Our goals for understanding Muggles

AP Literature and Composition will expose students to the type of scholarly environment that one can expect in college.  Inquiry will guide not only our exploration into the topics which follow, but it will also guide our study of the AP Exam itself.  The course will explore these issues: the impact of one’s philosophical beliefs and ideologies on one’s ability to exist within reality, tragedy’s effects on an individual’s identity, the philosophical beliefs of those involved, and the community’s sustainability, and the possibility of surviving tragedy and making meaning of this loss.

With all of that said, the real goal of this course is for you to become good readers and good writers and not only of Muggle literature. Being a good reader and writer will help you in whatever occupation you decide to pursue.  As such, while we will prepare you for the exam, the course is not designed around the test.  

AP Lit Test Website

So for anyone interested, here is a link to the AP Literature and Composition website. The website provides details for the different portions of the test as well as practice tests and samples to peruse. What I find most helpful and/or interesting are the scoring guides provided. I think as you look through them that most of you will notice that my expectations for your work is much higher than the expectations of the test.

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_englit.html