Taught within the same section as English 12 but designed to prepare students to take the AP Literature and Composition Exam in May

Overview
GPA is weighted as per DeSales AP scale and appears on transcript as AP English 12.  Summer work (see below) can be made up during the school year for anyone adding the course late but is ideally completed with a peer cohort over the summer before the course.

Students must enroll through their personal College Board accounts no later than September 10 to begin online work and register for the exam. Outside-of-class meetings are required periodically to discuss evaluation and the online test-prep material.  The course is open to any student entering the senior year or others by teacher and counselor recommendation.  

Summer Expectations
Students will read the novel The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, finishing a specified portion by midsummer and the rest at their own pace.  Minimal written work, specifically a few FIT journals, is assigned along with the summer reading. 

Students will be invited to participate in one mid-summer meeting, date TBD each summer, at which they will need to have completed a portion of the reading.  The meeting is about 45 minutes to an hour in length.

Students will be invited to participate in one late-summer meeting (around the start of the school year) to receive instruction on the project. This meeting is again 45 minutes to an hour in length.  The project, an essay based on the summer reading, is due at a date agreed upon by the group but perhaps not until after Christmas break. 

Online Test Prep Through the College Board
This is an important component of the course.  Students are highly encouraged to go beyond the assigned work and utilize the materials available to them, but specific exercises are assigned regularly.  Students most often receive their scores on their submitted answers online, but it’s the discussion and sharing of this experience that can really prepare them to do their best on the exam in May.  Work assigned on the College Board prep site is often pass/fail only to encourage students to fearlessly engage.  

Other Work Above or Beyond the Regular English 12 course
At times, AP students will study an additional work (i.e., when the class reads The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde, AP students will independently read A Doll’s House by Ibsen.    Frequently, they will be assigned slightly different prompts or journals.  On vocabulary tests, an “AP EXTRA” section is sometimes included, and the expectation for excellence in preparation, timely submission, and engagement in the class is always present. 

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