AP Language & Composition

 

Welcome to Mr. Storey's Advanced Placement Language and Composition course page.  The goal of the page is to supplement, enhance and enrich your AP Language and Composition studies during your time with me.  If this is your first time to the page (as a potential student) then this page will help you gauge your interest and ability level for such a rigorous class.  Scroll to the bottom of this page to access the H.W. Calendar for a sense of the pacing and workload.   You can also click here for the course description and here for the course syllabus.  Please also refer to the FAQ's link located in the sidebar.

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Unit Links The Shallows Beowulf Grendel Macbeth The Canterbury Tales The Utopia/Dystopia Unit (Utopia, "The Dream," "The Experience Machine," "San Junipero" and Brave New World) Nickel and Dimed Vocabulary AP Language and Composition Exam Prep Links AP Official Free-Response Questions (Essay Questions) Rhetorical Strategies Essay Synthesis Essay Practice R.O.S.E. Essay Practice Reading Comprehension  AP Language and Composition Exam Results by Year 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011  New SAT Prep Links Practice Test 1 - Solutions Practice Essay 1 Practice Test 2 - Solutions Practice Essay 2 Practice Test 3 - Solutions Practice Essay 3 Practice Test 4 - Solutions Practice Essay 4   Old SAT Prep Links SAT Notes - General Overview  Official October 2012 Expository Essay Prompts SAT Expository Essay Practice SAT Expository Essay  Notes - What We've Learned Passage Based Reading Notes

Reading Links "Critical reading--active engagement and interaction with texts--is essential to your academic success... and to your intellectual growth" ("Interrogating Texts" --Harvard Library)  Developing a mastery for the information in the following links is critical to your success in AP English and beyond.  Print them out, mark them up and study them. If you need to have them with you while you read initially, that's fine too.  The point is to improve as a reader; improving as a writer will naturally follow. Critical and active reading is the most empowering skill you will ever learn in your academic career.  The Canon & Literary Theory Part I (373-382) Part II (383-390) Part II (391-400) Philosophical Perspectives Focus: Perennialism  Practice a theory:"Like a Rolling Stone" Bob Dylan Jonathan Haidt's Happiness Hypothesis - Chapter 1 Harvard College's "Interrogating Texts" Close Reading Literary Terms Burke's AP Style Analysis Chart How to Read Literature Like a Professor Logical Fallacies Handlist Vladimir Nabokov's "Good Readers, Good Writers" E.A.A. - Chapter 7 E.A.A. - Chapter 9 The New York Times - The Stone  Prentice Hall Literature British Tradition textbook Click on the image below for access to the textbook. Username: storey@psnteacher Password: apenglish1

Writing Links UNC Writing Center Lecture Notes UNC Writing Center Packet (w/ Storey Annotations) PHS Writing Center Harvard College's A Brief Guide to Writing the English Paper Rhetoric Editing and Proofreading Symbols Tone - Diction - Style Vocabulary Plagiarism Body Paragraph Model Signal Phrasing  Transitions *Be sure to visit the "Writing Resources" sidebar for additional writing and G.U.M. resources G.U.M. Links Bedford Handbook Subjects and Verbs I Subjects and Verbs II Participles Participles II Indefinite Pronouns  College Planning & Resources The Prospect

AP English III Homework