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so what is Ap literature & Composition all about?
so what is Ap literature & Composition all about?
Our Yearlong Question: What does it mean to be Human?-- Literature, Art, and Film are simply the record of human experience, triumph, struggle, and complexity. Our class is more than the content we read, the characters we follow and the authors we study. Literature tends to be more about the connections we make between genre, between authors, between the reading and our own experiences.
The AP Literature Tasks are meant to introduce you to the type of insight and reading that is necessary to be successful for the coming year. the summer practice is important, since it gives me a glimpse of the thinking and connecting we are doing now ("the floor") and helps me design a direction for us to reach "the ceiling" of how we read and think.
Over the course of the year, we want to get really good at six (6) aspects of Literature: Character, Structure, Setting, Figurative Language, Narration, and Literary Argument. Click here for the AP Literature Weekly Agenda and Links for the 2021-22 school year.
So be sure to get your hands on All the Pretty Horses and click on the AP Lit Head Start 2021 Google Slide for an introduction to the course, a brief description of the summer tasks, including "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", and access to our Google Classroom and AP Classroom (the College Board site).
You can also find this information, and information for any AP classes on the Loveland High Academics page.
Anchor Assignment Information
Unit One: Reading, Responding, Writing—All the Pretty Horses
During this unit, we will focus on developing close reading skills to aid you in your analysis and argument of prose and poetry.
Additional Resources
“Happy Endings”, pp 67
Writing About Literature, pp 1-3, 16-21
“First Grade” by Ron Koertge (handout)
“The Schoolchildren” by Louis Gluck
“Fasting and Feasting” AP prompt (handout)
Lecture notes and discussion of elements of Critical Lenses and Human Nature
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Unit Two: Controlling Man and Woman—Hamlet
During this unit, we consider Character, Setting, and Narration and focus on the question of man or woman’s control of their destiny.
Additional Resources
“Yellow Wallpaper” pp. 667
“Possessive” and “My Son the Man” (handout)
“A Rose for Emily” pp. 594
“Hills Like White Elephants” pp. 132
“Story of an Hour” pp. 536
“A Hunger Artist” pp. 274
“King of the Bingo Game” pp. 729
“Young Goodman Brown” pp. 264
“Critical Approaches” pp. 2302
“Gertrude Talks Back” by Margaret Atwood (handout)
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Unit Three: The Female and Religious Figure in Literature—Paradise Lost
During this unit, we highlight the role of the female, her stereotypes and perception, in terms of affecting the narrative as a whole.
Additional Resources
“Woman’s World” (handout)
“Passionate Shepherd To His Love” pp. 1139
“Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” pp. 1146
“Dover Beach” pp. 893
“Dover Bitch” pp. 1150
“Diving into the wreck” pp. 965
“Black Rook in Rainy Weather” pp. 1260
“Sailing to Byzantium” pp. 1289
Devil’s Domain (History Channel Documentary)
“Genesis”
Lecture notes on the hierarchy of Angels and the Renaissance
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Texts for Class
Booth, Alison, J. Paul Hunter, Kelly J. Mays, eds. The Norton Introduction to Literature.
Ninth Edition. W.W. Norton & Company: New York, 2005.
William Shakespeare—Hamlet (in the Norton Anthology)
Cormac McCarthy—All the Pretty Horses
John Milton—Paradise Lost (some class copies available)
Mary Shelly—Frankenstein (some class copies available)
Joseph Conrad—Heart of Darkness
F. Scott Fitzgerald—The Great Gatsby (some class copies available)
Alan Moore and David Gibbons—Watchmen
In-Class Handouts
Mikhail Bulgakov—Master and Margarita (optional text to Watchmen)
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