12th+Grade+AP+Literature

=12th Grade, AP Literature=

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Spoken and Written Language. Students adjust their spoken and written language to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences for a range of purposes and practical applications. ======

Writing Process. Students use the writing process for both informal and formal writing.
Language Skills. Students use appropriate language, mechanics and style in their written work (e.g. rich vocabulary, grammar, proofreading and editing, varied sentence structure). __**1. Description of 12th Grade Writing Program**__ (Reflect upon goals and aims, or describe how the writing and language skills standards are applied at this grade level.) A student in AP English Literature is expected to become at least as proficient a writer as a good college student at the __end__ of her freshman year. 1. __The AP English Literature__ writing Program is meant to produce writers with the ability to use appropriate, effective English to address a clear objective in a well- organized, sufficiently detailed, grammatically correct fashion. --Every opportunity is used in this class to have the students write, be it in their journals, in short writing exercises (such as poems, paragraphs in response to a prompt), or full essays of several pages addressing a former AP examination question. 2. __Signature Strengths__ --While most students come to the class __because__ they already possess power on paper, many show decided improvement by dint of constant practice and encouragement. Their achievement is attested to by high scores on AP English Literature and Composition exams. --Time is given to studying what makes good writing __good__ by analyzing superior examples of great published writers’ work (Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy, G. B. Shaw, etc). --The class works on varying sentences (lengths, types, and ways of beginning them). From time to time, students rewrite essays simply to improve their sentences (as opposed to working on organization, etc.). -- The class discusses examples of good writing drawn from a variety of sources. Particular attention is given to essay writing. The students write an essay for each book they read (as well as essays on poems and short stories). We consider what makes a strong beginning, what constitutes a good thesis, the connection between each body paragraph and the thesis, and how one writes an interesting and satisfying conclusion. 3. __Areas of growth__ --The most obvious issue is our need for more class time to develop students’ writing skills further. The material they deal with is challenging, and a fitting amount of time, both in the year as a whole, as well as class time, is lacking.


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