English 12 College Prep
This course is designed for students who have developed proficient skills in critical reading and writing. In this course, students will strengthen their reading skills by analyzing foundational literary works of fiction and nonfiction. Students will strengthen their writing skills by composing a variety of analytical and creative writing tasks. This course will also cultivate students’ ability to synthesize their analytical and creative skills by conducting problem-based research projects.
Current Unit: Unit 1: Overcoming Repression
AP Literature and Composition
In the AP English Literature and Composition course, students devote themselves to the study of literary works written in—or translated into—English. Careful reading and critical analysis of such works of fiction, drama, and poetry, provide rich opportunities for students to develop an appreciation of ways literature reflects and comments on a range of experiences, institutions, and social structures. Students will examine the choices literary writers make and the techniques they utilize to achieve purposes and generate meanings.
To support these objectives, this course delineates the knowledge and skills colleges and universities typically expect students to demonstrate in order to receive credit for an introductory college literature course and placement into a higher-level literature course.
Students develop the skills of literary analysis and composition as they repeatedly practice analyzing poetry and prose, then compose arguments about an interpretation of a literary work. Across nine units, the content and skills increase in challenge and complexity, with students receiving repeated opportunities to develop and apply analysis and composition skills to specific genres of literature (short fiction, poetry, novels, and plays).
The culmination of the course is the AP Exam, which is administered in early May. Students taking the course are expected to take the exam.
Current Unit: Unit 1: Short Fiction.
