This is a college level course designed to prepare students for the Advanced Placement exam. The course emphasizes the study of a variety of texts and writing tasks. Students learn to recognize aims (to inform, to persuade, to express, etc.) and modes (narrative, descriptive, analytic, etc.) of discourse through reading and analyzing great literature, and then try to match in their own writing the sophistication of model material selected for study in the course. Students will read extensively both inside and outside class, including a summer reading requirement, in multiple genres from British and other world literature. Students must meet the dual credit enrollment criteria in English. *AP and DC courses address learning objectives with greater depth and a faster pace along with higher expectations for student performance.