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 **Welcome to AP English!** media type="custom" key="6772287" align="center"
 * Course Overview and Expectations **

// “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. // // Working together is success.” // -Henry Ford

Miss Alison A. Cox, M.Ed. acox@bedford.k12.oh.us 440-786-3531  ** Overview **  ** ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH - ** ** LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND COMPOSITION (080) ** ** 1 Credit Weighted ** **Prerequisite: Successful completion of Honors English III.** This course offers an in-depth study of literature and will emphasize advanced analytical composition and reading in preparation for the Advanced Placement exam at the end of the year. It is assumed that students enrolled in this course will be able to devote many hours of out of class time to the required reading, writing, and research. Students enrolled in Advanced Placement English must conduct themselves with the maturity and responsibility appropriate to advanced study. Summer reading will be required and students may be required to purchase paperback books. This course has been accredited by The College Board for both AP Literature and Composition and AP Language and Composition.

** Classroom Content ** 1. Composition The course will include, but is not limited to intensive concentration on writing focusing on in-class timed writings, reader response writing, portfolios, short and long papers including "research" and "critical" papers. NOTE: Most of your papers will be graded using the AP scoring rubric (see below). You are AP seniors; I expect quality papers with few grammatical and spelling mistakes.

2. Literature We will read all of the texts below. We may even read more! Plan to be busy reading ALL YEAR. Expect NO DOWN TIME. When we finish one unit, we will immediately begin the next. //Twelfth Night// by William Shakespeare //Nickel & Dimed// by Barbara Ehrenreich //The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn// by Mark Twain* //The Kite Runner// by Kahled Hosseini* //Sense and Sensibility// by Jane Austen* //Their Eyes Were Watching God// by Zora Neale Hurston* //Three Cups of Tea// by Greg Mortenson* //How to Read Literature Like a Professor// by Thomas C. Foster+ //Oedipus Rex// by Sophocles //Cry, the Beloved Country// by Alan Paton //Othello, the Moor of Venice// by William Shakespeare //A Midsummer Night's Dream// by William Shakespeare //The Old Man and the Sea// by Ernest Hemingway //The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark// by William Shakespeare //Wuthering Heights// by Emily Bronte //A Lesson Before Dying// by Ernest J. Gaines //Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts// by George Bernard Shaw +=optional
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3. Study of Language & Grammar You can expect to work on perfecting your use of the English language in a variety of ways, specifically in usage, grammar, style, and vocabulary.

4. AP Test Preparation The purpose of Advanced Placement English is to prepare you to take the Advanced Placement Exam in Language or Literature in May. As a student in AP English, I expect you to take one or both of the AP Exams this spring.