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Advanced Placement English is a study of seminal movements in world literature.  As a university level literatureand composition course it culminates in an examination administered in May of each school year.  Upon passing this challenging examination, students are elligible to receive 3-6 college credits at their selected university. 

The course affords students the opportunity to read college level literature entailing in depth analysis of literary works by notable authors:  William Faulkner, Joseph Heller, D.H Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, J.D. Salinger, Dorothy Parker, Thomas Wolfe, Aldous Huxley, Feodore Dostoyevsky, Anthony Burgess and others.

Students will fine tune their writing skills in the following areas: sentence structure, essay introductory paragraph strategies, paragraph unity, supporting paragraph development, concluding paragraph strategies; research paper composition, establishing a research-based thesis.

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