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Enhancing Writing Skills: AP Language & Literature Course Overview

Join Mr. Narter's AP Language & Literature course to improve writing, analysis, and reading skills. Develop stylistic elements mastery and critical thinking. Engage with diverse texts and learn to craft persuasive arguments. Quarterly concentrations cover politics of language, argumentation, narrative, and synthesis. Prepare for AP exams through rigorous essays and independent reading. Benefit from efficient curriculum design focusing on hard work for writing improvement. Discover the key techniques for clear, persuasive, and analytical writing. Parents and students, don't miss the open house in 2007 to learn more!

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Enhancing Writing Skills: AP Language & Literature Course Overview

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  1. Welcome Parents Open House 2007 AP Language and Literature Mr. Narter dnarter@leyden212.org www.leyden212.org/dnarter

  2. Course Objectives • Objectives: • Students will • acquire a graceful and masterful command of the stylistic elements of writing • analyze the rhetorical strategies and stylistic devices writers use to express their points of view • Write better • more clearly • more persuasively • more analytically • more confidently • Improve reading and analytical skills

  3. Concentrations • Quarter 1: The Politics of Language • Quarter 2: Argument and Persuasion • Quarter 3: Narrative and Descriptive Prose • Quarter 4: Visual Arguments/Synthesis/Test Prep • AP Exams in May • A quick survey of American Fiction

  4. About Time • The curriculum is designed for efficiency, but not laziness • Writing • Hard, productive work will lead to improved writing • Two major essays per quarter • Reading: • Essays from the textbook (college level) • Plenty of independent reading

  5. Why it’s Worth It Hey Mr. Narter, ...I had you two years ago for English AP and I’d just like to tell you how much I appreciated what you taught me. I wrote an essay for my “Rhet” class and got an A+ on the first draft. It was a “show don’t tell” sort of essay. I was surprised by how much of what you said came back to me. I looked at my sentence structure and my tension. I employed absolutely no “to be” verbs and all-in-all I think that [the class] really made my paper stronger...

  6. Example Lesson • There is a tree in my yard. ⇑

  7. A tree stands in my yard.

  8. How you can help • Read over their work • Can you determine their thesis (the point they are trying to prove)? • Are they convincing you they are correct? • Is the writing clear and efficient? • Check the homework site • www.leyden212.org/dnarter • Check out “What to do When You Revise”

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