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 * Welcome to AP English 11! **

** “Success usually comes to those who are too busy be looking for it.” **** – Henry David Thoreau **


 * Quotes to consider:**

“Without precision of meaning we damage not simply language, but thought. The language we share is beautiful and alarmingly complex. Try as we may, we are all likely to make mistakes, and very few among us can claim to know the English language to perfection. But we try.” //Robert Davies//

“For know you well, my dear Crito, that to express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.” //Socrates, in Plato’s// Phaedo

AP Syllabus:

Available for conferences by appointment, 6:45-7:30AM, Monday through Friday; starting August 22, 2011


 * Course Objectives:** Ultimately, this course should help students do well on the AP Language exam. The exam takes place during the first two weeks of May.

Specific skills emphasized in the class are:
 * Critical close reading, thinking, and analysis
 * Recognizing the successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses, truths and fallacies of various texts
 * Understanding and critiquing, as well as using, rhetorical strategies
 * Formulation and development of arguments
 * Research strategies and conventions
 * Conscientious and successful writing that is clear, coherent, and “correct”

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