AP English Literature & Composition Syllabus Fall 2011-12 Dr. Draper
(Dates may be subject to change)
Week 1/A 9/7-9/9
TH: Discuss syllabus, course requirements, rubric, summer essay, summer reading; quiz on summer reading
Week 2/B 9/12-9/16
M: Review 3 levels of critical inquiry/questioning; Socratic seminar on Edgar Sawtelle;
W: Independent Reading assignment; Socratic Seminar on Edgar Sawtelle
F: Socratic seminar on Candide
Week 3/A 9/19-9/23
M: Discuss Candide
T: Review “Style” in Perrine’s Literature; assign dates for Oral presentations; check out
literature anthology; discuss summer reading
TH: Essay prompt #1: Literary Analysis (summer reading). Begin draft of essay in-class
-Independent Reading List due
-Begin reading Oedipus Rex (1216)
Week 4/B 9/26-9/30 (9/29 unassigned day)
M: Introduction to Drama: Greek Tragedy
W: Test on literary terms from Glossary of Perine’s Literature (from “Absurd” to “commercial fiction” 1659-1661)
F: Draft workshop: bring draft of essay to class to peer edit
Week 5/A 10/3-10/7
M T: Oedipus Rex Book Jacket assignment
-Discuss Oedipus Rex
TH: Final draft of essay due
Week 6/B 10/10-10/14
M: Oral Presentation #1 (Ch. 1 Perrine’s “What is Poetry?”). Read “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” (656); “The Red Wheelbarrow” (661); “Suicide’s Note” (661); “Ars Poetica” (665-6); discuss/write.
W: Discuss Oedipus Rex
F: In-class timed writing: close reading quiz on passages from Oedipus Rex.
-Begin reading Shakespeare’s Othello (1263)
Week 7/A 10/17-10/21
M: Oral Presentation #2 (Ch. 2 Perrine’s “Reading the Poem”). Read “The Man He Killed,” “There’s Been a Death, in the Opposite House,” “Mirror,” “Facing It”; discuss/write.
T TH: Discuss Personal essay for college applications; read samples
-Independent Reading Assignment #1 due (TH)
Week 8/B 10/24-10/28
M: Oral Presentation #3 (Ch. 3 Perrine’s “Denotation and Connotation”). Read “Fear no More. . .,” “Let Me Not. . . .” (1000-1); When My Love Swears She is Made of Truth” (688); “My Mistress Eye’s. . .” (809); discuss/write.
W F: Discuss Othello (acts I-111)
-Reading quiz on Othello (acts 1-111) (F)
Week 9/A 10/31-11/4
M: Midterm Exam: in-class practice AP essay test (poetry)
T: Practice AP multiple choice test
TH: Review practice AP essay test; discuss sample responses
-Vocabulary test #2: Literary Terms from Perrine’s Glossary (“conflict” to “expected rhythm”)
Week 10/B 11/7-11/11
M: Oral Presentation #4 (Ch. 4 “Imagery” Perrine’s). Read “To Autumn” (711), ”Ode on a Grecian Urn” (918), “Chapman’s Homer” (886) all by John Keats; write/discuss.
W: Reading quiz on acts IV-V of Othello; -Discuss acts IV-V of Othello
11/11 Veteran’s Day holiday
Week 11/A 11/14-11/18
M: Oral Presentation #5 (Ch. 5 “Figurative Language I: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe and Metonymy” Perrine’s). Read “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “To His Coy Mistress,” “I Taste a Liquor never Brewed”; write/discuss.
T: Finish discussing Othello
TH: Essay prompt #2: Literary Analysis: Drama/Tragedy. Discuss prompt and begin draft in-class
Week 12/B 11/21-11/25 Thanksgiving Holiday
M: Oral Presentation #6 (Ch. 6: “Figurative Language 2: Symbol, Allegory” Perrine’s). Read “To the Virgins, Make Much of Time,” “The Road Not Taken,” “The Sick Rose,” Because I Could Not Stop for Death”; Write/discuss.
W: TBA
-Read Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew
Week 13/A 11/28-12/02
M: Oral Presentation #7 (Ch. 7: “Figurative Language 3: Paradox, Overstatement, Irony” Perrine’s). Read “Much Madness is Divinest Sense,” “The Chimney Sweeper,” “The Unknown Citizen”; discuss/write.
W: Discuss Taming of the Shrew
F: draft workshop: bring draft of essay to class for peer edit
Week 14/B 12/05-12/9
M: Poetry: read “My Last Duchess” (775); write/discuss
W: Discuss Taming of the Shrew; reading quiz.
F: Socratic Seminar Taming of the Shrew; Independent Reading Project #2 due
Week 15/A 12/12-12/16
M: Oral Presentation #8 (Ch. 13: “Sound and Meaning” Perrine’s). Read “I heard a Fly Buzz when I Died,” “Blackberry Eating,” “Anthem for a Doomed Youth”; discuss/write.
T: Discuss Taming of the Shrew
TH: In-class essay test on Taming of the Shrew (Thurs)
-Final Draft of Othello essay due (TH)
-Over Winter Break read The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Week 16/B 1/9-1/13
M: Oral Presentation #9 (Ch. 8: “Allusion” Perrine’s) Read “Out, Out-,” “Journey of the Magi,” “Miniver Cheevy”; discuss/write.
W: Socratic Seminar on Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises
F: Discuss Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises ; Vocabulary test #3: Literary Terms from Perrine’s Glossary (“extended figure” to “personification”)
Week 17/A 1/16-1/20
M: 1/16 MLK Holiday
T: Reading quiz on Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises: discuss novel
TH: Essay prompt #3 Literary Analysis: Modernism/Novel. Discuss prompt, brainstorm/outline, begin draft in-class
Week 18/B 1/23-1/27
M: Oral Presentation #10 (Ch. 10: “Tone” Perrine’s). Read “Dover Beach,” Apparently, with no Surprise,” “Church Going”; discuss/write.
W: Socratic seminar on The Sun Also Rises
F: Draft workshop: bring draft to class for peer edit
Week 19/A 1/30-2/3
M: Final Exam: Practice AP essay test (prose)
T: Final Exam: practice AP multiple choice
TH: Final draft of essay due
Week 20/B 2/6-2/10
M: 2nd semester begins
-Independent reading assignment #3 due end of week