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welcome to your intro to AP language and composition my name is Mr Bond and I teach you English 10 honors English 11 as well as AP language for juniors and AP Literature and composition for seniors I am missing my English teaching credential from Fresno State hiring in creative writing graduating Magna cumlaude a this is my sixth year of the rats and I am the department chair for the English program I'm going to space to taking this course other than what you see here there's a grey by available to get a B in an AP course counts as a four-point be like an a with normal account and an A in an AP course chances 5.0 so you have a chance boost your GPA on 4.0 we also have a chance to earn some college credit English college credits if you pass the AP exam are some of the things we do in AP Lang you read and write a lot right a lot of research papers as well as response to literature we take test that prep you for the AP exam which occurs through the end of the school year various programs to supplement your such as news Ela by the authors are saying what they're saying how old are accomplishing their meaning I just brings us to the idea of what strategies these are what I just mentioned techniques that authors use to get there cross to you so in a favor going to learn how to analyze what others write what they trying to get across in the how they're getting their points. Some of the instructional strategies the variety of students so it's not the same thing day after day there's a lot of different things and a lot of ways different ways for you to prove your car knowledge as well the workload in AP is a little higher than a traditional English class you can expect to do three to six hours of Home reading for week whether that be shorter stories or articles or longer novels you can also expect to have some homework as well if you don't finish in me a lot of time during class one of the main difference between these two is deaf play the war clubs how is PowerSchool to get content across the students as well as communicate in grade work there is a summer assignment that I've released current English 10 honors students on there's a required summer assignment that all students need to complete in order to get into AP language so if you need that'll share my email at the end of this I can send that to you but yes your students in honors 10 English they should are you access to that and they can be chipping away at that how the reason for this is to show the students the expectations of the class as well as get them used to the workload I use a traditional grading policy minarets High School grading policy the only difference here is the grade bump Celebi once again Council or coin a counts as five much of the class is geared toward getting the students ready for the AP exam and here's some information about the AP exam it's basically two sections one is a multiple choice 52 to 55 questions with the students get an hour on in that counts are 45% of the exam the other section is a free response where there they have to write three essays in 2 hours and 15 minutes what is a say where the students are provided with articles and information and they have to create an argument using that information that was given as a rhetorical analysis essay where the students have to analyze the author's purpose of an excerpt or shorter work and then there's an argumentative essay where the students are given a broader topic and asked you to base an argument AP teachers offer test prep when we get closer to the AP exam and I will also provide students with various resources for test practice i-Ready College Board as well as AP Central will also allow your student to passing AP exam let me show you the email one more time best way to reach me is through email Amazon at my chewonki. Org if you have any questions or any additional information or if your student has not received that summer assignment please feel free to come text me and I will respond promptly thank you I look forward to hearing from you

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