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APLang Syllabus 2021

This Advanced Placement English Language and Composition course will focus on developing critical reading, thinking, and writing skills at a college level through analyzing challenging texts and completing college-level written assignments. The goal is for students to take and pass the AP exam to earn college credit. Key concepts include analyzing rhetorical techniques, argument structure, and style in various source materials and genres. Students will be assessed on mastery of eight skill categories using a 4-point rubric, with grades based on median scores rather than averages.

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APLang Syllabus 2021

This Advanced Placement English Language and Composition course will focus on developing critical reading, thinking, and writing skills at a college level through analyzing challenging texts and completing college-level written assignments. The goal is for students to take and pass the AP exam to earn college credit. Key concepts include analyzing rhetorical techniques, argument structure, and style in various source materials and genres. Students will be assessed on mastery of eight skill categories using a 4-point rubric, with grades based on median scores rather than averages.

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Advanced Placement English Language and Composition

Mrs. Bishop
2021-2022
This course will focus on developing strong critical reading, thinking, and writing skills at a college level. The class will
require reading and analysis of challenging texts while completing college level written work. The end goal of the course
is to take and pass the Advanced Placement English Language Exam, which counts for Freshman level college credit.

Course Objectives:
 Read from a variety of source material from different historical periods, media and disciplines
 Identify audience, purpose, and strategies in texts, determine how and why authors make certain choices
 Write formally and informally for a variety of audiences
 Write synthesis, analytical, and argumentative essays
 Understand your own writing process and the importance of revision
 Synthesize ideas and information from various sources
 Summarize, paraphrase, and directly quote information from sources, and cite them correctly
 Use the conventions of standard written English, in accordance with each appropriate rhetorical situation

Key Concepts and Skills


 Students will peruse texts from a variety of historical periods to observe the dramatic variances in style, tone,
syntax and diction. You will be prepared for the kinds of text you may encounter on the AP Exam, in college, and in
other academic situations. Students will work with textbooks, novels, articles, web sites, art, cartoons, poetry, and
various types of informal texts.
 Students will practice rhetorical analysis by learning and utilizing techniques writers use to establish meaning,
display purpose, and achieve effect. Students will be aware of the intended audience of a text and to the context
in which the piece appears. You will observe how writers utilize various rhetorical devices and strategies to
enhance intent and clarify meaning. Students will practice the skills of rhetoric in their own writing. Practicing new
syntactical patterns, and always being conscious of audience, purpose, and persona in various texts are essential,
 Students will be required to understand documentation and citation. In class we use MLA, and you will have to
know the purpose and function of each element of citation and understand that other courses may teach different
citation methods.
 Students will learn to produce not only pieces of writing that serve an academic function but also genres that
function in real-world rhetorical situations, allowing you the opportunity to take on real roles and address actual
audiences in genuine, exigent rhetorical situations

Curricular Requirements:
The course is structured by into 9 thematic units, which incorporate 8 Skill Categories:
Skill Category 1:
Rhetorical Situation (Reading): Explain how writers’ choices reflect the components of the rhetorical situation
Skill Category 2
Rhetorical Situation (Writing): Make strategic choices in a text to address a rhetorical situation
Skill Category 3
Claims and Evidence (Reading): Identify and describe the claims and evidence of an argument
Skill Category 4
Claims and Evidence (Writing): Analyze evidence in order to develop and re􀂶ne claims
Skill Category 5
Reasoning and Organization (Reading): Describe the reasoning, organization, and development of an argument
Skill Category 6
Reasoning and Organization (Writing): Use organization and commentary to illuminate reasoning in an argument
Skill Category 7
Style (Reading): Explain how writers’ stylistic choices contribute to the purpose of an argument
Skill Category 8
Style (Writing): Select words and use elements of composition to advance an argument
Materials
Textbook, Writing America (physical book and online version)
Paperback book, Freakonomics
Multiple short non-fiction texts (digital)

Collegeboard.org
This AP English Language Exam, as of now, is scheduled for Tuesday, May 10, 2021.
Collegeboard.org curriculum is utilized fully in this course.

Go to myap.collegeboard.org. If you’ve taken an AP course or the PSAT, you will use the same login. If you have not, click
the sign-up link. Then click the ‘Join a course or exam’ button. Then enter the Join Code for this course: _____________

Classroom Norms and Expectations:


1. Students will need to bring a Chromebook or laptop to class on a daily basis. We utilize Schoology and
Collegeboard.org. Bring textbooks to class when asked and keep them in your locker when not in use.
2. Respect others, classroom property, and the property of others.
3. Bell to bell learning is expected.
4. Any distracting behavior will not be allowed in class.
5. Electronic Devices may only be used in specific circumstances with teacher permission. Charging of electronic
devices is never allowed. (Well, we will see as we move into full digital integration, but ask for permission)
6. It is your responsibility to make-up work or tests missed immediately upon return from an excused absence.
7. Use email, Schoology, and/or Remind to contact me whenever necessary. Check Schoology and Remind often.
Pay attention to the school website and calendar.
Email: jessica.bishop@lausd.net
Remind: @2021apbish

Mastery Rubric – based on demonstration mastery of the 8 course Skill Categories


4 Point Rubric Description
4 - Mastery Complete and detailed understanding, college level, and beyond what has been taught
3 - Proficiency Considerable understanding at grade level of what has been taught
2 - Basic Some understanding, but just below grade level
1 - Limited Little understanding or demonstration of what has been taught
0 - Inconclusive Student has not shown ability or teacher cannot determine student’s ability

Notes about Mastery Grading


 Students class grades are based solely around student performance on learning targets.
 Students are graded on a median of their scores, not an average
 Emphasis is placed on the process involved in producing work, not just the final product
 Extra credit is not offered, but students can re-submit most assignments for higher scores.
 Mastery learning provide opportunities for enrichment for students who require a challenge, and continued
support for those who are struggling to meet proficiency.
 Marking period grades reflect the progress that students have made. If a student has struggled at the beginning,
but then mastered a learning target, the grade they get will reflect that mastery.
 Students receive a Mastery Score for each Learning Target.
 Final Grades will reflect the median of the Mastery Scores.
 No more points, no more percentages, no more averages.
 Students and parents are expected to use Schoology to monitor their own progress.

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