Online AP Literature Prep Summer 2010
Description: AP Literature Prep engages upperclassmen in studies of literature as art, literature as discourse, and literature as life. Students dive into a selection of nineteenth and twentieth-century American and translated world classics of fiction to explore textual exemplifications of rhetorical structures, tones, moods and styles that aid in conveying themes associated with the human condition. These masterpieces offer students opportunities to critique and analyze texts through the authorship of interpretive essays.
Prerequisite: An average of 94 or lower in all Language Arts courses (you add cumulative grades on your transcripts and divide by three)
Course Requirements:
(1) Students need access to the HCST Blackboard system from home, library, or any locale other than Hudson County Schools of Technology.
(2) Students must complete the weekly essay assignments, located in the “Assignments” link in HCST Blackboard, by 5pm every Friday eve.
(3) Students may not write with SOB’s (“is,” “are,” “was,” and “were”).
(4) Students need to write in the active voice and in the present tense.
(5) Students must stick to the essay structure for expository writing:
INTRODUCTION
Thesis – a theme (one word concept) contextualized in a message
Support Sentences – the evidence from the text to prove the thesis, expressed with consideration to imagery, rhetorical devices, and tone
BODY
The number of support sentences equals the number of paragraphs here. The support points must be fleshed out and, again, expressed with consideration to imagery, rhetorical devices, and tone
CONCLUSION
Taking the theme of the work and applying it to the human condition.
(6) Students must earn a grade of 85 or better to be eligible to enroll in AP Literature for the 2010-2011 school year.
