AP English IV
Chromebooks are REQUIRED everyday!!
Teacher: Mrs. Barbie Barnes
Classroom: #308
Plan: 1st Hour (8:00-9:00 AM)
Email: bbarnes@inola.k12.ok.us
Webpage:
https://sites.google.com/inola.k12.ok.us/barnes-english4/home
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
AP Literature and Composition is a challenging alternative for college-bound high school seniors. Students can expect works from British, American, and world genres, with a focus in British literature in the first semester. The literary works studied in this class allow students to read and analyze a breadth of themes, authors, histories, and worldviews.
This course also focuses on interpreting, analyzing, and writing about literary selections. Students will write formal and informal responses to literary selections studied in class. Student writings will focus on textual details, figurative language, themes, pertinent vocabulary, and rhetorical devices used by the author.
COURSE EXPECTATIONS:
Summer reading assignments must be finished and turned in the first day of the fall semester. Failure to do this will result in the student transferring to an on-level English IV class. Moreover, the reading, writing, and research assignments given in AP English IV are rigorous and challenging; they have been selected on literary merit and from AP College Board Recommendations.
MATERIALS NEEDED
Chromebook (school provided)
Consumable Workbooks Volume I & II (school provided)
Headphones (personal)
Personal copies of novels for annotations
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (fall)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (fall)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (spring)
Animal Farm George Orwell (spring)
COURSE OBJECTIVES (as stated in the AP Program Course Description):
Throughout this course, the student will learn to:
Employ a wide-ranging vocabulary;
Create a variety of sentence structures;
Write with a logical organization, enhanced by specific techniques of coherence such as repetition, transitions, and emphasis; and
Apply rhetoric effectively, including controlling tone, maintaining a consistent voice, and achieving emphasis through parallelism and antithesis.
PLAGIARISM
Please note that any work found to be copied or to contain any plagiarism will automatically receive no credit. (See Student Handbook.) If what is written is not original, the student must cite the source of the information and give credit where it is due.
TEACHING METHODS
Class structure includes reading, writing/note taking, teacher lecture/modeling, teacher/student discussions, student presentations, student writings, and working cooperatively within a group.
SELECTED TEXTS
The literature studied in this course was chosen for its classic nature, for the author’s recognized style, and for the work’s frequent appearance on the AP exam. This course is modeled after a college course; therefore, students are expected to handle sophisticated material accordingly.
CONSUMABLE WORKBOOKS
Due to COVID-19, students will complete assignments digitally. Students will be using Google Classroom daily as well as consumable literature books and digital textbooks.
Students will be asked to bring these items to class on a daily basis:
*Chromebook
*Consumable literature workbook (volume (I or II)
*Headphones
Students will be issued two student consumable literature books (volume I and volume II). These books are required in class daily. Students who fail to bring literature books to class will receive a tardy.
If these consumable literature books are damaged or lost, student is responsible for the $40 replacement fee.
ENGLISH IV CURRICULUM
Multiple stories/plays/novels will be read throughout the year. Some of the material we read may contain mature scenes and/or language. Please understand that these forms of literature will be taught keeping within the context of the situation and how the story is told. If you have concerns over any of the material we cover, please contact me.
Our reading list may include the following literature: Beowulf, Macbeth, the Iliad, the Canterbury Tales, A Modest Proposal, In Cold Blood, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Catcher in the Rye.
FILM IN AP LIT. & COMP.
Few films/film clips will be viewed in this course. However, film is an important component to literary study. Students and parents should be aware that though everything viewed for study in this class is appropriate for the curriculum, it may be rated PG-13 or R. However, scenes that are especially graphic or violent will be edited. Students will not view anything that is not essential to the curriculum of the course. By signing this form, parents give their consent for their child to view films deemed essential by the instructor.
COURSE GRADING SYSTEM
Grades are made up of daily work/homework, class participation, written and oral class work, quizzes, warm-ups, response logs/journals, binder grades, timed writings, and tests.
Grades are based on percentage, commitment, and motivation.
It is of the utmost importance students keep up with their assignments.
Grade scale: A = 90-100 B = 80-89 C = 70-79 D = 60-69 F = Below 60
Students and parents are encouraged to follow progress throughout the semester by accessing the grading system online (Wengage).
INOLA PUBLIC SCHOOL ATTENDANCE POLICY:
Same as in handbook.
MAKE-UP POLICY:
One class day will be allowed for each class day not in attendance to complete the make-up work. It is the student’s responsibility to get assignments following an absence. If a student knows in advance of the absence(s), it is the student’s responsibility to get the work prior to the absence(s) and have it completed by class time. This will aid the student in remaining current in the class. Late papers will be accepted for only one class day after the absence, and that paper will have maximum credit of 50% (half of what the assignment is worth).
EXPECTATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS
I expect each and every student to be successful in this class and I will go over and above to insure that success. In saying that, I have high expectations. Students must have support both at school and in their home environment.