This course will develop students’ ability to read and write with purpose, clarity, and impact by analyzing and imitating the techniques of successful professional writers. Students will explore how rhetoric shapes meaning and influences audiences, practice sentence construction strategies, and compose analytical and narrative essays. Emphasizing repeated skill development, the course will help students refine their voice, style, and overall effectiveness as writers. Students will read Outliers and Peace Like a River and learn to analyze tone, diction, syntax, and theme in both literature and nonfiction. This is the first course in a two-part series that prepares students to take the AP English Language and Composition exam.
What You’ll Learn
- Effective Writing: Analyze and emulate professional writers to sharpen clarity, purpose, and impact in your own writing.
- Rhetorical Insight: Explore how rhetoric, tone, diction, and syntax shape meaning in both nonfiction and literature, including Outliers and Peace Like a River.
- Genre & Structure: Compose analytical and narrative essays while refining your voice and style through repeated practice.
- AP Preparation: Develop the skills and confidence needed for the AP English Language and Composition Exam.
- Credit Hours: 0.5
This course is part of our High School Program (Grades 12) bundle.
Course Features
- Lecture 0
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- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
- 15 Sections
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- Module 1: AP English Language and Composition, Part 1 Course Introduction0
- Module 2: Ethos, Pathos, Logos and Exigence0
- Module 3: RICE Paragraph0
- Module 4: 5 Pro Tips for Sentence Construction0
- Module 5: Rhetorical Analysis Paper0
- Module 6: Imitation Writing, Diction, Syntax, and Style0
- Module 7: Writing Quickly and Efficiently0
- Module 8: Building on RICE with Transition Sentences0
- Module 9: Outliers Final Test and Outliers TED Talk0
- Module 10: What have you learned about writing? Biographical Narrative0
- Module 11: Looking at Tone with Peace Like a River0
- Module 12: Tone and Voice0
- Module 13: Characterization and Symbolism0
- Module 14: Theme, Imagery, and Comparisons0
- Module 15: Peace Like A River Literary Analysis Paper0
