Grade: 10

Subject Area: English, Special Education

Credits:1

Course Information:

AP Seminar exposes students to a variety of texts covering multiple genres, topics, and rhetorical contexts in a seminar-style setting. This course fosters students’ ability to summarize and explain the salient ideas in a text by analyzing an author’s perspective, rhetorical choices, and argumentative structure. Students evaluate a variety of literary, informational, and visual texts, and synthesize perspectives to develop evidence-based arguments. Students convey their findings through multiple written formats, multimedia presentations, and oral defenses.