College Board framework
Every AP English Language and Composition skill maps to a unit and topic in the College Board's course and exam description, so sessions match what the exam tests.
AP exam prep
Aristotle tracks 83 AP English Language and Composition skills, finds the ones costing your child points, and plans review back from the May exam.
Follows the College Board's units.
Your child talks it through. Aristotle coaches from the step that went wrong.
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See what's mastered and what's left.
Features
Talk things through, work side by side, and come back next time to a tutor who remembers where you left off.
Ask questions out loud, hear explanations in Aristotle’s voice, and interrupt whenever you need to.
Aristotle draws steps, diagrams, and images to help you learn visually.
Get practice problems tailored to the exact topics you’re struggling with.
From middle-school math to AP exams to SAT/ACT prep. We also build custom plans matched to state standards and specific courses.
Revisit session summaries, session whiteboards, and uploads in one place.
Aristotle can read and navigate any PDFs and images with the learner. That includes textbooks with hundreds of pages!
We break all subjects down into granular skills, then track mistakes and mastery on each one. Parents can see the whole picture at a glance.
Aristotle remembers every session: what you’ve covered, where you got stuck, how you like things explained. It picks up right where you left off.
The curriculum
Aristotle is designed to always know what to teach at exactly the right time.
Sample curriculum
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Rhetorical Situation and Claims in Short Nonfiction
Audience, Appeals, and Thesis Statements
Line of Reasoning, Commentary, and Methods of Development
Introductions, Conclusions, and Comparison-Contrast Development
Organization, Transitions, and Tone
Position and Perspective Across Sources
Qualification, Syntax, and Punctuation
Audience-Aware Style and Complex Perspective
Concession, Rebuttal, and Refutation
AP English Language and Composition tutoring curriculum83 skills across 9 units
Rhetorical Situation and Claims in Short Nonfiction
Topics: Rhetorical Situation, Claims and Evidence.
Audience, Appeals, and Thesis Statements
Topics: Rhetorical Situation, Claims and Evidence.
Line of Reasoning, Commentary, and Methods of Development
Topics: Claims and Evidence, Reasoning and Organization.
Introductions, Conclusions, and Comparison-Contrast Development
Topics: Rhetorical Situation, Claims and Evidence, Reasoning and Organization.
Organization, Transitions, and Tone
Topics: Reasoning and Organization, Style.
Position and Perspective Across Sources
Topics: Claims and Evidence, Style.
Qualification, Syntax, and Punctuation
Topics: Claims and Evidence, Style.
Audience-Aware Style and Complex Perspective
Topics: Rhetorical Situation, Style.
Concession, Rebuttal, and Refutation
Topics: Claims and Evidence.
A few things you might wonder before getting started.
Aristotle's AP English Language and Composition course tracks 83 skills across 9 units, mapped to the College Board framework, including Rhetorical Situation and Claims in Short Nonfiction, Audience, Appeals, and Thesis Statements, and Line of Reasoning, Commentary, and Methods of Development. Every skill is linked to the skills it builds on, so the tutor always knows which parts of AP English Language and Composition your child has mastered and what to teach next.
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