AP Literature & Composition

Class remind: @hbg988

Google Classroom: vz72l3u

Required School Supplies

You will need a 1 - 2" binder and dividers (6 and these can be purchased or made with sticky notes). I found this at Walmart for less than $6.

Required Reading

How to Read Literature Like A Professor

By Thomas Foster

Because of the second part of the year ended so abruptly, I was not able to assign summer reading. This book is required material to help you make sense of analyzing literature the way we adults, specifically professors see it. The ONLY way to earn AP credit in this course is to analyze literature effectively. This book will demystify a lot of what make literature inaccessible. We will focus on chapters throughout the year.

You will need to purchase your own copy so you can annotate as we go and use it as a resource throughout the year. Your first assignment using this book will be given the first week and will be due September 9th. If you cannot have get the book by then, please let me know, and we can make arrangements.

A link to purchase this book is here.

Current Unit of Study: Short Fiction Unit I

Our first unit is all about laying the foundation for analyzing short fiction and literature in general. We will start with a lot of vocabulary review and introduction. We will have multiple fiction and poetry units throughout the year, and each unit will progressively be harder and contain more standards you will be expected to master.

We will start with the basics: character, setting, plot and point of view. We will also start with mastering a great analysis paragraph rather than writing multiple whole essays.

The following standards will be taught in the first three weeks through short stories, lecture, written response, analysis and class discussion:

1.A - Identify and describe what specific textual details reveal about a character, that character's perspectives, and that character's motives.
2.A - Identify and describe specific textual details that convey or reveal a setting.
3.A - Identify and describe how plot orders events in a narrative.
3.B - Explain the function of a particular sequence of events in a plot.
4.A Identify and describe the narrator or speaker of a text.
4.B - Identify and explain the function of point of view in a narrative.
7.A - Develop a paragraph that includes 1) a claim that requires defense with evidence from the text and 2) the evidence itself.

AP Classroom

It is important to know your college board information and to get familiar with not only our AP classroom and course information, but AP in general at MyAP.com

Ap Classroom will be a valuable resource for each of you. I will assign progress checks towards the end of every unit that will allow me to see what we need to work on.

I will also give some assignment and quizzes through here as well.

Head to this resource using this AP Classroom Link.

Our class section is named 4th Period and the code is EV9479.

Rubrics

Refer to the class material in Google Classroom to access the links to APs rubrics for AP Literature.

These rubrics are not only how your responses are scored when taking the AP Literature exam. They are also how I will grade your responses to poetry, prose, and free response questions assigned in class.

Independent Reading

AP Literature is a course full of reading and will feel no different that college English course. In the 1st 9 weeks you will be given a list of short stories to choose from that you be responsible for reading outside of class. Everyone will get their choice of short stories.

After that unit, each student will be given a novel list to pick from. Every student will pick one book from the AP suggested reading list. Students may not read the same book at the same time. Some books we have on campus, but students can choose to obtain a book in either print or digitally on their own. We will do an independent reading project in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 9 weeks. Each student will read one book outside of class every 9 weeks.

I will do my best to ensure students are not reading a class novel and an independent novel at the same time.

Class Reading Material

The following list is the long fiction novels and plays we will read during the course of the school year. Reading will almost always be expected to be complete outside of class. Class time is for analytical practice, discussion, and writing time.

The Great Gatsby
Othello
Brave New World
A Doll's House
A Raisin in the Sun
Their Eyes Were Watching God

This week's assignments:

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