AP English Language
& Composition
Dr. Ray Gen
All things are ready, if our
minds be so.
Henry V, William Shakespeare
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Course Description - College Board
(official description - in pdf)
AP
Language - College Board Web Site (resources)
Class Syllabus
(pdf version)
Wordle
AP Rhetoric Guide
Literary Terms)
BYU's Guide to
Rhetorical Terms
Genre Terms
Language Registers
Language SubSystems
Reading and Writing the Open-ended
Essay
Essay Writing Rubric
AP Score Card
Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Pyramid
Tabasco (because some like it hot)
(pdf version)
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Evaluating Web Sources (UCLA)
CRAAP Test - Evaluating Sources |
MLA Citation Style (Modern Language Association)
MLA (Purdue -
OWL)
MLA guidelines (ECC pdf)
MLA (UGA Library)
MLA Online Sources
MLA (HCC)
APA (Purdue -
OWL)
APA handout
APA guidelines (ECC pdf)
APA (HCC)
More
APA Citation Style
Chicago Manual of Style
Chicago
(Purdue - OWL)
Chicago (UGA Library)
Chicago 1 (HCC)
Chicago 1 video
Chicago 2 (author/date)
Chicago 1 sample
CSE Univ. Wisconsin
C-S[
citation-sequence]
N-Y
[name-year]
CSE 2
styles: N-Y [name-year] &
C-S [citation-sequence]
CSE - Bedford/St. Martin Sample Paper
Many styles
Research Guide -
many styles
Long Beach
State - manuals
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Sample papers MLA
APA
Chicago1 Chicago 2 CSE
All 5 styles - comparison
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List of Colleges
College Board: Majors
Applying to Colleges
College Board Tips
UC
Admission Stats
Admission Statistics -
Parchment
College Costs from
Higher Education Opportunity Act
Famous First Lines
How to Write a Term Paper
Sample
Literary Paper
Writing Science papers
Peer Response Form
Brief Grammar
Grammar
Exercises
Former Student College Papers
Jonathan Swift's A
Modest Proposal
Plato's
Republic
John 1
Koran
-The Light Sura 24.35
Isaiah 9:2
Bhagavad Gita chp
5
The
Communist Manifesto
Acts
4:34-37; Acts 5
The
Prince by Machievelli
Plato/Marx & Engles/Machiavelli
Writing
Assignment
Epictetus
Darwin - The Origin of the Species
Donne - Meditation
17 -No man is an island...
Douglass - Narrative of...
Emerson - Nature
Freud - Dreams as wish fulfillment
Montaigne On Cannibals
Stanton -
Declaration of Sentiments
Sun Tzu - The Art of
War
Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - "I Have a Dream"
Gandhi -
Speech to Indian Congress
Barak Obama - Convention Speech
Theodore Kaczynski
- Against technology
Thoreau Essay
JFK's
first inaugural
Obama's Speech 06.03.08 vs.
McCain's Speech 06.03.08 |
Quote of the Day
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire
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Course Requirements
Summer Reading
Personal Statements/College Entrance
Essays
Essays
Descriptive Essay
Process Essay
Final Paper
Synthesis Essay 1
Abigail Adams
Online Assignment
Sir Francis Bacon
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Favorite Quote
Final Projects |
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| Greek and Latin -
An Introduction to Classical Languages |
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| Interesting Articles Pertaining to our
Study |
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Threaded Discussion |
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Click to
see
your grades in PowerSchool |
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Approximate translation to letter
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9 - Creative writing; virtually error free;
unique interpretation of text
8 - Excellent writing; few minor errors; excellent interpretation
7 - Good writing; strong grammar; strong interpretation
6 - Solid writing; few major errors; good understanding
5 - Dependable writing; some major errors; fair understanding
4 - Inconsistent writing; major grammar errors; decent understanding
3 - Poor writing; many errors; faulty understanding
2 - Very poor writing; substantial errors; misunderstanding
1 - Inadequate writing; bone-head errors; did not read the text
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9 - 100%
8 - 95%
7 - 90%
6 - 84%
5 - 80%
4 - 72%
3 - 64%
2 - 40%
1 - 20% |
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Advanced Placement English - Honors Society (APE) |
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Class Pics |
A.P.E
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AP 2005 Pics |
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