AP Language and Composition

Wall High School 

2023-2024

Teacher Name & Email:

Mrs. Kelly Weiner

[email protected]

Ms. Kristin Barclay

[email protected] 

Extra Help Schedule, Location, and Procedures: 

Mrs. Weiner:

Extra-help: A-days during Unit Lunch and After-School by request

Procedures: Arrive prepared and on time.

Ms. Barclay:  

Unit Lunch Extra Help:  First B-day of the week, Room A8

After School Extra Help:  By request only

Procedures:  Arrive prepared and on time.

Marking Period Schedule

Course Description:

Prerequisite: 91 in English 10 Honors with teacher recommendation 

Grade: 11 

The AP English Language and Composition Course is a college-level survey course with a rhetorical emphasis. Students will be expected to read widely and critically, to explore rhetorical strategies, and to respond to their readings both with discussions and with in class timed and out-of-class writings that emphasize the particular forms of argumentation, narration, and exposition. All students enrolled in Advanced Placement courses are required to take the Advanced Placement Examinations in May (see Policy 2429 & Program of Studies page 5).

Units of Study

Unit 1:  Introducing Rhetorical Analysis

Unit 2:  Introducing Argument

Unit 3:  Introducing Synthesis

Unit 4:  Developing Rhetorical Analysis

Unit 5:  Developing Argument

Unit 6:  Developing Synthesis

Unit 7:  Mastering Rhetorical Analysis

Unit 8:  Mastering Argument

Unit 9:  Mastering Synthesis

 Classroom Expectations

1. Be prepared

2. Attendance is very important

   1. You are responsible for making the arrangements to complete missing assignments and assessments.

3. Be respectful

4. No cellphone use

5. Homework

   1. Homework must be handed in on time for full credit. I will accept homework one day late for half credit. When absent, please get your homework in as soon as possible. All work you miss when absent will be located in your class folder.

6. Gradebook

   1. 0’s will be placed in the grade book for missing assignments.  This policy stands even if you are absent.  The reason I do this is to show you what your grade will be if you choose not to make up the missing assignment.  Once the missing assignment is completed, your grade will be changed accordingly.

Materials & Available Resources 

1. A binder

2. Pens and pencils

3. A Google Classroom code will be provided before September 1st

Grading Breakdown

Each quarter grade is based on a percentage model; the following grading formulas have been established.

Marking Period Category Percentages 

Course Grading 

Marking Period 1* 

*Subject to revision  

Make-up Work as per Student Handbook

• Students who are absent from class for any reason will be required to make-up the work missed in each class. Completion of this work should take approximately the same amount of time as the student missed from class. In extreme cases of prolonged absence, (more than five consecutive days,) the Principal may grant extra time for the students to complete missing assignments. Students will receive an incomplete grade pending the submission of the missing assignments. Students will receive a zero for any work that is not completed by the designated timeline.

• It is the student’s responsibility to obtain all make-up work from his/her teachers immediately upon return to school. Failure to obtain makeup work is no excuse for not completing work missed. Students have the same amount of time that they have been absent to make up the work.

Academic Integrity Policy  as per Student Handbook

Plagiarism Policy

• Freshmen: On the first offense, the student may rewrite for a maximum grade of 55. The rewrite should be closely monitored by the teacher because on the freshmen level we are concerned with students’ understanding of the process. On the second offense, the student receives a 0 grade for the final product. (Students' offenses will be filed in the supervisor’s office.)

• Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors: If the teacher finds that the plagiarism is flagrant or pervasive and can document the same, the assessment may receive a grade of zero.

Cheating

Students are expected to conduct themselves honestly and with integrity in their work. All forms of cheating and plagiarism are prohibited. Behavior that is unacceptable includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Copying another student’s work;

• Working with others on projects that are meant to be done individually;

• Looking at or copying another student’s test or quiz answers;

• Allowing another student to look at or copy answers from one’s test or quiz;

• Using any other method (ie “cheat sheets”, communicating in any form) to get/give test or quiz answers;

• Taking a test or quiz in part or in whole to use or to give to others;

• Copying information from a source without giving proper acknowledgment;

• Taking papers from other students, publications, or internet sources and claiming it as one’s own work;

• Academic dishonesty in any other form including, but not limited to, tampering with computerized grade records;

• Giving or receiving answers and/or test questions to or from another student.

Violators of this policy will be disciplined on a case-by-case basis, depending on the seriousness of the violation, prior violations and other factors.

Disciplinary measures/consequences may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Redoing the assignment (see policy on plagiarism);

• Receiving a zero grade on the project, test or quiz;

• Letter sent to parent and placed in the student's file;

• Detention, suspension or expulsion.