Welcome to AP Lang & Comp

 

Please use the links below to locate important information, texts, and documents

 

General Info:

1. Summer Essay Example [Here]

2. Rhetorical Device Review via Quizlet [Quiz 1: A - M] [Quiz 2: M - Z]

3. Logos / Ethos / Pathos Explanation [Here]

4. Class Syllabus [Here]

 

MP1: The American Landscape

1. E. B. White - "Once More to the Lake" [Riverside Reader]

2. Essays: How to Structure an Essay / How to Use Quotes

3. Rhetorical Essays - Fast Track to a 5 [Class Text to Purchase]

4. Wendell Berry - "Native Hill" [excerpt]

5. Henry David Thoreau - Walden [excerpt]

6. XREF 1 Assignment [WS]

7. Marchland and Mefree - "Ruins of Detroit" [Photo Blog]

8. Ewing and Grady - Detropia [Film Doc]

9. William Faulkner - "The Bear" [from Go Down, Moses] DO NOT PRINT @ SCHOOL!

10. Rachel Carson - "The Obligation to Endure" [Riverside Reader]

 

MP2: American Dream

1. Synthesis Essay - Fast Track to a 5 Handbook

   1. Synthesis Essay -  Suggestions [WS]

2. Paine - "Common Sense" [Excerpt]

3. Franklin - "Autobiography" [Excerpt]

4. Douglass - "Self Made Man" [Speech]

5. Emerson - "Self-Reliance" [Excerpt]

6. MP2 - XREF [WS]

7. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby [Online Text]

   1. ​Reading Guide [WS]

   2. Luhrmann - Film 2013

8. Miller - Death of a Salesman [Play]

9. Chau - "Tiger Mom" [Article]

 

MP3: American Identity: Who are we?

1. Arugment Essay - Fast Track to a 5

2. Whitman - "Song of Myself" [Poem / Excerpt]

3. MP3 - XREF [WS]

4. Twain - Huck Finn [Online Text]

5. Thoreau - "Civil Disobedience" [RR pg 479]

6. MLK - "I Have a Dream" [RR pg 447]

7. Zora N. Hurston - "How it Feels to be Colored me" [text]

8. Steele - "On Being Black and Middle Class" [text]

 

MP4: War: What is it good for?

1. Vonnegut - Slaughter House Five [Novel]

2. Rose - "Tools of Torture: An Essay on Beauty and Pain" [Text]

3. O'Brien - The Things They Carried [excerpts]