Syllabus For Advanced Placement Literature
Syllabus: AP Literature and Composition
The Ways of Man
Unit One: Classical Literature/5 Week Mythology Projects
*What are common classical themes?
*Define: tragic flaw, catharsis, foil, ode, aphorism
*Discuss the tragic characters and the role of familial loyalty
*Natural law vs. civil law
*What are Aristotle’s rules for tragedy?
*Reflective Writing – Should moral or civil law reign supreme?
Weeks 1-2 Classical Literature
Readings:
Antigone
AP Timed Writing
Select Multiple Choice
Unit Two: 16th Century Literature Renaissance Literature
*What are the various types of sonnets and how are they structured?
*How do we explicate poetry?
*How do techniques of connotation, allusion, paradox, metaphor, symbolism contribute to purpose of poem?
*What traits are common in Renaissance Lit?
*What is iambic pentameter?
*What is a motif and how does it develop a central idea? (Project)
*Reflective Writing – What is Othello’s tragic flaw and is it representative of humanity?
Weeks 3-4
Readings:
William Shakespeare, Othello
Various Shakespearean Sonnets 18, 29, 73, 146,130
Edmund Spenser, Sonnets 23 and 71
Sir Thomas Wyatt, “They Flee From Me,” “My Lute Awake”
AP Timed Writing
Week 5 - Mythology Powerpoints
Unit Three: 17th Century Literature English Literature/Epic/Biblical Allusions
*What is a cavalier poet?
*What is a metaphysical poet?
*What makes a carpe diem poem?
Weeks: 6-8
Readings:
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
John Donne, “The Broken Heart,” “The Triple Fool,” “Death Be Not Proud”
Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
AP Timed Writing
Select Multiple Choice
Unit Four: 18th Century Neoclassic/Enlightenment Literature
*What is neoclassic literature?
*How does an author use satire to entertain while making a powerful statement?
*What is picaresque?
*What is Voltaire’s statement about humanity?
Weeks 9
Readings:
Voltaire, Candide
William Blake, Excerpts from Innocence and Experience
Anne Finch, “To Death”
AP Timed Writing
Select Multiple Choice
Week 10: Biblical Allusion Presentations
Unit Five: 19th Century Literature/10 Week Power Point Projects on Literary Movements
Weeks 11-13 Psychological Tragedy Group Projects
*What are the philosophies of Nihilism, the Ubermensch?
*Foster, Chapter 14 – Christ Figure?
*Foster, Chapter 24 – It’s Rarely Just Illness
Readings:
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment(1865)
Coleridge, “Kublah Khan”
William Cullen Bryant, “Thanotopsis”
Christina Rosetti, “Promises Like Pie Crusts”
Weeks 14-15 Allegory
*What is allegory?
*Discuss the significance of religious imagery in the text.
*What is the moral distinction of law vs. justice?
*Reflective Writing - Does Captain Vere act justly?
Readings:
Herman Melville, Billy Budd (1886)
Walt Whitman, “O Captain, My Captain,” “Beat, Beat the Drums”
Weeks 16-17 Naturalsim, Feminism, Realism
*Gender Issues
*Symbolism and Imagery
*What is local color?
*What is naturalism?
*How is Chopin’s text representative of Realism, Romanticism, Naturalism and Local Color?
*Reflective Writing -Why is suicide a viable and common alternative for authors?
Readings:
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development (See Below)
Emily Dickinson Poetry, “The Last Night That She Lived” “We Grew Accustomed to the Dark,” “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain”
Weeks 18-19 Symbolist Adventure
*What is the nature and effect of imperialism?
*What is the dark nature of man?
*What is nihilism?
*What is the superman concept?
*Reflective Writing - Is the bleakness of modernism a reality for modern man?
Readings:
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
T. S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”
AP Timed Writing
Select Multiple Choice
Week 20: Regents Week Assignments/ Movement Power Points
Unit Six: 20th Century Literature/10 Week Poetry Portfolios
Week 21-22 20th Century Irish Paralysis
Readings:
James Joyce, from Dubliners "Araby," "Eveline," "A Little Cloud"
T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Weeks 23-24 Existentialism
Readings:
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Weeks 25-26 Modernism
*What are the Lost Generation and the Jazz Age?
*What is the American Dream?
*Reflective Writing – Does Gatsby ever attain the American dream?
Readings:
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Wilfred Owen, "Arms and the Boy"
Ralph Hodgson, "Eve"
William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”
Week 27-28 Stream of Consciousness
Readings:
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Weeks 29-30 Post Modern Bildungsroman
*How is IM existentialist in nature?
*Reflective Writing - Is IM truly free at the end of the novel?
Reading:
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
A. H. Auden, “the Unknown Citizen,”
John Updike, “Mosquito”
Week 31 Magic Realism View - Pan'a Labyrinth
Weeks 32-33 Magic Realism and Post Modernism
Readings:
Toni Morrison, Beloved
May Swenson, “Question”
Sir John Bejeman, “Five O’Clock Shadow”
AP Timed Writing
Week 34: Test Prep
Elegies: “In Memory of Danny L.” and “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter”
POV: “Hanging Fire” and “Fifteen”
Week 35-38 E- Folio Publication
The Ways of Man
Unit One: Classical Literature/5 Week Mythology Projects
*What are common classical themes?
