Students must take the Advanced Placement Exam in order to receive Advanced Placement credit.  Students who do not take the AP® Exam will be awarded Honors level credit.

The AP Language and Composition course will provide high school students with college level instruction in studying and writing various kinds of analytic or persuasive essays on literary and nonliterary topics in language, rhetoric and expository writing.   Students will become skilled readers of prose written in various periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts.  Both their reading and writing should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects as well as the way writing conventions and language contribute to effectiveness in writing.  This course will effectively prepare students for the AP Exam by enabling them to read, comprehend, and write about complex texts, while developing further communication skills on a college level.

Access the site link below to view the PDF of the course description from the Florida Course Code directory.

http://data.fldoe.org/crsCode/912/Language%20Arts/English/pdf/1001420.pdf

Segment 1:

• AP Exam overview
• MLA format
• Rhetorical Devices
• Early American writers
• Tone Analysis
• Figurative Language Analysis
• Research and Synthesis
• Persuasive Essay
• Aphorisms
• Style Analysis
• Diction Analysis
• American Romanticism
• Transcendentalism
• Synthesis essay
• Introduction to Multiple Choice Questions
• Denotation/Connotation
• Imagery and Detail analysis
• Inductive/Deductive Logic
• Syllogism
• Analysis of Theme
• Causes and Effects of the Civil War
• Humor/Satire

Segment 2:

• Political, Social, Economic changes after the Civil War
• Analysis of personification
• Realism
• Regionalism
• Naturalism
• Euphemism
• Comic Irony
• Analysis of Irony
• The Harlem Renaissance
• Analysis of narrative structure
• Jazz Influence
• Toulmin Argument
• Analysis of symbolism
• Modern Writers
• Science Fiction
• Analysis of Drama
• Rhetorical Appeals
• Visual Literacy Analysis
• Syntactical Analysis
• Working through a Timed Essay

NOTE: FLVS courses are continually on a redevelopment cycle in order to respond to state standard changes, updates in technology and in the case of Advanced Placement courses, the new College Board criteria. This course is undergoing the redevelopment process with state certified subject matter expert(s) in 2007.

Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, FLVS guides students to reflect on their learning and to evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of quizzes, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, test prep journals, essays, research papers, timed essays, oral assessments, discussions, and creative assignments. Instructors evaluate progress and provide interventions through the variety of assessments built into a course, as well as through contact with the student in other venues.

College Board has authorized FLVS to use the AP designation.  AP and Advanced Placement are registered trademarks of The College Board.