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Hey, anyone know of a free or inexpensive laid out AP English Lang curriculum?

Honestly, the sample syllabus from the CB isn't a bad option, but I'd love something just one step more laid out. Or even just an option or two. I found a few things, but they weren't quite what I was looking for. Basically, I want something where someone chose the readings and the major assignments and laid those out on a schedule. No need for frills. And yeah, I could do it myself, but... bandwidth, reinventing wheels, etc.

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I'm looking for this, too! I'm currently reading through 5 different syllabi (3 from CB). 

 

would this work? It's not exactly scheduled, but it is broken into units

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/high-schools/r-w/wheatonhs/departments/departments/ap-english-lang-specter.pdf

 

Please let me know if you find a good one.

 

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16 hours ago, Porridge said:

I'm looking for this, too! I'm currently reading through 5 different syllabi (3 from CB). 

 

would this work? It's not exactly scheduled, but it is broken into units

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/high-schools/r-w/wheatonhs/departments/departments/ap-english-lang-specter.pdf

 

Please let me know if you find a good one.

 

So, that's exactly what I'm looking for... except. I don't love the reading choices for the kid I have this in mind for. Argh!

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Not sure if it is helpful but my son is at taking AP Language and AP US History at a public school. They teach it as a semi-combined course so what they read in AP Language is during the time period they are studying for APUSH. This is his reading list:

• The American Pageant Bailey and Kennedy (AP History textbook)
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
• Common Sense by Thomas Paine
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• "Federalist #10" by James Madison
• "Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry
• “Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Jefferson
• "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe
• Poetry of Walt Whitman (Emerson, etc.) Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
• Slave Narrative of Frederick Douglass
• "Chicago" Poets (Lindsay, Sandburg)
• Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herbert Melville
• Speeches of Abraham Lincoln
• "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• Post WWI "Literature of Alienation" (Eliot, Pound, Stein, etc.)
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• "Making it Home" by Wendell Berry
• "Beat," Confessional, and African American '60s Poets (various)

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On 10/16/2023 at 7:19 PM, Nart said:

Not sure if it is helpful but my son is at taking AP Language and AP US History at a public school. They teach it as a semi-combined course so what they read in AP Language is during the time period they are studying for APUSH. This is his reading list:

• The American Pageant Bailey and Kennedy (AP History textbook)
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
• Common Sense by Thomas Paine
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• "Federalist #10" by James Madison
• "Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry
• “Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Jefferson
• "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe
• Poetry of Walt Whitman (Emerson, etc.) Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
• Slave Narrative of Frederick Douglass
• "Chicago" Poets (Lindsay, Sandburg)
• Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herbert Melville
• Speeches of Abraham Lincoln
• "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• Post WWI "Literature of Alienation" (Eliot, Pound, Stein, etc.)
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• "Making it Home" by Wendell Berry
• "Beat," Confessional, and African American '60s Poets (various)

I forgot to add after the AP test they read more for interest than anything super studious- The Things They Carried and then they work on college admission essays. 
 

The past three weeks or so they have been working on rhetorical essays and have looked at  a couple of past AP test rhetorical prompts. Last week in English they had to write a rhetorical analysis of persuasion using  Patrick Henry’s Give Me Liberty speech. 

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