AP Courses
River Mill Academy currently offers 5 AP courses:

AP English Language and Composition: This course is an introductory college-level composition course. Students cultivate their understanding of writing and rhetorical arguments through reading, analyzing, and writing texts as they explore topics like rhetorical situation, claims and evidence, reasoning and organization, and style. *11th grade only as this replaces English 3/English 3 honors. 

AP English Literature and Composition: This course is an introductory college-level literary analysis course. Students cultivate their understanding of literature through reading and analyzing texts as they explore concepts like character, setting, structure, perspective, figurative language, and literary analysis in the context of literary works. *12th grade only as this replaces English 4/English 4 honors.


AP Government: This course is an introductory college-level course in U.S. government and politics. Students cultivate their understanding of U.S. government and politics through analysis of data and text-based sources as they explore topics like constitutionalism, liberty and order, civic participation in a representative democracy, competing policy-making interests, and methods of political analysis. *10th-12th grade only 

AP European History: Students will study the cultural, economic, political, and social developments that have shaped Europe from c. 1450 to the present in this college-level course. They’ll analyze texts, visual sources, and other historical evidence and write essays expressing historical arguments.*10th-12th grade only 

AP Calculus AB: This course is an introductory college-level calculus course. Students cultivate their understanding of differential and integral calculus through engaging with real-world problems represented graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally and using definitions and theorems to build arguments and justify conclusions as they explore concepts like change, limits, and the analysis of functions. *10th-12th grade only, Passing Pre-Calculus is a prerequisite. 


To check if your AP course will earn you college credit, please go to this website: 
https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/getting-credit-placement/search-policies