English 3 Gifted and Gifted AP English Language and Composition

Course Overview from the College Board Course Description for English Language and Composition: 

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 situation, claims and evidence, reasoning and organization, and style.

An AP English Language and Composition course cultivates the reading and writing skills that students need for college success and for intellectually responsible civic engagement. The course guides students in becoming curious, critical, and responsive readers of diverse texts and becoming flexible, reflective writers of texts addressed to diverse audiences for diverse purposes. The reading and writing students do in the course should deepen and expand their understanding of how written language functions rhetorically: to communicate writers’ intentions and elicit readers’ responses in particular situations.

Choose ONE novel to read from the choice list.

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

The Handmaid’s Tale- Margaret Atwood 

The Namesake- Jhumpa Lahiri 

Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

**No assignment is expected at this time. Students will have an assignment to complete in class at the beginning of the school year.