The AP English Language and Composition course is designed to help students become skilled writers. By their writing and reading in this course, students should become aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects, as well as the way that conventions and the resources of language contribute to effective writing. This is a challenging elective, but available to students at any ability level. We will read authors from many historical periods, including the present. Among other thinkers, students should expect to study George Orwell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Barbara Ehrenreich, Stephen Colbert, James Baldwin, John Stuart Mill, Malcolm Gladwell, TaNehisi Coates, Joan Didion, and Jonathan Swift. The AP English Language and Composition course may not take the place of the junior year Humanities curriculum of World Literature, an integrated course with World Studies. (It is essential that students engage as responsible citizens in a curriculum rooted in knowledge of our international community—its literature, culture, and history.) Successful completion of summer assignments is required. Students are expected to take the AP exam.