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AP Language & Composition Course * Instructor: Mrs. Arna Bown * Room# N116 * Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
COURSE DESCRIPTION
*The AP course in English Language and Composition aligns to an introductory college-level rhetoric and writing curriculum, which requires students to develop evidence-based analytic and argumentative essays.engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts including social media, advertising, politics and information texts, and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. *Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects, as well as the way genre conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing. *The goals of an AP English Language and Composition course are diverse because the college composition course is one of the most varied in the curriculum. Students read and analyze the rhetorical elements and their effects in non-fiction texts, including visual images as forms of text, from many disciplines and historical periods. *Although the college course provides students with opportunities to write about a variety of subjects from a variety of disciplines and to demonstrate an awareness of audience and purpose, the overarching objective in most first-year writing courses is to enable students to write effectively and confidently in their college courses across the curriculum and in their professional and personal lives. And don't worry, we won't neglect LITERATURE! American writers and poets are the focal point of the 11th grade curriculum:) The Ancient Art of Rhetoric-the School of AthensRaphael’s fresco The School of Athens has come to symbolize the marriage of art, philosophy, theology, literature, jurisprudence and science that was a hallmark of the Italian Renaissance. Painted between 1509 and 1511, The School of Athens is one of four wall frescoes in the Stanza della Segnatura, The room was set to be Pope Julius II's library, and therefore Raphael’s overall concept balances the contents of what would have seen in the pope’s study.
In the center of the fresco by Raphael are the two undisputed main subjects: Plato on the left and Aristotle, his student, on the right. Both figures hold bound copies of their books in their left hands, while gesturing with their right. Plato holds Timaeus, Aristotle his Nicomachean Ethics. Plato is depicted as old, grey, wise-looking, and bare-foot. By contrast Aristotle, slightly ahead of him, is in mature manhood, handsome, well-shod and dressed with gold. Plato argues a sense of timelessness whilst Aristotle looks into the physicality of life and the present realm. Want more? Click on the painting! You won't be sorry!Visual RHETORIC spotlightAnalyze the visual below for rhetorical appeals and effectiveness.
Jim Gaffigan "McDonalds"Dove Campaign: what is real beauty?MORE COOL DOGS!CLIO AWARDS (ADVERTISING) Silver Winner, Short Form Commercial
British retailer John Lewis' Christmas commercial may not sell a lot of trampolines, but it will warm a lot of hearts. The best of advertising & media |
Rhetorical HumorWhat is your opinion of the game?Weird Al ParodiesJosh Gad winner original oratory 1999National Forensics League Oratory Champion 2012Can you spot the book/movie allusion in the cartoon below?Click link below for warm & fuzzy
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