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


COURSE OBJECTIVES (as stated in the AP Program Course Description):

Throughout this course, the student will learn to:

 

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.

AI is NOT a substitute for schoolwork. Students may NOT claim AI generated content as their own work. If a student is suspected of using AI, the student will be questioned by the instructor and then further by administration.

  

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

Students will complete most 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)

Students will be issued two student consumable literature books (volume I and volume II).  These books are required in class daily (unless otherwise noted)

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

Students and parents are encouraged to follow progress throughout the semester by accessing the grading system online [Sylogist (formally Wengage)].

  

INOLA PUBLIC SCHOOL ATTENDANCE 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.