Ap Eng Lang - Amer Places & Perspectives

Prerequisites

• - RISING JUNIORS, AP ENGLISH LANG, SUBJECT AVG ≥ 94

Course Description

• Overview: American Places and Perspectives is a two-semester American literature course. Using geography as its central lens, the class focuses on the places occupied by American texts, American writers, and American readers. This geographical lens includes both physical and human geography. A major goal of the course is to explore the ways in which American literature has shaped and reflected American identity, keeping in mind that while there may be assumed values and traits associated with the United States of America (and her inhabitants), this “teeming “nation of nations” (Whitman) does not allow for easy compartmentalization or a narrowly defined American frame-of-mind. Students can expect a variety of writing assignments which represent the four rhetorical modes of discourse: narration, description, exposition, and argumentation. As is fitting a course which culminates with the AP Language and Composition exam, there will be an emphasis on rhetorical analysis.