AP English Language and Composition

Course Technical Requirements

The following software/technical requirements will need to be provided by the school:

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft PowerPoint (or at least PowerPoint viewer)
• Web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox
• Microphone
• Headphones or Speakers
• The following freeware:
• Flash 6 or higher version, free download at http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
• QuickTime 5 or higher version, free download at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
• Shockwave 8.5.1 or higher version, free download at http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi
• Adobe Reader, free download at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html?promoid=BUIGO
• WIMBA VOICE BOARDS: You can test the WVB at the following website. http://lvsvt.horizonwimba.com/lvsvt/wizard/launcher.jsp (LVS diagnostic page)
• Java Platform (http://www.java.com)
• WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER: You can download the latest version of WMP from the Microsoft site: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en&qstechnology You can test the WMP with this link: http://mac6272.lsmsa.edu/~bego/dw/M1_lis_alfabeto.wma

Course Materials

The LVS will supply schools with books, CD-ROMs, workbooks, and tablets.
The following materials will need to be provided by the school:

• Other Texts: Students will be required to find certain texts in a library, bookstore, or online for various assignments. Below are the texts for this AP® English Language & Composition course, to be provided by the school or by the students:
  
  
• Books:
  
  
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Meno by Plato
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Ann Fadiman
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• You Have Seen Their Faces (online excerpts) by Margaret Bourke-White and
• Erskine Caldwell
  
  
• Independent fiction choices (select one):
  
  
• Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates
• In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
  
  
• Independent nonfiction choices (select one):
  
  
• There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
• Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
• Gatekeepers by Jacques Steinberg
  
  
• Selected essays:
• "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
• Selections from Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
• Selections from "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau
• "How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston
• "The Way to Wealth" by Ben Franklin
• "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
  
  
• Selected American poems or short stories by:
  
  
• Ann Bradstreet
  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Walt Whitman
  Emily Dickinson
  Robert Frost
  E.E. Cummings
  W.H. Auden
  Countee Cullen
  Jean Toomer
  Claude McKay
  Langston Hughes
  
• Selected Supreme Court cases on Educational Law
• Selected Internet sites for Educational Law history and research
• Selected videos to complement independent nonfiction unit
• Photography by Alfred Stieglitz to complement the 1920’s unit