AP English

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.  From each of them goes out its own voice . . . and  just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.     --Gilbert Highet

 

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.  --Edmund Burke

 

AP English is a course in the exploration of books and their ideas.  The course emphasizes compelling writing about literature and the development of analytical skills.