Grades: 11 Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None

The purpose of this course is to prepare students who complete the course to take the Advanced Placement examination in English Language and Composition, for which college credit and/or placement is given if a qualifying score is achieved. Students study advanced composition and analysis of language at a level equivalent to that of a full-year introductory college course. This course engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts. In refining their awareness of language and the writer's craft, students write works of publishable quality. Completion of this course fulfills the write of publishing quality. (All students are required to take Advanced Placement English exam.) (This course has an end of course Standards of Learning cumulative test 9-11th grade.)