AP English 12
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Detailed Syllabus
AP English Literature
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Composition
Course Introduction Welcome to Advanced Placement Literature and Composition! I am excited and honored to be your instructor for this academic year. Your signing up for this course indicates your honest desire to explore deeply the wonderful world of literature. Your enthusiasm, I am sure, will mirror my teaching philosophy, which asks students to synthesize and apply rhetorical devices and literary terminology. Creative and independent thought will be nurtured and encouraged. Consider the following excerpt: And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, “Speak to us of children.” And he said, “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.” --Kahlil Gibran The class is a college-level course and will provide each student with academic challenges similar to an undergraduate college literature course. Because of its challenging nature, it is a weighted class in the high school curriculum. Those students who earn a score of 3 or higher on the AP exam in May will be given college credit at many of the universities and colleges in the United States. Reading assignments The reading in Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition includes representative works from various genres and periods, focusing on works of recognized literary merit. Advanced Placement English reading revisits the themes of works taught in previous English courses and builds upon that reading. The AP instructor and the Honors Junior English teacher have collaborated to vertically integrate the curriculum to best meet the needs of the students. In an AP course students will be exposed to the short story structure, poetry, drama, essays, and imaginative literature from the following literary and political eras: Anglo-Saxon, Classical Greek, Medieval, Renaissance, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century (Restoration), Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Contemporary. Students are expected to read deliberately in order to understand not only a work’s literary value but also the social and historical context from which it was derived. To fully comprehend the literature, each student is required to experience, interpret, and evaluate these works using the critical strategies presented throughout the year including formalist, biographical, psychological, historical, sociological, mythological, and reader-response. Writing assignments The AP philosophy demands that writing be an integral aspect of the interpreting and evaluating process. Writing assignments, comprising of expository and argumentative essays, focus on critical analysis to sharpen and deepen the understanding of each AP student. Each essay will show an understanding of the elements of argumentation including purpose, audience, and types of appeal (logical, emotional, and ethical). The instructor will provide a rubric for each writing assignment to help each student develop stylistic maturity. The rubrics will help each student evaluate his or her diction, sentence structure variety (syntax), appropriate organization, sufficient detail, precise conventions, and effective tone for emphasis. Each student will be expected to write numerous timed critical essays in the classroom during the course of the year, compose reading responses, generate creative poems, short narratives, and dramas, and research assigned projects for presentation in class. Each writing assignment done outside the classroom will need to be typed and formatted using the MLA stylebook. Evaluation My expectations will be demanding, and my grading will be fastidious. Each student will be expected to keep pace with the reading and writing schedule, which is rigorous but manageable. Each assignment created for a grade will fall under one of three grading categories:
First semester (Block scheduling- 89 minutes per class period) Week One: Introduction to the course 1. Explain course reading and writing expectations
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***Review notes and information ***Midterm evaluation Class Schedule Second Semester (Block scheduling- 89 minutes per class period) Week Nineteen: Poetry Unit and 17th Century Text: Sound and Sense and Prentice-Hall Anticipatory sets:
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AP termsThis will be the working lexicon in this class.
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ProjectsMulti-media presentations
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