COURSE NAME: AP English Language 11

SCHOOL DISTRICT: Duanesburg

INSTRUCTOR: Tom Reiter

FULL YEAR

COURSE PREREQUISITES: Students are selected for the course based on English scores and teacher
recommendation.

BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION / OUTLINE: This is an intense course which prepares students to take both
the English Comprehensive Regents exam in June and the Advanced Placement English Language and
Composition exam in May.

In this course students will regularly be reading two novels simultaneously, one in class and another
selected from an outside reading list. The AP English Language and Composition course is designed to help
students become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts
and to become skilled writers who can compose for a variety of purposes.

By their writing and reading in this course, students should become 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 effective writing. Students taking the course must take the mandated
AP exam.

The AP exam is the final exam in the course.

2/19/08