AP English Language and Composition
Advanced Placement English Language and Composition (Shuman) Grades: 11-12, 9/10 with instructor approval One core credit; DOE course code: 23.04300 One weekly class with two 90-min sessions Prerequisites: At least a B in two previous high-school level English classes
This college-level course provides
an opportunity for students to study rhetorical communication styles. Students
who recognize when they are being manipulated by advertising or other types of
persuasion, as well as students familiar with debate/mock trial/Model UN, will
find their analytical instincts rewarded in AP Language. Much of the coursework
entails a study of context, message, speaker, and audience. Students analyze
issues and styles in media such as informative and satirical news articles,
podcasts, social media posts, radio broadcasts, speeches, political/rhetorical
debates, newsletters, film, documentaries, and landmark documents. Longer works
or excerpts include the likes of Martin Luther King's "Letter from
Birmingham Jail," Janisse Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood,
Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, George Orwell's 1984. The main text, 50
Essays, has many shorter works that students enjoy. Students participate in informal debate and learn efficient and
accurate research methods and oral communication skills. AP Lang students often
practice ways to make their own writing more effective, trying out a broad base
of literary techniques used by master writers (devices such as anastrophe,
analogy, and the powerful short sentence!). AP test practice prepares students
to score well on the national AP Language exam given in May, which can provide
college credit. Optional
summer reading can add extra credit and cover
August classwork if parents desire to start the course before Labor Day. See
list and plan at MargaretShuman.com. Eastside Tuition: Sept-May,
$80 per month Take $5 off
per month per student for families with multiple students enrolled in Shuman courses
in a current year. Take $5 off
per month per student for families who have enrolled at least one student in a
Shuman course in the past. May national AP test fee and books
not included in price of class. Books may be acquired used or at a special
group rate that instructor will arrange. Would you like to meet
up and talk about this class? Contact
Margaret at shumanhw@gmail.com or text at 678-772-1644. We can meet for a walk
or for coffee/tea at a location that works for us both! You can also visit any
Shuman class with or without your student, any time. See current teaching
schedule at MargaretShuman.com. Find more information at www.MargaretShuman.com.
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