✏️ 2023 AP English Language Study Plan and Progress Tracker
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The AP English Language Exam and Course Skills
By taking AP English Language, you will develop a variety of skills that will help you learn to think and act like a writer. Here’s a breakdown of those skills by percentage.
| Skill Categories | Description | Exam Weighting (Multiple-Choice Section) |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Rhetorical Situation: Reading | Explain how writers’ choices reflect the components of the rhetorical situation. | 11%–14% |
| 2. Rhetorical Situation: Writing | Make strategic choices in a text to address a rhetorical situation. | 11%–14% |
| 3. Claims and Evidence: Reading | Identify and describe the claims and evidence of an argument. | 13%–16% |
| 4. Claims and Evidence: Writing | Analyze and select evidence to develop and refine a claim. | 11%–14% |
| 5. Reasoning and Organization: Reading | Describe the reasoning, organization, and development of an argument. | 13%–16% |
| 6. Reasoning and Organization: Writing | Use organization and commentary to illuminate the line of reasoning in an argument. | 11%–14% |
| 7. Style: Reading | Explain how writers’ stylistic choices contribute to the purpose of an argument. | 11–14% |
| 8. Style: Writing | Select words and use elements of composition to advance an argument. | 11–14% |
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Resources for MCQs and FRQs
⁉️ Multiple-Choice Resources
- ✍🏽 English Language Multiple Choice: A complete breakdown of the multiple-choice section, including examples and practice problems!
- 📹 Rhetorical Analysis MCQ Practice: A replay of a livestream that goes over practice MCQs
- 📹 Compositional MCQ Practice: A replay of a livestream that goes over practice MCQs
📄 Synthesis Essay Resources
- ✍🏽 Synthesis Breakdown (includes examples): Everything you need to know about the Synthesis Essay, including advice from certified teachers and thorough examples.
- 📹 Synthesis Overview: A replay of a livestream that goes over the basics of the Synthesis Essay.
- 📹 Introduction Paragraphs: A replay of a livestream that goes over the introductions of the Synthesis Essay.
- 📹 Body Paragraphs: A replay of a livestream that goes over the meat of the Synthesis Essay.
- 📹 Conclusion Paragraphs: A replay of a livestream that goes over the ending of the Synthesis Essay.
- 📹 Addressing Counter-Arguments: A replay of a livestream that goes over counter-arguments.
💭 Rhetorical Analysis Resources
- ✍🏽 Rhetorical Analysis Breakdown (includes examples): Everything you need to know about the Rhetorical Analysis Essay, including advice from certified teachers and thorough examples.
- 📹 Outlining a Rhetorical Analysis Essay: A replay of a livestream that goes over the RA essay.
- 📹 Raising your Evidence/Commentary Score: A replay of a livestream that goes over the evidence/commentary part of the RA essay.
- 📹 Raising your Evidence/Commentary Score pt. 2: A part 2 of the livestream above.
- 📹 Raising your Sophistication Score: A replay of a livestream that goes over the sophistication of the RA essay.
🗣️ Argumentative Essay Resources
- ✍🏽 Argument: Finding Evidence: Understand a crucial part of the Argument Essay, including advice from certified teachers and complete examples.
- 📹 Argument Introduction Paragraphs: A replay of a livestream that goes over the introductions of the Argument Essay.
- 📹 Argument Body Paragraphs: A replay of a livestream that goes over the meat of the Argument Essay.
- 📹 Argument Conclusion Paragraphs: A replay of a livestream that goes over the ending of the Argument Essay.
Quicklinks
- 🗂 Important Terms and Devices: Read about all the important rhetorical devices. It never hurt to know more than you need to know!
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