AP English Language & Composition

Original Article: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/19/america-loves-the-theory-that-all-men-are-created-equal-but-doesnt-love-the-practice Grade __                                                                                              Name: _________________ AP Lang                                                                                               Date:   _________________ Current Events Journal #1 Yoon, Nicola. “‘We Don’t Make Princesses in Those Colors’: Words I Didn’t Expect ...

Current Events Journal (CEJ) Adapted from an assignment by Danny Lawrence, AP Instructor, Winston-Salem, NC Objective : The Current Events Journal will improve students’ summarizing, analyzing, and grammatical skills.  This weekly assignment will keep students abreast of current events and breaking news, and will help students on the Argument portion of the AP exam.  Lastly, this assignment will require students to familiarize themselves with MLA style bibliographic citations.   Assignment: Each week you will find a non-fiction (not news articles or informative features) newspaper or magazine article to analyze and add to your current events journal. The articles should be about current events or issues. Use at least three different sources (i.e. not all the pieces should come from the same newspaper or magazine). DO NOT USE SOURCES SUCH AS USA TODAY, PEOPLE, SEVENTEEN, BLOGS ETC.  The following are ideas of sources to use for these articles: Choose a...

AP English Language and Composition Ms. Wahdy Al Salam College Preparatory swahdy@alsalamdayschool.org Course Overview Students in this introductory college-level course read and carefully analyze a broad and challenging range of nonfiction and fiction prose selections, deepening their awareness of rhetoric and how language works. Through close reading and frequent writing, students develop their ability to work with language and text with a greater awareness of purpose and strategy, while strengthening their own composing abilities. Course readings feature expository, analytical, personal, narrative, and argumentative texts from a variety of authors and historical contexts. Students examine and work with essays, letters, speeches, images, and imaginative literature. Students frequently confer about their writing with peers and with the instructor. Course reading and writing activities should help students gain textual power, making them more alert to an author’s purpos...