ADVANCED PLACEMENT LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION WRITING WORKSHOP **
(Formerly Advanced Placement Junior Writing Workshop)
Term: Full Year (2 semesters 1/2 credit, taken in conjunction with 2 literature electives)
Prerequisite: Open to Junior-level students who meet the following
selection criteria—
NOTE: A limited number of juniors may take this course in addition to two semester English electives. Admittance will be based on the following criteria: teacher recommendation, a minimum of a B+ average in English, an application which includes an essay sample, and attendance at an informational meeting. Juniors must take a regents exam in English at the end of their junior year and will take the Advanced Placement Language and Composition Examination given in May of the school year.
This course will provide a writing community for a select group of 11th grade students with an outstanding record of achievement and interest in writing rhetoric and advanced composition. It is a one-year enrichment program, based on a collaborative workshop approach in conjunction with the individual writing process, which focuses on the art of writing persuasively. It will speak to all of those strategies and techniques a writer uses to make a case or drive home a point, including voice, diction, purpose, thesis, patterns of development, research, organization, revision and rhetoric. The students will analyze predominantly non-fiction writing in terms of style, content and rhetoric, and will explore expository and analytical writing in a variety of modes and for a variety of purposes. Course participants will focus on displaying strong voice and style in their writing, responding to voice as listening writers, becoming critical readers, and applying revision and self-assessment to their own writing. This full year application course is to be taken in conjunction with the junior literature electives, and will earn the participant 1/2 an honors credit. This writing intensive workshop will prepare students for the Advanced Placement Language and Composition Examination which they will take in May of the school year.