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This course emphasizes elements of style, writing strategies, and vocabulary. Upon completion of this course, students
will enroll in AP English 12 or Dual Credit English for their senior year.

English 11 (Advanced Placement) Language and Composition ENGLISH REQUIRED
Grade Level: 11 Credit: 1
Block Course Number/Projected Times:
Not offered as a block.
Singleton Course Number/Projected Times:
st
nd
55G01H17 / 1 and 2 Singleton
th
th
56G01H17 / 7 and 8 Singleton
Early Post-Secondary Opportunity: Advanced Placement Exam
Prerequisite: English 10 Pre-AP or English 10 CP with teacher recommendation). Summer reading is required. AP
English Language and Composition is an introductory college-level composition course. Students cultivate their
understanding of writing and rhetorical arguments through reading, analyzing, and writing texts as they explore topics
like rhetorical situations, claims and evidence, reasoning and organization, and style. AP English Language and
Composition engages students in studying prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts, and
in becoming skilled writers. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of 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. The overarching objective in this course is to enable students to write
effectively and confidently in their college courses across the curriculum and in their professional and personal lives.
Students will analyze and interpret samples of good writing; apply effective strategies and techniques in their own
writing; create and sustain arguments based on readings, research, and/or personal experience; write for a variety of
purposes and audiences; receive instruction in standard written English and stylistic maturity; learn to cite primary and
secondary sources; move effectively through the stages of the writing process; analyze image as text; and evaluate and
incorporate reference documents into researched papers. This course will demand a significant investment in time and
intellect.

English 12 CP (College Prep)
Grade Level: 12 Credit: 1
Block Course Number/Projected Times:
20G01H13 / Varies
Singleton Course Number/Projected Times:
Not offered as a singleton.
Early Post-Secondary Opportunity: None
Prerequisite: English 11 College Prep or English 11 Pre-AP.
Summer reading is required as a part of all English courses. This course is for students who plan to continue their formal
education after high school either through college or technical training. The course focuses on selections from British
literature. Emphasis is placed on writing, research, close reading, oral presentation, vocabulary development, and the college
application process.

English 12 (Advanced Placement) Literature and Composition
Grade Level: 12 Credit: 1
Block Course Number/Projected Times:
Not offered as block
Singleton Course Number/Projected Times:
nd
st
55G01H18 / 1 and 2 Singleton
th
56G01H18 / 7 and 8 Singleton
th
Early Post-Secondary Opportunity: Advanced Placement Exam
Prerequisite: English 11 Pre-AP or AP; English 11 College Prep with teacher’s recommendations; Completion of
outside reading assignment prior to first class meeting. Summer reading is required as a part of the AP preparation.
The AP English Literature and Composition course provides students with the opportunity to use close readings of texts
in order to further their understanding of how a writer’s use of language—its structure, style, themes, and other
elements such as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism and tone—bring both “meaning and pleasure” to
the reader. This means that students will conduct an intensive study of representative works from various genres and
periods (focus given to Western Lit between 16th century and contemporary times), concentrating on works of
recognized literary merit. The AP English Literature and Composition Development Committee “believes that such
reading should be accompanied by thoughtful discussion and writing about those books in the company of one’s fellow
students'' (“The Course” 1). Therefore, students will read deliberately and thoroughly allowing students not only to
reflect on a work’s artistry, but also the social and historical values in order to make “an interpretive conclusion about
the meaning and value of a piece of writing” (2).
Writing assignments may be either of a critical or creative nature. However, most assignments will focus on the critical
analysis of literature and include expository, analytical writing. The goal is for students to write clearly, cogently, and
elegantly what they understand about literary works and why they interpret them as they do. Therefore, a focus will be

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