AP English
"All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."
-Holden Caulfield, Catcher in the Rye
"Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one."
-1984
“But I must think, he thought. Because it is all I have left.”
-The Old Man and the Sea
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
-Hamlet
“I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another.”
-The Stranger by Albert Camus
Syllabus
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Fahrenheit 451Brave New WorldThe Catcher in the RyePoetryAll Google Slides from Poetry
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Weekly Schedule
Trimester 1
9/3: Syllabus distribution/Course Introduction What Is Good Literature? Read “Literature, Good Literature, and Ordinary Writing” 9/4: Continue discussion on “Literature…” Review 1984 Assign: Author Presentations (Due date depends on author) 9/5: Review To Kill a Mockingbird 9/6: Wrap up discussion of summer reading Review “Tips For Writing a Timed Essay” Assign: College Essay (if time permits) due Sept. 20 9/9: Timed Essay on Summer Reading Assign: Fahrenheit 451 Part I 9/10: Fahrenheit Part I Assign: Fahrenheit Part II 9/11: Fahrenheit Part II Review Timed Essay Assign: Fahrenheit Part III (finish novel) 9/12: Fahrenheit Part III 9/13: “Dover Beach” Symbolism article 9/16: Fahrenheit Timed Essay Assign: “A Modest Proposal” Hand out Brave New World 9/17: Ray Bradbury Group Presentation Discuss “A Modest Proposal” Assign: Brave New World (BNW) Ch. 1-2 9/18: BNW Ch. 1-2 Assign: BNW Ch. 3 9/19: BNW Ch. 3 Assign: BNW Ch. 4-Part 1 of Ch. 6 9/20: BNW Ch. 4-6 Review Fahrenheit Timed Essays Assign: BNW Part 2 of Chapter 6-9 (weekend) College Application Essays Due 9/23: Discuss BNW Ch. 6-9; Assign: BNW Ch. 10-11 9/24: BNW Ch. 10-11 Assign: BNW Ch. 12-13 9/25: BNW Ch. 12-13 Assign: Ch. 14-15 9/26: BNW Ch. 14-15 Assign: BNW 16-17 9/27: BNW Ch. 16-17 Assign: BNW Ch. 18 Handout The Giver for the weekend 9/30: BNW Ch. 18 Assign: The Giver Part I (through 11) 10/1: Review BNW Huxley Presentation Timed Essay Re-Writes Due (or 10/11) 10/2: Discuss The Giver 10/3: Continue discussion of The Giver First Paper Discussion: Dystopian Fiction Comparison 10/4: Continue comparisons of Dystopian Fiction Assign Dystopian Comparison Essay (due before MEA break) 10/7: Lowry Presentation 10/8: Work on Dystopian Comparison Essay 10/9: This day intentionally left blank 10/10: This day intentionally left blank 10/11: Work on Dystopian Comparison Essay Timed Essay Re-Write Due 10/14: “The Day They Came to Arrest the Book” video Censorship Discussion 10/15: Dystopian Comparison Essay due! Censorship Discussion Hand out The Catcher in the Rye Assign Ch 1-7 MEA Break 10/21: Catcher Ch. 1-7 Assign: Catcher Ch. 8-12 10/22: Catcher Ch. 8-12 Assign: Catcher Ch. 13-16 10/23: Catcher Ch. 13-16 Assign: Ch. 17-20 10/24: Catcher Ch. 17-20 Assign: Catcher 21-24 10/25: Catcher discussion wrap-up 10/28: Catcher Review Assign: Catcher Articles 10/29: Catcher Articles 10/30: Catcher Articles Introduce Persuasive Paper 10/31: Salinger Presentation Work on Paper 11/1: Work on Paper Quote Integration Thesis Statements 11/4: Internet Scavenger Hunt 11/5: Citation of Sources/Works Cited Page 11/6: Catcher work time 11/7: Literary Element Exercise on Prologue Assign: Ethan Frome Prologue 11/8: Catcher Persuasive Paper Due EF Prologue: Imagery and Figurative Language Assign: EF Ch. 1-2 11/11: EF Ch. 1-2 Assign: EF Ch. 3-5 11/12: EF Ch. 3-5 Assign: EF Ch. 6-9 (and Epilogue) 11/13: EF Ch. 6-9 and Epilogue EF review Assign: “Imagery in Ethan Frome” 11/14: Discuss “Imagery in Ethan Frome” EF review 11/15: Wharton Presentation Assign: The Old Man and the Sea 11/18: Discuss Old Man 11/19: Old Man Review 11/20: Hemingway Presentation Timed Essay Review 11/21 This day purposefully left blank 11/22 This day purposefully left blank 11/25: This day purposefully left blank 11/26 Last day of Trimester 1 Ethan Frome/The Old Man and the Sea Timed Essay Thanksgiving Break Trimester 2
