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Mrs. Lentz
APLAC Syllabus
Course Description: This course in English Language and Composition, along with a passing score on the AP test, is designed to parallel, or supersede, the freshman level college composition course; thus, the focus is on reading and reacting to various prose pieces while becoming capable writers. Students will examine and reflect upon how an author uses rhetorical strategies to achieve an effect in order to employ those strategies in their own composing process. The emphasis of this course is on modes of writing such as expository, analytical, argumentative, personal, and reflective writing. This course will help students to move beyond the five paragraph essay and into the realm of content, purpose, organization, and audience in their own writing. As students read good writing and reflect deeply upon it through journaling and discourse, they too, will begin to use and master the techniques that are necessary and expected at the college and professional level. To further the students’ understanding of the reading and writing, we will study usage, grammar, and vocabulary as well. While the focus of the course is on non-fiction pieces, we will be covering five great American novels as well.
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