the People

Bring with you to class everyday Arthur Miller's adaptation of Ibsen's play. We will enact the text and discuss the play in class. 

 

The College Essay

This autobiographical essay, due the last day of class, has the value of a test.  It may be submitted sooner, even in installments, for suggestions and early revision.  We will  look at samples written by former students.  We will also look at the range of topics listed on the common application:  significant experiences, achievements, risks, ethical dilemmas; important personal,  local, national, or international issues; influential people, even  a fictional or historical figure; art, music, or literature that has influenced you; perhaps some unique personal narrative.

 

Subject & Strategy

 

Read these short essays:  Robert Ramirez's "The Barrio" (150), Mitch Albom's "If You Had One Day with Someone Who's Gone" (186), and Suzanne Britt's "Neat People Vs. Sloppy People" (318).  Of the three, identify your favorite or the one to which you can most relate; write a paragraph (quiz value) explaining why, making specific references to the text, of course.   We will take part of a class to discuss these responses.  Perhaps they will indirectly inform a topic for the college essay.

 

That's It!

 

And so your junior year comes to an end.  Thanks for making it--and keeping it until the last day--a happy and productive one.  Have a great summer!


 

 

 

 


 

 

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