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I won’t teach you anything.

AP Language and Composition 2012-13 lauren.hill@franklin.kyschools.us Office hours: Mornings 8-8:30 and 6 th hour. I won’t teach you anything. Teaching and learning begins and ends with you. This is my drawing of this course :. AP Language and Composition

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I won’t teach you anything.

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  1. AP Language and Composition 2012-13lauren.hill@franklin.kyschools.usOffice hours: Mornings 8-8:30 and 6th hour

  2. I won’t teach you anything.

  3. Teaching and learning begins and ends with you.

  4. This is my drawing of this course:

  5. AP Language and Composition • The language of rhetoric • Authorial choice • Writing well, finding a voice • Close reading • Rhetorical arrangement • Rhetorical strategies • Rhetorical fallacies • Visual rhetoric • Rhetorical grammar • Documentation and use of sources • Satire and humor • Cultural literacy – context • Vocabulary • Taking tests – ACT, AP and otherwise

  6. AP Language Materials: • Three-inch binder for handouts, returned work, and regular class stuff • One of those bags that hold your pens all together in your binder • Four different color highlighters • Dry erase marker(s) and clean sock • Colored pencils • Three hundred index cards • Text flags or tiny post-it notes for annotating texts without writing in them • Composition book – writing journal • Spiral notebook or another composition book for taking notes Due Monday, August 13th – 50 points

  7. Grades: • Writing, Projects, Tests, Quizzes 70% • Homework and Classwork 30%

  8. AP English Saturday Study Sessions: • Saturday, November 3rd at Shelby County High School – 9am-3pm • Saturday, February ? – Mock exam at WHHS, 9am – 1pm • Saturday, April ? – Mock exam deconstruction, 9am – 3pm • Prizes, Extra Credit, Knowledge

  9. AP Language Exam – Friday, May 10th • Quality point • English 101/104 credit • $100 and half the exam fee • Actual reading and writing skills • So what?

  10. Class website • http://franklin.kyschools.us/whhs/english/lhill/default.aspx

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