Tritt Elementary School – AP Eng Language Comp

Apr 2026 · 2nd Semester

focuses on the study of American literature, embracing itsrhetorical nature and recognizing the literature as a platform forargument. It also emphasizes a variety of writing modes andgenres and the essential conventions of reading, writing, andspeaking. The students will develop an understanding of howhistorical context in American literature affect its structure,meaning, and rhetorical stance. The course will enable students tobecome skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods,disciplines, and rhetorical contexts. The students will encounter avariety of informational, literary, and non-print texts from acrossthe curriculum and read texts in all genres and modes of discourse,as well as visual and graphic images. Instruction in languageconventions and essential vocabulary will occur within the contextof reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The students willdemonstrate an understanding of listening, speaking, and viewingskills for a variety of purposes. This course will focus on theconsideration of subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, andtone as the guide for effective writing, as well as the way genericconventions and resources of language contribute to writingeffectiveness. The students will compose a variety of writing,including expository, analytical, and argumentative writings whichsupport the academic and professional communication required bycolleges; and personal and reflective writings which support thedevelopment of writing facility in any context. The students willproduce responses to timed writing assignments, as well as writingthat proceeds through several stages or drafts, which includeopportunities for revision guided by feedback from teacher andpeers. Students will analyze primary and secondary sources anddevelop the research skills needed to effectively synthesize thesesources for their writing. An AP syllabus must be submitted andapproved by the College Board. (This literature module must betaught in the 11th grade and is recommended as a designatedsubstitute for American Literature.)