HS206 AP Language Spring Sunday Class

Teacher: Amy Harris

AP English Language & Composition Course -

This course is taught as an overview of the AP English Language & Composition course at an accelerated pace over multiple semesters. It is expected that the student will sit for the exam in May 2026.

College Board’s Course Overview Description: AP English Language and Composition is an introductory college-level composition course. Students cultivate their understanding of writing and rhetorical arguments through reading, analyzing, and writing texts as they explore topics like rhetorical situation, claims and evidence, reasoning and organization, and style.

Explore the College Board website for more in-depth information about the course.

SPRING 2025:

Week 1

An overview of the College Board course objectives
Difference between Language & Literature courses
What is “language” (i.e. “rhetoric”) and the study of it?

Week 2

A deep dive into the exam, the College Board’s expectations of students, the timing of the exam, and understanding how the exam is scored
What score(s) will earn college credit?
An overview of the three essays required and an understanding of the rubric
The importance of grammar, in the course/composition, and how it’s scored in the rubric

Week 3

Understanding the multiple-choice portion
How to read the passages properly, how to decode the question stems, and how to approach the answer choices
Understanding the timing and the scoring
Assign multiple-choice passages for homework, discuss next session

Week 4

Argument: Week 1
What is the art of arguing? Debating? Persuasion?
Understanding the argument prompt and how to approach it
Understanding CB’s expectations in a response and an examination of the rubric
Close analysis of a past prompt and the released student responses
Assign prompt for homework

Week 5

Argument: Week 2
Discuss homework prompt and examine student exemplars
Analyze your own response, share out
Discover additional past prompts and attempt rapid brainstorm practice
Assign multiple-choice passages for homework, discuss next session