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Course Expectations AP Language

Heritage High School Mrs. Hurley. Course Expectations AP Language. Course Description. College level course

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Course Expectations AP Language

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  1. Heritage High School Mrs. Hurley Course Expectations AP Language

  2. Course Description • College level course • Studies the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing

  3. Learner Objectives • Analyze and interpret samples of good writing, identifying and explaining an author’s use of rhetorical strategies and techniques • Apply effective strategies and techniques in their own writing • Create and sustain arguments based on reading, research, and/or personal experience • Demonstrate understanding and mastery of standard written English as well as stylistic maturity in their own writings

  4. Write in a variety of genres and contexts, both formal and informal, employing appropriate conventions • Produce expository and argumentative compositions that introduce a complex central idea and develop it with appropriate, specific evidence, cogent explanations, and clear transitions • Move effectively through the stages of the writing process, with careful attention to inquiry and research, drafting, revising, editing, and review.

  5. Materials • The Longman Reader- Ninth Edition • Access to a credible Literary Terms Resource (online and/or print)‏ • As a college course, AP students are expected to purchase their books.

  6. GradingAll students will be evaluated in the following categories based on a point system:Essays written outside of class 200 pointsEssays written in class 100 pointsParticipation 50 pointsHomework 50/25 pointsQuizzes 50/25 points9 point scale used for all writing!

  7. Homework/Make-up Work Policy • Rewrites for in-class timed essays and excused make-up essays will be held in the library. • Students need to meet all deadlines. For those rare exceptions, students will need to seek instructor approval before due date. • Students are required to do all homework. However, if homework is not submitted on the due date it must still be completed with a 50% reduction of score earned. • When a student has an unexcused absence in the class, he should still complete the worked missed. It will be due one week from the absence with a 50% grade reduction based on the score earned. • Scholastic dishonesty will result in no credit for the assignment.

  8. Teacher Availability • Email: ahurley@lps.k12.co.us (school) amandahurley@comcast.net (home)‏ • Planning and conferencing hours: MWF 1st, 4th • Please feel free to schedule a time before or after school as well. • hurleyaplang.wikispaces.com

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