Class Information
Welcome! I'm so glad to have you in class for the 2023-2024 school year. For all courses, please check your grades regularly through Skyward and use Clever to access Schoology for assignments and updates.
Class Rules & Expectations:
- Be Kind- respect your teacher, aides, and other students.
- Be Ready- in your seat when the bell rings with your materials.
- Be Aware- BHS school policies will be enforced.
- Be Mindful- words have power. No inappropriate, offensive, or profane language will be tolerated.
Course Material Used:
Textbook: The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2018.
Digital Resources: Schoology, AP Classroom
Class Standards and Objectives:
AP English Language and Composition is an introductory college-level composition course. In the course, we focus on the following skill categories, as required by the College Board:
- Skill Category 1—Rhetorical Situation (Reading): Explain how writers’ choices reflect
the components of the rhetorical situation - Skill Category 2—Rhetorical Situation (Writing): Make strategic choices in a text to
address a rhetorical situation. - Skill Category 3—Claims and Evidence (Reading): Identify and describe the claims and
evidence of an argument - Skill Category 4—Claims and Evidence (Writing): Analyze evidence in order to develop
and refine claims - Skill Category 5—Reasoning and Organization (Reading): Describe the reasoning,
organization, and development of an argument - Skill Category 6—Reasoning and Organization (Writing): Use organization and
commentary to illuminate the line of reasoning in an argument - Skill Category 7—Style (Reading): Explain how writers’ stylistic choices contribute to
the purpose of an argument - Skill Category 8—Style (Writing): Select words and use elements of composition to
advance an argument
ODD Day Schedule
1st Period- AP English III BCA
3rd Period- AP English III BCA
5th Period- Newspaper
7th Period- Planning
EVEN Day Schedule
2nd Period- Planning
4th Period- AP English III
6th Period- AP English III
8th Period- AP English III