12/2 Style 12/3 "Flame Heart" Assign: Final one scholarly article on "The Red Wheelbarrow" 12/4 "How to Read a Poem" Assign: Image poem due Friday 12/5 Shakespearean Sonnets (Sonnet 130) 12/6 Share image poems Metaphysical poetry Assign: His Holy Sonnets by John Donne 12/9 His Holy Sonnets ("The Flea," too) Assign: one typed explication due 12/11 12/10 "The Flea" Review meter and practice Assign: sonnet due Friday 12/13 12/11 Share/discuss explications 12/12 Daddy Poems 12/13 Share Sonnets "Daddy" by Plath with TP-CASTT 12/16 Finish "Daddy" by Plath 12/17 Anne Sexton's "Unknown Girl in a Maternity Ward" Good vs. Bad poetry 12/18 Vocab practice quiz, Angst poems, "Evaluating a Poem" packet Frost's "The Gift Outright" versus "Dedication" 12/19 Comparison Essay intro "The Picture" vs. "The Portrait" Good "angsty" poems 12/20 Check nonfiction books Angst poems due Connotation vs. Denotation Packet "Birches" by Robert Frost 1/6 Reconstruction Alexander Pope 1/7 "London, 1802" and "London" Denotation and Connotation 1/8 Pope's essays, heroic couplets 1/9 John Dryden's "In Memory of Mr. Oldham" Elegies 1/10 Your Elegy Death poems Romanticism "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" Assign: Scholarly article about "The Tyger" 1/13 War poems 1/14 "Lines Composed a Few Miles from Tintern Abbey" 1/15 Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1/16 Rime of the Ancient Mariner "Kubla Khan" 1/17 Shelley Poetry theses 1/22 Keats Paper organization 1/23 Shelley 1/24 Byron and Ode due 1/27 Poetry Comparison Essay due (hard copy and to Turnitin.com) 1/28 Review literary terms, Jeopardy! questions 1/29 "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Jeopardy! 1/30 Read 'n Feed Day with Nonfiction Books 1/31 Poetry Exam "Prufrock" analysis 2/3 Existentialism Hamlet opening lines Assign: Act I.i-ii 2/4 Film comparison Soliloquy #1 Assign: Act I.iii-iv 2/5 Polonius' Advice Act I.iii-iv Assign: Act I.v 2/6 Assign: Act II.i-ii (through Line 160) 2/7 Assign: Act II.ii (160-385) 2/10 Assign: Act II.ii (385-end) 2/11 Assign: Act III.i 2/12 Paraphrase Act II.ii Assign: Act III.i 2/13 Fishbowl discussion Assign: Act III.ii-iii 2/14 Film Comparison Assign Act III.iv and comic 2/17 Act III.ii-iii close reading questions and analysis Comic due today (sharing) 2/18 Oedipal complex Assign Act IV.i-iv 2/19 Finish Oedipal Complex discussion Hamlet's soliloquy Assign Act IV.v-vii 2/20 Character Community Preparation 2/21 Present character communities Ophelia's madness film Assign: Act V.i 2/24 Act V.i Analysis 2/25 Act V.i Film Comparison Assign Act V.ii 2/26 Act V.ii 2/27 Act V.ii Film Comparison 2/28 Film review articles Hamlet fishbowl prep 3/2 Final vocabulary test Hamlet fishbowl Nonfiction Book Essay due (and to Turnitin.com) tomorrow 3/3 Nonfiction Book Essay due Review for Hamlet test 3/4 Hamlet Final Exam 3/5 Reduced Shakespeare Company Trimester 3
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5/19 Begin The Stranger
Assign: Part one due 5/21 5/21 The Stranger Discussion Assign: Part two due 5/26 5/26 The Stranger Discussion Poems and pictures due Apply existentialism to Hamlet Assign: The Metamorphosis 5/28 Discuss The Metamorphosis 6/2 Poetry Packet The Stranger Test |