Advanced Placement Language and Composition: Beginning of year: The Age of Mass Incarceration

Intro to AP Lang: year-long
AP Language and Composition: Manual HS 2017-1018
Scoring Components

Beginning of Year: Approved AP year-long curriculum, Systems and Foundations of Course; Age of Mass Incarceration: 72 pages, 24,583 words, numerous visuals.


Course Objectives: The purpose of this course is to help students “write effectively and confidently in their college courses across the curriculum and in their professional and personal lives” (College Board, AP English Course Description, 2010, p. 7). The course is organized according to the requirements and guidelines of the current AP English Course Description, and, therefore, students are expected to read critically, think analytically, and communicate clearly both in writing and speech.


"The Age of Mass Incarceration," Ta-Nehisi' Coates

"Wherever the law is, crime can be found." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973