*Define: tragic flaw, catharsis, foil, ode, aphorism
*Discuss the tragic characters and the role of familial loyalty
*Natural law vs. civil law
*What are Aristotle’s rules for tragedy?
*Reflective Writing – Should moral or civil law reign supreme?
Weeks 1-2 Classical Literature
Readings:
Antigone
AP Timed Writing
Select Multiple Choice
Unit Two: 16th Century Literature Renaissance Literature
*What are the various types of sonnets and how are they structured?
*How do we explicate poetry?
*How do techniques of connotation, allusion, paradox, metaphor, symbolism contribute to purpose of poem?
*What traits are common in Renaissance Lit?
*What is iambic pentameter?
*What is a motif and how does it develop a central idea? (Project)
*Reflective Writing – What is Othello’s tragic flaw and is it representative of humanity?
Weeks 3-4
Readings:
William Shakespeare, Othello
Various Shakespearean Sonnets 18, 29, 73, 146,130
Edmund Spenser, Sonnets 23 and 71
Sir Thomas Wyatt, “They Flee From Me,” “My Lute Awake”
AP Timed Writing
Week 5 - Mythology Powerpoints
Unit Three: 17th Century Literature English Literature/Epic/Biblical Allusions
*What is a cavalier poet?
*What is a metaphysical poet?
*What makes a carpe diem poem?
Weeks: 6-8
Readings:
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
John Donne, “The Broken Heart,” “The Triple Fool,” “Death Be Not Proud”
Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
AP Timed Writing
Select Multiple Choice
Unit Four: 18th Century Neoclassic/Enlightenment Literature
*What is neoclassic literature?
*How does an author use satire to entertain while making a powerful statement?
*What is picaresque?
*What is Voltaire’s statement about humanity?
Weeks 9
Readings:
Voltaire, Candide
William Blake, Excerpts from Innocence and Experience
Anne Finch, “To Death”
AP Timed Writing
Select Multiple Choice
Week 10: Biblical Allusion Presentations
Unit Five: 19th Century Literature/10 Week Power Point Projects on Literary Movements
Weeks 11-13 Psychological Tragedy Group Projects
*What are the philosophies of Nihilism, the Ubermensch?
*Foster, Chapter 14 – Christ Figure?
*Foster, Chapter 24 – It’s Rarely Just Illness
Readings:
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment(1865)
Coleridge, “Kublah Khan”
William Cullen Bryant, “Thanotopsis”
Christina Rosetti, “Promises Like Pie Crusts”
Weeks 14-15 Allegory
*What is allegory?
*Discuss the significance of religious imagery in the text.
*What is the moral distinction of law vs. justice?
*Reflective Writing - Does Captain Vere act justly?
Readings:
Herman Melville, Billy Budd (1886)
Walt Whitman, “O Captain, My Captain,” “Beat, Beat the Drums”
Weeks 16-17 Naturalsim, Feminism, Realism
*Gender Issues
*Symbolism and Imagery
*What is local color?
*What is naturalism?
*How is Chopin’s text representative of Realism, Romanticism, Naturalism and Local Color?
*Reflective Writing -Why is suicide a viable and common alternative for authors?
Readings:
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development (See Below)
Emily Dickinson Poetry, “The Last Night That She Lived” “We Grew Accustomed to the Dark,” “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain”
Weeks 18-19 Symbolist Adventure
*What is the nature and effect of imperialism?
*What is the dark nature of man?
*What is nihilism?
*What is the superman concept?
*Reflective Writing - Is the bleakness of modernism a reality for modern man?
Readings:
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
T. S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”
AP Timed Writing
Select Multiple Choice
Week 20: Regents Week Assignments/ Movement Power Points
Unit Six: 20th Century Literature/10 Week Poetry Portfolios
Week 21-22 20th Century Irish Paralysis
Readings:
James Joyce, from Dubliners "Araby," "Eveline," "A Little Cloud"
T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Weeks 23-24 Existentialism
Readings:
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Weeks 25-26 Modernism
*What are the Lost Generation and the Jazz Age?
*What is the American Dream?
*Reflective Writing – Does Gatsby ever attain the American dream?
Readings:
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Wilfred Owen, "Arms and the Boy"
Ralph Hodgson, "Eve"
William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”
Week 27-28 Stream of Consciousness
Readings:
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Weeks 29-30 Post Modern Bildungsroman
*How is IM existentialist in nature?
*Reflective Writing - Is IM truly free at the end of the novel?
Reading:
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
A. H. Auden, “the Unknown Citizen,”
John Updike, “Mosquito”
Week 31 Magic Realism View - Pan'a Labyrinth
Weeks 32-33 Magic Realism and Post Modernism
Readings:
Toni Morrison, Beloved
May Swenson, “Question”
Sir John Bejeman, “Five O’Clock Shadow”
AP Timed Writing
Week 34: Test Prep
Elegies: “In Memory of Danny L.” and “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter”
POV: “Hanging Fire” and “Fifteen”
Week 35-38 E- Folio Publication
kohlberg.docx | |
File Size: | 19 kb |
File Type: | docx |
heart_of_darkness_discussion.doc | |
File Size: | 42 kb |
File Type: | doc |
crime_and_punishment_group_projects.docx | |
File Size: | 13 kb |
File Type: | docx |
billy_budd.docx | |
File Size: | 12 kb |
File Type: | docx |