Courses -- 2016-2017 academic year.
AP Lang
AP English Language & Composition is an advanced-level class that prepares students to become skilled readers of various literary genres, writing styles, rhetorical contexts, and time periods. Students will also become skilled writers who understand subject, purpose, and audience, and draw upon a wide range of rhetorical devices to craft mature and scholarly prose.
The course will also contain literature study and AP exam preparation. The literature sudy is organized to follow the British/Western European historical timeline, and contains pivotal selections from the Western European canon. It is complemented by a companion course, AP European History, thus integrating historical time periods, social conditions, and schools of thought with the literature and art produced.
World Lit
The purpose of this course is to develop an answer to the question: What does it mean to be man? To accomplish this, students will study the great ideas of Eastern and Western thought and civilizations and explore their relevance to the larger cultural and social realm of the twenty-first century. Learning will be organized into thematic units with pieces of literature, nonfiction, drama and poetry each based around a central (essential) question. The content of this course will be loosely integrated with students’ study of AP World History.
This course will be geared to a pace and complexity that matches the specific needs and abilities of gifted students. Working at the higher levels of thinking, students will actively develop their potential as learners through class discussion, independent study, and authentic products.