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| AC English Handbook | |||
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Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 |
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AC English Guidebook |
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| This policy guidebook includes important information which should guide the thinking and practices of Accelerated students in English 165 and 166. It sets out certain expectations, rules and regulations which will make the advanced junior year English program run more smoothly for both the teachers and the students. If students follow these guidelines and practices, many of the pitfalls which have bedeviled prior students will be avoided. Please the guidebook carefully. | |||
How Difficult? AC English is an advanced English class intended and designed for the able English student. Students who elect to take AC English should expect that the books read and the course content in general will be difficult and challenging. Some of the course content will include college level material. Although many of the assignments will be similar to other English class work you have experienced, several of the assignments will be close to college level than high school level. AC English is intended to prepare you for one English Advanced Placement test which you may elect to take in the spring of your junior year: the Language and Composition test. More students took the test in the 1993-1994 year than ever before. Consequently, course content will be focused on the improvement of writing skills. Students will study some of the rhetorical and grammatically skills necessary to pass this test and to be successful writers in college. |
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Writing continues to be one of the major skills necessary for success in college in nearly every department. Most AC students will take their SAT;'s in the spring or summer; increasingly writing has become a focus of this test as well. Consequently, AC students should be asked to write often and well. The utilization of class journals will assist students in developing fluency and skill in writing as well as developing analytic skills. Students will be asked to write nearly every day. SAve your journals--some day they will may be valuable! You wkll be asked to write several essays of literary analysis as well as short group library research papers. Some impromptu essays may come your way, and unit tests will sually include an essay or two. Essays wil be important on your final class exams. A part of writing is the development of vocabulary, and we would like to emphasize the acquisition of vocabulary skills. |
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| Prepared and distributed by B. Spencer and M. Thompson. | |||
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